In an article over at GamaSutra the other day the author, Leigh Alexander, asked the very legitimate question ”where’s this glorious transmedia future?”, referring to his view that the gaming industry is leading the social media revolution, and televison and film are slow to catch up.The 2012 Super Bowl had 17,5 million socialmedia imprints on one day. That's…Read more A Future for Transmedia
Transmedia for Companies
This post I’ll keep short and to the point.It’s my thoughts about how companies can benefit from utilizing transmediastorytelling; not only when it comes to marketing a product or a service, butalso when it comes to the company itself.There are many companies that think abouttransmedia and use transmedia storytelling to break through into theconsciousness of…Read more Transmedia for Companies
The five pillars of transmedia
Again this past week I find myself impressedby the amount of thought processing that people put into thinking abouttransmedia and its’ impact on all kinds of media (and other kinds of artexpressions, such as theatre for instance, (which admittedly was from last year but popped up on my radar only now).Reading through a number of…Read more The five pillars of transmedia
Starting out in transmedia – 5 points of advice
I was approached the other day by someonelooking for a bit of advice on transmedia. Her situation is one that I believeis similar to a lot of people’s. With the growing acknowledgement of transmediastorytelling as a possible way to tell stories and engage audiences, drivebrands, foster interaction and generate revenue, many have started to look…Read more Starting out in transmedia – 5 points of advice
Marketing transmedia
I read a good post by Marc Binkley the other day, entitled ”Transmedia Storytelling and Content Marketing”. The post brought up what I believe will be a very hot trend in marketing; realizing that (as Marc lines up in his post) 1. Consumers are media, 2. People yearn to belong and 3. Communities identify themselves in each…Read more Marketing transmedia
How to develop television shows for a social and multiplatform world
The other day I spent 23 minutes watching a video from the BBC. It was 23 quite well spent minutes, as the journalist inquestion – Rory-Cellan Jones – had devoted quite a lot of effort to his subject, that ofthe future of television. The video features interviews with people fromMicrosoft, Google, Dijit, even Robert Scoble. The talks…Read more How to develop television shows for a social and multiplatform world
The Transmedia Beat
As some of you might have noticed, I published”One Year in Transmedia” a couple of weeks ago, a curation of this blogcombined with a number of interviews with some really intelligent and creativepeople in the field of transmedia. In one of the answers – ”What instrument doyou see yourself playing in the transmedia orchestra?” –…Read more The Transmedia Beat
2012? Bring it on!
A year draws to an end and another one beckonsaround the corner, luring us in (as if we had a choice!) with promises ofunexplored territories, tears and laughter, friends and foes and a full 366days of shaping our own lives.Most of what my 2011 has been about – at leastin a professional sense – is…Read more 2012? Bring it on!
One Year in Transmedia, second edition
This is the second edition of the curation of this blog that I published a little over a month ago. I felt it was pretty incomplete without the voices of some of the other people in the field as well, so I decided to ask some questions of some people I felt were the right…Read more One Year in Transmedia, second edition
Transmedia in Television
It was with great joy I read Lisa Hsia’s(Bravo Digital Media) article over at Mashable yesterday. Entitled ”HowTransmedia Storytelling Is Changing TV”, it struck directly to the core of myprofessional life – the merging of television with transmedia storytellingmethods, meaningful multiplatform content, coherent strategies for development,production and distribution and a will to look beyond traditional…Read more Transmedia in Television