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Closing out this remarkable year of innovations, the entire Lab team came together for our annual recap of the biggest trends that defined the tech and media landscape in 2024, and look ahead to see what 2025 may bring. Together, the team discussed:
The maturing deployment of AI and the long-term prospect of the AI hypeThe future of search and the impact that AI-driven challengers could have on Google’s dominance The shifting landscape of social media—more media, less “social”—and how creators navigate evolving platforms and parasocial dynamics. The major developments in mixed reality, esp. in hardware, and how its user cases might evolve The streaming landscape in the post-streaming wars era, doubling down on live sports and battling subscription fatigueJoin us for this year-end roundup as we celebrate our team, our guests, and you—our listeners—and head into 2025 with fresh insights and excitement.
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‘Tis the season again, and the Lab is here to discuss the latest shopping trends that we think brands should keep an eye out for this year. From a renewed emphasis on experiential in-store shopping to interesting loyalty plays, not to mention the new entrants like Amazon Haul and metaverse shopping, there’s no shortage of interesting things for Adam and Chelsea to talk about. Listen now to learn more about the latest trends in retail and shopper behaviors.
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Welcome back to Floor 9! This month, we welcome long-time host and director of partnerships, Ryan, back from his paternity leave to chat with Adam, the managing director of the Lab, to round up all the recent news around mixed reality headsets.
From the Orion AR glasses prototype that Mark Zuckerberg showcased earlier this month, or Meta’s Ai-infused Ray-Ban smart glasses, to the developer-oriented Snap Spectacles, as well as the headset that kicked off this wave of spatial computing hardware, Apple’s Vision Pro, we covered them all! In addition, Adam and Ryan also analyzed the current competitive landscape among the tech companies trying to crack the MR hardware market and prognosticated how things might shake out over the next five to ten years. Listen now to hear our take on this potentially revolutionary emerging category.
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Welcome back to another episode of Floor 9. This week, Tom Trudeau from our partnerships team chats with our managing director Adam Simon about everything that marketers should know coming out of the Apple event on Monday. Together, they discussed various new Apple products, the upcoming Apple Intelligence features, as well as these AI-driven features will change consumer expectations and reshape brand interactions. Topics covered include:
The new iPhones’ surprising hold on pricing, and what it means for the smartphone market (0:58)Analysis of the upcoming suite of Apple Intelligence features (2:23)The new “visual intelligence” features coming to iPhones, and what it means for marketers (5:30)The ability to capture immersive spatial video and images, and what it means for Vision Pro (7:13)Updates to AirPods and additional support for contextual audio (8:32)New hearing health features coming to AirPods Pro (11:47)New health & fitness features to Apple Watch and Apple’s sustainability goals (14:41)What brands should do to prepare for the new era of AI search (17:42)How Apple is positioning Apple Intelligence and where the company stands in the AI competitive landscape (19:51)Why spatial computing remains a key focus in Apple’s strategic roadmap (21:28)The long-term prospect for Apple Intelligence and large language models in general (22:05)Closing thoughts on Apple’s latest products and what they mean for a new deployment phrase of consumer-facing AI (25:30)If you enjoyed the episode, please consider giving us a five-star review on Apple Podcast. Follow the Lab on LinkedIn and on Medium for our latest insights. Thanks for listening!
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In this special bonus episode of the month, the Lab’s strategy team assembles to discuss the highlights from the results of our latest Futurecaster survey! Futurecaster is the Lab’s proprietary innovation tool that identifies how your audience is engaging with the tactical areas of innovation across emerging technologies and media channels.
In partnership with Dynata, we survey 2,500 smartphone owners aged 16-74, asking them about their awareness, past and planned usage, and perception of emerging technologies and media channels. That survey data is fused with our Acxiom data stack, allowing us to identify which tactical areas of innovation your audiences engage with.
With each new edition of the survey, we gain interesting new insights into how consumers are adopting and interacting with new technologies. This year, the results showed noteworthy developments across a wide range of innovation territories, including generative AI, augmented reality and mixed reality, retail and lifecycle loyalty, smart city and mobility solutions, the experience economy, and the creator economy. For example, awareness of generative AI tools continues to grow, with 55% of respondents saying they have heard of them, up from 36% who said so last year.
Listen now to learn more about Futurecaster and the key insights we learned from this year’s survey!
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This week on Floor 9, the Lab’s managing director Adam Simon welcomes two senior UM executives, Dan Chapman, Global Chief Strategy Officer, and Andy Littlewood, Global Chief Product Officer, to Floor 9 for an insightful discussion on the impact of the over-reliance on AI within the media landscape, how agencies can work with clients to avoid becoming “bland brands” and lead the Renaissance of Media. Specifically, they took a deep dive into the following topics:
The shifting landscape of the media industry and the end of digital ad triopolyThe impact of generative AI on the ad & media industry, and the best strategies to deal with itThe role AI in brand-building, and how to increase brand differentiation in an era of homogenizing digital platforms and ad toolsThe “brand vs. agency” dynamic and what agencies can do to help clients navigate AI’s impactHow to avoid becoming a “bland brand” and being commoditized by AI by rediscovering nuanced brand patternsHow marketers can lead a renaissance of creativity in this new eraIf you enjoyed the episode, please consider giving us a five-star review on Apple Podcast. Follow the Lab on LinkedIn and on Medium for our latest insights. Thanks for listening!
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This month on Floor 9, the Lab team assembles for a panel discussion on the future of the entertainment industry. Faced with rising streaming fatigue, high-churn “nomadic subscribers,” and the looming threat of AI-generated “slop content,” Hollywood needs to be smart about navigating the post-streaming-wars industry landscape, and that begins with re-aligning their business model with the market reality. In this episode, host Ryan Miller is joined by Chelsea Freitas, Tom Trudeau, and Richard Yao to break down the various issues facing the entertainment industry today and point to the best practices going forward.
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As usual, Apple’s latest WWDC event brought forth many software updates, but the star of the show was Apple’s major AI update — Apple Intelligence, which will enable LLM-powered new features across Apple’s entire ecosystem. In this episode, Adam and Ryan took a deep dive into Apple Intelligence, the ChatGPT integration, its impact on the AI competitive landscape, and more. Listen now to hear our analysis on the WWDC announcements, including:
Apple Intelligence overview - 2:20Siri’s big upgrade - 5:58Fun AI features: Genmoji and Image Playground - 10:26Apple’s AI privacy promise & how it works - 14:04Apple’s OpenAI partnership & ChatGPT integration - 21:07How Apple’s AI strategy differs from competitors - 26:20Safari Highlights & new Photos app updates - 30:01New immersive Vision Pro content - 33:20Implications for brand marketers - 37:58f you enjoyed the episode, please consider giving us a five-star review on Apple Podcast. Follow the Lab on Twitter @ipglab and on Medium for our latest insights. Thanks for listening!
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May marks the beginning of the tech conference season, and this year, we had three key players in the AI race — OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft — all hosting their respective developer conferences within a two-week period in May. If you missed the announcements, fret not! The Lab team is here to help you keep up with the fast-evolving AI developments and competitive landscape.
In this episode, Chelsea Freitas from our strategy team, along with Ryan Miller and Tom Trudeau from our partnerships team, took the Floor 9 mic and discussed all the highlights from the recent developer conferences, including:
Microsoft’s hardware-centric Surface event - 0:52Is AI-powered Surface laptops a legitimate competitor to Apple? - 3:27AI-powered Recall feature for the Copliot+ PCs - 5:01Key announcements from Microsoft's Build event - 9:03Will people call them “AI” as more AI-powered features become productized - 15:25The advertising implications of Copilot and Microsoft’s AI features - 16:45Key announcements from Google’s I/O developer event - 19:55The impact of Google rolling out AI search - 21:23Google integrating Gemini AI into its suite of popular products - 24:31Google’s new multimodal AI-powered creative tools - 29:03Last thoughts on the AI race and wrap up - 32:52If you enjoyed the episode, please consider giving us a five-star review on Apple Podcast. Follow the Lab on Twitter @ipglab and on Medium for our latest insights. Thanks for listening!
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Kids these days! In this episode of Floor 9, the Lab’s strategy team (Adam Simon and Cheslea Freitas) and partnerships team (Ryan Miller and Tom Trudeau) join forces to analyze the youngest generation on the scene and their Millennial parents. Together, the team tackles topics that include:
Gen Alpha’s key media behaviorsHow Gen Alpha socialize digitally Gen Alpha as “AI natives”Millennials’ collaborative and overprotective parenting styleThe major concerns of Millennial parents The recent “no phone childhood” movementKey takeaways for brands looking to reach kids and parentsIf you enjoyed the episode, please consider giving us a five-star review on Apple Podcast. Follow the Lab on Twitter @ipglab and on Medium for our latest insights. Thanks for listening!
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This week on Floor 9, it’s about the Vision Pro! Ryan, Adam, and Chelsea regroup on Floor 9 for an in-depth discussion of Apple’s groundbreaking “spatial computing” headset. From our team’s first impressions of trying it on, to unpacking its use cases and market implications, the Lab team is eager to share our hot takes on Vision Pro. Key topics include:
Assessing the Vision Pro launch and initial reception - starting around 0:57The Lab team’s first impressions of Vision Pro - starting around 3:31Discussing Vision Pro’s primary use cases - starting around 7:37Does Vision Pro signal a computing paradigm shift? - starting around 18:57The entertainment value of Vision Pro - starting around 21:40The user experience of Vision Pro: isolating or shared? - starting around 29:24Vision Pro’s impact on the mixed-reality headset market - starting around 34:23The marketing implications of Vision Pro and brand takeaways - starting around 39:34If you enjoyed the episode, please consider giving us a five-star review on Apple Podcast. Follow the Lab on Twitter @ipglab and on Medium for our latest insights. Thanks for listening!
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Welcome back to Floor 9! This week, your hosts Ryan and Adam are joined by Chelsea Freitas from our Strategy team to take a deep dive into the trends and themes from our latest annual Outlook report, which includes:
Macro trends in consumer behaviors - starting at 0:42Life's New Beats - starting at 13:36The Remixed City - starting at 24:50The Revenge of the Monoculture - starting at 37:50The Expanding Experience Economy - starting at 45:48Make sure to check out the full version of Outlook 2024 report on Medium here: https://bit.ly/LabOutlook24
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Welcome back to Floor 9! As always, we’ll kick off the year with a CES episode, in which the Lab team assembles to recap the biggest trends we spotted at CES 2024, including:
How the AI hype manifested on the CES show floors, both the good and the bad (1:05)How the translucent TVs wow'ed the crowd and could be interesting for retail (2:56)How interoperability emerged as a major trend for smart home devices (4:25)How digital health solutions continue to be on-demand and home-centric (11:09)How immersive experiences are evolving and supercharging next-gen entertainment (15:17)How some CES exhibitors brought a luxury touch to their products through cutting-edge tech and design (26:10)How the CES showcased the latest trends in play and toy: the rise of educational toys, and AI-enabled play (37:48)How the auto industry is rushing to integrate AI into the dashboard and re-adjust their EV strategies (47:44)And many more!In addition, we also each named our favorite CES product this year!
To learn more about CES trends, read our written recap here on Medium.
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Correction: at the 22:21 mark, Richard mistakenly said "Roku" when he meant to say "Roxi" when mentioning their new interactive linear broadcast channel.
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To close out this significant year of innovations, the Lab team assembles for an end-of-year recap of the biggest trends that defined the tech and media landscape for the past 12 months:
The rise of generative AI & its impact on creator economy and marketingThe “post-streaming wars” reality & the new opportunities in interactive ad formatsThe shifting social media landscape & the pivot in social commerce The revival of monoculture & the resulting “funflation” on consumer spendingThe emergence of spatial computing and immersive headsets, spurred by the impending release of Apple’s Vision ProListen now to hear what the Lab team has to say about each of these five topics that will continue to influence consumer behavior in 2024 and beyond.
You can read more about the trends discussed in this episode in our year-end roundup piece here on Medium.
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Welcome to our annual holiday shopping trends episode. This year, this holly jolly discussion is led by Chelsea Freitas, VP of our Strategy team, and she is joined by two other members of our strategy team, Adam Simon and Katy Geisreiter. In this episode, the trio shared some must-know stats about this year’s holiday shopping trends and consumer behaviors, highlighted their favorite tech-enabled retail holiday campaigns, and debated the effects of funflation and other marco-economic forces on holiday shopping behaviors this year. Listen now!
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Welcome back to Floor 9. This week, we are tackling the hottest innovation territory of the year, generative AI, and its impact on the ad industry with the help of two brilliant UM thought leaders: James Fox, Global Chief Strategy Officer, and Andrew Littlewood, Global Chief Product Officer. Together with the Lab’s managing director Adam Simon, the trio discussed the state of generative AI, especially in terms of where it is in the Gartner hype cycle, the industry leaders in consumer-facing AI, what marketers can do with the new AI tools, and what’s next for generative AI. In addition, the following intriguing questions were also raised and explored:
Is generative AI already over the peak of its hype cycle?How quickly will we culturally accept to use private data to train generative AI?Will generative AI cause the ad industry to implode? How far away are we from achieving human-level general artificial intelligence?If you’re curious about generative AI and want to learn about how it impacts the world of advertising and marketing, this episode is a must-listen!
Floor 9 is a podcast created by the IPG Media Lab to bring you our latest musings and hot takes at the intersection of consumer technology and digital media.
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Welcome back to Floor 9. In this episode, we had the honor of having Kara Manatt, EVP of Intelligence Solutions at MAGNA, and Edwin Wong, SVP, Insights & Innovation at Vox Media, to chat about their recent blockbuster research on the persuasive power of podcasters and podcasting’s growing influence. When asked which media figures’ influence matters most, their study found that 75% of listeners say podcast hosts compared to 15% who say social media influencers.
Kara and Edwin shared which podcasts they love most, then dived into the most revelatory findings from the joint study, “Podcasts: A New Era of Influence” (starting at 11:07). Some highlights of their discussion include:
Why podcasters are now more influential than other types of influencersWhy IPG choose to partner with Vox to learn more about podcastsHow podcasters can help listeners with mental health and self-actualization How brands can harness the persuasive power of podcasters and drive resultsYou can learn more about this joint research here: https://www.voxmedia.com/2023/5/10/23718269/podcasts-a-new-era-of-influence
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In this episode: What the Lab thinks about Vision Pro, Apple’s first spatial computing device, and its potential impact on media consumption habits. Plus, various other interesting tidbits from Apple’s WWDC event this week, including the unified presence of widgets across OS’s, and Apple’s deliberation omission of generative AI.
Floor 9 is a podcast created by the IPG Media Lab to bring you our latest musings and hot takes at the intersection of consumer technology and digital media. In this episode, you’ll hear from Adam Simon, our managing director, and Ryan Miller, director of partnerships.
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Welcome back to Floor 9! As usual, we are kicking off the year with a CES recap episode that features the entire IPG Media Lab team, plus Chad Stoller, Global Chief Innovation Officer of UM Worldwide. Listen now to hear about our team’s thoughts on the biggest trends in digital health, entertainment, mobility, smart home, and vice economy coming out of this year’s CES show floors!
If you'd like to learn more about our CES learnings, please check out the Lab's CES content, including an in-depth written recap, here: https://ipglab.com/ces/
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Come one, come all! ‘Tis the season for our annual holiday episode of Floor 9. This year, we’re closing out the year with a not-so-Secret Santa gift exchange featuring co-hosts Ryan and Adam, along with the entire Strategy team here at the Lab — Chelsea, Katy, and Richard.
All the gifts given in this episode have ties to one or more of the Innovation Territories that we track throughout the years at the Lab, while also reflecting what we know of each other. So listen now to find out what we gifted each other, and why we think they are representative of the key innovation trends. Maybe our selection of innovation-minded gifts will inspire gifts for your loved ones, or highlight innovation territories to pay attention to!
As always, you can find Adam on Twitter @adamjsimon, and Ryan on LinkedIn. Follow the Lab on Twitter @ipglab and on Medium for our latest insights.
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