TechCrunch underscored how Google’s latest search-story television commercial “makes having a baby seem really depressing” — thanks to all the obvious and hidden costs. True, having a baby is a life-changing event, and  it for forces you to buy all kinds of crap and choose all kinds of very expensive services, like hospital and prenatal care.… Read the rest
Tag Archives: Advertising
Inside the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance
Many of you (readers of my blog) work in the marketing and media business and are familiar with the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance. For those of you who aren’t, Yahoo! and Microsoft Search created the Alliance to become a more meaningful competitor in search advertising to Google, the world’s most highly valued media company.… Read the rest
Search Marketers Poised To Dominate Exploding Growth Of Social Media Advertising
There probably isn’t a single advertising or marketing communications agency today that hasn’t checked the box on “social media marketing.” Can you think of one that hasn’t? No? Didn’t think so.
With so many agency disciplines and the absence of meaningful advertising platforms on the social networks, most agencies have been building social-media marketing (SMM) capabilities around “earned media” tactics.… Read the rest
Social And Search Advertising
I thought I’d share with you details of a fun project we’ve been working on at our startup, Clickable. Actually, it’s more than fun, it’s the beginning of a new chapter for us. Today we announced our partnership and integration with Facebook, resulting in the first live advertising solution to integrate both search and social advertising. … Read the rest
Here Come The Wiggles (Again)
My “new marketing” friend Joseph Jaffe just posted a video monologue dedicated to the progressive marketing philosophies of The Wiggles, the Australian rock band for pre-schoolers. Joseph and I definitely see eye to eye.
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