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Analysis Holiday Season Forecast: 50 Percent Of All U.S. Consumers Will Own A Smart Speaker Even though just 17 percent use voice to initiate a one-time order for pick-up in-store, as more brands strike deals with Google and Amazon, that will likely change as well as more smart devices alter the way people initiate a purchase, an Adobe study suggests. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Sep 12th
Analysis CDX Voice + Audio Summit: How Brands Can Prepare For The Voice Activation Revolution Brands need to see voice as fundamentally transformational as it relates to intent, search and discovery, media consumption, and the broader customer experience, says CDX Conference Chairman Drew Ianni. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Sep 4th
Analysis Oath’s Sarah Martinez On Why Retailers Have Reasons For Optimism For 2018 Holiday Shopping Personalization matters more than ever to consumers, Martinez says, and technologies like voice activation and AR/VR are helping brands deliver more relevant experiences. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Sep 4th
Analysis CPG And Alexa: Audio Packaging On The Voice Shelf “Over 40 percent of smart speakers live in kitchens and while parents and families are early adopters of voice, cereal brands are sleeping on a major opportunity,” says Dexter Garcia, co-founder and CSO of Audio UX. Dexter Garcia By , Aug 16th
Analysis How Can Marketers Know If Voice Activation Is Working? Amazon Alexa’s Dave Isbitski Explains Fallback Intent "Meet your customer in the moment," Isbitski advises, "because the one thing you can't measure right now is what are your customers asking you." David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Aug 14th
Analysis How CMOs Are Getting Past The Hype About AI By Finding The Practical Use Cases It's still "early days" for AI, says Forrester analyst Thomas Husson, who reports that only 36 percent of global marketing decision makers actually use machine learning tech. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Aug 10th
Analysis How Consumers’ Use Of Voice Activation Is Evolving “Voice-activated tools have become part of our daily lives and are bringing dramatic changes to consumer behavior,” says NPR CMO Meg Goldthwaite. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Jul 31st
Analysis How LEGO’s Amazon Skill Duplo Represents Creative Building Blocks For Retailers "Audio is one of those other senses that can be activated when parents and their children build things with a Lego set, and it's completely uninterrupted and complementary to the building experience," said LEGO's James Poulter at the Voice Summit. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Jul 26th
Analysis Voice Summit 2018: Voice Will Be Consumers’ Preferred Shopping Method Within Five Years “The projections we’ve seen show that voice commerce is going to grow 20-fold from $2 billion to $40 billion in the next four years,” says The Mars Agency’s Ethan Goodman. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Jul 24th
Analysis What Brands Need To Know About The Emerging Voice-First Era “If you're not discoverable via Alexa or Google, then you're going to have big issues, because somebody is going to be discoverable – and it could be your rival,” says Modev’s Pete Erickson ahead of next week’s Voice Summit. David Kaplan By David Kaplan, Jul 17th
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