Once Again, Content Is King, Queen and Aces
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Customers are will to pay for quality content minus the BS. And publishers are taking it to the bank. The American Magazine Media Conference (AMMC) held in New York a couple of weeks ago had a wholly different tenor than the...
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WSJ Breaking up with LinkedIn?
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In a decidedly “it’s not me, it’s you” move, The Wall Street Journal removes its LinkedIn sharing option on its articles. What’s behind the breakup? Just as Prevention magazine announced its breakup with advertisers, the Wall Street Journal announced a...
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What Brands Need to Know as Content Goes Mainstream
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Most brands will crash and burn at marketing with content because they don’t get their story right; get smarter now. Seems everyone’s posting this month about their predictions for 2016. And with so much going on in the industry –...
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7 Retailers Nailing it with Content
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We would love to have been in on the creative meetings when the team at Patagonia came up with their “Worn Wear” campaign a couple of seasons ago. Screened inside their stores on Black Friday, the video tugs on the...
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Are Publishers Digging Their Own Graves with Brand Content?
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At the heart of the debate over native advertising is this central truth, summed up in one concise statement: “…these days, advertisers wield a lot more power and influence over media companies because they [publishers] are desperate for their dollars,”...
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Why Your Brand Needs to Get All Emotional
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It’s time to shift our thinking from “are they listening?” to “do they care?” Consumer habits in our multi-platform world are changing, moving from a mass market mentality to a self-selected tribal approach. In magazine publishing, we see this in...
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In Distrust we Trust – Part Two
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Digital advertisers haven’t been able to move the needle on digital ad perceptions. Americans’ trust in the news media is at an all-time low, and our trust in digital advertising hasn’t improved a bit over the past two years either....
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For the Love of All Things Punctuated
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The Grammar Girl has something to say about dashes, commas and colons. “People sometimes ask me about the difference between a colon and a dash since they can both be used to introduce the next part of a sentence,” Mignon...
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Content Provider or Experience Maker?
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Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni was in South America recently, speaking with members of the media agency and marketing industry at the Media24 conference in Sandton. There he spoke on the state of print today, and the changing role of editors...
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Scarcity over Scale – When Size Doesn’t Matter
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Two publishers explain why mass market is not the value proposition that their advertisers are looking for. “When anyone can buy traffic, what value does the marketer get from that? And what is unique about that audience?” Breaking Media’s CEO...
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