Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom shows off his application’s newest feature: video. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Instagram has video — 15-second, filtered, camera-stabilized miniature movies, to be exact. But more importantly, with the release, video will finally get its moment in the spotlight. Jennifer Van Grove and Brian Solis are back together once again to examine how this is good for social video, Instagram and Facebook overall. Following is an excerpt… “Instagram mastered the art of capturing something important and making it…
Los Angeles Times Compares Facebook’s Instagram Video to Twitter’s Vine with Brian Solis
When Facebook announced that Instagram would add video, Jessica Guynn of The Los Angeles Times asked Brian Solis and the differences and how users would react. Following is a snapshot of Solis’ view on the subject… Altimeter Group analyst Brian Solis says Instagram may have a shot at doing for video what its arch-rival has only begun to do: put the new art of short-form video in the hands of millions of people the world over. Short-form video is taking…
Experiences Matter to Your Bottom Line
SAS invited Brian Solis to speak at New York’s Integrated Marketing Week to expound on his notion of “shareable” customer experiences and how they’re key to future business success. To Solis, the future of business has always been about creating value – for shareholders and for all stakeholders in the enterprise. What’s changing is how value is defined, derived and demonstrated in the context of today’s new generation of consumerism. While technological advances are making customer-centricity imperative for the enterprise,…
San Jose Mercury News Seeks Commentary on Yahoo’s Tumblr Acquisition from Brian Solis
Brandon Bailey of The San Jose Mercury News covered the Tumblr Yahoo! deal and reached out to Brian Solis for his thoughts. Following is an excerpt… Many adults already use multiple services for different purposes, such as Facebook for friends, Twitter to follow celebrities and LinkedIn for professional contacts, said Brian Solis, principal analyst at Altimeter Group. But when there are so many alternatives, he added, “Facebook is going to have to compete every day for our attention.” “We will…
Los Angeles Times and Brian Solis Analyze Yahoo’s $1 Billion Acquisition of Tumblr
Jessica Guynn of the Los Angeles Times covered Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr and reached out to Brian Solis for his thoughts. “Certainly Yahoo has a track record of taking cool and making it uncool,” said Altimeter Group analyst Brian Solis. “Marissa Mayer is trying to bring Yahoo’s brand appeal to a different type of audience. Yahoo sees this as a path to future relevance.”
The Huffington Post Asks Brian Solis How Long Yahoo Can Hold On To Tumblr’s Teens
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during a news conference Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Bianca Bosker of The Huffington Post asks Brian Solis if he believes Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr is a good investment…for teens. Yet some experts speculate that younger demographics may be more fickle than their parents or older peers. Not only do they have an ever-expanding selection of sites and services from which to choose, but these younger users are “more…
Forbes asks Brian Solis if Tumblr is Yahoo’s Next Big Mistake
Yahoo! acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Stuart Newman and Monique Lewis of Forbes reached out to Brian Solis to discuss the fate of Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr. The company is in good hands under Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO since July 2012, according to Brian Solis, principal analyst at Altimeter Group. She will aim to grow the company and on Yahoo’s Tumblr page went as far as to promise “not to screw it up.” As…
San Francisco Chronicle and Brian Solis See Tumblr as Yahoo’s Doorway to Younger Audiences
San Francisco Chronicle’s Benny Evangelista and Brian Solis review Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr as a venture to lure a younger crowd. Adding ‘coolness points’ This year, Yahoo paid $30 million to a British teenager who created a news aggregation app called Summly. But with Tumblr, Mayer is trying to add “coolness points” to a brand that “may have been viewed as the antithesis of cool,” said Brian Solis, principal analyst at San Mateo’s Altimeter Group and author of “What’s the…
ABC News and Brian Solis Talk Through the Yahoo/Tumblr Deal
Joanna Stern of ABC News covered the Yahoo! Tumblr news and asked Brian Solis to weigh in. “For all intents and purposes, Yahoo as a media brand skews toward older demographics. Tumblr is ridiculously strong in terms of engagement among Millennials and to some extent Generation Y,” Brian Solis, a principal analyst at Altimeter Group, told ABC News. “The trick for Marissa and co. is to do so without diluting the Tumblr secret sauce while drafting enough of the Tumblr…
Brian Solis on Digital Anthropology and the New Rules for Engaging Gen C
Brian Solis joined Bryan Kramer for an episode of IBM’s Smarter Commerce series, “Rethink Marketing.” Discover what it takes to make more human connections and smarter business decisions during this era of upheaval. Mobile commerce, social networks, smartphones, tablets and real-time connections all the time—this time period represents a huge evolutionary step—and it really is the end of business as usual. Will your company adapt, or go extinct? Brian is the principal analyst at Altimeter Group as well as an award-winning author, prominent…
