Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Humanity, Humility, Statistics & Brands. Thoughts About “How Brands Grow” by Byron Sharp For all the grand ad agency theorizing about brands, it’s ironic that the most human sense of brands that I’ve… 0 March 25, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Reading the Fossil Record: Why Mobile Retail Tracking Can’t Replace Focus Group Research There was a post on Retail Wire this morning that pondered whether retailers will need traditional research once mobile tracking… 0 February 17, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Squirrel! Advertising Agencies Chase Utopian Theories There’s nobody easier to sell to than other salesmen. Unless, of course, you’re promising a consumer revolution to advertising agencies.… 0 February 14, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Do Superbowl Ratings Identify Flaws in Online TV Theory? TV drives mass communication - the web doesn't. The web's inherent strength is fragmented communication. 0 February 7, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email DRTV Finds What Nielsen Misses: An Audience That Will Take Action Nielsen ratings are often attacked for a variety of problems with their statistical reliability and I certainly don’t disagree with… 0 January 28, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Yell & Sell Approach to DRTV Decreases Retail Impact. There’s no myth I hate more than the idea that DRTV’s primary role for companies is driving direct sales. Yes,… 0 January 20, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Is Coupon Clipping Social Media’s Primary Value to Advertisers? Ad agencies seem unable to resist the idea that there’s a “killer media” out there to fulfill their every dream.… 0 January 18, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email DVR’s Do Not Hurt Ad Effectiveness – And May Help It Media Post reports yet one more study (link here) that shows that time shifting doesn’t hurt TV ad effectiveness. So… 0 December 22, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email How Segmentation Becomes Fragmentation: Online Advertising’s Incredible Blind Spot In the late 1990′s, the tech industry hype machine went into over-drive telling us that the web would replace retail… 0 December 15, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Key Truths About Social Media Are Already Known by Direct Marketers Social media experts have spent the last few years telling us how hard it is to calculate the value of… 0 December 9, 2010