Category Archives: Marketing

First Mile Problems

Posted on Thursday, 18 April 2019 7:30 am by markpilip

I was recently interviewed by Tim Furey, CEO of MarketBridge, on The Last Mile Podcast. Among our discussion of SAC, CAC, LTV, ROI, other three-letter acronyms, we also spent time on “first mile” marketing problems. As a practicing performance/direct response … Continue reading →

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Ads on blogs

Posted on Monday, 26 November 2018 9:24 am by markpilip

I just had a chance to check my blog. Here’s the type of quality ad that gets served on blogs like mine. Do you know if the creative is automatically generated by some brilliant AI? Or have you ever really … Continue reading →

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2.8 billion years of evolution, down the drain

Posted on Tuesday, 23 October 2018 8:40 am by markpilip

Someday, as expressed in this article by Shelly Palmer, AI and technology will be so good it will be impossible to tell truth from fakes. In other words, we won’t be able to trust our eyes and ears any more. … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted on Monday, 5 March 2018 5:27 pm by markpilip | Comments Off on Reduce Spend, Increase Reach? Wait, This Can’t Be Right…

“Marketing has changed forever” is the gospel according to the fake marketers. Wrote Malcolm Auld in his brilliant article yesterday. Since we’re in the era of fake news, fake traffic, fake impressions, fake agencies, and fake presidents, let’s call out … Continue reading →

Posted on Thursday, 22 February 2018 8:12 am by markpilip | Comments Off on Virtue Signaling and Fake Marketers

How many humans are in each segment of your category buyers? And how many humans are in each audience at each publisher? You need to know the answers to both questions for your campaigns to be successful. Not cookies. Not … Continue reading →

Posted on Monday, 19 February 2018 11:34 am by markpilip | Comments Off on Humans

It’s been two days since the Super Bowl. Quick, and without thinking too hard, write down: The ads you saw on the Super Bowl on Sunday The digital ads you saw this morning as you read the news with coffee … Continue reading →

Posted on Tuesday, 6 February 2018 8:52 am by markpilip | Comments Off on Name Those Ads

Just when I was about to open a vein over the incessant furor about how Millennials are different, unique and in need of such nonsense as influencer marketing, they’re dead. Here comes Gen Z (sheesh–will somebody brand the next round … Continue reading →

Posted on Tuesday, 30 January 2018 7:01 am by markpilip | Comments Off on Hallelujah! Millennials Are Dead. Here Comes Generation Z

Be The Solution

Posted on Monday, 29 January 2018 9:16 am by markpilip

We get the advertising we deserve. As marketers, we’ve put our skepticism on hold. And we’ve been taken. Programmatic buying, content marketing, influencer marketing, and native advertising are just a few of the fallacies the advertising ecosystem has foisted on … Continue reading →

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The Root of Digital Advertising B.S.

Posted on Thursday, 25 January 2018 9:41 am by markpilip

For years, Bob Hoffman has been writing about the delusion held by advertisers that people want to interact with us or our ads. I was an early adopter of that now-disproven fantasy. I bought in back in ’89-’90 when I … Continue reading →

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