Madison Avenue To Job Seekers: Only Cigar Smokers Need Apply

The New York Times reports that “The New York City Commission on Human Rights has scheduled hearings on how the advertising industry hires, retains and promotes minority employees, to be held the same week in September that the industry plans to hold its annual Advertising Week event.”… Read the rest

More “Search Is Strategic” Talk

Gavin O’Malley at AdAge writes a nice column about search informing offline marketing strategy and campaigns. Just as I pointed yesterday to Naga Krothapalli’s guest column in iMedia yesterday, it seems people are finally catching on to what I’ve been saying for a long, long time, and, most recently, here in my MediaPost search column:

Marketers big and small have given credence to the short-term, direct-response benefits of paid search and optimization.

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Mining Search Data for Market Intelligence

Naga Krothapalli from iProspect wrote a guest column for iMedia on search-data mining, and it is eerily similar to a MediaPost search column I wrote back in January this year. Are we all nothing more than a bunch of tire kickers, preaching the same old gospel day in and day out?… Read the rest

My Adventures In MySpace…Chapter 8…It’s The Psychographics, Not Reach!

(Photo Credit: Mayo Clinic

You thought the "My Adventures in MySpace" series was over? Not yet. Here’s some rare, intelligent commentary about the true value of MySpace as a business asset — coming directly from a Fox/MySpace exec.Read the rest