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May, 2010 Archive

Lessons from the Outlook Report

May 25th, 2010

I had the good fortune this year to participate in the creation of the Razorfish Outlook Report, and it was a very enlightening experience. In fact, I was asked to take on the article that probably gets the most scrutiny from the outside, and can raise the most controversial of topics. And this year was [...]

Is User Generated Content Dead?

May 19th, 2010

I bet many of you recall hearing the following at meetings and conferences over the past few years: You don’t own your brand.  Your customer does.
Really?  If you’re like me, this sentiment always felt a little like over-zealous clap-trap.
I think it’s time to admit that this epiphanic belief that was all the rage a few years ago [...]

The Click-Through Rate Must Die

May 10th, 2010

I’ll never forget one of the first conversations I had with a publisher in my early days as an Account Manager.  We called one of the publishers - and to this day I can’t remember who it was - to tell them that we were going to optimize out of their site due to poor [...]

Digital and the Upfronts. A Cautionary Tale.

May 4th, 2010

Many agencies and their clients are preparing for the upfronts. It’s an exciting time in TV again. The much anticipated death of TV viewing seems to have been a hoax. While the TV viewing audience is more disperse than in the past, data point after data point indicate that consumers are watching more TV than [...]

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