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Razorfish Client Summit

Innovation in a Recession

On April 21-23, Razorfish hosted its ninth annual client summit in Las Vegas. The audience, made up of Fortune 1000 marketing and IT executives, gathered to hear innovative ideas, success stories, and how to deliver real results, in addition to also experiencing ways that digital has impacted all aspects of our lives.  

The summit featured case studies from clients such as Intel, Levi's and Mattel, and a peek into Virgin America’s ground-breaking marketing from Porter Gale, as well as an unforgettable opening keynote by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics and Weapons of Mass Entertainment.

Experience the highlights with our summit videos here.

Check out the action from the event: @rzcs on Twitter

WATCH PRESENTATIONS HERE

Social Influence Marketing™

Social Influence Research: A New Approach to Social Analysis Behavior

As marketers, we’re all striving to build customers who incorporate our products and brand experience stories into their social lives. But a look at the online social world shows that not all customers are equal in their social behavior. Influence can’t be measured by how many followers someone has on Twitter, or the number of friends they have on Facebook. Instead, marketers should focus on determining which relationships really matter, and how that could impact your brand. Unfortunately, the question of influence becomes more and more complex as you dig into measurement tools such as social network data, influencer rankings and conversation and sentiment monitoring.

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Digital Marketing

Newspapers Must Die to Live

The notion that news must be free on the Web is a game of chicken. It is a game that requires nerves of steel, much bravado and an irrational belief that the other person will give in first. In the version we are seeing play out daily, the question is which news organization will remain? Which one can hold out the longest before caving in and swerving off the free content highway? The Rocky Mountain News didn’t make it and the Tribune’s nerves are frayed.

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Tweeting Your Brand: A Word to the Wise

If you haven’t been living under a rock lately, you’ve probably heard a lot about Twitter in the media. The free micro-blogging utility, which allows members to share short “tweet” comments with each other is the new place to communicate on the Web. Twitter has suddenly become the digital arena for people to observe and engage in pop culture. Demi Moore saves lives on her Twitter page, and Lindsay Lohan publicly breaks up with significant others on hers, for example. It’s also a place where brands can interact with consumers directly, to either reinforce strong relationships with their loyal bases or attract new followings through their own tweets.

Beyond any presence of self-branded messaging, Twitter largely remains an ad-free environment. However, it was only a matter of time before the service began to show promise from an advertising perspective.

Follow Author Steven Cisowski on Twitter

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Emerging Media

Is ‘App-vertising’ the Answer?

For nearly a decade, mobile advertising has proven to be the great white whale of digital marketing -- forever on the horizon but perpetually out of reach.

But thanks to Apple's iPhone and App Store, that's changing. The numbers to date are staggering: 1 billion applications served, 35,000 applications available and more than 30 million devices in market. Apple's meteoric success with the App Store (launched a mere nine months ago) is fueling a mobile-application market boom.

Consumers, once wary of using their phones for anything more than talking or texting, now seem to have an almost insatiable appetite for mobile applications.

Follow Author Garrick Schmitt on Twitter

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Cool Sites

Emerging Experiences Blog
A focus on new user experience metaphors

Levi's Give Them Hope Now
Help raise $500K for LGBTQ youth and follow the campaign @GiveThemHopeNow

Tellme
How to balance cost and customer experience

Amway
Explore 5 decades of innovation

Visa Signature
Instant access to dozens of perks

Rascal Flatts & JCPenney
Check out the Rascal Flatts tour

Coors Light
Get a work excuse and watch the cold front live at The National Glacier Tracking Center

In the News

Razorfish.com in the Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual 15

4 Grand CLIOs in Emerging Media

Razorfish's Patrick Moorhead Gives Us The Agency View On DOOH

YouTube Video Annotations Gain Momentum with Advertisers

DM News Q&A with Razorfish CEO Lord, Chairman Kokich

NYTimes on Coors Light Using Cold to Turn Up Heat on Rivals

At a Crossroads: The Digitalization of TV

Chicago CBS Radio (audio): Big Businesses Finding Potential in Twitter

New Razorfish CEO Sees Digital Shift Speeding Up

Razorfish Tries Out TV, Kicks Off Promo for All Detergent

Events

digiday:NETWORKS - Where Media and Marketing Meets Innovation
June 8, 2009
New York, NY

iMedia Brand Summit
June 7 - 10, 2009
Colorado Springs, CO

2009 Semantic Technology Conference
June 14 - 18, 2009
San Jose, CA

DM Days New York Conference Expo
June 16 - 18, 2009
New York, NY

Facebook Marketing Breakfast Series
June 18, 2009
San Francisco, CA

Razorfish to Talk Future of TV at Cannes Lions
June 21, 2009
Cannes, France

Enterprise 2.0 Conference
June 22-25, 2009
Boston, MA

ARF Audience Measurement Conference
June 23 - 24, 2009
New York, NY

OMMA Social
June 23, 2009
New York, NY

iMedia Entertainment Summit
June 25, 2009
Beverly Hills, CA

Sample Blogroll

Amnesia
Digital Design Blog
Going Social Now
Joe Mele
Superhype Blog
Technology Blog
White Noise
Scatter/Gather
Emerging Experiences Blog

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Strategy & Planning

Data is Sexy

Recently, over coffee, a senior executive from a national magazine publisher asked how the media meltdown was treating me. Acknowledging it was grim, we lamented the decline of print advertising, the shutting of titles, the pullback in spending, the massive number layoffs effecting friends and colleagues and bankruptcy filings of newspapers around the country.

This conversation reminded me of a meeting I had several years ago with the COO of national publisher who asked me what they could be doing better online to grow audiences, increase print subscriptions and attract more advertising.

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Email Solutions

The Generation Changes

There is an interesting article in the current issue of Harvard Business Review entitled “The Next 20 Years: How Customers and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve.” This article speaks to the many emerging trends within six generations, and the attitudinal, financial, societal, political and the relative impacts on how the workforce will evolve in the coming years. In looking through these generations, I put the “email” filter on to see how these groups use email, how they are consumers of digital mediums in general, and any impacts this channel should be aware of today.

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About Us

Razorfish is one of the largest interactive marketing and technology companies in the world. With a demonstrated commitment to innovation, Razorfish counsels its clients on how to leverage digital channels such as the Web, mobile devices, in-store technologies and other emerging media to engage people, build brand loyalty and provide excellent customer service. The company is increasingly advising marketers on Social Influence Marketing™, its approach for employing social media and social influencers to achieve the marketing and business needs of an organization. Its award-winning client teams provide solutions through their strategic counsel, digital advertising and content creation, media buying, analytics, technology and user experience. Razorfish has offices in markets across the United States, and in Australia, China, France, Germany, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom. Clients include Carnival Cruise Lines, MillerCoors, Levi’s, McDonald’s and Starwood Hotels. Visit www.razorfish.com for more information. Follow us on Twitter @razorfish.

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