Industry themes we’re tracking this month? The importance of innovation in your strategy: build it or buy it? Instagram’s $1bn price tag makes sense for Facebook’s ‘buy’ strategy because it blocked Twitter, Google, Apple or MSN from leaping ahead. In cloud storage, the trend seems to be to ‘build’ your own: April saw Google unveil […]
Industry themes we’re tracking this month? The importance of innovation in your strategy: build it or buy it?
Instagram’s $1bn price tag makes sense for Facebook’s ‘buy’ strategy because it blocked Twitter, Google, Apple or MSN from leaping ahead.
In cloud storage, the trend seems to be to ‘build’ your own: April saw Google unveil a cloud storage service to undercut Dropbox, SkyDrive and iCloud. Our money is on Dropbox getting bought soon, as late entrants realise ‘buy’ will be the only option left.
Meanwhile in digital marketing, the choices grew further:
– Measuring brand campaigns? Google’s new TV-style metrics could be the answer
– Needing new ad platforms? Tumblr finally opens up
– Approaches for tackling Pinterest? Amazon and eBay’s social shopping tools just started pinning
This month’s Digital Intelligence includes data on: top Facebook brands in the UK, Asia overtaking the west for online video, China’s internet growth, and which days of the week work best on social.
As always full stories at the end of the click, and a great video of Google’s ‘goggles’ – the planned augmented reality glasses straight from a sci-fi film.
Read April 2012
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