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Walking through the streets of Old City in Philadelphia this weekend, there were people standing in line to get into clubs telling each other to "follow the finger." At first I thought it was some college student slang, or a Philadephia thing – but looking around I realized – they were actually responding to a … Read more
One of the things I have noted over the past year of blogging is that this blog receives a significant amount of traffic from locations outside of the US. Intended or not, this blog has a global audience. But like most of my fellow bloggers based in a single country, I don’t do much to … Read more
One of my favourite holdover sites from the dot-com era that is still around today is Spun.com. I have always loved the idea of creating used cd and dvd store online for people to sell their old stuff and use credits to buy new stuff. I think I still have a spundex somewhere. I came … Read more
Along with the new year comes the new year’s resolution, and marketers tired annual attempts to make their own products and services a part of that resolution. But the best resolutions are the easiest to keep, and what could be easier than the universal piece of dieting advice almost every "guru" offers … drink more … Read more
We have been living in an interruption culture. Many authors, including Seth Godin, have rightly pointed out the pitfalls of interruption marketing in this environment. Grabbing the consumers attention with interruption and hoping for engagement is a dying model. Consumer respond to messages that are relevant, and are presented at a relevant time. Timing is … Read more
A rising trend with the coming fall lineup for US TV networks is the desire and necessity to make shows more interactive. Though the leap of making all show content available online seems a stretch for most shows (FOX’s Reunion being a notable exception), legions of shows are using non-traditional ways to deepen their relationships … Read more
Movie marketing is always fun to watch, because in the midst of all the formulaic voice-overs in the same baritone predicting a hero or heroine finding "the one thing they never expected" … there is also a furious desire/necessity to do something different to connect with audiences and increase intrigue enough to get "bums in … Read more
I have been involved in enough campaigns to know that I am not my target audience. Now that I have passed from my 20s into the 30s, I can no longer claim to understand teenagers and get away with it. But just because I am not the target audience doesn’t mean there isn’t a value … Read more
Content creation online is exploding, with over 53 million people (or 44% of all Internet users) having created and posted content online in 2004 – according to a Pew Internet Study. While the entire category of content creation sometimes seems hijacked by blogging and podcasting, another content creation activity is noted by this same report … Read more
Non-Obvious Thinking is my latest book about the 4 secrets of becoming a non-obvious thinker - relesaed 10/01/2024.
Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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In addition to Non-Obvious Thinking, Rohit is the author of 10 books on trends, the future of business, building a more human brand with storytelling and how to create a more diverse and inclusive world.
