Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Money down the drain – with under-inclusive audience sampling

Friday, June 24th, 2005I know this is stateside. But it interests me and it should interest you. Let me set the scene for you, Nilesen are being faced with a suit by erinMedia and ReacTV filed against Nielsen last week. As Mediapost explains...

10 years at ebay

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005Adriana from the Big blog company quotes the Economist in an article celebrating ebays 10 year anniversaryThe commercial opportunities presented by an expanding global web seem almost limitless. But the pace of change is rapid, and so is ...

From mass media to social media part iv

Thursday, June 16th, 2005The Oberserver reported this week that 'podcasting' is the hottest thing going on in radio at the moment.The BBC have made 20 programmes available as podcasts on its website as part of a real life trial (always better than focus ...

Connected Communities the biggest change to business since the Industrial Revolution

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 Business Week cover story: says community-power biggest change since the industrial ageFirst it was the Economist cover story in March now Business Week also runs a cover story on the digitally connected consumer, the rapidly growing community capability derived through ...

Product placement regulation – deregulation

Thursday, May 26th, 2005In the FT today 26 May 2005 - OfCom announces the relaxation of its draconian regulation on commercial sponsorship of television. SMLXL has charted the duress that commercial broadcasters are under as they cannot sustain profitability and growth from ...

Big business putting the squeeze on Newspapers

Thursday, May 26th, 2005Shame on BP. And shame on Morgan Stanley and General Motors and any other advertisers involved in assaults on editorial integrity and independence. By wielding their ad budgets as weapons to beat down newsrooms, these companies threaten the ...

Alan speaks to OgilvyOne in Barcelona

Sunday, May 15th, 2005 Last Thursday, I gave a speech to 60+ senior members of OgilvyOne in Barcelona. Thank you OgilvyOne for inviting me. Of course, I was talking about our book Communities Dominate Brands and the converging issues that are forcing businesses ...

Big media vs. The people. Rupert tells it how it is

Monday, May 2nd, 2005Jeff Jarvis over at Buzz machine has been looking at the big media meltdown .Jeff has gone into quite some detail and in one of his information rich posts I came across Rupes musings on the media world we ...

Tomi Interview by Mobile Technoloy Weblog

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005In mobile technology weblogQ. If you had to summarise the key message in your new book, Communities Dominate Brands, what would it be?A. The digitally connected and empowered customer-community is a ...

U2 – communities – world poverty – texting

Friday, April 15th, 2005Related to our recent post on mobile phones and TV - speed of information - connection to networks - communities forming around issues etc. This post is a case in point. Rory Treffiletti of mediapost watched ...

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