with few exceptions, anything that becomes commoditized and ubiquitous - from shoes and clothing to watches and cars - spurs demand for a more scarce and meaning-infused version (often with brand/story and quality driving the premium).
this is now happening to content.
with few exceptions, anything that becomes commoditized and ubiquitous - from shoes and clothing to watches and cars - spurs demand for a more scarce and meaning-infused version (often with brand/story and quality driving the premium). this is now happening to content.
The problem is that within many conventional retail organisations, the term “content” is conflated with advertising. To wit, I’ve even seen entire brand YouTube channels that contain nothing more than a company’s TV ads. And while it is true that fashion brands like Chanel and Burberry, for example, long ago began to think more like media companies
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Scott Belskyimplications.com
The fact is, brand-centric content is optimized for driving revenue, not for the quality of original content.