Marketing consultant Juan Carlos Giraldo asked Brian Solis’ opinion on what customer experience opportunities he thinks will be coming out of Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition.

Brian Solis took the #7 spot on the list of Top 100 Digital Influencers, as decided by a neutral algorithm.

Brian Solis opened WAVE 2017 with a talk about influencers, which makes many people think of celebrities like Kim Kardashian. Brian’s contention is that we are all at the centre of everything we do – social media means we are all Kim Kardashian now.

Brian Solis on what gives consumers an unforgettable positive experience, “Businesses must invest in defining not only a positive experience but also a wonderfully sharable one. Doing so influences others to join the fray while offsetting negative inquiries and the damaging viral effects of shared negative experiences.”

In this detailed article, MarTech Education studies the third State of Digital Transformation Report by Brian Solis and his research team and points out the “sorry state of digital transformation. ”

ClickZ featured Brian Solis at its Digital Leader for November. In this lengthy piece, Brian talks about why humanizing technology is his life’s work, and why social science can help businesses to survive in an age of Digital Darwinism.

This recent PlanningStrat-Station article outlines how to compose a concise and simple startup pitch. In the article Brian Solis weighs in on the core questions every founder should consider, noting “I do not see enough founders really thinking about the problem that they are solving”.

As the WAVE 2017 Influence 2.0 Marketing Summit keynote speaker, Brian Solis will share his vision of Influence 2.0 and why as an industry we need to completely re-think how we have approached ‘influencer marketing’, including customer and employee advocacy.

VentureBeat reports on Brian Solis’ recent State of Digital Transformation study.

As the keynote speaker for OMD Predicts event in Dubai, Brian Solis said, “People are aware that fake news exists, but not necessarily when they are being manipulated by marketers and propagandists through social media. Unfortunately, nobody is really unifying against it. There’s a lot of little disparate things, but we are learning every day just how deep this was within Facebook, that the Facebook team met with the Trump campaign, that they helped guide the strategies, and that the YouTube team helped guide these strategies.”