This document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it can be used to add value in six areas: knowledge, connectivity, protection, wellbeing, mobility, and self-expression. It warns that getting the IoT right requires playing nice with privacy, learning from past mistakes of excessive surveillance and data imbalance, avoiding gimmicks, reducing digital waste, and ensuring solutions are useful, targeted and personal. Marketers are challenged to credibly create IoT products, services and tools that leverage available data and platforms aligned with their brand and audience.
44. YOUR BRAND + THE IoT
MARKETING TO
MARKETING WITH
MARKETING FOR
Broadcast Linear
Social Participatory
Things Utility
45. CAN YOU CREDIBLY CREATE A
PRODUCT?
CAN YOU CREDIBLY CREATE A SERVICE
OR TOOL?
WHAT IoT PLATFORMS BEST FIT WITH
YOUR BRAND & AUDIENCE?
WHAT DATA AND INSIGHT CAN YOU
LEVERAGE?
So the brands that are making the most of the iot are the ones designing products, creating tool or apps that provide utility or service to answer a need.
Thousands of startups appearing daily on Kickstarter, exploring and defining what the IoT will become. It’s only a matter of time before the big brands step in en-masse
Know everything about everything,
Little printer from Berg is a tiny connected printer that will spit out any kind of information you ask it to from stoc prices to tweets to Cat of the Day.
A really nice way to break the internet out of the screen.
Know everything about everything, a crystal ball, see the status of something at a glance
HUE is a programmable light that you can teach to change colour based on any kind of information.
IFTTT service
Know everything about everything, a crystal ball, see the status of something at a glance
Know everything about everything, a crystal ball, see the status of something at a glance
iWatch
Know everything about everything, a crystal ball, see the status of something at a glance
History has shown us that there are annoying forms of interruptive advertising.
This time though we really should learn from our bad practices.
Pop ups in the real world – an unimaginably bad idea.
Press for pizza. Nice PR stunt but ultimately not a true use of the IoT.
Known in the industry as Vapour Ware – products that are not real.
Will grab some headlines but not really get you very far
Potentially it will on serve to create and add to our next problem….
Wether we chose to ignore it or not we already pollute the environment with millions of tonnes of unwanted (and not even broken tech)
This photo from Greenpeace in Delhi shows a truck full of hazardous waste bein taken to a massive landfill
Now the internet is real – we need to be even more careful not to create more landfill to pollute the planet.
Finally –
Focus on being useful, creating products that people need and use the teccnology to personalise the experience
I think we’re at an interesting point in terms of marketing and product design.
More than ever we’re finding the spaces that marketing and product design live are getting closer together. A brands product and it’s advertising will increasingly live in the same place as such many more opportunities and questions arise.
I think we’re at an interesting point in terms of marketing and product design.
More than ever we’re finding the spaces that marketing and product design live are getting closer together. A brands product and it’s advertising will increasingly live in the same place as such many more opportunities and questions arise.
Broadly speaking you could categorize the IoT into 2 groups
Products – things that solve a problem or provide a solution to a specific task. Nest for home heating, Fitbit for health tracking
Tools and services – things that you can use for a number of different problems: WeMo, IFTTT, HUE
Create content or services that live on a platform.
Apps for Glass.
Apps for Fitbit
Feeds or Functionality for IFTTT