In this episode of This Old Marketing, Google buys HTC, talent is drying up in advertising, and the Mayo Clinic figures out how to dominate Alexa's voice search results. Rants and raves include predictive analytics and this week's This Old Marketing example is full of Fluff.

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Google sets its sights on the iPhone with HTC deal
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/21/16343342/google-htc-deal-apple-iphone-war
ANA Warns of Talent Crisis As Industry Struggles to Appeal To College Graduates
http://www.adweek.com/agencies/ana-warns-of-talent-crisis-as-industry-struggles-to-appeal-to-college-grads/
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Mayo Clinic Offers First Aid Assistance On Amazon Alexa
H/T W. Jeffrey Rice @WJeffreyR
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/artificial-intelligence/mayo-clinic-offers-first-aid-assistance-on-amazon-s-alexa.html
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RANTS AND RAVES

http://www.business2community.com/big-data/predictive-analytics-predicting-customer-behavior-improve-roi-01915285#jw1eBdrmfoRRIVZO.97

https://www.wsj.com/articles/outside-voices-how-marketers-are-missing-a-generation-of-unreachables-1506087359?mod=nwsrl_cmo_today_newsletter&cx_refModule=nwsrl#cx_testId=16&cx_testVariant=ctrl&cx_artPos=7

TOM - FLUFF
https://www.skyword.com/contentstandard/marketing/fluff-piece-marshmallow-fluff-used-content-marketing-thing/