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“Audiences” Mostly Aren’t
Unlike theatrical audiences, who pay money and make a conscious decision to invest their time in something, the online audience is very different. Mostly, it’s people (well, actually bots) that have kind of stumbled on your site/app/whatever and are desperately … Continue reading
Why Would They…
Shift spending time on a hobby and pay attention to your messages instead? Stop spending money on the competitive product and buy yours instead? Reduce buying in one category and buy more from you? We all work with fixed amounts … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Philosophy, Strategy
Tagged marketing strategy, product marketing
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Ignore the dilettantes publishing lists of the best Super Bowl ads. Judge the performance by the sales they generate. Continue reading
Monday, 6 February 2017 8:55 am
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Digital Media Transparency. Bravo P&G!
P&G is starting out 2017 in a strong fashion, by saying “NO” to the nonsense taking place in the digital marketing ecosystem. All advertisers–that means your organization–should follow suit. Watch Mark Pritchard’s full talk below:
Posted in Branding, Marketing, Media, Security
Tagged accountability, ANA, digital media, fraud, IAB, MRC, P&G, TAG, transparency, verification, viewability
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Oracles Mark Ritson & Bob Hoffman
The solution is not to buy more adtech or add more to your tech stack. It’s getting back to basics. The answer is practicing proper marketing science. It’s not that hard and you’ll notice that none of it starts with “audiences”: Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Media
Tagged Bob Hoffman, digital marketing, digital media, fraud, Mark Ritson, P&G
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Just reviewing a marketing services (adtech) company’s financials and found myself laughing over the non-GAAP section of the investor presentation. It started my day off with a smile. Takeaway: Put your hand firmly in your pocket when the IR team … Continue reading
Friday, 27 January 2017 8:01 am
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2017 Snapchat Buys: Cui bono?
The digital tsunami continues. Word today is that Snapchat is asking for commitments from the big agency holdcos for commitments to spend as much as $200 million on buys in 2017. That’s advertiser money, by the way. Why is Snap … Continue reading
Posted in Direct Response, Marketing, Media
Tagged advertising, digital media, online advertising, Snap Inc., snapchat
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Publish The Denominator, Google.
You might have seen Google patting itself on the back today for taking down 1.7 billion ads–2X last year’s total!–that violated the company’s policies. The problem, like most digital media hype and nonsense, is that they didn’t bother to publish … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Data, Media, Rants
Tagged digital marketing, fraud, Google, malvertising
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Remove the adjectives in the marketing presentations you hear. It’s a no-fail B.S. detector. Continue reading
Friday, 13 January 2017 2:32 pm
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As a proper marketer, before you begin segmentation and targeting to create your strategy, look first to the first P of marketing. Your product. Why? If your product doesn’t work, the most brilliant targeting strategy can’t work. You’ll have no monthly recurring … Continue reading
Thursday, 12 January 2017 8:25 am
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