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  • The Ultimate Cryptocurrency in Digital News Daily on 09/06/2017

    Maybe you weren't early to bitcoin. Maybe you missed the boat on ethereum. But you still want to get rich, right? Announcing the next big cryptocurrency opportunity: LyfeCorp. Get in on our forthcoming Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Because, this is the ultimate currency-and therefore will be the most valuable coin you can possibly master. The secret to determining the value of anything in the universe, including cryptocurrencies, follows here.

  • Let's Talk About That Vox Media Super Bowl Ad in Online Spin on 01/22/2015

    Sometimes I see a stunt and think, "Wow, I wish we'd thought of that one first." Case in point: Vox Media's PR coup in revealing it would be running a "Super Bowl advertisement" for its news property, The Verge.

  • Six Things You Won't Believe Happened At CES. #5 Is EVERYTHING!  in Online Spin on 01/08/2015

    Okay, great -- you clicked or opened the article. You can leave now. The ad impression was counted. You staying and reading the rest of this post doesn't earn its publisher any more ad revenue. In fact, it would be better if you left and clicked on something else, so you could generate another impression. Seriously, what are you still doing here? Joking aside, if you are actually still reading, the above is the problem we face when we set the lowest possible standards for "impressions" of both display and video.

  • These Are Not The 2015 Predictions You Are Looking For in Online Spin on 12/11/2014

    2015 will be the year of mobile! Wait, people have said that about every other year? How many years have we been saying that one now -- five? Six? Sigh.

  • Is Jason Hirschhorn Building The New 'Bundle'? in Online Spin on 11/13/2014

    At a Paley Center for Media event this week, I listened to CNN anchor Brian Stelter probe Jason Hirschhorn on why he started MediaREDEF-- the daily media roundup that is fast becoming indispensable to people in our industry -- and where he was taking it next. I began to wonder if I was listening to the answer to a question that I wonder about quite a bit: "What will the new bundle be?"

  • Here's A Nice, Scary Halloween Story For The Ad Industry in Online Spin on 10/29/2014

    There are a lot of scary things in the ad industry that I could turn into a corny Halloween gimmick. Like that ad blockers are the most popular browser extensions by a mile, and a million new ones are installed every week. Or that ad fraud is so prevalent in the industry that there's a good chance you're basically sending a cut of your ad dollars to organized criminals. Real organized criminals, not fake ones from a show you can binge-watch on Netflix.

  • Nope, Sorry, You Should Still Shut Up And Love the Cable Bundle  in Online Spin on 10/16/2014

    Everyone seems to be cheering yesterday's announcement by HBO CEO Richard Plepler that, starting next year, its content will be available as a standalone over-the-top streaming service. Boom! No cable or satellite subscription needed for "Game of Thrones" anymore! And now CBS is launching its own over-the-top streaming service, with live streams from a dozen markets plus a backlog of current and "classic" content. For a lot of TV junkies who have been itching to ditch their cable bundles, this is like Christmas morning. Hard truth for you: That big, bad bundle that everyone loves to hate is what makes great content possible.

  • The Redefinition Of Television Is Leaving Advertising Behind in Online Spin on 10/02/2014

    There's a lot of talk about redefining what is considered to be "TV" in this fast-changing media landscape. That brings up an important issue: If we're redefining what television is at every turn, still, from what I can tell, the industry isn't rushing to redefine the advertising that supports TV-quality content. As TV evolves, sticking traditional commercials on digital platforms is just going to look more dissonant than ever.

  • Attention: Nothing Else Matters in Online Spin on 09/18/2014

    There is a limited amount of human attention in the world. Every day the same amount of attention is created (number of people multiplied by number of conscious hours). Everything meaningful in life requires attention. Laughing, crying, learning. Everything. And we humans consider our attention precious, because we know we have a finite amount of it. Yet somehow the advertising industry developed the notion that it either A) does not need people's attention, or B) can simply create more attention. Both assumptions are obviously ridiculous, but in order to keep passing money around, the industry seems to have just taken the ostrich-head-in-sand approach to the obvious absurdity.

  • What's With The Pushback Against Viewability? in Online Spin on 09/05/2014

    I wouldn't have thought there would be much controversy over the push to make ads viewable. We should want people -- real people, and the people relevant to the message -- to see ads. Right? Apparently not, according to an article in The Information this week (it's behind their paywall, but I highly recommend subscribing for some of the best analysis of the tech industry out there). The piece by Tom Dotan, "Controversy Rages Over How to Combat Phantom Ads," points out that many people in the ad industry are concerned that the MRC's new-ish guidelines on what constitutes "viewability" aren't realistic.

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