Stop Kanye'ing Your Audience

Since the early 2000s, we have known people don’t like pop-ups … yet they’re still being used.

“I know you’re trying to leave my site, but HEY! Look at this!”

“Don’t go! Here’s more stuff you don’t want!”

Or the pop-ups appear before you even see the content you thought you wanted to see.

Say what?

The request to “stop Kanye’ing your audience” was one of the many things Wil Reynolds of SEER Interactive asked of his audience during the keynote, “The Ranking Farce — and What You Should Do About It”

What does he mean? Well, remember what happened during the 2009 MTV Music Awards? Taylor Swift won for the Best Female Video, and during her acceptance speech, Kanye came up on the stage and said:

“Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time … one of the best videos of all time!”

He took the mic out of her hand, made his statement, then MTV cut to commercial. Ms. Swift did not get to finish (though when Beyonce won for Video of the Year, she did invite Taylor up to finish her acceptance).

Marketers are doing this, and not just with pop-ups. Many are more concerned with telling the customers what they need and how they should buy it, instead of listening and just letting them finish.

Wil explained that customers are interested in experiences that “Make me a better me.” “People don’t buy products, they buy better versions of themselves …”

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