VC Confidential has a summary of the key points made by the Google CEO at a talk recently:
— We live in a world of continuous distraction and multi-tasking. Just look at kids doing IM, watching video, talking to friends while doing homework. It will only get worse.
— People’s attention is the most important asset for marketers (similar in theme of the AttentionTrust initiative).
— The key to getting people’s attention is targetted advertising instead of untargetted. He asked how many people read the paper this morning or watched TV. Could they recall any ads they saw?
— Society is trying to block untargetted ads with Tivo, spam filters, Do Not call lists and such.
— Social communities will become more and more core to interactions and marketing on the web.
