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iPod Phenomenon Team 9 Cristina Lane Alexandra Pagliuca Brendan Sullivan Mike Fiorini
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What is an iPod? iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple launched on October 2001 Has become a cultural phenomenon everyone has one, it’s the “walkman of 21st century” Changed the way people use music “music whenever, wherever” “iPod. Welcome to the digital music revolution, 10,000 songs in your pocket. Mac or PC”
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Different Models Classic 160GB $249 MiniNano 8GB $149 16GB $179 Shuffle 2GB $59 4GB $79 Touch 8GB $199 32GB $299 64GB $399
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The latest trend The iPod Touch Stores up to 14,000 songs Genius feature automatically searches your library and finds songs that sound great together rand creates mixes you The new 32GB and 64GB iPod touch models: - Voice Control-tell the iPod to play songs from a specific playlist or artist - commands such as “shuffle,” “pause,” and “next song.” - watch movies, shows, and store up to 80 hours of video
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What sets iPod apart? It’s slimmer, more attractive It has more features most importantly, the way Apple advertises and markets iPod’s advertising sales rocketed due to the duo of the portable music player and iTunes, a legal form of downloading music
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Key Features Shuffle: Video: Photo: Podcasting: people can listen to radio broadcasts and DJ sets without the interruption of commercials
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iTunes Software Apple's iTunes software comes with iPod; it transfers music to your iPod from your computer
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Marketing iPod broad access point for marketing designed to appeal to current Apple consumers as well as new Apple customers required using retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to Apple’s existing channels and company stores resulted in an increase of outlets from 4,000 to 21,000
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Methods uses both push and pull advertising. Pull helped drive the popularity of the iPod reached market domination through combo of product innovation and clever marketing (elaborate here)
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Ad Campaigns Silhouettes campaign: Features people dancing in silhouette in front of neon backgrounds – portrayed it as cool Creative, unique, successful Targets everyone; kids, young adults, mother, businessmen, etc. “iPod. Welcome to the digital music revolution, 10,000 songs in your pocket. Mac or PC.” (link to commercial here?
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iPod is everywhere strong PR, buzz, and word of mouth have aided in the success of iPods talk about diff countries?
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Halo Effect by October 2007, more than 199 million iPod’s has been sold worldwide and contributed one-third of Apple’s corporate revenue Halo effect helped market share in retail computers of more than 3% point in recent years
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