ABC News investigated where teens are spending their time online if not Facebook. Brian Solis studies what captures their time and attention and shared his top list with Joanna Stern. This isn’t bad news for Facebook. The company owns Instagram and shelled out $1 billion for it in April 2012. Brian Solis, a principal analyst at Altimeter Group, says be believes Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s lead executives knew they would need help with the younger market at the time and…
PRSA International Conference Recap: Brian Solis On the Future of Public Relations and Marketing
Image credit: @leeodden Brian Solis opened the PRSA International Conference to share his views on the future of PR, marketing and relationships in front of 2,000 professionals and students. Despite his status as a noted author, blogger and social media expert, Brian Solis said that he never stops learning. “I’m still a student,” he said during today’s General Session at the PRSA 2013 International Conference in Philadelphia. And he implored attendees to keep learning as well. “Everything you think you…
Brian Solis to Keynote 2014 Learning Technology Conference in London
Learning Technologies today announced Brian Solis as the opening keynote for the 2014 Learning Technology Conference in London. opening keynote – day one Wednesday 29th January 2014 10:00 – 11:00 Opening keynote What’s the future (WTF) – the effect of emerging technologies on business and culture At work, and in our lives, we face a daily onslaught of new devices and tidal waves of information, opinion and noise. Digital analyst and anthropologist Brian Solis is an expert in the effects…
The End of Business as Usual Now Available in Dutch – het einde van business as usual
Brian Solis’ best-selling book The End of Business as Usual is now available in Dutch. The book was translated by Antje Bosscher. To commemorate the event, Solis also contributed an article for Marketing Online in the Netherlands that explores 10 trends causing digital disruption in business – “SOLIS: 10 TRENDS TEGEN DIGITAAL DARWINISME” omschrijving De invloed van consumenten neemt toe; als bedrijf kun je hier je voordeel mee doen. Leer van dit nieuwe consumentengedrag, zoek verbinding en pas je aan….
Maritz Innovation Symposium 2013 Features Brian Solis as Evening Keynote
The Maritz Innovation Symposium is a private, invitation-only forum event that explores “What’s Next?” in a world of digital disruption. Taking place at Maritz in Fenton, Missouri, the Symposium will connect and inspire an internal network of innovative leaders from across the business to discuss key strategies, next generation methodologies and business innovations—creating disruptive transformation across multi-faceted industry sectors. Attendees include Maritz’s executive leadership and next generation of leaders eager to discuss market challenges and emerging technology, analyze innovative approaches…
SAS Publishes a Whitepaper that Studies Brian Solis’ Work on the Impact of Shared Experiences on Brands
The future of business hinges on your customers’ shared experiences – the tweets, blogs, posts, comments, photos and reviews they share in this ultra-connected age. The collective voice of these shared experiences can often trump your product or service – and your most clever and creative marketing. In a keynote address at a recent Integrated Marketing Week conference, analyst and futurist Brian Solis explored the importance of cultivating the shared customer experience and why marketers must think like digital anthropologists…
Brian Solis to Keynote World Business Forum in Mexico City
Brian Solis will take the main stage at the World Business Forum in Mexico City to share his views on how collaboration will fuel a new competitive market. Brian joins other thought leaders including Mohanbir Sawhney, Don Tapscott, Felix Baumgartner, and Angella Nazarian.
What’s the Future of Business Makes 800CEOREAD’s Top 20 Business Books…Again
What’s The Future of Business by Brian Solis has once again made the 800CEOREAD list for top business books in its September 2013 report. 800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide.
Hollywood’s The Wrap Takes The Covers Off of Twitter IPO with Brian Solis
The Wrap’s Brent Lang called Brian Solis to examine the various scenarios Twitter executives should consider for a successful IPO. Here are some of his thoughts from the article, “How Twitter Can Avoid Facebook’s IPO Nightmare.” “What you have is a wary Wall Street that still has a memory of the dotcom bust fresh in its mind,” Brian Solis, a digital analyst at the research and advisory firm Altimeter Group, said. “There is certainly a perception that a quarter…
Brian Solis Sits Down with Peter Guber to Talk About the Future of Business
Peter Guber joins Brian Solis for a special edition of his popular Web series Revolution. Peter shares his experience in taking traditional business models and modernizing them for the connected economy. Peter also explores the differences in competing for the present versus competing for the future. About Peter Guber: – Chairman and CEO of the multimedia Mandalay Entertainment Group – Past president of Sony Pictures – Producer of popular motion pictures including Batman, Rain Man, The Color Purple, just to…