Arg! I May be a Pirate, But You’re a Dinosaur
Posted in Blog Post, Digital Marketing Tech, Entertainment, Getting it wrong, insight, Old Media, video
Late last spring I was breaking bread with a friend of mine who used to be in charge of digital advertising for a major motion picture studio. Catching up with one another we chatted about recent reads, jobs, music, and ...
SOPA & PIPA
Posted in Blog Post, Getting it wrong, Music, Old Media, Privacy
Corporate supporters of Senate 968 (PIPA) and HR 3261 (SOPA) demand the ability to take down any web site (including craigslist, Wikipedia, or Google) that hurts their profits -- without prior judicial oversight or due process -- in the name ...
Netflix is Making Me Choose?
Posted in Blog Post, Getting it wrong, Old Media, video
Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is a rockstar stock tripling value from levels just one year ago, but last week the decision to split their online video streaming from their mailed disk offering has some customers fuming and business analysts scratching ...
Cookies Rot Your Teeth
Posted in Blog Post, Digital Marketing Tech, Getting it wrong, insight, Privacy
I need your help. I'm being followed by marketers. I want to you to ban all cookies. You will not be able go online and read news and Facebook will no longer be free. I don't care! I want to you to ...
Now an interruption from our sponsors
Posted in Blog Post, Getting it wrong, insight
Data came out this week that illustrates two competing visions of the future of advertising. According to eMarketer, digital display (banner ads) continues to balloon with growth of 14% in 2011. This is largely driven by the rapid adoption of impression-level, real-time ...
Canadians: Often funny, seldom offensive
Posted in Blog Post, Getting it wrong, Old MediaCanadians make me laugh (Martin Short, Sam Bee, Celine Dion, etc..), but they are so damn polite that they often miss the bigger laugh. The iconic Old Spice campaign is still fertile ground for parodies and old fashion coattailing, but ...
What we have here is a lack of imagination
Posted in Blog Post, Getting it wrong, insight, Old MediaI didn't intend for this blog to be a criticism of traditional media, but come on guys work with me here. The above video is supposed to be the "Disney" reimagination of print brought to you by those futurists at ...
The South is struggling to understand the blue bird
Posted in Blog Post, cross channel, Digital Marketing Tech, Getting it wrong, Social marketingThe mercurial bitch that is Innovation left her teeth marks in the ass of a local news channel in Alabama... and in Mobile, I guess, that means someone will hang for it. Unbelievably, WPMI ...
