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David Polinchock
I look for innovative ways to create compelling, authentic and relevant brand experiences
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CES 2019, The Year of Being Incremental
Posted 7 days ago at Experience Manifesto
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Can You Be an Influencer if You're Not Real?
A recent article in Verge, Virtual creators aren’t AI — but AI is coming for them, talked about the rise of AI influencer, like Lil Miquela: One of Instagram’s hottest influencers is a 19-year-old intelligent robot. Lil Miquela’s 1.5 million followers watch her eat sherbet on the beach, visit her favorite art galleries, and hang out with other robot models. Except, Lil Miquela isn’t really an artificially intelligent being. She’s also not a robot. According to the article, there's a lot of VC money going into this space, which I guess is how the world works these days. But, can... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2019 at Experience Manifesto
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Are You Building Your Own Relationships?
Facebook's data issues have been in the headlines the last couple of weeks and honestly, I'm not sure it's going away any time soon. Just today, they announced new rules to try and combat the issues that they've been having with fake news and outside entities being involved in US politics. Although we've known about the issue of Facebook using our data and building larger databases by "letting" us use their login information across a wide section of the internet, we are still surprised by just how much data they have allowed to leak out of Facebook for such a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 6, 2018 at Experience Manifesto
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L.L. Bean Ends Lifetime Warranty
L.L. Bean made some pretty big news when they announced that they were ending their lifetime warranty on their products. This was a cornerstone of their customer experience since they started and I would guess a driver of why people shopped at Bean. It also spoke of why retail needs to be a relationship between the stores and the customers. Both sides have an obligation to be respectful of each other and when it gets out of balance, things like this happen. I would certainly be interested in knowing how much they were losing on these returns, but let's give... Continue reading
Posted Mar 16, 2018 at Experience Manifesto
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Propelify 2017 - Think Killer Experiences
The good folks at Propelify have done a great job putting together a highlight of the presentations from the 2017 event over at their Dispatch. I think they did a great job (typo in my name not withstanding!) taking my talk and turning it into a nice, easy to watch, 4 minute video. I was at my first volunteer planning meeting this week and I'm looking forward to seeing how I can make the 2018 event even better! I've included a brief overview of the piece here and you can read the full piece at Stop Thinking Killer Apps -... Continue reading
Posted Mar 3, 2018 at Experience Manifesto
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The Brand as Experience
It's sometimes fun to look back at pieces I wrote some time ago and see what came true and what didn't. I think that this was originally written in 2006 and what's interesting is that some of these predictions happened, went away and have come back again. For example, Second Life was very popular at the time, but hasn't been as popular for a few years. However, they are now getting ready to launch a whole new experience Project Sansar. Podcasting started to get hot, went a little into a decline and today is hotter than ever. Now clearly not... Continue reading
Posted Feb 12, 2018 at Experience Manifesto
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Marketing in a World of Bots
I’ve just returned from CES, the annual gather of all things technical in Las Vegas. Over 4,000 companies will present their wears, from the largest companies in the industry all the way down to new start-ups being shown in Eureka Park. Last year, almost 190,000 people attended over the several days of the event, all looking to see what trends they should be following. This year, there seem to be a number of key trends being discussed, that for me bring up some interesting future discussions for the advertising industry. They include 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2018 at Experience Manifesto
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How Place & Information Will Change in an AR World
Posted Dec 19, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Immersion & Escapism - Is this the Future of Video?
Posted Nov 1, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Talking Experiences at the Adobe Think Tank, Advertising Week 2017
I had a chance to sit down with Don Bennion from Adobe during Advertising Week to talk about what makes a great experience, the value of data and the importance of authenticity! Continue reading
Posted Oct 25, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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360 Tour of Advertising Week TechX
Posted Oct 23, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Pawn VR at Advertising Week TechX 2017
Love what Baaria Chaudhary and Marjorie Wang did with Pawn VR at #AWTechX #AWNewYork. They 3D scanned attendees to turn them into chess pieces in a new, immersive chess game experience. What makes it even cooler is that the entire experience was created live during Advertising Week. Thrilled to have them participate! You can now click here to download the full experience! Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Propelify 2017
Earlier this year, I had the chance to bring my thoughts on Stop Thinking Killer App, Think Killer Experience to life at Propelify 2017. My presentation covered several key thoughts: Stop with the limitations. We need to stop focusing on the limitations. Everyone knows they exist, but we still need to make great content. I've had so many conversations with friends who were doing VR/AR 10 or 20 years ago and they were all doing awesome, cool things, even with all of the limitations we had back then. Add the other senses. We're slowly starting to see more experiments with... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Advertising Week TechXperience 2017
Posted Oct 5, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Advertising Week TechXperience
Very excited to announce that I have been brought in, along with a partner VentureFuel, to create a unique, tech experience for Advertising Week 2017. As you may know, Advertising Week is the premiere ad industry event, with 100,000 attendees and dozens of co-located industry events over the four days. The event runs September 25th - 28th and you the location we have secured is on Times Square at 43rd Street. We are taking over a 12,000 sf space right on Times Square for this experience, creating tremendous visibility for all of our participants. We're looking for emerging tech companies,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 21, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Gen Z - Experience Over Things
Posted Aug 13, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Amazon Didn't Kill Your Store, You Did
Today my wife and I went to the local Home Depot to look for ideas for the walls in the small hallway where we keep the foster puppies. We were looking at some vinyl and porcelain options, trying to decide what would look good, but also be durable for the constant flow of puppies that come through our house, I believe 55 or so to date. We looked around ourselves and then we had some questions, so we looked for an employee in that section to help us. Unfortunately, we couldn't find anyone, so I finally flagged down someone from... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Using Innovation Labs to Amp Up Attendee Engagement
Posted May 13, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Experience WalkAbout
Over the years, I have developed several unique learning experiences that take place out of the traditional meeting rooms. One of my most popular sessions has been the Experience WalkAbout, using the streets and stores of the city to create learning sessions. These smaller group experiences are designed to enhance the learning opportunities by allowing participants to see how experiences are delivered in physical environments (additional modules looking at online experiences can be developed as well). During these sessions, participants use an experience report card to rate the experiences on a variety of learning areas. In the past, they have... Continue reading
Posted Apr 28, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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Stop Thinking Killer App, Think Killer Experience
Posted Apr 25, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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AR for Advertisers - PICNIC 2007
Found this video from a presentation that I gave in 2007 at PICNIC in Amsterdam. Yes, 10 years ago! It really was one of the most fun conferences I've attended and I met some really great people there. And thanks to this video, I've reconnected to both of the companies that presented with me. Of course, one of my demos didn't work right, but that's what it's like when you're on stage talking about emerging technologies! And damn I wish my hair stayed that color and that long! During the session we cover a number of things that back then... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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AR Art with WallaMe
Posted Apr 24, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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The Importance of Context for Brands
A while back I wrote about Little Brother, all of us who snap, Tweet or otherwise document life around us. I talked about what the the lack of context created by all of us little brothers can mean in the future. Currently, United is facing a storm of criticism over a story that exploded because they told some passengers they were dressed inappropriately for their flight. The world went crazy, slamming United This is the kind of story that proves my point. The initial postings had no context - people flying on employee passes have to meet dress code -... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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More Thoughts on VR/AR
I continue to think about what VR/AR looks like in the future, especially as both become more available and cost effective. With VR systems still costing $3,000+ and AR headsets still costing close to $2,000, it will be a while before both are truly mainstream. But today we need to start laying the groundwork for how they will be used in the future and especially start to think about what the UX for AR is it becomes more mainstream. I know people like to talk about VR and AR as if they are competitive, but they will really serve two... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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SXSW 17 Recap and Presentation
Posted Mar 23, 2017 at Experience Manifesto
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