I found this particular affront (or paean to cornball) on Ad Age, illustrating an article felicitously entitled, "TV NETWORKS MEET ON THOR, NEW EFFORT TO PROVE THEIR ADS WORK."Advertising AgeSections Latest Editor's Picks Most Popular LOG INSea...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
The Yankees of the Bronx.
The temperature dropped about 25 degrees from yesterday to today, from about 70 degrees to 45 degrees. In other words, the weather (now that it is mid-October) is finally seasonable. I remember when I was a kid when the weather started turning chilly around the start of the school year, my old lady bought me and my brother a light nylon windbreaker...
The Battle Begins
A few weeks ago, in a blog post entitled "The Battle Of The Century, " I wrote about the lobbying battle that is brewing over the EU's proposed ePrivacy Regulation.If adopted the ePrivacy Regulation, along with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will make it much harder for online marketers and media in the European Union to collect personal...
Monday, October 16, 2017
Nobody asked me but....baseball playoffs edition.
Nobody asked me but….is my occasional tribute to the great New York sportswriter, and all-around raconteur, Jimmy Cannon, who, when he had nothing to write about on the sporting scene, would pen one of these.Nobody asked me but….…you’re better off not buying your next bottle of wine from a shop called “Grape Expectations.”…you should follow the advice...
Friday, October 13, 2017
Friday rant-day.
It's probably apocryphal, and like so many apocryphal statements it's often attributed to Winston Churchill, that "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.That statement pretty much sums up how I feel about traditional advertising. That it is the worst form of marketing communications except for all the others.As such,...
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Today's "Incomprehensible of the Week."
From an agency that positions itself as a "transformation partner designed to help companies reimagine their business through radical customer-centricity." 96 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...
