Ed Cotton likes the contrary thinking found in Jonathan Harris' new piece, "World Building in a Crazy World". I do too. Very much. Here's what Cotton says about the work: Harris seems to be taking a giant knife to the current internet landscape and stabbing a hole in its heart; slamming the 140 character world of Tweeter, the superficiality of Facebook, the pervasive adherence to minimalism as a web design …
Data Destroyed, Tears Shed
GeoCities is no more. Yahoo! pulled the plug on Oct. 27, wiping away 7 million of Internet's first Websites in the process. Who cares? Digital archivists care, that's who, and maybe a few disgruntled GeoCities customers. "GeoCities was the largest self-created folk-art collection in the history of the world," says Jason Scott, 39, leader of ArchiveTeam, one of a handful of parallel groups that worked to download as …
Eyetracking Study Says Text Is Best
Many of us are busy trying to find that digital piece of gold known as a better display or banner ad. Leading this pursuit at the moment, are ads that are looking more and more like magazine ads, and in some cases TV ads. Yet, some might say that's exactly the wrong direction. According to TIME, advertisers are often wrong about what attracts our attention online. Online, text-only ads receive the most looks. Part of …
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Interactive Marketing Is Relationship Marketing
Renny Gleeson, Global Digital Strategies Director for Wieden+Kennedy, kindly offers up a series of questions he runs through when tackling a new client problem. In the midst of his queries, he makes a great point about the digital space. Traditional planning sets a goal of defining a brand's 'voice', but generally it's applied to mass communications. Interactive planning asks "what is the brand's voice when it …
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Are You Ready To Get Digital Right?
Jon Gibs, Vice President, Media Analytics at Nielsen is offering up a 16-page report on "Integrated Measurement in a Multi-Screen World." Gibs asks: If the Internet has truly "arrived" and is being taken seriously, why have we not yet seen significant brand advertising dollars follow? He then follows the question with this sage piece of thinking: "Perhaps it's because online creative units tend to replicate the print …
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Awareness Is The Start Of The Sales Cycle
Banner ads don't work. Of course they do. That's pretty much where the argument lies. Popular Web sites are chock full of paid banners, and the people who place them are in their offices crunching numbers to determine the return on investment, which is one of the more imperfect sciences. Here's what Alan Wolk has to say on the matter: We're still judging banners by click-through rates. Or using the negative …
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Data Might Open A Door, But It’s Going To Take More Than Data To Be Invited In
Accenture, the management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company that pays Tiger Woods to be its spokesman is now entering a relationship with Adchemy, a Silicon Valley digital marketing company. According to New York Times: Adchemy is one of several ambitious young companies trying to employ cutting-edge computing techniques -- including machine learning, statistical inference and advanced data …
Want to Navigate The Digital Wilds? Find A Trusty Guide Service.
Shar VanBoskirk, an analyst for Forrester, spent some time in Denver this week with a group of marketing exces that work for Kaiser Permanente, Genesco Retail, Radio Shack, Jones Apparel, and Adidas America. Her big takeaway: That one of the greatest challenges for interactive marketers today is getting support and cooperation from their traditional brand marketing colleagues. Opportunity, please meet Challenge. …
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