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Maybe We Should Stop Making Crummy Ads

March 6th, 2012

Evidently, according to AdWeek, the IAB’s recent Annual Leadership Meeting was full of hand-wringing and commiserating. Why aren’t we getting more ad dollars, they lamented? Why is TV still kicking our butts?
Some posited that it’s because banner ads don’t build brands. Others said “digital scarcity” should be created because, doggone it, there [...]

Will Google deliver the “holy grail” of cross-channel targeting?

February 8th, 2012

A recent Ad Age article indicates that Google is going to try to be the first of a small but powerful group of media/technology companies to target users across platforms. This is something I thought Apple would be the first to do because of the size of the iPhone market, but they are focusing [...]

Attention Marketers: The iPad Changes Everything

February 1st, 2010

Look, last week when the iPad came out, I was initially unimpressed.  It looked like a big iPod touch and was relatively blah.  After reflecting on it for a few days, I believe this device could change forever (or, at least for the next several years) what we expect digital experiences to be and how [...]

Yahoo joins Google’s OpenSocial platform

April 1st, 2008

Creating utility across differ social networks makes a lot of sense – or is it just another way the big kids will continue to crush the small kids?
 
photo: tendankara library
Article excerpt:  Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that it was joining rival Google Inc.’s initiative for creating photo-sharing and other social tools that work across the Web. [...]

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