A Stark Warning to CMOs Focused on Short-termism
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It’s not the ad campaign; it’s what the ad campaign is doing for your brand. It’s not the marketing campaign; it’s what that marketing is doing to engage and build relationships. This distinction is critical when it comes to understanding...
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How Safe is Your Online Brand Advertising?
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When it comes to your online ads, brand safety is an increasingly important factor to consider. Consider the blow-up earlier this year as brands fled YouTube in the wake of explicit pedophilic content. This came after two major scandals in the past...
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How News Media Benefits from a Post-cookie World
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In a post-cookie world, can journalism survive? The idea has its skeptics, according to Jeff Turner in the Washington Post.  The end of the cookie era comes as the next crisis in a steady stream of threats over recent years,...
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Publishers are Not Happy about Google Ad Metrics Report
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Finally.We’ve known about Facebook’s dodgy metrics for ages now. But Google somehow seemed to remain above the fray.The party’s over.“Google’s recent research showing that publishers stand to lose 52% of programmatic ad revenue if they can’t use third-party cookie ad...
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What 10 Years of Neuroscience Tells Us about Our Brains on Print
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It’s been 10 years since Millward Brown published the groundbreaking report “Using Neuroscience to Understand the Role of Direct Marketing.” At the time it drew a lot of attention. Many marketers, committed and dug in to being part of the...
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Blurred Lines and Innovation …. The Heart of Print’s New Reality
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To thine own audience be true. That’s been our mantra since the early days of the digital disruption. We joined industry voices in encouraging publishers and media brand to think “audience-first,” rather than blindly following the digital trend. This measured,...
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Kids and Screen Time — The Dangers are Real
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“Don’t sit so close to the TV … you’ll ruin your eyes.” That was the mantra a lot of us heard growing up, as kids were plunked down in front of the TV so our parents could get some peace....
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Quality Attention – The One Thing Vanity Metrics Can’t Win You
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How many clicks? How many likes? How many shares? You’ve heard those questions asked; maybe you even ask them yourself as you try to understand if your marketing is “working.” Not only are you asking the wrong questions; this compulsion...
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Google Decreed, and a Third of News Publishers Now Have No Viable Paywall
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It’s been not quite a week since Google basically demolished publisher paywall models by “closing a loophole” that allows publishers to see when site visitors are using an incognito browser. They gave publishers a two-week notice last month, and the...
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Wake Up Call: Science Says Our Phones are Shortening Our Lives
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Modern medicine is a bit of a miracle. Not interested in eating all your veggies? Take a fiber supplement and probably a statin to keep things in check. Don’t like to exercise? A blood pressure pill can do wonders. But...
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