Careful where and what you click. Every keystroke you make is evidence. If you're not comfortable with being spied on every time you open a window, I highly suggest you spend some time with this brilliant article by John Naughton in The Guardian. I would say that it is an eye-opening exploration of our lost privacy, but that would not provide the proper emphasis needed. Naughton dives into deep waters with …
The Mediaverse Continues Its Sharp Decline; Adpulp Continues To Climb
For a century or more, advertising and journalism have been two separate but closely related industries. Advertising and journalism needed each other. Now that it's 2019, is this still true? Or have the two industries morphed into a grotesque new ad tech-dependent creature? Whatever the answer, both industries are losing so much ground so fast that neither seems capable of helping the other. Maybe this is the …
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Anna Kendrick Expects Better
When Anna Kendrick travels, she expects better. Because she is a Hollywood star, I believe she receives better without too much effort. For the rest of us, we need help and Hilton wants to provide it. Hilton’s new promise to consumers to “Expect Better” includes a Price Match Guarantee for guests who book at Hilton.com, through the Hilton Honors app or through other official Hilton …
The ACLU Is Doing What The Government Will Not: Defending Your Right To Vote
Non-profit organizations and political movements are often so laser-focused on their goals, they fail to see the importance of process and the best path forward. Even fewer have a talented team of brand-builders on the job. Thankfully, the ACLU is the exception to this rule. According to Fast Company, the ACLU’s product development team is mobilizing The Resistance using data visualization, sticky design, and an …
Data Without Persuasion Is Like A Naked Biscuit—All Potential
People with screens are blasted by the advertising firehouse all day, every day. Thus, people with screens are conditioned to resist advertising. For buyers of advertising, and would be buyers, this built-in resistance must be overcome. The idea that advertising is annoying, a waste of money, or worse, needs to be put aside and the focus shifted to the long-term impact brand communications will have on the company’s …
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Marketing To Teens Today? Talk To Their Smartphone Appendage
As a disciplinary measure, have you ever tried to remove a teen's smartphone from them? It sounds straightforward and benign until you factor that the heaviest smartphone users consider separation from their smartphone is like severing a limb. In other words, it's beyond painful—it's torture of the cruelest and most unusual sort. How addicted are young people today? According to Pew Research: Some 95% of teens …
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Data Is The Machine-Fed Marketing Narcotic…Drip, Drip, Drip
"Data excite advertisers." What a great line from Ken Auletta in The New Yorker. Auletta argues: In the advertising world, Big Data is the Holy Grail, because it enables marketers to target messages to individuals rather than general groups, creating what’s called addressable advertising. "Addressable advertising." Help us, Lord. Tracking digital movements of the people in a target demographic is not the same …
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Add Primary Research To Your Pitch; Win the Pitch
Did you know that 70 percent of marketers expect primary research when receiving new agency pitches? In related news, 89 percent of agency pros that win new business pitches more than half the time use primary research when developing their pitch. The stats above available in a new report from Vennli, which wants to help agencies solve the problem. There's no mention in their report about the need to …
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