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- - - - Founder: Founded in 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University
      - Search engine, which used the PageRank algorithm to rank web pages, official became Google Inc. in a suburban garage in September, 1998
      - PageRank algorithm: a foundational link-analysis algorithm developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Circulates a page's authority by counting both the quantity and quality of incoming links (backlinks)
      - Google Workplace
        
        an integrated suite of apps designed for business collaboration with tools like Admin Console, 24/7 support & increased storage
        
        Supports "Add-ons" (formerly extension) which are third-party @ custom tools that extend functionality within apps (i.e Gmail or Sheets)
        
        receive full set of integrated tools in a subscription model, features shared drives and advance security
      - Google branding logo
      - Google's primary mission was to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible. While starting as a search engine, the company quickly expanded its portfolio to include email, document creation (Google Docs), mapping, mobile operating systems (Android), and browser technology
    - - Google marketing expands over the years, following key eras of their marketing evolution
        
        Examples:
        
        2005-2010: Growth and Diversification
        
        2000-2005: Foundations of PPC (Pay-Per-Click)
      - Strategies
        
        manually to automated: Marketers moved from managing keyword lists to directing AI-driven campaigns
        
        Keywords to Intent: Focus shifted from exact search terms to understanding the user's overall intent across various touchpoint
        
        text to rich media: ads involved from small text lines to immersive, visual, and mobile-friendly formats
  - - - American multinational technology company Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington
- - - - Sony Interactive Entertainment pushes the boundaries of entertainment and innovation, starting from the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994.
      - Today, they continue to deliver innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience through our PlayStation line of products and services that include generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games.
      - Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global functions in California, London, and Tokyo, and game development studios around the world as part of PlayStation Studios,
    - - a prominent brand of home video game consoles, handheld devices, and online services developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Since its 1994 debut, it has been a industry leader in 3D gaming, providing high-definition gaming (PS3-PS5), multimedia streaming, and digital game libraries via the PlayStation Network
      - The first PlayStation was developed and launched in Japan in 1994. A number of events led to the appearance of PlayStation at this date. Ken Kutaragi, known as the "father of PlayStation" (playstationmuseum.com), was fascinated by System G, a work station designed by Sony to produce high level 3-D (three-dimensional) graphics. Kutaragi approached Sony with the view to changing the face of console gaming by elevating the design and sound quality of video-gaming consoles.
      - https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/arts-and-entertainment/playstation#brief-history
    - - Advertisings/ Campaigns
        
        focuses on premium, exclusive gaming experiences, leveraging high-impact visual storytelling and a strong community focus to maintain market dominance
        
        Exclusive Content & IP Leverage
        
        The core strategy rests on high-quality, exclusive first-party titles (e.g., God of War, Spider-Man) that are marketed as "must-play" experiences.
        
        "Play Has No Limits" Branding
        
        This messaging highlights superior performance and innovative technology (like DualSense controllers) to create immersive gaming, aiming for visceral reactions rather than just safe, approved advertising.
        
        Platform & Audience Expansion
        
        While maintaining its console base, PlayStation is increasingly porting games to PC and expanding into mobile/cloud gaming to increase revenue streams and reach a wider audience.
        
        Data-Driven Digital Marketing
        
        Experiential & Cultural Marketing
        
        https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=https://heyoo.agency/what-can-businesses-learn-from-playstations-ps5-marketing-campaign&ved=2ahUKEwjBrP6njuCTAxV-X2wGHXzNDYIQqYcPegQIAxAC&opi=89978449&cd&psig=AOvVaw0kbNlX3jD1-38yAvoJr62x&ust=1775801520813000
  - - - is a premier gaming brand from Microsoft, encompassing console hardware (Series X|S), PC gaming, cloud gaming, and subscription services (Game Pass). It enables playing, purchasing, and managing games across TVs, PCs, and mobile devices.
      - Xbox Branding
        
        Xbox Series X: Marketed as the premium, highest-performance, 4K-capable console.
        
        Xbox Series S: Marketed as the compact, all-digital, high-performance console.
        
        Optimized for Series X|S: A label for games designed to take advantage of the performance of the new consoles.
        
        Smart Delivery: A mechanism ensuring you play the best version of a game for your console, regardless of generation.
    - - is the video game and digital entertainment division of the American multinational technology company Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington and established in 2022.
        
        With 5 publishing labels:
        
        Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks (publisher of ZeniMax Media), Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King (the latter three are publishers of Activision Blizzard).
        
        it produces the Xbox video game consoles and services, in addition to overseeing production and sales, and is led by CEO Asha Sharma.
    - - Xbox Commercials
        
        "This is an Xbox" campaign
        
        highlights that the Xbox experience is no longer limited to a console but spans TVs, PCs, and handheld devices via cloud gaming. Recent ads focus on versatility, showcasing games on various screens to promote the "Play Anywhere" philosophy.
        
        Why did Microsoft end the marketing?
        
        Microsoft's controversial Xbox marketing campaign "This is an Xbox" was almost immediately ended after new CEO Asha Sharma came on board.
        
        https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/why-did-microsoft-end-this-is-an-xbox-marketing-microsoft-responds-it-didnt-feel-like-xbox
        
        "Asha retired 'This is an Xbox' because it didn't feel like Xbox," a Microsoft spokesperson explained. "She is personally leading a reset of how we show up as a brand."
        
        Xbox 360 S [2010-2016]
        
        Original Xbox (2001-2009)
        
        Xbox 360 [2005-2016]
        
        Xbox 360 E [2013-2016]
        
        Xbox One [2013-2016]
        
        Xbox One S [2016-Present]
        
        Xbox Series X [2020-Present]
        
        Xbox One X [2017-2020]
        
        https://youtu.be/zkaPu-o6L00?si=HRrVcv1APgqE0gMt
- - - - Founded in 2007 in San Francisco by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and later Nathan Blecharczyk, Airbnb began when the founders rented out air mattresses in their apartment to conference attendees.
      - Originally "AirBed & Breakfast," the company launched in 2008, survived early funding struggles, and grew into a global platform with over 9 million active listings worldwide, revolutionizing short-term, peer-to-peer lodging
    - - focuses on community building, storytelling, and user-generated content (UGC) to create a sense of "belonging" rather than just renting space
      - Key tactics include leveraging high-quality visual storytelling, influencer partnerships, and data-driven personalization, alongside "Live Like a Local" campaigns and experiential marketing like unique stay partnerships
      - https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.blankboard.studio/originals/blog/airbnb-marketing-strategy&ved=2ahUKEwjs4fzYjOCTAxVLZWwGHY5VJTUQqYcPegQIBBAG&opi=89978449&cd&psig=AOvVaw2n5e7mDbEDDpvCom7-pH2W&ust=1775801086677000
  - - - Trivago (NASDAQ: TRVG) is a global hotel search platform, focused on reshaping the way travellers search for and compare hotels. Founded in 2005 in Dusseldorf, Germany trivago started with a simple idea: use technology to solve real user problems and simplify hotel search. Driven by entrepreneurial passion and the goal to become experts in hotel deals, we turned a $1 million investment into a revenue of $1 billion. And listed on NASDAQ.
    - - combines data driven, performance-based digital advertising (SEM, programmatic) with targeted traditional media to capture high-intent users and drive bookings
    - - Trivago Hotel Search
      - Mobile apps
      - Trivago Business Studio
      - Trivago magazine
- - - - Founded on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple began in a garage with the Apple I, pioneering personal computing.
      - An American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley (best known for its consumer electronics, software and online services
      - renamed with current name in 2007 as the company had expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics, making them as one of the Big Tech companies
    - - iPhone
      - iMac
      - Apple Watch
      - AirPods
    - - iOS
      - iPadOS
      - MACos
    - - Apple Pay
      - iCloud
      - Apple Music & Apple TV (multimedia streaming)
    - - 1) In the 1990s, Apple lost considerable market share in the PC industry to the lower-priced Wintel duopoly of Intel-powered PC clones running Windows, and neared bankruptcy by 1997.
        
        2) To overhaul its market strategy, Apple acquired NeXT, bringing Jobs back to the company. Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability by introducing the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad devices; creating the iTunes Store; launching the "Think different" advertising campaign; and opening the Apple Store retail chain. Jobs resigned in 2011 for health reasons, and died the same year; he was succeeded as CEO by Tim Cook.
        
        3) Transitioning from a struggling computer hardware manufacturer into a dominant premium lifestyle and ecosystem-based brand. Hence why, Apple's branding direction in marketing and purpose promoting their "Think Different" aspirational identity for all consumers who wishes to be in touch with a premium lifestyle. Following a sleek and minimalistic but exclusive design in their packaging and product design, Apple sells that identity alone rather than mere functionality. The opposite of Samsung.
    - - "1984" [released national broadcast in Jan 22, 1984]
        
        "1984" is an American television commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas, and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott.
        
        https://youtu.be/ErwS24cBZPc
      - "Think Different" [1997 - 2002]
        
        While several people played prominent parts in making it happen, the famous “Think Different” line and the brilliant concept of putting the line together with black and white photographs of time-honored visionaries was invented by an exceptionally creative person, and dear friend, by the name of Craig Tanimoto, a TBWA/Chiat/Day art director at the time.
        I asked Craig what it all meant, and he said, “IBM has a campaign out that says "Think IBM" (it was a campaign for their ThinkPad), and I feel Apple is very different from IBM, so I felt “Think Different” was interesting. I then thought it would be cool to attach those words to some of the world’s most different-thinking people.”
        
        https://youtu.be/GEPhLqwKo6g
      - the iPod silhouettes [2003]
        
        Apple's iconic iPod Silhouette campaign featured black, dancing silhouettes holding white iPods with signature white earphones against vibrant, colourful background. The commercials highlighted the "white wire" fashion, transforming the tech device into a desirable fashion statement, often seen as a cultural symbol of the 2000s.
        
        https://youtu.be/rgSQsu0yeH0
      - "Get A Mac" [2006]
        
        The advertisements play on perceived weaknesses of non-Mac personal computers, especially those running Microsoft Windows, of which PC is clearly intended to be a parody, and corresponding strengths possessed by the Mac OS (such as immunity to circulating viruses and spyware targeted at Microsoft Windows). The target audience of these ads is not devoted PC users, but rather those who are more likely to "swing" towards Apple.
        
        https://youtu.be/gfWyI5ZhL2g
      - "There's an App For That" [February 2009]
        
        launched in February 2009 for the iPhone 3G, highlighted the vast App Store ecosystem to solve everyday problems. The commercials showed various apps for tasks like finding parking, checking snow conditions, or identifying music, cementing the phrase in popular culture to emphasise iPhone's versatility
        
        https://youtu.be/szrsfeyLzyg
  - - - is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in the Samsung Town office complex in Seoul. The group consists of numerous affiliated businesses, most of which operate under the Samsung brand, and is the largest chaebol (family-controlled conglomerates in South Korea). As of 2024, Samsung has the world's fifth-highest brand value.
      - Founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul as a trading company, Samsung diversified into various sectors, including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities, and retail, over the next three decades. In the late 1960s, Samsung entered the electronics industry, followed by the construction and shipbuilding sectors in the mid-1970s—areas that would fuel its future growth.
      - After Lee died in 1987, Samsung was divided into five business groups: Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group, Hansol Group, and JoongAng Group.
    - - Galaxy Z Series (Foldables - Ultra-Premium)
        
        Galaxy Z Fold6 / Z Fold7 (Upcoming)
        
        Galaxy Z Flip6 / Z Flip7 (Upcoming)
      - Galaxy S Series (Flagship)
        
        Galaxy S25 Ultra / S26 Ultra (Upcoming)
        
        Galaxy S25+ / S26+:
        
        Galaxy S25 / S26
        
        Galaxy S24 FE / S25 FE
      - Galaxy A Series (Mid-Range & Value)
      - Galaxy M & F Series (Budget/Online Exclusive)
      - Galaxy XCover Series (Rugged)
    - - a high-stakes battle pitting Samsung’s "innovation-at-speed" approach against Apple’s premium, ecosystem-focused brand loyalty
      - Samsung consistently uses aggressive, comparison-based advertising to highlight Apple’s lack of foldable technology or slower feature adoption, positioning Galaxy devices as the versatile choice
      - Samsung campaigns, often themed "Do What You Can't," emphasize cutting-edge features, large displays, and rapid adoption of new tech. They target tech-savvy users who want freedom and customization, often directly poking fun at Apple's restrictive ecosystem or missing features like foldable displays.
        
        Apple focuses on emotional marketing, simplicity, and premium, secure experiences, selling a seamless ecosystem where products work better together rather than just superior hardware.
        
        Samsung regularly attacks Apple on aspects like battery life, camera prowess, and lack of innovation in charger inclusion.
    - - prioritize user experience through distinct, specialized series: the premium Galaxy S26 Ultra/S26+ (flagships), innovative Galaxy Z Fold7/Flip7 (foldables), and accessible Galaxy A57/A37 (mid-range).
    - - Galaxy S26 Ultra
        
        https://youtu.be/2fm4IwDfPKI
      - "The Next Big Thing is You" Samsung Galaxy Campaign
        
        https://youtu.be/U7sNW10V8gw
      - "No Shirt? No Problem"
        
        https://youtu.be/M86VCeKPaz8
  - - - Photography specs
      - Ecosystem growth:
        
        Apple expanding their iOS updates, while Samsung is limited by Android
      - Samsung's foldable displays and the Galaxy AI suite rivals Apple's iOS
        
        As well as Samsung's Galaxy Watch series rival to Apple Watch
        
        Galaxy AI and