Six Reasons Why Pre-Roll Ads Are a Bad Idea

One of the little things in life that media consumers "love to complain about":http://www.internetmarketingmonitor.org/0551/is-google-killing-youtube-with-pre-roll-advertising.html and "advertisers love to … [Read more...]

Are comments moderated on HillaryClinton.com?

Apparently the answer is "YES." I heard a speech from her last night asking people to come to her web site and share our thoughts. I "did just that on this post":http://blog.hillaryclinton.com/blog/main/2008/06/04/030945#4f6a242f-d824-4548-944d-5e354a8ab9aa, in a very clean and respectful way. My … [Read more...]

Online Video: Can it save advertising?

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We are currently in negotiations with a very large global company, inside of which are a very few brave souls trying to bring new media and new thinking into a well-established, well-rated company that moves at a molasses pace like most corporate behemoths. The product in play is online video. My … [Read more...]

Are You Addicted to Big Numbers?

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I love math. It has an uncanny way of teasing apart the truth, but alas, it can also just as easily be used selectively to manipulate or create false impressions. And if we get addicted to a certain type of math - tracking eyeballs and households for example - then we can be inadvertently wasting … [Read more...]

Clinton & Obama: A lesson of losing control of your brand

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Many of my colleagues ("Mitch Joel":http://www.twistimage.com/blog/, "Shel Holtz":http://blog.holtz.com/, "Valeria Maltoni":http://conversationagent.typepad.com/) and I frequently speak to members of … [Read more...]

Reporting Standards Bloggers v Journalists

This is an ongoing discussion, and "@astrout":http://twitter.com/astrout, one of the people I follow on Twitter, is putting together a summary of this debate. Please read his post (I'll update this one with a "link after it's … [Read more...]

Pep Talk and Talk Prep for HAF

I'll be speaking this morning at the "Hawaii Advertising Federation's":http://www.hafspot.com annual "university." This is a day when the ad pros come together to network and open minds to new ideas. First off, I say congrats. There is this sticky wicket in that the more a person becomes an … [Read more...]