Punctuated Equilibrium for the Johnston Press
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Statistics, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Its sad when you see entire industries under threat - its sad when those industries also have only themselves to blame. Sometimes however they just cant see it coming - Blindsided As Stephen Jay Gould wrote Structural or mental ...
The future of TV - Monaco
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Mobile, Strategy, Television | No Comments »I have meet some interesting people in Monaco. Thoughts : panel-based audience measurement - and counting for the digital age is madness... Steam age technology in the digital age People are still hung up on the furniture (formats) of commercial messaging... We need new ...
The advertising arms race in social networks
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Stampede For Social Network Dollars Intensifies writes Diane Mermigas The race to monetize and leverage the power of social networks is turning into a stampede, as evidenced by Microsoft?s recently renewed efforts to acquire Facebook in the wake ...
Everything’s Not Lost: in the world of traditional media
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Media, Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Print media is struggling with a digital future and are Newspapers embracing the digital age? The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry?s deep malaise. The Grey ...
Everything’s Not Lost: in the world of traditional media
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Media, Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Print media is struggling with a digital future and are Newspapers embracing the digital age? The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry?s deep malaise. The Grey ...
Everything’s Not Lost: in the world of traditional media
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Media, Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Print media is struggling with a digital future and are Newspapers embracing the digital age? The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry?s deep malaise. The Grey ...
TV advertising: moving the deck chairs on the titanic
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »I have been chatting to a few colleagues about metrics in relation to TV and I was pointed to Marketing in the era of accountability Which I would have thought should have been free but there you go. Anyway I ...
The data flow wars
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, News, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 1 Comment »Way back in 2003 Tomi and I started working on a project called Communities Dominate Brands - today the very things that wrote about have become - well mainstream. Its a crowded house these days. So - here's another road-sign for ...
Advertising - social media - google and myspace
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Darwin, Economics, News, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | 6 Comments »How google screwed up the myspace deal proclaims Wired. Lots of smart people are trying to figure out how to monetize social networks. It's no easy feat: Even if millions of people log on to Facebook twice ...
On the origin of Social Media and Advertising
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Networks, News, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »Read it here Though Mark Selby speaking at Forum Oxford today says its not UGC - It is in fact Collaborative Social Media and I buy that. UGC - for advertisers USER read CONSUMER - faceless ...

