Edge Competencies - Breaking Advertising
Google's success at revolutionizing advertising from the edge, not the core,
is inviting competition.
The next bit of the old dominant design to fall is TV upfront ad sales - an archaic, totally obsolete mechanism which is, at heart, responsible for the mind-numbingly tedious corn-fed drivel that is broadcast on network TV.
"...The upfront is on the tip of everybody�s tongue,� Roehm said. �By breaking it into smaller chunks, [starting with] something less overwhelming than the upfront, we can do it."We talked about this before. But here's the really interesting bit. It looks like these guys have been reading Bubblegen - because they're talking squarely about microchunking.
The end game here is clear, as it is across consumer industries: radical innovators are beginning to understand the power of edge competencies. Increasingly, they will use market, networks, and communities to rescale and restructure the ancient, obsolete mechanisms that are repsonsible for so much of the homogeneity and blandness that characterize today's consumptionscape.
