Big Tech, media, and democracy

By Martin Recke

In times of a unique combination of political, economic, technological and media dominance, do we have to choose between tech and democracy?

The power of the quick fix

By Martin Recke

People know what they want, and they want it now. The quick-fix economy is on the rise. Brands are vulnerable, but not helpless.

AI as new media

By Martin Recke

Generative AI will create new media forms where artists and creative technologists are both at the forefront and at risk of being put out of business.

The content fallacy

By Martin Recke

On the internet, many people fall for the content fallacy. But content neither just happens nor exists independent of its container.

Subprime Attention Crisis, or a trillion dollar industry up in the air

By Martin Recke

Attention is the most valuable asset today, and the way it is traded is at a crossroads similar to the subprime mortgage crisis that led to an economic collapse.

New and synthetic media

By NEXT Conference

Every week David Mattin and Monique van Dusseldorp take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last.

How the big event unbundling changes everything

By Martin Recke

Big events are bundles, and these bundles have been unbundling for a while. This changes everything, from the event experience to the business models.

Why the Paperless Office still hasn’t arrived

By Martin Recke

While we look at screens for most of our waking hours, paper is still around and doesn't show any signs of disappearance. Why?

Linear advertising models are a thing of the past

By Martin Recke

In 2008, Maurice Levy, then Publicis Groupe chief executive, said the business model for the advertising industry is outdated. He was right back then, but the advertising industry is still around more than a decade later, despite their business model being no less obsolete.

Fighting for the future in the media of the past

By Adam Tinworth

It seems counter-intuitive to seek answers to the problems of the future in the media of the last millennium. But sometimes a good, challenging book is exactly the antidote to the social media age we need.

NEXT14: Meet the media

By Ina Feistritzer

NEXT Berlin has great supporting media partners! We are delighted to have them all on board! Also we are looking forward to welcoming more than 100 journalists of Europe’s most relevant publications at NEXT14! Find out who’s coming.

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?

Three views of the future of media

By Adam Tinworth

The media future is all about always addressable consumers, interactive, evolving ebooks and understanding how people's brains work…

How to pitch your story – some advice from the experts

By Anja Rauch

”The Art of making an issue important” was the punch line of the workshop at SIME…