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 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 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 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
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Goldman Sachs Resignation Letter Could Have Come From an Ad Agency Recently, a Goldman Sachs executive departing the company authored a letter that was republished by the New York times. If… 0 March 14, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Ad Fail: Dramamine Ads Cause Air Sickness The cacophony of new media now fully surrounds us. There is no longer an advertising free privacy. (Gosh I miss… 0 February 28, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Tyranny of Creative Correctness in Advertising Let’s define a new term: Creative Correctness. In other words, the tyrannical pressure from a specific view of artistic perfection… 0 February 20, 2012
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email iPad 14 – Electronic Magazines Prove (once again) That Content Trumps Bells & Whistles Here’s an important tech axiom: Developers have far more interest in applying application bells and whistles than people have in… 0 December 6, 2011