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Feeling Lucky? 3 Marketing Lessons From Chat Roulette

Come on… You know you’ve tried it… Or, you want to… Yeah?  If you haven’t – well let’s just say you should probably do it without the kids around.  Let’s just say that the likelihood of a quick lesson in male anatomy is pretty high. If you don’t know what I’m...

Digital Marketers Need To Listen To Beyonce

Last month when I blogged I was inspired to connect the transformative powers of Pink at the Grammy Awards to the transformation happening in the living room between the laptop and the TV. I’d like to revisit that general neighborhood. This time my guest for all you digital marketers is Beyonce. To paraphrase the princess: “I need to...

A Perfect Advertising Cocktail

A quick perusal of the advertising trades over the last six months shows the emergence of a new cocktail: a shot of heady new technologies like social marketing with a splash of old favorites like email and CRM. This is an encouraging development. It shows that the industry is willing to embrace all that is new and exciting, without...

The Only Online Metric You Need To Focus On

A couple industry colleagues of mine have mentioned WIMI to me, the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative.  WIMI's boiled-down (self-stated) goal is to better understand the effects of interactive media and to help monetize the interactive industry.  This sounds to me like a theoretically great but realistically impossible objective....

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The New York Times and the Great Subscription Debate

Now that The New York Times has officially put a time and price on its internet access policy, the issue for digital sales and marketing people becomes one of value. In fact, I’ve already had these discussions with our brand and agency partners. On one side of the value debate, paying customers are considered to be more valuable than...

6 New Insights on Media Usage

In a world of continuous, always-on media consumption and endless media hype, most marketers think they know what consumers like, what consumers use most and how often consumers are engaged with different media channels. Yet every-so-often new data challenges our assumptions. That’s case with L.E.K. Consulting’s 2009 Media...

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Just what are you measuring anyway?

Ever since the first banner ad appeared and asked the question "Have you ever clicked your mouse right here?" (AT&T ad on HotWired in 1994), agencies and marketers have tracked and talked about the click...but is that really a valuable measurement? Now, before I raise too many hackles, I do believe that clicks are an important metric,...

Analyzing eMarketer's 2010 Online Media Predictions

I'm an eMarketer fan.  They produce so many charts that give authority to my presentations. Last week they put out their predictions for OLA in 2010.  Some are on point, others not so much.  Let's take a look. eM: "More marketers will increasingly embrace online video advertising, supported by the twin boom of video streams...

5 Tips for Selling-In Digital Services

"Why do they buy?" is the most enduring question in business. And although its frequently studied there is no definitive answer. So we can never get our fill of insights, ideas and tactics. The latest effort, called the BuyerSphere Project, comes from Gord Hotchkiss, President of Enquiro and begins like most others by encouraging sellers...

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TrackSimple and AdHachery debut at iMedia Agency Summit

There were quite a few exciting enhancements vendors we're all familiar with rolled out yesterday--Tremor Media describing its six ad formats (innovative!) and Brightroll describing their plans for 2010 (larger aggregation than Hulu volume predicted). DoubleClick brought us up to speed on some new developments at Google Ad Planner, DFA Analytics...

Friends, Survivors Gather at iMedia Agency Summit in Scottsdale

For those of us who didn't remember the California->Arizona time change and arrived to the opening reception during desert (doh!), it was catch-up time afterward at the bar with the terrific iMedia team as well as Kendall Allen, Peter Platt, Kevin Ryan and a few others sampling Ridge '07 Zin. John Durham stopped by toward the end.On everyone's...

Tiger By The Tail - Get Ready For Real-Time Marketing

There's a great Babe Ruth story that's been told a hundred different ways - but it goes something like this:  A group of sports writers are on a train headed for Spring training for the Yankees. To pass the time, they're playing cards.   Suddenly, Babe Ruth - a notorious womanizer (and nude in most of the versions) comes bursting...

Audience Discovery at the Heart of the Future of Digital

Last week, in the heart of New York City, I participated on a panel with several distinguished digital marketing experts weighing in on the biggest trends of 2009 while contemplating what the future may hold for the online marketing landscape.  This was the third annual Digital Evolution panel presented by 212, New York’s...

SuperBowl Sunday and More at the February Brand Summit

If you're going to produce a conference that runs on SuperBowl Sunday, you better have a good SuperBowl party. Check. (We have a terrific SuperBowl party planned at the iMedia Brand Summit that runs February 7 to 10 in Las Vegas.) And if that conference is about advertising and media, you should definitely be reviewing the ads too. Big...

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