We began the year with Yours Truly apologizing for my myopic take on Facebook, followed by much crowing about my prescient take on Facebook:
What I didn’t foresee is Facebook becoming the generic virtual space for keeping up with friends from high school, college, work through the decades, etc. These aren’t friends you necessarily hang out with now – and Facebook was originally a ‘here and now’ place for college kids. How it’s transformed.
Then we whitewashed a few fences:
I wonder what’s next. Old hippies painting psychedelic dollar signs on a picket fence? Aunt Polly as the new spokesperson? One of those snazzy computerized commercials where they futz with old footage, maybe Tommy Lee Jones as Tom Sawyer and Dennis Hopper as Huckleberry Finn jawing about financial planning?
From April:
Chasing the grey yen
Japanese firms have wisdom to hand down about selling to the elderly
Coming in 2016:
Advertising in the Aging Society
Population aging is a powerful megatrend affecting many countries around the world. This demographic shift has vast effects on societies, economies and businesses, and thus also for the advertising industry.
By Michael Prieler and Florian Kohlbacher
Forward By Dave McCaughan
Afterword by Chuck Nyren
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Summer reading:
The Ugly, The Bad and The Good
Twitter, Smartphones & Tablets, and Silver Super Models
Chuck bleats on MarketPlace: A new older generation may attract more ad dollars. Listen.
Traipsing every which way:
The most popular post of the year:
Baby Boomers Not Wearing Wearables
Along with Google Glass, you'll also be wearing Google Nose and Google Mouth.
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I also blog at Huffington Post. Not about advertising, mostly goofy slices-of-life. The most popular piece this year:
In a Hospital for No Good Reason
… I keep seeing the word unremarkable. I figure out it's med-speak for normal. At age 64, after abusing my mind and body in every way imaginable throughout my life, I'd say that anything normal is remarkable…
No doubt more fun and frolic in the New Year.