Alexa, Order Heineken: How voice technology challenges brand and channel management

Voice technology, used in products such as Amazon’s Alexa, makes for a faster user experience and has potential to become a dominant mode of accessing the internet – but brands wishing to capitalise on it need to adapt their marketing models.

Executive summary

Voice is more intuitive, is faster and has, within the private space of the people, the potential to become a dominant mode of accessing and interacting on the internet. When we see how young people and young families embrace Voice it is very likely human behavior will change consumer behavior: the path to purchase with the brand will change as well.

People are developing habits with many different applications that are context specific, in house it is more relaxed, in the car it is more functional. Voice applications help manage lives, be in control, facilitate, assist, inform, entertain....

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