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2007 Digital Outlook

Each year, we examine trends in the ways that consumers, advertisers, and publishers use digital media to have a conversation with each other.  We also provide insight to help our clients anticipate and respond to the way the market is headed. 

If 2006 was the year of experimenting with emerging media, 2007 is the year of measuring its value. 

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Digital Marketing

From the Avenue A | Razorfish IdeaLab: SmartPox.com

As anyone who has struggled to manually input a URL into a mobile phone will tell you, there are relatively few joys to the physical act of "texting." Phones and keypads are getting smaller, leaving those of us with normal-size fingers feeling hopelessly large and clumsy. In the US, text input is one of the biggest barriers to mobile application adoption and one of the primary reasons mobile web-based content is not being consumed in vast quantities.

How then do we design something simple, intuitive and powerful enough to make mobile content meaningful and, most importantly, accessible?.

In 2006, the Avenue A | Razorfish IdeaLab, our internal research and development team, tackled that very problem and created Smartpox.com -- an online community that allows members to encode URL links, phone numbers, email, and any type of text into 2D barcodes.

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Advanced Media Solutions

Digital and Interactive Signage
Evolving Static Displays into Revolutionary Interfaces

Digital signage is a relatively new and increasingly common modern adaptation of traditional out-of-home media such as billboards and posters. Once a novelty only employed by companies with huge resources to support it, the plummeting prices of LCD and other digital displays coupled with the emergence of a host of Signage Network Operators (SNOs) has enabled a much broader range of companies to use the technology for a variety of purposes.

In general, digital signage offers several advantages over traditional static out-of-home media. To a certain extent, digital signage advertising is more accountable than static out-of-home, in that those impressions of ad units can at least be logged and tracked.

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Cool Sites

Flip
Make a flip book

Garnier Nutritioniste
Nutrition + Dermatology

Oreo Double Stuf Television
Your home for double stuf racing

Jiffy Lube
The Well-Oiled Machine

 

In the News

Crain's NY
2007 40 Under 40

Digital Shops Exploiting
General Agency Skill Gaps

The Impact of Web 2.0 on Business Portals

Avenue A | Razorfish adds Japanese Outpost

 

Events

SXSW Interactive
March 9-13
Austin, TX

Avenue A | Razorfish
Client Summit

March 28 - 30
Las Vegas, NV

Search Engine Strategies
April 10 - 13
New York, NY

 

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Enterprise Solutions

From CMS to Open Content Repositories -- An ECM Paradigm Shift

Content Management System (CMS) products and content repositories aid organizations in creating and implementing content-based applications. In addition to providing storage and tools for authoring content, some CMS products provide support for user account management, access control, and workflow. However, CMS vendors have been pushing their proprietary content repositories and solutions, thereby creating fundamental challenges in the world of enterprise content management (ECM).

One of the most prevalent solutions pushed by vendors today is the idea of making one single repository as a “core repository” from which all content disseminates, a solution with its own drawbacks, not limited to vendor tie-in.

Enter JSR170, the content repository API for Java technology (JCR) – a Java standard advocated by ECM software vendors like Day and IBM. JSR170 is the first step towards an elegant solution...

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Avenue A | Razorfish is one of the largest interactive marketing and technology services agencies in the world. The company helps industry leaders such as Kraft, Dell, The New York Times and Starwood Hotels use digital channels to acquire and service customers. Avenue A | Razorfish's full suite of digital offerings includes online advertising, Web site design and development, email and search engine marketing, emerging media strategies, and enterprise portal development. Its award-winning client teams have a great understanding of customer needs and provide solutions through distinct business disciplines, which include: analytics, strategy, technology, media, creative design and user experience. An operating unit of Seattle-based aQuantive, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQNT), Avenue A | Razorfish has offices in markets across the United States, and global operations in Australia, China, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. Please visit www.avenuea-razorfish.com http://www.avenuea-razorfish.com/ for more information.

 

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