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Before anyone gets into a tizzy, let me start by saying that I think the Old Spice Guy ads done recently by Weiden + Kennedy using near real-time video responses were nothing short of brilliant. They will become the gold standard by which all marketers will hold themselves. I know we will start hearing very [...]
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 [...]
I know, I know. There is more to social media than Facebook. I get it. But really, what is bigger than Facebook? What is more popular than Facebook?
I am growing tired of the commentary that “there is more to social than Facebook.” True. But that’s like saying there is more to search engines than Google. [...]
AdAge recently ran an article which highlighted the “intrusion” of a commercial message into the 30 Rock program. The article notes that we might be reaching a time when the line between ad and show will blur significantly.
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There are a few interesting things about the article. One is that the article delineated between ads [...]
It used to be that creative departments were the province of the tragically hip. You know who I’m talking about - the cool guys and gals who could get away with wearing wallets on belt chains and wrist watches with leather bands and hair-dos with that look like they took a lot of time to [...]
Why do people hang onto old habits despite the fact that plenty of evidence exists to the contrary? For instance, we all know that smoking causes cancer and wearing seatbelts saves lives, but people continue to smoke and drive without seatbelts. And we know that regardless of the carb, fat, or protein count, what makes [...]
I have to admit that I watch TV. Not a ton of it (although my wife might disagree), but enough that I have to say I am a TV watcher. When I watch TV now, I tend not to do it as much “alone.” And by that, I mean with me laptop with me (and [...]
Two articles came out late this past week that got me to thinking. One from Media Week covers a study that shows that small ads outperform big ads - which seems counter-intuitive to me. The second from MediaPost covers a conversation with Google’s Chief Economist which talks about how ad position does (or does not) affect [...]
A recent Ad Age article notes how publishers and advertisers are starting to think beyond the banner ad. That’s a good thing. But does it mean banner ads are dead?
Link to worst banner ad ever?
It’s easy to disparage the banner. It’s omnipresent and often ignorable. It follows (mostly) standard guidelines, and to grab attention, needs [...]
Poor Google. It can’t monetize YouTube. Will this be its albatross?
Picture: digitalsurgery.net
Article excerpt: Wringing ad revenue from YouTube is proving to be a challenge for Google Inc. Although users of the popular video-sharing site view clips more than one billion times on most days, the site hasn’t been as popular with big corporate advertisers. World-wide [...]
