Archive for Tony Quin

Future-Proof Digital

Posted by Tony Quin on May 16th, 2012 at 8:21 am

By Rachel Peters - Senior Experience Architect, IQ
How to create for the multi-device world (SlideShare presentation)

So you built a website and it seems to do everything you need. Then someone points out that it looks pretty terrible on a phone, so you build a mobile website. Then you realize that it isn’t optimized for touch screens and doesn’t work on an iPad, so you build an iPad version. Then you get a memo from the Chairman asking why it doesn’t work right on his wife’s new Kindle Fire, and your sales director calls and says it looks terrible on his Mac Mini, which he is viewing on his 42” living room TV, and then...well, you get the idea.
The moral of the story is that the one thing you can count on in our technology drenched world is change, which is why you need a better way to approach creating things for digital channels. That better way is called Responsive Web Design. Not very catchy, but as you’ll see in a minute, the name pretty much sums it up.

Dick Clark Called Me a Nudge

Posted by Tony Quin on April 18th, 2012 at 9:49 pm

I first met Dick when I was producing the Marconi Awards, the Emmys for radio. Dick agreed to be the host and can you imagine a better host for anything? The next year he came back and hosted them again and that was where I saw what he was really made of.
It was a jam packed program of music and luminaries all working for the good of the radio industry. So when the road manager of Tower of Power demanded cash for his band to go party after the show, I said no, we didn’t have any cash. I then didn’t think of it again until we discovered the road manager, upset at the lack of party favors, had shut down all of the sound computers for Kenny Loggins, who was next up. In the 25 minutes it took to boot the computers back up again, Dick took to the stage to save the day. He proceeded to regale the black tie audience with wonderful stories of the music and radio industry people he had met over his already illustrious career. He was so engaging that when Kenny was ready go on again no one wanted Dick to stop.... Read more

The New SoDA Report

Posted by Tony Quin on February 21st, 2012 at 10:20 am

As the chairman of the board for the society of Digital Agencies I'm delighted to announce that the 2012 SoDA Report, digital marketing outlook is here. This weighty tome has rapidly become the leading predictor of digital marketing trends in the business. Last year it got over 40,000 downloads alone. With POVs, perspectives and insights from some of the top digital marketing thinkers in the world, it is the only report that includes both the client and the agency perspective.
For the fourth year in a row, SoDA has compiled the thoughts and opinions of over 700 marketers, agencies, technologists and digital industry insiders.  Dozens of SoDA member companies have contributed thought-provoking articles and case studies to The SoDA Report (formerly known as the Digital Marketing Outlook).  A broad array of guest contributors, CMOs and other senior-level digital marketers from a wide array of organizations (i.e., L’Oreal, Adobe, Google, Compete, E*Trade, Bloomberg and Samsung, among many other blue-chip brands) also provided their insights.  The result: an invaluable planning resource for marketers and agencies in 2012. SoDA ... Read more

Komen's Race for the Clue

Posted by Tony Quin on February 9th, 2012 at 1:59 pm

By Todd Copilevitz, Digital Strategist, IQ
The reality of this new environment is that speed equals emotion. Logic gets left on the curb when messages are passed along in tweets and status updates.
What do these things have in common: Netflix, Bank of America, SOPA, Susan G. Komen for the Cure?
Answer: they've all got tread marks on their backs from social media protests.
The last six months have provided an amazing string of case studies on how protests movements are being changed forever by the speed and reach of social media.
Forget about organizing workers to gather signatures on a petition, or emails calling for a boycott of some company's product. Those are your grandfather's protest tools. Today's protests take shape in a matter of days, and the battles can pivot in a matter of minutes. Gone are colorful posters with catch slogans. Today the canvases are short emotional messages with hash tags or links.