Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Web Advertising and the Myth of “Lean Forward Media” The companies promoting various forms of online advertising spend vast amounts of time pointing out well understood challenges with off-line… 0 August 2, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Store Brand? Manufacturer Brand? The Real Issue is Telling Consumers Something Meaningful. There’s been a lot of talk lately about store brands competing with manufacturer brands – mostly talking about how store… 0 August 1, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Research Shows that Smart Phones HELP Retail The tech theorizers have suckered us into a mythology – the one where the Four Virtual Horsemen of the Tech… 0 July 2, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Power of Low & Consistent DRTV Spending A potential retail oriented DRTV client once opened our meeting with “this needs to be a top 5 show”. I… 0 June 28, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Power of Low & Consistent Mass Media Spending Advertising is far too often driven by lore and anecdote – even when it comes to media spending. So it… 0 June 28, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Cable Cutting? Census Suggests Just Sharing Households. Much was made of Nielsen numbers released recently that suggested a small drop in homes with multi-channel TV (cable, satellite,… 0 June 21, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Future TV Skepticism: Why I Don’t Think Apple will Conquer TV It’s been a crazy week of reports on TV. It started with the extremists predicting nothing less than complete destruction… 0 June 8, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Latest TiVO Results Illustrate the Impact of Communication Failure The latest TiVO results are out: huge jump in revenue while still managing to lose $21M on net revenue of… 0 June 1, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Why Does JC Penney’s Struggle? After all the hoopla of hiring an Apple magician (only magical, of course, because he was at Apple) and the… 0 May 30, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email BK Succeeds! …At Proving Bad Advertising CAN Hurt Business. By now, you probably know that Burger King is no longer the #2 fast food chain in the US. Wendy’s… 0 March 21, 2012