Archive for the ‘Traditional media and advertising’ Category

Debating the future of social media leadership and strategy

This is a video of me sleeping. Holy crap what a lousy picture. Nevertheless, you are going to love this video. Jay Baer and I usually see eye-to-eye but when […]

A Bold Experiment in Paid Content

We are about to witness an extremely important experiment in journalism, marketing and the economics of the Internet. Last Friday, the 159-year-old New York Times, arguably the nation’s most important […]

Content Marketing is not Journalism

Last week I attended an explosive panel discussion at SXSW. With the mild-mannered title of “Debating Brands’ Role as Publisher” sparks flew as Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute […]

Is the Internet destroying your culture … or creating it?

“Mass culture is dead. Every one of us is creating our own version of culture.” This quote from futurist Faith Popcorn sums up a lot of things I have been experiencing […]

Marketing observations from Europe

I crawled through the nooks and crannies of the UK and France over the past two weeks and while I enjoyed my share of fine food, history, art and monuments, […]

Can The Shirtless Old Spice Guy pull off a marketing miracle?

Unless you’ve been in a cave this week, it would have been hard to avoid the splendid, amazing and entertaining Old Spice media blitz, which includes brilliant ads and one […]

Twitter ads and the end of mankind

The web comments about the announcement that Twitter will have ads on their searches (as a start) were about evenly split between “ho hum” and “disgust.” This comment is pretty […]

Research shows young procurement professionals embracing social web

Planning on using the social web to market to B2B decision-makers? According to just-released research from London’s Base One Group, you might consider the age of your target audience. In […]

Exploding the “It’s all about the conversation” social media myth

One of the most pervasive mantras of the social media hype circus is that it’s “all about the conversation” with your customers. But if you look at what’s really happening […]