How’s your big data business strategy coming along? I jokingly tell colleagues in the marketing world, that you can’t throw
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What Keeps The Chief Marketing Officer Awake At Night? – Part 3
Is Gartner right about Chief Marketing Officers spending more on IT than the Chief Information Officer in the coming years?
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Advertising used to be easy. Brands would work their respective agencies, make a media buy, create the ad, place it
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It turns out that the major advertising networks think that Yahoo made a mistake in the acquisition of Tumblr. That’s
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We thought that the Internet would bring with it a whole wave of new media disruption. We were unprepared for
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Everything is digital. I’ve been banging that drum for well over a decade now. At first, it was heresy, then
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Facebook is a license to print money. As far as social media goes and the growth of online social networking,
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What has become of the words that we read? There are many converging forces that could lead you to believe
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What can media do? I was driving on the highway and spotted a billboard. It was your average, run of
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Traditional media is getting it all wrong (again). On December 31st, 2012, MediaPost ran a news item titled, For Traditional
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What happens when real consumer data meets marketing? In my next book, CTRL ALT Delete (coming out in May 2013),
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What will be the timeframe for smartphone and tablet devices to decimate desktop and laptop computers? By all accounts, it
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With Hurricane Sandy happening, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times took down their paywalls. Unbiased media is a
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You can’t have it both ways. Someone is going to have to break the bad news to the consumers. You
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What a long, strange trip it’s been. There are many who think that advertising as we have known it to
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What happened to The Long Tail? What happens in a world after Here Comes Everybody? Apparently, not much. We had
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The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. The greatest trick online advertising ever
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