STEVE SMITH
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  • Wagging Our Own Long Tail
    After broaching the long tail theme last week, the off-deck mobile conte ...
  • 'I Am Going After TV Budgets'
    Rhythm New Media CEO Ujjal Kohli was in a bold mood wh ...
  • Scoring The Lead
    Understanding the likelihood that an incoming customer will convert, or even ...
  • Nice Head Kill, Sweetie
    My otherwise sweet 15-year-old daughter is an accomplished assassin -- and h ...
  • Calling Up The Long Tail
    Anyone trying to stay current with pop culture tastes should take ...
  • I'll Take My Profile To Go
    The thing about a "personal profile" is that it generally isn't ve ...
  • CTIA: The Home Game
    Call me jaded, but I have an aversion to CTIA. I we ...
  • Looking For Scale
    The mobile industry seems to be responding to recent criticism that, ...
  • Less Is Enough
    How many behavioral segments can most publishers really service with any reasonab ...
  • This SMS is Brought To You By...
    One of the core lessons of mobile marketing is how, in t ...
  • Sprint Ahead... To Mass Media
    After losing subscribers and its CEO, Sprint has decided to take i ...
  • Getting Into The Conversation
    Marketers continue to seek ways of scraping and mining the most comm ...
  • Catching Up On My Reading
    After my last column on Amazon's new music download store, several reade ...
  • Amazon Raises The Bar For Apple
    Apple is one company that is not used to being left behin ...
  • Who Do You Trust?
    Sometimes we take a detour from the usual cast of characters ...
  • Hot Or Not: The Sampling Engine
    Regular readers of these columns know that I manage to embarrass ...
  • Make My World Clickable
    I don't venture out into nature all that much, because I fi ...
  • Mobile's Interesting Mix
    Here in the U.S., most of the discussion of behavioral targeting in ...
  • Who Is Driving The Growth Bus?
    The predictions of mobile marketing growth often lack a clear rationale fr ...
  • Carriers Are Finally Getting WAPPED
    In yet another sign that media, not carriers, are driving the b ...
  • We Don't Need No Steenken' Carriers
    I am getting the distinct feeling that the mobile carriers may ha ...
  • Another Shoe Drops: Acxiom Buys EchoTarget
    Another week, another acquisition. Longtime direct mail marketer Acxiom purchased re-targeting a ...
  • Testing, One, Two, Google - Testing, One, Two Google
    Digital news outlets were awash in headlines and warmed-over press releases regardi ...
  • G-Phone, Hell! Where Is My Mario Phone?
    As the clock ticked past 1:30 am the other night and ...
  • The Next Differentiators: Transparency and Quality?
    "If anyone should be bored with the ad network business, it shou ...
  • Shopping: The Mobile Game
    I confess that there are many times when I do not fe ...
  • That Midget Bastard Is Pretty Smart
    Video search is not an easy trick. Every time I dip in ...
  • Email's Billboard Effect
    When you start linking user behaviors across channels, you stop speculating abo ...
  • An Open Question...
    hat the hell is mobile search anyway? I ask this after spendi ...
  • This Conversations Is Brought To You By...
    According to some recent stats, there are over 20 billion SMS messag ...