Aspirin, Kleenex, Ziploc, Band-Aid, ChapStick, Escalator, and Xerox. These are all brands that have become victims of genericization, and have either lost their trademarks legally or have become interchangeable with the product the brand is selling, rendering a trademark invalid if a lawsuit were to be filed. Known as a generic trademark (or proprietary eponym) […]
To help ourselves, our clients, and the industry orient themselves in this new voice-powered ecosystem, we launched the PMG Voice Lab. The initiative is a long-term investment in research, analysis, and experimentation in the field of voice search and voice-enabled technologies and opportunities. In our first Voice Lab analysis, we put the top voice-enabled technologies […]
Smart Speakers & Connected Home Device Marketing The smart speaker market is climbing rapidly, up 300% from the previous year. According to an Edison/NPR survey, 42% of smart speaker owners say the device is “essential” to their everyday lives. With Gartner predicting 75 million US households will have smart speakers by 2020, brands need to […]
For marketers, it’s worth thinking about how smart home appliances like the Amazon Echo fit into your digital landscape. It’s the early stages of their usage, but opportunities exist today for some brands to be in a new type of search result and increase brand awareness. Echo Basics The Echo can do things like tell you the weather, order […]