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“BS” Brief

  Strategy Briefs are fascinating! Defining a target consumer for a particular brand is so nuanced and contextual that you can’t help but be impressed by the process. Furthermore, if planners can accurately aim a brands’ message to the specific media...

Media Map

  Here’s the 101 for today’s Media/Marketing Landscape (any babbling CMO is just riffing on any number of iterations on this stuff): It’s not easy to make quick comparisons between the huge volume and variety of Media today. Every marketer should do a strategic...

Selfie’s That Spread your Word

  I have no idea how this works, nor do I care. I borderline thought it might have been someone pulling my chain …but alas, there is no animal too exotic that can’t be found in the thick of today’s Media Jungle. Never mind the privacy red flags galore...

Pokémon Nooo!

  The explosion onto the scene of Pokémon Go has prompted all the tech bloggers to hyperventilate about augmented reality. Naturally, it has serious implications.. the heaviest of which not even the most visionary “futurist” can predict. It will be to our senses...

DamWEB

  I understand that you gotta create excitement and have some passion and energy behind your product. But when all you have is simply A Centralized Server Where All Marketing Material Is Stored And Shared   ..    this pitch sets a new bar for ‘Sell me this...

A message for Silicon Valley

The decade long blitz on Madison Ave is a flop. Sorry. Google and FB are the only winners. You’ll never catch them. Fine, if you want to innovate, and co-create and elaborate on old paradigms. But give up the self-righteousness  The world is changing due to...

Dark Matter

    Our universe has confounded scientists. Technically everything in it should have long ago dissipated after the Big Bang into nothing, like any other explosion. Instead, the planets in the solar system, the stars in the Milky Way and the local Super...

I, Bot

    According to Forensiq, just one average bot-net can produce 1 billion fraudulent ad impressions a day. No one knows how many average bot-nets there are… Or above-average ones. According to the Association of National Advertisers, $6.3 billion of...

Hark! There is New Lingo!!

  The current jargon spoken in Marketing today is so passe’ don’t you think?! I say it’s high time we adopt something different. Like, how cool would it be to speak in the spirit of Shakespeare? Take this partner brief for a new Rewards Program...

S.E.Oh My Head Hurts

  Does your site have crawling issues due to poor URL structure? Are your descriptive meta tags not that descriptive? Is your unique title tag not unique enough? Are you an inept moron? Are your predictions being based on stale cookies? Is your software...