Beyond optimizing one’s ad revenue model, what about new revenue streams altogether? Snap has perhaps executed this with the greatest success with Snapchat+. We break down best practices and results so far.
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Is Snapchat+ a Model For Social Apps?
Will Small Businesses Buy Into the Metaverse?
Whatever the metaverse becomes, it will likely be adapted for marketing purposes. And like past emerging tech, this could start with big brands, then trickle down to the long-tail SMB market. How will it all play out?
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What Can We Learn From the Wendyverse?
Rather than getting carried away with selling virtual goods, the metaverse should simply be considered an additive marketing channel for brand engagement. We examine Wendy’s metaverse marketing play as a model.
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Magic Leap’s Second Act Begins
After some ups and downs, Magic Leap is in the midst of a considerable turnaround. At the center of that effort is Magic Leap 2. We spent a week with the device and break down our observations & analysis.
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Google Inches Closer to the Metavearth
Google’s annual Search On event featured several moves that advance the search giant’s ambitions to build an Internet of places. Also what we call the metavearth, this is all about adding digital depth and dimension to the physical world.
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Has Niantic Found AR’s Peanut Butter & Chocolate Moment?
By launching Lightship for Web, has Niantic merged two of AR’s most powerful modalities: geo-location and web? We unpack the drivers and strategic implications for this peanut butter & chocolate moment.
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Can XR Avoid the Privacy Missteps that Preceded it?
The past half-decade in the tech world has been defined by privacy reform. Can XR avoid that fate by getting it right from the beginning? XRSI’s Kavya Pearlman thinks so, proposing common-sense standards. We interviewed her to find out how.
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Hands-On with Magic Leap 2
After some ups and downs, Magic Leap is in the midst of a considerable turnaround. At the center of that effort is Magic Leap 2. We spent a week with the device and break down our observations & analysis.
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AR Insider & Mike Boland
Does AR Marketing Have a Measurement Problem?
Tried and true ad metrics like clicks and impressions don’t capture AR’s depth of engagement. Yet brand marketers are hooked on these established metrics, and need to benchmark against known quantities. What’s an AR marketing campaign to do?
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How Will the ‘Metavearth’ Materialize?
Though immersive game-like experiences are associated with a prospective metaverse, more value could be in the ‚real-world metaverse‘ Infusing digital depth to the physical world around us. We examine the dynamics.
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