SXSW 2014: Startups, Bow to Your Marketer Overlords
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At South by Southwest (SXSW) 2014, brands outdid startups in terms of technology. It was also the most ironic SXSW ever.
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SXSW 2014: Startups, Bow to Your Marketer Overlords
- 1. SXSW 2014: Startups, Bow to Your Marketer Overlords David Berkowitz CMO, MRY david.berkowitz@mry.com @dberkowitz / @mry www.mry.com about.me/dberkowitz
- 2. What we’ll cover today • Overview • Brands • Tech • Speakers • Resources
- 3. Who am I? You can judge a man by his #selfies
- 4. Meet The Man “The closest I came to meeting The Man at SXSW this year is David Berkowitz, the chief marketing officer of digital agency MRY.” - Casey Newton, The Verge
- 5. The most ironic SXSW ever! 3 key themes • Irony 1: Sharing privacy – Everyone’s sharing public updates about the speakers and apps that are trying to protect our privacy • Irony 2: Branded technologists – In a striking inversion, the most successful technologies at SXSW were launched by brands • Irony 3: FOMOgraphy – The focus is often less about what you do there than how jealous you make the people who aren’t there
- 6. Reach of SXSW chat: 2.45 billion
- 7. Truth If you can't get business done at SXSW, you're not doing it right. – Peter Kim
- 9. It’s a show about marketing, not tech
- 10. Brands are the new startups “Once upon a time, long, long ago, SXSW was the place you'd visit to experience cool, new startup technology…. While there are still startups at SXSW and that remains a big reason brands attend, this year it was mostly big brands sharing tech wizardry.” - Steve Hall, Adrants
- 11. Want to meet brands? They’re on stage everywhere
- 12. Want to #win #sxsw? Combine #food & #tech
- 13. Kind Bar gave a lift to Enterprise renters
- 14. CBS made it rain for Under the Dome
- 15. Pennzoil brings Mario Kart to life
- 16. Of course, some marketers ran out of ideas this year
- 17. Words to live by From Effie Worldwide Blog, The Hidden Effectiveness of SXSW
- 18. And then there was this little ol’ brand known as MRY (ahem)…
- 21. We unleashed a 3D printed Rev Run army
- 22. People loved their little Revs
- 23. A true team effort
- 24. We showed we cared #PoPbook
- 25. Come on, get happy
- 26. Old school!
- 27. We’ll agree to not disagree
- 28. Hundreds share #mrysxsw love
- 29. Fine, tech was there too
- 30. Not a show for breakthrough tech
- 31. Omlet wins startup buzz Source: DigitasLBi
- 32. Most Buzzed About Start-Up
- 33. Secret captures the underground SXSW
- 34. Avoid Humans lets you escape the mobs
- 35. Samba introduces reactive video messaging
- 36. Locus Social surfaces social, local trends
- 37. Skully Helmets, Avegant Glyph wear their buzz well
- 38. Want to be lord of the Ring?
- 39. Pixc introduces a new business model for photo editing
- 40. Least popular tech company? Uber!
- 41. People REALLY hated Uber Source: DigitasLBi
- 42. Most popular food trucks 1.Dominque Ansel – Milk & Cookie 2.3D Oreo 3.IBM Truck
- 43. Explore more startups at #WiN30S
- 44. Speakers
- 45. Curiosity > Information Inspiring curiosity is the ultimate form of empowerment. – David Trahan, AgencySpy
- 46. Privacy a hot topic for the most tweeted speakers Source: DigitasLBi
- 47. “Stand up for your work. No one else can do it as well as you can.” – Lena Dunham
- 48. “They are setting fire to the future of the internet. You guys are all the firefighters.” – Edward Snowden on the NSA
- 49. “One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice” – Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
- 50. “It’s not about reading facts on a Wikipedia page. To feel that knowledge makes you take ownership of that knowledge.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
- 51. “People are far too skittish to talk about failures.” – Chelsea Clinton
- 52. Resources • Effie Awards roundup of what’s effective at SXSW (David Berkowitz contribution) • Effie Awards: The Hidden Effectiveness of SXSW (David Berkowitz byline) • Adrants: 6 Reasons Why SXSW is Still Awesome • Keyhole Real-time tracker tracker: SXSW • #WiN30S startup competition • SXSW Startup Accelerator awards • iMedia: 4 trends disrupting marketing strategies (David Berkowitz interview): • AgencySpy: 3 simple yet impactful SXSW takeaways (David Trahan byline): • Ad Age: How SXSW Became All about Innovation in Marketing, not Tech (David Berkowitz byline)
- 53. THANK YOU David Berkowitz david.berkowitz@mry.com @dberkowitz / @mry mry.com about.me/dberkowitz