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The Internet Hype Curve as of 07-19-09

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In a recent post, I made a chart that showed the relationship between new and emerging technologies and mainstream consumer adoption of those technologies. Marketers are normally early adopters as it’s their job to look out for that latest trend or fad to super-glue their brand to. By the time newer technologies become fully adopted by the majority of consumers, odds are the key moment to leverage that technology has passed.

Marketer Enthusiasm vs. Consumer Adoption of New Technologies

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Twitter. Augmented reality. Insert up and coming technology here. Marketers are always on top of the new hot things. However, the strong majority of consumers in any given target market are never at the adoption level of marketers, especially digitally oriented ones. This is unfortunate.