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MarTech Plot Lines for 2021

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Media Everyone knows the pandemic accelerated the shift towards online media that was already under way. walled gardens (Facebook, Google, Amazon) face increasing competition from walled flower pots – that is, businesses with less data but a similar approach. shoppable video is growing rapidly.

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Companies Scramble to Report on COVID-19 Business Impact

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More surprising but prescient, given Amazon's labor troubles : just 42% felt confident that Amazon could get their online orders delivered on time. Media Consumption Nobody wins any prizes for figuring out that Web traffic went up when people were locked down. Really, no free shipping?) UK, and France. UK, and France.

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BadTech Is the Next New Thing

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I’m referring to is the backlash against big tech firms – Google, Amazon, Apple, and above all Facebook – that have relentlessly expanded their influence on everyday life. big gaps in social media efforts to block even someone as clearly horrid as Infowars’ Alex Jones – famous for claiming the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

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2017 Retrospective: Things I Didn't Predict

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In no particular order, things I didn’t quite expect this year include: - pushback against the walled garden vendors (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.) Did you know that Amazon accounted for more than half of all Black Friday sales last week?) growth in voice interfaces. have grown more quickly than I anticipated.

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Lexer Grows Its Customer Data Platform from Social Listening Roots

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Lexer is unusual in both ways, having started in Australia as a social media listening platform. Social media is still a major focus for Lexer. Lexer ingests data in near-real-time, making social media posts available to users within about five minutes.

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Amazon Buys Whole Foods: It's Not About Groceries

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Most of the comments I’ve seen about Amazon ’s acquisition of Whole Foods have described it as Amazon (a) expanding into a new industry (b) continuing to disrupt conventional retail and (c) moving more commerce from offline to online channels. This has nothing to do with Amazon being evil. Owning the Pipes.

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The Personal Network Effect Makes Walled Gardens Stronger, But There's Still Hope

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I’m still chewing over the role of “walled garden” vendors including Google, Amazon, and Facebook, and in particular how most observers – especially in the general media – fail to grasp how those firms differ from traditional monopolists. It starts with Amazon in 1994, intercepting buyers before they can reach a physical retailer.