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I always feel like I'm straddling both sides of the marketing equation. Because I'm a consumer, too, and often things hit me like a consumer, not an advertising copywriter. The increasing ability of marketers to collect reams of information is particularly concerning to me. Not because they can, but because they simply don't know what to do with all the information and can't be trusted to use it wisely. Most …
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New York City, sometimes I wonder why I am so far away from you. I am invited to countless industry events in Manhattan, and have been for years, but AdPulp's travel budget is exactly zero. So, I do appreciate BtoB and Online Media Daily sending reporters to the Rise of Brand Journalism conference at Forbes Inc. headquarters this week. Otherwise, I would not be puzzled by this statement: Mark Himmelsbach, COO …
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Digital advertising will account for 22.7% of all worldwide ad investments this year, or about $117.60 billion -- up 13% compared with 2012, according to estimates from eMarketer and Starcom MediaVest Group. I'm not certain this is a good thing. Unless, brands and their agency partners clearly know what they're doing with all that money. Post by AdPulp. I posted this new Adobe commercial from …
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Generally speaking, clients across the board are not impressed. They want results and all ad people have to peddle is their sacrosanct creativity. That's the news from The Fournaise Marketing Group (c/o Warc, which interviewed more than 1,200 chief executive officers and decision makers around the world for its 2013 Global Marketing Effectiveness Program. A full 78% of CEOs thought agencies were not …
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Maybe someday USA TODAY will hire me to cover Cannes for them. Until that day, we'll have to do with Michael Wolff's coverage. Apparently Wolff wandered into a party where Jay Sears from Rubicon Project, "the leading technology company automating the buying and selling of advertising globally," was explaining how in three years 50% of all media buying will be automated. Wolff says he has no idea what that …
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Some things are still sacred, but your privacy on corporate-owned communications networks is not, and never has been. This fact of digital life has been evident for years, but the recent revelation that the National Security Agency is working closely with leading tech companies, makes it crystal clear--anything you write, say, record, transfer etc. is subject to an inspection by a federal employee tasked with …
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With most marketing books, their titles and subtitles make them seem way too pretentious and self-important. Which is why I had a feeling that Nathan Yau’s book Data Points: Visualization That Means Something could be refreshingly human. And I was right. Yau, a statistician and the creator of FlowingData.com, has done something I’ve rarely seen: He’s made data interesting to read about. Data Points looks at …
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I've written before about a company called Automated Insights and their "written" fantasy football recaps and other content. Now, they're broadening their reach with the launch of Site AI, a new service that summarizes web analytics and site stats using reports written to simulate everyday language. This could mark an interesting turning point in our use of data, charts, dashboards, and infographics and …
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