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Voice moves from awareness to application

Stephen Waddington

Data on the adoption of voice technologies by consumers is hard to find. It’s an area of the media and technology that organisations such as Ofcom or ONS don’t yet track. It is easy to forget that the technology is more than a decade old. Apple’s Siri launched in 2011, Google’s Voice Search in 2012, and Amazon’s Alexa in 2013.

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Tech Trends Media Didn’t Care About In 2018

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Every year, we see new trends in technology emerge that can inform our programs, content, or even real-time newsjacking. Also, as the IoT category has matured, security and privacy have become key concerns. Oculus Rift , which famously launched on Kickstarter in 2012 and broke records, was an anomaly, not the norm. Am I wrong?

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Letter from Middlesbrough: 13 lessons from Mary Meeker’s 2019 report

Stephen Waddington

4 Auto advertising The use of programmatic ad buying has grown from 10% of digital display advertising revenue in 2012 to 62% in 2018. The conversation about user privacy is growing louder. Platforms are attempting to get ahead of the issue by improving privacy management. Technology is also enabling a remote workforce.

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Leveson Inquiry archive important contribution to debate and education on media ethics

Stephen Waddington

The Inquiry published the Leveson Report in November 2012 which made recommendations for a new, independent, body to replace the Press Complaints Commission. There are short essays on each of the key themes raised by the Inquiry including privacy, regulation, phone hacking and the internet, all pointing to key evidence.

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Oh, Come on, Charlie Brown! Let Google Hold the Football for You [Google+]

Sword and the Script

Some time around 2012, I attended a marketing conference downtown in Washington, DC. Yet we live in ever more complicated times even as the company has worked its way into more technology corners, like IoT. His message? In the next five years, he said, Google+ will be Google.

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Why public relations must wake up to wearables

PR Conversations

Things ain’t what they used to be; the end of the beginning around wearable technologies and the device jumps PR practitioners are about to encounter. As I sit here, at the end of the beginning, I wonder what future colleagues will make of the collective inaction around wearable technologies and the device jumps we are about to encounter.

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication [Redux]

Waxing UnLyrical

While maintaining patient-doctor privacy boundaries and following regulations is important, avoiding social media isn’t the solution. New technology is changing how we communicate with each other, just as the telephone and email did, but faster. This originally ran on Nov. Your child has come down with a rasping cough.