Tag Archives: Engagement

You’re Doing It Wrong: Botching the Beautiful Potential of Digital Marketing

The promise of online marketing–all that immediate access to the pertinent information you want, served up within a context of relevant content, targeting to dayparts and geographies–even climate conditions or news events–all that promise still exists. Unfortunately, it exists in the … Continue reading

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360º Marketing: Nice Idea, Totally Unrealistic

I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday and she copped to the fact that she was sick of hearing about 360º marketing, simply because in her experience, it’s pure fiction.  And if you give it a moment’s thought, … Continue reading

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Record Television Viewership Numbers and the Struggle Between Active and Passive

It happened again… Another Nielsen Report came out Tuesday claiming that Americans watch more TV today than ever before: a staggering average of four hours and forty-nine minutes a day.  If that number doesn’t smack you upside your metaphoric head, … Continue reading

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Facebook Fan Pages Make Perfect Sense When Your Brand Actually Has Fans

According to an item in Mediapost, the NHL will unveil it’s new fan page on Facebook later this afternoon.  The screengrab of it looks beautiful; loaded with continually-updated content and highly interactive, it resembles nothing so much as their own … Continue reading

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On Engagement and the Search For Meaningful Metrics

Last week, Gene Liebel, a managing partner at Huge, wrote a terrific piece for Mediaweek that took a skeptic’s view of engagement as the ‘metric du jour’ for success in digital projects.  As someone who has a turnkey presentation titled “Engagement is … Continue reading

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Detroit Doesn't Need Ads, It Needs Documentaries. And Transparency.

So I was quoted in the latest issue of Newsweek… And I’m trying to be cool about it, but this kind of thing doesn’t happen everyday.  I considered spending the morning riding the El around the Loop with the issue … Continue reading

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Dangerous, Dated Conceit #3: Assuming An Advertising Audience

We now work amidst a cavalcade of technological and social changes that actively assail the long-reliable notion of an aggregated audience for advertising messages.  Instead of simply worrying that some portion of the audience may leave to use the bathroom … Continue reading

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Five Things I Learned Speaking In Madison Today

  I drove the 143 miles to Madison today through light flurries (!) to speak at a luncheon put on by the Madison Advertising Federation.  Perhaps not surprisingly, I discussed convergence and Element 79′s experiences as we, like every other … Continue reading

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