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Black Friday Narrative: The Retail Apocalypse (The Data Says…)
I was searching Linkedin last evening and read a comment from somebody about how “Black Friday sales have been down the last few years.” The comment came with no facts to back the assertion, and it fit neatly into the … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Marketing, Media
Tagged analysis, Black Friday, NRF, retail, U.S. Census
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Next week, as you’re doing your annual IT work for parents, in-laws, aunts and uncles, take a few minutes and talk about protecting privacy and improving their cybersecurity. This Motherboard article, recommended by Bruce Schneier, is a great place to … Continue reading
Thursday, 16 November 2017 8:38 am
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GroupM Shines Light on Middlemen
Bravo to Group M for starting to shine the light on the adtech middlemen who reduce our working media to, at times, a pittance. Advertisers need to demand more of this behavior from our agencies. Here’s the report I want … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, Marketing, Media, Philosophy, Tactics
Tagged accountability, accounting, adtech, GroupM, martech, P&L, transparency, vendor
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Paywalled, but interesting article at New York Times today on Renee DiResta’s work on peer-to-peer disinformation and how social media can be gamed to lead one into an echo chamber where vaccines can cause autism, planes distribute chemicals via chemtrails, … Continue reading
Monday, 13 November 2017 1:30 pm
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ABD (Always Be De-Averaging), ads.txt Edition
Now that ads.txt is getting traction, with about 44% (and growing) of the top 10,000 domains using it, you’ve got some homework in your future. Here’s the assignment: Pull together your campaign data at the source (e.g. somedomain.com) and “source/source” … Continue reading
Where’s the Bottom of the Barrel?
This quote from an un-named programmatic specialist at a media company is telling: If you want our $1 to $2 inventory that’s on the open exchange, we’re glad you are interested in it, but you aren’t going to get much … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, fraud, Media
Tagged Digiday, programmatic
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Out of nowhere, something appears on your radar. You’re not sure how long it’s been there. You can get upset that you never noticed it before, because it might have changed the last decision. Or you can acknowledge that you … Continue reading
Wednesday, 25 October 2017 7:09 am
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Continuity Marketing: Profit or Scale?
I had an interesting discussion on continuity acquisition strategy yesterday, which boiled down to two questions: Do we spend profitability, at break-even, or to penetrate (i.e. at a loss) at the margin? By profit, do we mean gross margin, marketing … Continue reading
Posted in Direct Response, Marketing, Philosophy, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged churn, continuity, modeling, profitability, Retention, subscription
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