Simon Pont

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Simon Pont is a writer, commentator and brand-builder. His agency career includes being part of Saatchi & Saatchi and Naked Communications, the pioneers of Communications Planning. Hollywood movie studios, Icelandic investment banks, British chocolate bars and Middle Eastern airlines figure amongst his time on the inside of Adland.

He is the author of 'The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention in a Media Democracy', and 'Remember to Breathe' (a novel).

Simon is currently at work on, 'Digital State: How the Internet is Changing Everything', scheduled for worldwide release June 2013, also through Kogan Page.
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BRANDS AS TRANSMEDIA PORTALS -

WHERE ENTERTAINMENT MEETS MARKETING


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None of us should be satisfied with what we believe brands to be capable of.


Whatever we believe that capability, it can be more.


When Henry Jenkins first introduced Transmedia in his treatise, Convergence Culture (2006), he spoke of ‘media formats’ as ‘entrypoints into a story world’.


Jenkins talked not of

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Published on April 10, 2015 08:18
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Remember to Breathe

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“Technology, society, media: these are mutable forms, shape-shifting, forever re-purposing themselves. They sit within the wild, weird and wonderful frame of change. But there is a frame.”
Simon Pont, The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention in a Media Democracy

“Straight advertising’ is the equivalent of ignoring your girlfriend over dinner. Branded content, and CRM, and co-creation is the opposite. It’s telling her she’s hot.”
Simon Pont, The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention in a Media Democracy

“Like a squash ball, locked inside an all-glass court, played in a never ending Sisyphean rally between two invisible and equally able opponents, that’s what the Digital State first felt like. A descriptor in search of a winning shot, to break the deadlock, to set it free.”
Simon Pont, Digital State: How the Internet is Changing Everything

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