This is a second guest post from Peter Levitan, a Baby Boomer with a new book out about Baby Boomers offing themselves before they go broke. Agencies and their clients are slow on the uptake when it comes to fully valuing all that technology can deliver, namely a better customer experience. That’s the rap. But [...]
Guest Post: The Utility In QR Codes Misunderstood and Undervalued
October 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
To Cook A Pizza, You Need An Oven
October 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Deutsch LA is “conceiving and developing digital products at an affordable cost” under its newly hatched Invenionist label. According to Adweek, Winston Binch, the agency’s chief digital officer, says, “We think great advertising can do a whole lot for a brand, but remarkable products are the best ads.” “Sometimes we feel like the best way [...]
Serve Content Via Technology For Brands
September 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
People who build things online have little need for, nor love for advertising. Facebook’s Jeff Hammerbacher put it this way: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” Todd Garland, founder of BuySellAds, in a piece for The Next Web aims to persuade propeller heads otherwise. [...]
Guest Post: What Non-Developers Need To Know About HTML5
June 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
This article is by Dian Crawford, a partner at Tilt Agency in Portland, Oregon. She and her husband also own and operate Urban Grind, a coffee shop in Portland’s Pearl District (and a favorite spot for many of the city’s tech workers). I’m not a developer. I’ve written some lines of code in my past, [...]
Will The Newspaper Industry Save Itself By Reinventing Online Advertising?
June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Local advertisers in New Orleans are not happy about the recent announcement from New York-based Advance Publications that The Crescent City’s daily newspaper, one of the oldest in the nation, will be printed just three days a week starting this fall. “The Times-Picayune has long been a cornerstone of my restaurant group’s local marketing,” notes [...]
Pandora Stacks ‘Em Deep And Sells ‘Em Cheap By Appealing To Local Advertisers
April 15, 2012 By 2 Comments
I still listen to terrestrial radio, so I hear local radio advertising constantly. Now, according to the New York Times, Pandora is going after the same type of advertisers. This year, Pandora has had 400 local advertising campaigns across the country. One new client was Planet Honda in Union, N.J., whose president, William Feinstein, said [...]
Brands Who Are Also Publishers Also Publish Ads
March 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Every company is a media company. You hear this line from me all the time, typically as an argument for content marketing. What I don’t often discus is how brands can also profit by running ads (often from competitors) on their brand-sponsored media properties, like Target does at Target.com. Newsosaur Alan D. Mutter, writing in [...]
Visual Mosaics In The Stream
March 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“We’ve been too busy to hire a press person yet,” Ben Silbermann, CEO of Pinterest, said. Which is funny because his company doesn’t need a publicist–the public is all over it. According to Open Forum, Pinterest is the 16th most-visited website in America with 12 million users (like me). As I cozy up to the [...]
The Eyes Have It
February 20, 2012 By 2 Comments
When we encounter a new website, which parts of the screen do we linger on? Which parts do we find most interesting? Given how much revenue is on the line, it’s fair to say this is the $64 million question today. According to a recent eye-tracking research conducted at Missouri University of Science and Technology, [...]
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