Tag: amazon Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close The most popular NEXT Insights of 2023 By Adam Tinworth What themes caught people’s eyes in 2023? And what digital insights are they seeking? Retail feels the heat of change By Martin Recke Why does retail feel the heat of change? Because it’s right in the middle of it. Still, change takes time. Thus, your timing is important. Amazon, the pioneer of horizontal and vertical integration By Martin Recke Amazon has pioneered a dual strategy of both horizontal and vertical integration. The next Amazon will need a different approach. The dual strategy of horizontal and vertical integration By Martin Recke The internet has propelled both horizontal and vertical integration on a global scale, driven by customer experience. The Big Crunch of the digital universe By Martin Recke The digital world of today looks like a universe that is recollapsing into the black holes of Amazon, Facebook, and Google. From cosmology, we can only tell that this won’t end well. Marco Börries: Standing up against Amazon By Adam Tinworth Amazon has claimed the majority of the 20% of commerce that has gone online. Can we stop them getting the 80% - mainly local - that has yet to do so? A NEXT18 liveblog. Who will fix Facebook first? By Martin Recke Facebook is simply ripe for some good old disruption, like MySpace was in the middle of the last decade. How will the end of smartphones look like? By Martin Recke The fourth cycle of personal computation will be dominated by strong platforms that can tie lots of very different devices together with software and services. The winner will be whoever provides the superior user experience. The AI-first world requires new products By Martin Recke It's not enough to simply add an Alexa skill to an existing product, like it wasn't enough to make your website responsive or launch a mobile app without changing anything else. AI-first means reimagining your product for a world driven by AI and voice interfaces. Amazon’s Echo Show: finding new gaps in the phone ecosystem By Adam Tinworth Amazon is kicking out its new hardware fast and furious - and it's doing its very best to own our homes. Twitch game streaming hits full HD resolution – how far behind is 4k? By Adam Tinworth In the battle for our attention, streaming eSports is catching up on its more physical cousin. What brought down Amazon Web Service this week? Fat Fingers… By Adam Tinworth What catastrophic failure brought down some of Amazon's cloud infrastructure this week? Could it be something terribly simple? The Grand Tour marks streaming TV hitting the big time By Adam Tinworth The former Top Gear team are creating a smash on Amazon Prime with The Grand Tour. And others will be following in their tyre tracks. Amazon aims to put smart assistant Alexa in European homes By Adam Tinworth The Amazon Echo is coming to the UK and Germany in the next few weeks. Can it make a voice interface a viable part of our tech lives? Amazon’s Prime Air drones work, says Jeremy Clarkson – but it’s still unregulated By Adam Tinworth Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson fronts a new video for Amazon's drone delivery service - and proves that Amazon got more than a TV show for its money. Facebook M aims to be the winner in the digital assistant wars By Adam Tinworth Beyond the battle to be the leading messaging platform lies a more subtle battle: to become your personal digital assistant [Liveblog] Scott Smith: when your data ghost shops for you By Adam Tinworth The future of retail is invisible. Stores are fading away, and our purchases are becoming involuntary - and predictive. The quiet revolution in digital TV By Adam Tinworth The Superseding of the Goggle-Box is well underway, as streaming video and YouTube celebrities start to reshape the way we watch video. The Amazon Challenge By Ina Feistritzer In the first of a series of extracts from the NEXT Year! book, Olaf Kolbrück explores what Amazon’s dominant position means for costumers and marketers Amazon Prime Video wins Golden Globes – and a big name director By Adam Tinworth Amazon and Netflix bagged Golden Globes for their TV work this week - they're no longer fringe producers. The family future of digital media? Shareability By Adam Tinworth With iOS8 Apple brought family-sharing to its stores. And Amazon has announced Family Library. Are digital goods finally becoming shareable? Amazon Fires its first shot at the phone market By Adam Tinworth Amazon is finally making a bid for its slice of the phone market - but is the Fire ready to blaze? Why instant media gratification is the New Normal – and we should all be excited By Adam Tinworth A generation is growing up for whom the TV schedule and patient waits to get hold of a book is an alien concept. What new art with they create in their new context? prev 1 2 next
