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In Cambridge, Strands of MIT DNA Are Woven Into Media’s Bright Future

Media isn't a science, but at MIT it kind of is. Ergo, it makes perfect sense for The Boston Globe to work closely with MIT's Center for Civic Media to create "experimental ideas" that play out on the Globe’s websites, Boston.com and BostonGlobe.com. The hope is that this initiative with MIT will explore new ways of engaging citizens in the digital arena. “The relationships today between universities and …

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From Client Service To Serving Readers What They Want

I don't pay much attention to personnel moves in the communications industry, despite the number of press releases I receive on the subject. Of course, if I know the person moving jobs then I am interested. And when the move is from ad agency leadership to CEO of a well known media company, then there's something for everyone. Baba Shetty, Chief Strategy and Chief Media Officer at Hill Holliday has been named …

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Do You Point, Shoot And Edit On The Fly?

Content marketing, and online video in particular, is the well we return to again and again. Because it's an exciting new opportunity for brands, and for the storytellers they hire to weave their brand-sponsored narratives. Increasingly, brands are bypassing the agency option altogether, and going directly to production companies or media companies for content solutions. One media company that's getting a lot of …

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Will Digital Fatigue Keep You From Investing In YAP?

You are tired. Very tired. It's okay, you're not alone. The constant hum of someone else's digital success grows tiresome, as does the view (from behind the rope) of the money geysers of Silicon Valley, Alley, Prairie and Forest, etc. That's why men and women or reason--sometimes found toiling away in editorial offices--come up with new terms like YAP. Yet Another Platform. And that's why they write things …

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Quick, Name Five YouTube Sensations. If You Failed To Do So, You Might Welcome YouTube’s Help.

"Hey, we need a 'YouTube sensation' for this concept to really fly." If you're a producer, and you just heard those words from the creative director's mouth, what do you do? Where do you go? The YouTubes is a rather large place to look for a sensation. According to Ad Age, YouTube feels advertisers' pain, and in response the Google-owned video sharing site is launching something called "Video Creation …

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Lots of Small, But Interested Audiences. What’s A Brand To Do?

With both YouTube and Hulu investing large sums in original serial content, there's a sizable opportunity for brand integration, brand-sponsored content and an opportunity for content companies to be born and built. In Los Angeles today, the production community is well aware of the potential in video, but it's not like the hits are rolling off the fingers of screenwriters from Pasadena to Long Beach. Be that as …

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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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Too Many Opinions? Let Me Tell You What I Think About That.

Separating fact from opinion ain't what it used to be. There was a time when the more you read, the more engaged you were with your world. Your city. Your neighborhood. Not some imaginary world you wished could be, but the world as it actually existed outside your door. Back in these ancient times (otherwise known as "just a few years ago") being up on Current Events was a thing people aspired to. (See? It was …

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