Last week at Code Conference by Re/Code, Mary Meeker unveiled her Internet trends report. Ads were a part of the overall presentation. Re/Code even posted a post called “Mary Meeker is right — most online ads suck.” As a reader of sights I have to agree. I read a lot of sights on a regular […]
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Digital marketing is just marketing
This past week Brad Jakeman, PepsiCo exec, spoke at the Association of National Advertising’s annual “Masters of Marketing”. One of his points was that digital marketing should be considered marketing. His thought behind this was most of marketing was done digitally. There is no need to silo digital any more I couldn’t agree more […]
My Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials
The Best: 1: Budweiser Puppy Love 2: Radio Shack Phone Call 3: Doritos Time Machine Worst 1: Sonos Face Off 2: Turbo Tax Love Hurts 2: T-Mobile Tim Tebow shows you what you can do without a contract
GM Giving Up Facebook Ads
Today GM announced they were discontinuing Facebook Ads. This is not too big a deal to me, where as the press seems to make it seems that GM is leaving Facebook all together. VentureBeat is reporting that GM currently spends $40 million on on Facebook. One-fourth of this is ads the rest is content and […]
ME0022 – Media: Television advertising
This is an overdue episode. Its a solocast where I talk about advertising in television and media. How the current TV is changing with Tivo/DVR’s, online viewing and product placement. I talk about how all three are making changes to the way we market to individuals. I also talk about the future of TV and […]
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Ad
Its my week for videos, but this I saw on Facebook posted by Vegas.com. It is a very interesting, I would love to know the results, they are going to a specific market segment as you can tell!
ME0010 – Talking Media with Daisy Whitney
Daisy Whitney – New Media Minute and This Week in Media By day, Daisy Whitney is a producer, on-air correspondent, podcaster and raconteur in the new media business. At night, she writes novels for teens and is the author of The Mockingbirds, to be published by Little, Brown in November 2010. You can pre-order it […]
Super Bowl Commericals 2010 – Best and Worst
I will admit I’m not a football fan, I watched more playoff games this year then years previous. So when the big game came on, I am usually for the commercials and don’t care who plays in the game. To put this in perspective, I go to friend’s party every year and this is how […]
The Charlie Brown Ad Agency….
This is for all my agency friends, this will make you crack up and think about life in an agency.
Phillips- Cannes Grand Prix Winner – Film
I read about this in Ad Age and found it on YouTube. Its very cool how they did it but FREAKY, in the use of the Clowns robbing the place. The one take long shot is pretty amazing!