11 Amazing Digital Advertising Predictions for 2011

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11 amazing digital advertising predictions for 2011, as I see them.

 

1.    Google will start buying your recycled emails for $1 a piece.

 

2.    Groupon will offer a Groupon to buy Groupon.

 

3.    Zynga will grow virtual crops through Farmville to feed worlds’ hungr.

 

4.    New film “The Social Not-Work” will be made about Friendster.

 

5.    Social Media Experts will lose more friends in 2011

 

6.    Microsoft will release a new multi-platform reality game called “work.”

 

7.    More traditional agencies will discover (insert useless shiny object here) and sell this cutting-edge technology to clients.

 

8.    Google will own every idea you haven’t thought of yet.

 

9.    Crowdsourcing creative will directly increase the amount of hazardous gasses released in the atmosphere, thus speeding up global warming

 

10.  Augmented reality will cause millions to flashback from earlier acid trips.

 

11.  Second Life will make a huge comeback.