Ged Carroll

Month: February 2020

  • Salience overloads advertising

    Salience is the buzz word of the moment in advertising circles. What is salience? According to Siri salience is a noun. It’s definition: the property of being particularly noticeable or important. Historically, when you tested an ad through the likes of Kantar. One of the attributes that an ad would be measured on is salience.…

  • American infrastructure + more things

    American infrastructure is critiqued in a Vice documentary. In order to make it fit for purpose there would cost $4 trillion. That’s the cost of a couple of Afghanistan conflicts. It is stunning how bad American infrastructure is. The video is well worth watching in a grimly fascinating kind of way. Before Vin Diesel was…

  • Tablet demand + more things

    Tablet demand in China gaining momentum from epidemic | DigiTimes – compared to global demand drop of 20% predicted for tablet computers. This is a fascinating change. Any explanation of this tablet demand is just a hypothesis. My own guess is . More tablet computer related posts here. Great mix by Andy Weatherall. It is…

  • DingDing & other things

    DingDing – a Chinese equivalent of Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Skype was getting 1-star ratings in Apple and local app stores. Many school children are in lockdown due to the corona virus Covid 2019 and having to use the app as a virtual class room. DingDing was the most downloaded app in the Apple…

  • Regulating AI + more things

    Regulating AI in health and care – NHS Digital – no privacy expert on this panel – which is a bit concerning given they are talking about the business opportunity and regulating AI. More machine learning related posts here. Coronavirus: Hong Kong restaurants install physical barriers between diners to allay contagion fears – interesting design…

  • What is truly Scandinavian & things that caught my eye this week

    SAS – What is truly Scandinavian? Nothing. This was an ad done by &Co of Denmark. It’s an ad that was meant to challenge the audience and promote the benefit of travel. But I felt it got its tone wrong. What is truly Scandinavian reactions What is truly Scandinavian got backlash online. As it went…

  • GOOP + more things

    The power of niche | Campaign magazine – Dave Trott on GOOP – The New York Times said: “The weirder GOOP went, the more its readers rejoiced. Every time there was a negative story about her or her company all it did was bring more people to the site.” Paltrow told a class of Harvard…

  • Brand winter & how to cope

    I started thinking about ‘brand winter’ when I read about TBWA Hong Kong and their ‘Brave Bear Pack’ offering. Campaign Asia describes as a new product focusing on growth hacking and cost efficient tools for surviving the financial winter brought on by Hong Kong’s anti-ELAB protests. I thought financial winter was an interesting metaphor to use…

  • MERICS china forecast 2020 & other things that caught my eye this week

    German think-tank MERICS China Forecast 2020 is interesting watching if you can spare the time. It’s long, but some of the smartest content that I’ve seen recently, from a European perspective. The Americans seem to have done a better job on Sinology; for instance the likes of Bill Bishop or Kuo and Goldstein at Sinica.…