Tag: innovation

• The Mad World of Monopolies Over Brains

  

  Microsoft bought semantic machines. Google, FB etc keep buying smart companies all the time. A handful of global companies keep buying smart companies before they can get a product out to the market.They are essentially creating monopolistic moats over not just cutting edge intellectual property, but also the intellectuals – the men and women capable […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  May 22, 2018

  Futures, Uncategorized

  facebook, future, google, innovation, investing, microsoft, monopoly, strategy

• The triad of Consultancies, FB and Google will neuter creative agencies globally, unless…

  

  First: The digital disruption. Globally, Facebook and Google now dominate advertising dollars, not WPP or Publicis or other agency companies. (For comparison about the market muscle – Combined market cap of FB and G was $812Bn as of June 2016. How did WPP, Omnicom, IPG, Publicis stack up? The four combined were at $70 Bn. […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  April 6, 2017

  Business of advertising, Uncategorized

  CEO, closed thinking, consultancy, creativity, CXO, digital advertising, growth, innovation, open thinking, technology, value