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What is Consumer generated content

Handbook of Research on Mobile Marketing Management
“Consumer generated content” (CGC) is also known as “user generated content” (UGC) or “consumer generated media” (CGM) or “user created content (UCC). The term refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users. It entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in new media content production circles and it is used for a wide range of applications including problem processing, news, gossip and research. All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital video, blogging, podcasting, mobile phone photography and wikis
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Brand Driven Mobile Marketing: 5 Theses for Today and Tomorrow
Christopher Quente (Creative Director, Germany)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-074-5.ch025
Abstract
Despite the fact that the mobile phone is a perfectly suited advertising medium also for brand campaigns a creative perspective is not only desirable but also necessary. Because: Without creativity, the latest mass medium would be swiftly rendered desolate. In the creative conceptual design of brand campaigns it is important above all to carry out advertising not only on the mobile phone but with it. On the basis of five theses it is illustrated how the mobile phone becomes the essential building block within commercial multi-channel concepts. One key issue being the telling of ‘brand stories’, told across various media or ‘stages’. If the stories being told are compelling enough one can convert brand supporters into brand addicts, who in the best case scenario wouldn’t want to miss a single performance of their favorite brand.
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Consumer Information Sharing
content generated by consumers’ use of social media. Examples include reviews, ratings, tags, and weblog or wiki entries.
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