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Advertising is a parasite that depends on the blood of its host—news and entertainment content—for its survival. When the body or in this case the media industry is sick, the parasite too will suffer. This is the conclusion, although not the language, of Mike Follett, managing director of eye-tracking company Lumen Research (and a former agency-side account planner). He spoke to Nathan Heller of The New …
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Two Harvard professors looked into the future of AI's impact on the world wide web and what they saw wasn't pretty. Judith Donath, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and Bruce Schneier, a fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School published their projections in The Atlantic. Here's a short passage from "It's the End of the Web As We Know It," SEO will morph into LLMO: …
There's no such thing as a free lunch. But there is such a thing as a free pizza when you order from Domino’s online. We don't bestow trophies upon advertising makers (although I hear there's a lot of money in it), but we do point out when they do something notable. An "Emergency Pizza" from Domino's is notable because of how well it addresses customers' needs. People love free, so there's that, but the way this …
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It's Customer Contact Week and hundreds of people who are responsible for delivering better customer experiences are gathered this morning at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin. Neil Hoyne, chief strategist at Google, Wharton fellow, and author of Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers' Hearts is this morning’s keynote speaker. “I get people to click on pictures,” he humorously and humbly says from the …
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Once upon an Internet moment, Twitter was a big deal. Then a braggadocious billionaire bought the company and within minutes the social media platform's engine began to sputter and its wheels flatten. Flash forward to the present. An internal presentation obtained by The New York Times reveals that Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 …
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I am a writer. I write ad copy, journalism, poetry, fiction, and essays—not necessarily in that order. Because I am a writer, I want to laugh at the idea that a machine can do what I, or what any writer does for a living. Sure, a machine can spit out words, I get that part. But is that good enough today? Can machine-generated words move customer automatons to respond favorably? Can an AI copywriting platform (that …
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Think with Google is a new YouTube series that seeks to educate and inspire the next generation of marketers, advertisers, and creatives with tutorials from experts in privacy, digital transformation, and AI to name a few. https://youtu.be/Ad86QPvnqkI In related news, the 2021 Forrester Digital Marketing Maturity survey, conducted on behalf of Google, found that nearly three-quarters of survey participants said …
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General Mills-owned cereal brand Lucky Charms is in the entertainment business. I'm happy to see the packaged goods brand recognize it and act on it. According to The Drum, Lucky the Leprechaun has dropped his debut album, "Magically Delicious," which is now available across all major streaming platforms but promoted exclusively on Spotify. The album includes eight songs. Each song is about a unique Lucky Charm …
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