Why Vinyl, Books and Magazines are Not Going Away
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Call them the mediums that refused to die. Vinyl records, paper books and glossy magazines are showing signs of growth. Why? How?“It’s probably safe to assume that people will always consume content in some kind of physical shell – not just...
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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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The Eerily Prescient World of Books in 19th & 20th Century Sci-Fi
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Did you know that the storyline in Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame was set just a quarter-century after the printing of Gutenberg’s first bible? According to Leah Price in the Paris Review, the novel “depicted an archdeacon worrying...
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Report Shows Marketing Bias is Hurting Campaign Effectiveness
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“In a media landscape muddied by unfounded biases, questionable metrics and marketing jargon, the challenge for advertisers and agencies is to cut through the BS and identify which channels legitimately boost marketing effectiveness. It’s no easy task in an evolving,...
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Do Circulation Figures Even Matter Anymore?
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The marketing landscape is a multi-channel environment, and the modern consumer journey reflects this. Yet print and web metrics are still tightly siloed, notes Tim Langford in InPublishing, with print’s circulation figures often looking like the loser, as the industry...
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The Purpose of Print for Modern Marketers
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We share a lot about the “whats” and “hows” around print marketing – where it’s useful, how to be creative with it, what’s new in the world of print magazines and catalogs. But sometimes it’s helpful to sit back and...
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IKEA Nails It with Its 2020 Catalog Promo
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Okay, IKEA has blown us away again. They caught everyone’s attention with their 2014 augmented reality catalog, followed by the 2015 book that went decidedly non-tech, saying it’s a “not an e-book; it’s a book book!” For 2020, they’re raising the...
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How to Innovate when the Ground Shifts Underneath You
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Does it feel like things moved way too fast during media’s digital disruption? Well hold on, because one industry expert believes change is only going to accelerate. “The media landscape is changing rapidly and media owners need to be aware...
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Beyond the Click – Measuring the Real Impact of Your Marketing Campaigns
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When digital marketing hit the scene, marketers were wild to finally have a way to see, in real-time, performance data. KPI became the new reporting standard, and brands went vociferously after clicks, likes, shares and other forms of immediate, top-of-funnel...
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Hey Uniqlo, We See You Out There with your Print Magazine
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Well hello, Roger. Federer, that is. The tennis star graces the pages of the new print magazine from fashion retailer Uniqlo, scheduled to drop in stores in September. And he looks mighty comfortable doing so, in his role as the...
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