Top Deejay headphones
First impressions.
Many years ago, I worked for my parents who own a video production company. Because it is a family business, you inevitably end up wearing many hats and being the czar of many different jobs. I mainly managed projects and worked as a video editor. On production, there were times that I was called on to work as an audio tech and was made to wear headphones on long production days. In those days, having a really good set of headphones that picked up every nuance of sound was essential to making sure the client got what they needed. Many years ago, I worked for my parents who own a video production company. Because it is a family business, you inevitably end up wearing many hats and being the czar of many different jobs. I mainly managed projects and worked as a video editor. On production, there were times that I was called on to work as an audio tech and was made to wear headphones on long production days. In those days, having a really good set of headphones that picked up every nuance of sound was essential to making sure the client got what they needed.
Naturally, my first impression of these headphones is based off of the look of them. They have a classic over-the-ear style that is highlighted by a blue LED light that indicates the power for the noise canceling. The padding on the ear pieces seems adequate for extended usage periods.
They are wired headphones, but the 3.5mm stereo mini-plug cable is detachable. Something else I noticed right of the bat was the very nice carrying case that comes with them. It has a hard plastic exterior with a soft cloth interior that helps to protect the surface of the headphones from scratches. I never truly appreciated cases for headphones until I started carrying them from place-to-place. Now I can’t imagine not having a case.
It’s safe to say that because of my unique professional experiences, I’ve tested out a lot of headphones.
John Williams
A perfect fit.
Once I gave the headphones a thorough once-over exam, I tried them on. As I mentioned, they have a classic over-the-ear style and just looking at them, the padding on the ear pieces seem adequate and the peak of the headband seemed to be a bit lacking, but you don’t really know comfort unless you try on the product. So, I slipped the headphones on and found them to be exquisitely comfortable. In order to test how voices sounded, and the overall art of sound mixing, I pulled up Netflix on my iPad Air 2 and watched a few minutes of a movie to hear all the nuances of the film. None of them were lost. In fact, I ended up hearing sounds that I hadn’t heard before. Echoes…birds chirping…wind blowing through trees…breathing of the characters…it was very impressive what the headphones ended up bringing out for me.
Quality.
Now that I had the headphones on my head, I was finally ready to plug and play some music. I plugged the provided cable into the jack on the headphones and then the one on my iPhone 6. Then I called up Pandora. I tend to have a very eclectic music purview and have many stations set up for different moods. From John Williams to Fallout Boy, the sound quality of these headphones was remarkable. There is an amazing depth of sound and incredible highs and lows that make listening to music a truly breathtaking experience.
In order to test how voices sounded, and the overall art of sound mixing, I pulled up Netflix on my iPad Air 2 and watched a few minutes of a movie to hear all the nuances of the film. None of them were lost. In fact, I ended up hearing sounds that I hadn’t heard before. Echoes…birds chirping…wind blowing through trees…breathing of the characters…it was very impressive what the headphones ended up bringing out for me.
Stumbled the concept
Damian
PRIMER PASO: CAMBIAR LA PERSPECTIVA, LAS PREGUNTAS Y EL MODO DE ACERCAMOS A LA INFORMACIÓN
Entender a nuestra audiencia en la complejidad del mercado actual es un desafío. Se requiere una mentalidad ágil, capaz de sintetizar enormes cantidades de información con la perspectiva correcta. La industria del entretenimiento está cambiando su manera de hacer negocios, adaptando sus modelos a esta nueva generación. Las nuevas audiencias son nómadas, multitarea, experienciales, agnósticas de formato e impredecibles. No hay dos espectadores iguales. Dentro del mismo grupo demográfico pueden no compartir gustos o intereses, y la mayoría de las veces, son indiferentes a las costosas estrategias de marketing de hoy en día. Pero si realmente queremos entender a nuestro público y como interactúan con nuestro contenido, tenemos que cambiar las preguntas y el modo de acercamos a la información. Con cada ‘tweet’, ‘me gusta’ ó ‘selfie’ se multiplican las chances, y si no estás sincronizado con el comportamiento de tu audiencia, o monetizando tus contenidos, otra persona lo hará. La competencia es dura.
ENTENDER A TU AUDIENCIA SE PARECE MUCHO A UNA “PRIMERA CITA”
Existen varias herramientas muy buenas de análisis de datos que buscan conexiones en la información, identificando hechos y comportamientos. Pero hay otros factores que no están en el reporte. Cuando se trata de entender a tu público, toda la información que puedas obtener es importante. Pero hay que ser inteligente y sensible para comprenderlos efectivamente. Es vital aprender a leer los signos, evaluar la información obtenida, y ajustar el acercamiento según sea necesario. Entender a tu audiencia se parece mucho a una “primera cita”, y la analítica es una forma de medir el “lenguaje corporal” de tu audiencia.
¡Seguro que obtendrás toneladas de datos! Desde mediciones en tiempo real, provenientes de herramientas de medición, hasta los reportes de mercado de tus propios productos, sean físicos o digitales. Estas mediciones te darán una idea aproximada de tus puntos fuertes y hasta donde puedes “coquetear” con tu audiencia. Contar con todos los detalles es importante, pero saber seleccionar la información es la clave.
Debes poder adaptarte rápidamente y ser flexible. Así como una sonrisa sutil, gestos, miradas y movimientos son importantes en una cita, hay varios indicadores que nos dicen lo que pasa por la “cabeza” de nuestra audiencia.Presta atención a las tendencias, las noticias relevantes de hoy, las redes sociales; El ‘timing’ es importantísimo. Incluso el clima te puede dar una métrica que los algoritmos hayan pasado por alto.
El “lenguaje corporal” la clave en toda relación
Simiras atentamente las señales. El “lenguaje corporal” de tu audiencia se vera tan claro como “Neo” ve a la Matrix. Un ejemplo muy actual fue el film Jurassic World. El lenguaje corporal de la audiencia fue bastante claro: durante el weekend del estreno, la tasa de vídeos compartidos en YouTube relacionados fue de 45 a 1 (la media es 9 a 1). El tráiler oficial en el canal oficial de Universal tuvo 66,6 millones de vistas (apoyando las razones de empresas que invierten en canales web). Twitter casi se rompió con su #JurassicWorld que alcanzó un máximo de 63K. La conversación en las redes sociales durante la cita fue muy fluida. Miles y millones de personas compartieron el trailer con su comunidad. Esto seria casi el equivalente a una intención de compra, un beso.
Otro factor fue que ese fin de semana no hubo grandes eventos deportivos, ni semifinales de futbol en TV. Sumemos también a Chris Pratt mostrando el torso –para las damas- incluso calendarios escolares y shows de TV estuvieron repletos de dinosaurios semanas previas del estreno. Por último, parece que familias enteras disfrutan de ver como ¡Pterosaurios se alimentan de turistas! ¡Puro entretenimiento familiar! Mundo Jurásico batió varios récords, siendo el film con mayor recaudación histórica en su estreno con unos lindos $511,8 millones de dólares en ventas sólo de entradas globales, superando incluso Harry Potter y la Cámara de los secretos. ¡Qué buena cita tuvo Universal Studios!
Conclusión. Las audiencias consumen e interactúan de las maneras más inesperadas, y hay que estar preparados para prestar atención, tanto a los reportes y datos analíticos como a lo que esta sucediendo fuera de ellos, casi en tiempo real. Los datos son generados por la misma audiencia que los consume, a través de sus propios dispositivos vía chat, canales online, redes sociales ó tweets. Hay que prestar atención a la “vibra” del lenguaje corporal y saber utilizarla a nuestro favor. Las analíticas pueden ser difíciles de entender, pero son sólo una parte de los datos. Mantente tranquilo, se tu mismo, observa y responde con la actitud justa, quizás este sea el inicio de una relación inolvidable.
How to create a hit with a low budget and a clever strategy
Deadpool has always been a fairly popular Marvel character among hardcore fans, but relatively unknown to the rest of the world…until today. He’s a kind of quirkish, snarky anti-hero with a natural ability to break the fourth wall to communicate with his readers/audience, usually to mock the super hero cliché. Against all odds, Deadpool made it to the big screen, and compared to others in the same genre, with a tiny $58 million budget.
From the buzz and temperature of social conversations from these past weeks, looks like Deadpool is going to break some barriers over the weekend and the people at Fox and TSG(financiers of Fox live action movies) are going to be celebrating next week. Why? Because they had created a hit out of nowhere. And off course, the movie is pretty entertaining, despite the R rated label. Looks like someone at Fox marketing is planning and executing the right way some key strategic moves:
1.Release date
Deadpool probably will beat their weekend competition in this long president weekend.Zoolander 2 have drawn on nostalgia viewership and also a good campaign to cash on tickets to save the day. And How to be Single, the Dakota Johnson romantic flic, well…is just that. Deadpool release date feels like it was “under the radar” in the distribution timeline because there are literally not many movies for grown-up audiences to go. Big Oscars contenders have their on fight last week, Fifth Wave is a bore, and Zootopia is due next week, so Deadpool has a green wave to rise above the numbers. Plus, is Valentine weekend, with basically no “The Notebook” movies in sight. So this quirky potty-mouthed anti-hero is the royal ambassador of anti-valentine audiences.
2.Marketing Campaign
We all know that a box office hit need good PR and Marketing strategy, but honestly, most of the studios FAIL on these matter, and don’t tell me because of the budget. Advertising is not all about showing the movie trailer or character posters here and there. Its about building a brand. The marketing around the upcoming film has been nothing short of phenomenal, deserving of a glowing five out of five chimichangas. The trailers and promos for the film have all been tongue in cheek and absolutely hilarious, playing off of different trends and tropes to create unique communications. Seriously, if the ads are this good, just imagine what awaits fans in the theaters (eat your heart out Star Wars). Even they did a Valentine style campaign that is just brilliant
3.Social Media Strategy
We’re living in a postmodern, meme-culture, hero over saturated age. Audiences are CRAVING for some originality. No more remakes, no more sequels, no more cinematic universes with happy meal toys and epic superhero faces in a box of cornflakes. Deadpool itself is a bit of a snarky commentary on the over exposure of the genre, even an R-rated very violent superhero movie, but guess what, its unique. The audience age is that perfect 18-34 years old, which are highly social users. So, its no surprise that online conversations about Deadpool are hot on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, you name it, where fans can engage and engage others. The movie has been promoted virtually only through social media. In fact, the movie was only green-lit after test footage was “leaked” on social media. Fox released a red-band trailer unsuitable for TV, and the movie landed an R-rating. So marketing made up for the lack of television ads with their creative social media campaign. During the holidays, they spoofed the 12 Days of Christmas, with #12DaysofDeadpool, which spotlighted special content released each day. The content included downloadable videos, pics and emoji’s. And also took over Valentines with fake gushy romantic Ads all over the internet and street billboard.
The big man @ ComScore, Paul Dergarabedian, said this today about Deadpool: “This may be the first movie of 2016 that kind of elevates everything, and gets that box office momentum charged.” Sweet remark. Again, its all about building a brand.
The movie is also off to an impressive start overseas, with a tracking of more than $90 million for the weekend. Deapool is on fire at the box office today: it began playing at 7 p.m. in 2,975 locations; on Friday, it expanded into a total of 3,558 runs, including Imax locations. The Imax portion of Thursday night’s haul was $2.3 million, the sixth biggest preview ever for the large-format circuit.
Once ranked nr. 182nd out of 200 in the popularity list of Marvel properties, Deadpool is on its way to become a success. The movie probably step over the heels of Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3 million) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier($95 million) and likely score the biggest R-rated opening of all time. Tip of the hat to the marketing team @ Fox.
Deadpool, starring the sexy-mouthy Ryan Reynolds, beautiful Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller and Gina Cara, all directed by Tim Miller.
Creating value through data
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A solution that brings value to the business and the users.
Understanding what’s more valuable for our customer
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