Categories: Articles

What Can We Expect From Digital Media This Year?

Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio broadcasting out of Montreal (home base). It’s not a long segment – about 5 to 10 minutes every week – about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly to SoundCloud, if you’re interested in hearing more of me blathering away. I’m really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up on listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry and Heather B. morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.

This week we discussed:

Pierre Landry was hosting this morning, as Terry and Heather B. are still away for vacation.
Welcome to 2016. This year, we will all stop thinking about mobile as a “scaled-down” version of the Web-based Internet. Mobile is the primary way to connect for many, and the PC will be relegated to an even deeper second place as an accessory to the mobile experience. So, expect new channels and platforms that are mobile first (like Snapchat and Instagram) and watch some of the legacy Web browser based behemoths (think Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn) to be become much better on a mobile device than a Web browser.
Connected devices will be huge this year. Cars, TVs, fitness bands and everything else that you can either plug-in or charge is going to explode in popularity. Home automation, etc… get ready for everything to be connected, and see how much more control over our “stuff” we’re going to have this year.
Facebook is going to get more expansive. Especially when it comes to messaging – Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. We’re going to start seeing the ability to do things like get an Uber and order from Amazon from within these messaging apps. So, the social Web, is going to be a little bit more private as the conversations move from our status updates to private messages and private groups.
App of the week: Microsoft Selfie.

Listen here…

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.