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More tech slanted, but could be useful to keep in mind for Verizon Also, digital assistance at the end. woop.

Getty Images partnered with East London media artists The Light Surgeons to create an interactive experience at Cannes Lions 2013 which explores their vast video archive of 1.8M clips through meta-tagging and connections to reveal the conceptual relationships between image and word. Getty Images' international creative experts shared their insights around the future of video at the event.

The virtual race for a real car challenges people to sign in to Twitter and gain 2,500 new followers. The first ten people who reach this goal will win a key, and one of those keys will unlock a 2013 Audi A4 with a one-year lease and a tuning package valued at $5,000. via PSFK: http://www.psfk.com/2012/08/virtual-tweet-race-audi.html#ixzz24xJz8GZ0

App has driving courses, video interviews with designers and engineers, AR feature that shows 3D model of new Fusion whent he app is pointed at a Ford logo

in 2011, 6.3% of all local online advertising was served up on a mobile device. Borrell Associates forecasts by 2016, 88% of all local online advertising will be served up on a mobile device.

(The narrator sounds like he should be reading "T'was the Night Before Christmas" or something.) The app interacts with the catalog to display short films and photo galleries, among other things, related to the merchandise.

The primary goal: begin to phase out reliance on the ad impressions-served metric and replace it with the viewable impressions metric. Also by that time the Interactive Advertising Bureau and its partners in the initiative expect advertisers and publishers will be using the eGRP metric, which industry players hope will complement the viewable impression metric with a more audience-focused gauge that speaks to brand advertisers. It was over a year ago that the IAB came together with The Association of National Advertisers and American Association of Advertising Agencies to introduce its sweeping project, overseen by the Media Ratings Council, a respected third party with a long history accrediting advertising and media firms. Pilot testing for the viewable impression is near completion, said the organizations during a webinar held this afternoon. The groups also said the creation of a viewable-based eGRP is underway, in addition to the development of a new taxonomy to classify digital ads as they move into this next evolutionary stage. The viewable impression metric would measure only ads that are actually seen by a user, rather than measuring all impressions served even when users don't bother to scroll down to see them. The idea is to count only real exposures of ads online. "The notion of viewable impressions is accepted by buyers and sellers alike," said Sherrill Mane, SVP, industry services for the IAB, during today's webinar.

ford tried to show a 1 minute commercial of 2013 mustang...

mobile e-comm orders grew 50% YOY

65% of all email is now being accessed via mobile devices up from 61% in Q3 2013.

"The number of internet users aged 65 and older who are using social media has grown from 13 percent in the spring of 2009 to 43 percent in 2013, Pew researchers found. In addition, six out of ten internet users between the ages of 50 and 64 are using social networks."

"By early 2013, the buzz surrounding wearable technology caught the attention of The Coca-Cola Company's Strategic Marketing Ventures team, which invests in high-potential startups aligned with Coke's core business, including digital music streaming service Spotify, social fitness community Endomondo and music licensing firm Music Dealers. Fitness bands and other activity monitors motivate people to be more active -- a key priority for Coke -- by letting users set personal goals and track everything from steps taken, to calories burned, to sleep."

Systems don't collapse in a linear pattern, I predict the that TV ad revenue will crash just like print did in the next 36 months: http://gigaom.com/2013/04/11/two-charts-that-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-future-of-newspapers/

During the 2013 holiday season, US stores got half the foot traffic they did three years ago,