Here is some exceptionally good news. According to Digiday, The Banner Industrial Complex Under Threat. “From a publisher’s standpoint, there really is no choice but to go this way,” said David Payne, Gannett’s chief digital officer, of the move away from the banner. “I think we’ve all proven over the last 12 years that the strategy we’ve been following — to create a lot of inventory and then sell it at 95 percent …
Can Analog Thinking Shake Up Our Digital World?
If you're a rock fan, I highly recommend you check out "Sound City," a new documentary about a legendary LA recording studio that was all analog. No one denies the power of our new digital tools to make great music, but in the movie we hear musicians lament the brilliant imperfections of old-school recording methods. Is it the same way for advertising? In a world where the first thing we do is jump on a …
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Guest Post: The Utility In QR Codes Misunderstood and Undervalued
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 how accurate is this portrayal? A bit of background. My old agency Citrus did some work for the …
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To Cook A Pizza, You Need An Oven
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 to solve business problems that is through ancillary products or …
Serve Content Via Technology For Brands
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. There are some very real, complicated obstacles in the industry that need to be …
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Will The Newspaper Industry Save Itself By Reinventing Online Advertising?
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 Ralph Brennan, President of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group. …
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Pandora Stacks ‘Em Deep And Sells ‘Em Cheap By Appealing To Local Advertisers
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 he gave up on terrestrial radio years ago because he felt it cast too wide …
Brands Who Are Also Publishers Also Publish Ads
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 Editor & Publisher, notes that most of the ads on the Target.com are related to …
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