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Category Archives: Tactics
Killing the Paywall
Tom Goodwin’s recent article, “Why making content on the internet free was our biggest mistake… and how to fix it” is required reading for all marketers in publishing. I’ve felt this way for a long time. Mr. Goodwin only wrote … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, Leadership, Marketing, Media, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged business model, media, New York Times, paywall, publishing
First Mile Problems
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
Posted in Direct Response, Marketing, Media, Philosophy, Rants, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged Market-Bridge, marketing strategy, Podcast, tactics
Ads on blogs
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
Posted in digital marketing, Direct Response, Marketing, Media, Tactics
Tagged adtech, advertising, digital marketing, digital media, martech, programmatic, social media, targeting
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
The Root of Digital Advertising B.S.
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
Posted in Analysis, Data, digital marketing, fraud, Marketing, Tactics
Tagged analysis, attribution, MTA, multi-touch attribution
Déjà Vu: The Partner Curse
I’m sure you’ve read about Hyphbot, but if you haven’t, here’s a good piece at The Drum which you should read. In the article, this line from Jay Stevens, the Adform CRO, hit me: “Premium publishers, like the FT are … Continue reading
Your Holiday Season Mission: Customer Acquisition
We’re in peak marketing season, with under 30 days to go. Digital CPMs are rising, clearing spots at acceptable CPA is getting harder, email in-boxes are more cluttered than ever, and sales promotion is off the hook. Nothing we haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Marketing, Media, planning, Sales, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged acquisition, allowable, Byron Sharp, Ehrenberg-Bass, growth, holiday, marketing strategy, Q4
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
