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Future. Take three. Interactive – the conventional for tomorrow

Written by Mihai Dragan on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 ( 4 responses )
Tags: agencies, future, interactive, media

As I previously gave you a brief (very brief) history of advertising here and here, now is the time to talk a little about tomorrow. About tomorrow’s agencies, as I see them.

New Media. Printed on old media.

I found a great post by Tim Williams called “What if the advertising agency died tomorrow”. Probably the best sentence I found there was “The advertising agency passed of a narrow mind. It died from a lack of understanding that there is no such thing as “new media”“. It states my take on interactive versus conventional perfectly.

The evolution of media

Long time ago print was king. Along came radio and TV. They changed the media scape and advertising as well. It was the birth of the 30 second spot, the blockbuster brand and helped advertising industry establish itself as one of the fastest growing industries.

This was also the birth of “trumpeter swan” creative and art directors, the birth of advertising festivals and a certain lifestyle for all those in this industry.

One day, a bright computer scientist by the name of Tim-Berners Lee, started what will has become the fastest growing media in the history of human kind: the world wide web. This was the wonder that tied people together and changed the way we see information, media and even ourselves as citizens of the world.

Changes

Frankly I find old media (print, TV, even radio), those one-way communication channels, so limited and limiting that I cannot comprehend their survival to this day. I am, however, sure they will converge to interactive driven media in a very short span of time.

So will agencies. Tomorrow’s “conventional” agencies will be interactive – powered. That’s why MB Dragan was repositioned to “Agency for Tomorrow”. An interactive agency that can deliver results just as well as conventional agencies.