• ONLINE SPIN
    Thank You, Greg
    November 2001: The dot-com bubble had burst. We were an industry adrift. We needed focus. We needed a leader. Enter Greg Stuart.
  • ONLINE SPIN
    Don't Overlook Site Optimization In Online DR
    Site optimization gets overlooked because most agencies aren't allowed access to site-side data, and therefore they focus on bringing qualified people to their clients' sites. However, optimizing the destination to provide the most immediate path to conversion is the most effective element of your campaign.
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    Getting To 'The New Big'
    We're all being expected to act like a mom and pop store, even if we're an international conglomerate. One of the ways in which we're becoming smaller is by delivering on the expectation that we'll communicate directly with the market through online channels....
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    Do You Really Wanna Know Who's Searching?
    Well, I'm fired up today. Why, you ask? Did you hear how AOL publicly released search data of 658,000 customers without their permission? It gets worse: most of the search queries represent the filth that lives online.
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    Are Advertisers Suffering From Addiction?
    Advertisers' unstoppable march to claim every bit of blank space as a commercial vehicle makes me wonder about the bigger picture: Are advertisers suffering from addiction? Thanks to media fragmentation, media-device proliferation and an erosion of trust in institutional messages, the effectiveness of paid media and intrusive messaging is imploding. So what do many advertisers do? They keep buying more and more just to achieve prior levels of impact. In other words, they're hooked.
  • ONLINE SPIN
    Hold the Arrogance, Please
    The online ad industry is booming. Revenues are way up, and good feelings are flowing.We've seen this movie before... in 1999. It's great being the belle of the ball, but we should take to heart some lessons from the last time around.
  • ONLINE SPIN
    The Roles And Responsibilities For Media 3.0
    Since the model for general media planning is going to see a continued shift in the coming years, I thought I'd take a moment to explain where I think it might be headed.
  • ONLINE SPIN
    Let's Expand Our Rich-Media Horizons
    Pigeonholed. That's how I'd describe prevailing attitudes toward rich-media creative at a lot of the agencies and publishing companies I've been speaking to recently.
  • ONLINE SPIN
    Personalization Run Amuck
    On vacation in Nantucket, Seana, "like a social anthropologist meets media strategist," observes teens and tweens and finds that texting and ringtones rule.
  • ONLINE SPIN
    Media Specialists Must Grasp Consumer-Generated Media
    As advertising dollars continue to bum-rush the Internet, many media specialists contend that blogs, discussion groups and other forms of consumer-generated media represent easy, additional inventory to grow and satisfy demand. Indeed, several of the biggest media companies--like Yahoo, MSN, News Corp., IAC and others--are placing big bets on the promise of consumer-generated media as ad vehicles. CGM has arrived as a center of gravity, and advertising is following. But I fear that too many advertising and media specialists are jumping in head-first with little appreciation or respect for this new world, which is fundamentally different. Unlike most …
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