All posts in category Advertising

Working towards the Triple Play (the last mile problem)

Image by LonelyBob via Flickr It seems to me that more and more companies are working towards what the cable and phone companies are calling the triple play package. This is where you get phone, Internet, and TV service all from one provider all with one bill, hopefully lowering the overall price and making things [...]

Would you pay for the NY Times?

Image via CrunchBase It is rumored that the NY Times is going to start charging folks for its content online. Would you pay $5.00 per month? Would you pay more? less? Blogs have weighed in elsewhere but I wanted to take a poll with my readers and get a dialogue going about this idea – [...]

MediaMath + Marketing.fm

Image via CrunchBase This blog continues to be an experiment in learning about Marketing and Technology. Since its inception I have tried out new features, ideas, and mediums to interact with and build a community. Today I am happy to announce my latest experiment showing off a re-marketing technology by MediaMath. I got the chance [...]

Analytics Matters

Analytics matters today, just like it did yesterday, last year, and 5 years ago. In fact, it has always mattered. People, projects, companies, and teams tend for forget the importance of analytics from the earliest stages of a product or service. Its free! If you havn’t done so, go drop in free Google Analytics code [...]

Madison Avenue Blues Video

You have probably seen my thoughts on the upfront here before but this video is an amazing parody of everything wrong with the traditional advertising business today – enjoy.

Behavior, naming, and the Streets of Tomorrow

Image via Wikipedia I have been thinking about naming conventions for products and services lately and how user behavior should influence these decisions. As more services, products, people, and ideas come online – search engines try to help users find this data by surfacing these web pages after someone queries the engine. As you go [...]

Relevancy in advertising (not cookies or behavior)

Image via CrunchBase Most people think that a cookie is a delicious treat – not a file on your computer that tracks where you have been, what you are doing, and other attributes about you. Behavior is what you do – not something quantified in a profile. That is why with the recent announcement by [...]

How to get new customers: Communicate

AdAge recently published a story called Six Ways Ad Agencies Are Reeling in New Business Now from Rupal Parekh In it they describe 6 ways you can get new customers (as an ad agency) which really speak volumes about any organization whether you are an ad agency or a simply trying to sell a product. [...]

Google Latitude

Google rolled out a very interesting feature this week called Google Latitude that allows you to see where your friends are in real time within Google Maps. This is a feature that has been deployed many times in the past, but always platform specific (see SonyEricsson T68i and the new Nokia social network) and never [...]

Domino City – Sony Bravia Ad

Sony has come out with another colorful Bravia ad embedded below which I just found via ExitCreative As you may remember I have liked the previous Sony Bravia ads and posted both of them here.