Gotta love Al Gore for using the fruits of his own invention to promote his own movie. His invention of course is what we have come to call The Internet and his documentary is "An Inconvenient Truth." I believe it has something to do with Ewoks. From OnlineMediaDaily: MySpace's campaign for "An Inconvenient Truth" includes a custom-designed site where the community's more than 70 million registered members can meet …
Brands In A Blur
Influx Insights ponders the nature of brand churn today. Is the rapidly increasing pace of information forcing us to cycle through brands and media faster? It's hard to say exactly, but there are a couple of research studies suggesting this might be the case. First media consumption. Lulu.com has done some great research into the shrinking lifecycle of best selling books. In the 1960s, fewer than three novels reached …
The Line Between Editorial And Advertising Grows Blurrier Yet
Rance Crain, publisher of Ad Age and a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, listened to the new dean of the school, John Lavine, address the challenges facing media professionals today. Here's a bit of what he heard: "The challenge will be to engage increasingly elusive audiences who, in real time, rapidly form and deteriorate. Yet without a motivated, connected audience neither a free …
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Return Of The Zinesters
According to an article in the Sunday Style section of today's New York Times, there's a new, decidedly more commercial, kind of 'zine on the rack. Though there is no official body that tracks the number of small-circulation glossy magazines with obscure sensibilities and arresting design like Lemon, those who pay attention to these niche publications say they are multiplying in bookstores, boutiques and high-end …
Attribute. It’s Not Hard.
There seems to be some sort of attribution problem in the culture today. A Harvard student just had her first book yanked by her embarassed publisher. And Raytheon CEO William Swanson just stopped distributing his popular booklet Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management, after accusations of word for word lifting from an earlier text.. The booklet has attained cult-like status among business leaders, with more than …
Me Oh My
The 1980s were known as the Me Decade thanks to Wall Street greed going mainstream. According to this New York Times piece, the tens might become known as the My Decade, if Madison Avenue has anything to say about it. My, my, my. Madison Avenue has become obsessed with using the word "my" — along with "your" and "our" — in advertising slogans, as well as in the names of brands, products and even a new television …
How Big Will The Online Ad Biz Get?
MarketingVOX reports on some exciting speculation from this week's Ad:Tech San Francisco. In his keynote address, Sequoia Capital Partner Mark Kvamme predicted that internet advertising would be a $35 billion market in 2008, nearly double the $18 billion predicted by the Internet Advertising Bureau, writes ClickZ's Rebecca Lieb. At the heart of his prediction is his belief that advertisers will see the value in …
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Can Online Ads Be Measured Like TV?
Research firms Marketing Evolution and InsightExpress are teaming up to create a new system designed to make the effectiveness of online advertising more comparable with traditional media, especially television. Is this a good thing for online creative? Will a metric that manages to compare apples to organges help convince those marketers who remain skeptical about this whole Interweb thing to reach deeper into their …
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