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The silence of the fake influencers and lack-of-thought leaders is deafening…
Originally posted on The Malcolm Auld Blog:
Those who have read my missives or attended my seminars, are aware I’ve been calling out the online zealots and their snake-oil since the invention of the information superhighway. So here’s today’s polite…
Posted in Uncategorized
Your Facebook Rebate
Q2 2018 is in the books. Plenty of time for advertisers and their agencies to true up Q1 and really start work on the second half of the year. As a reminder, in Q1 Facebook removed: 583MM fake accounts. 21MM … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, fraud, Social Media Marketing
Tagged accountability, accounting, advertising fraud, bots, Facebook, fraud
Talent > Systems
“Any industry that values systems and processes over talent is an industry in decay.” Wrote Bob Hoffman today, reminding us that the adtech, martech, …aaS, and whatever other stuff we’ve cobbled into a tech stack isn’t our secret sauce. Like … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged adtech, Bob Hoffman, leadership, martech, organization
Default Power
Facebook recently said that most of the 2 billion people on their platform had their personal data scraped. The reason, aside from Facebook’s appallingly sloppy controls over access to data, is defaults. Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that most people kept … Continue reading
Posted in Behavioral economics, Data, digital marketing, Security
Tagged data, Facebook, GDPR, Mark Zuckerberg, security
The Forgotten Boolean NOT
I spent last week in Glasgow and London, with a UK SIM card temporarily in my phone. As part of my daily routine of checking Twitter, I learned that many social media advertisers and agencies have forgotten how to use … Continue reading
Posted in Data, digital marketing, Direct Response, Media, Social Media Marketing, Tactics
Tagged audiences, Boolean, BT Sport, logic, merge/purge, Nescafe, reach, Santander
Were You the Same in 2014?
Facebook is pumping out a lot of spin these days. They’re trying to make us forget they ran (and continue to run) a massive, unregulated surveillance operation. They’re trying to distance themselves from Cambridge Analytica in any way possible, before … Continue reading
Algorithms: Recipes for Disaster
When we purchase digital advertising, we place our faith in the algorithms–a fancy word for “recipes”–used to determine things like the final price of the inventory, which creative is shown, and the frequency at which those impressions are shown. There’s … Continue reading
Posted in Data, digital marketing, Education, Leadership, Media, Strategy
Tagged algorithms, education, magpie, Mark Ritson, trust
Who’s Viewing Your Ads? Maybe Your IoT Security Camera.
Another day, another case of IoT security lapses. When buying digital media, you should always ask “how many humans are viewing my ads, and how can you prove it to me?” This article from Threatpost describes the extreme lack of … Continue reading
Reduce Spend, Increase Reach? Wait, This Can’t Be Right…
P&G eliminated 20% of their most ineffective spend and generated 10% more reach, according to this article in AdWeek. Wait, that doesn’t fit the narrative about digital media. It’s all supposed to be about good, cheap media, reaching the right … Continue reading
