Category: media
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Post of the Month – December 2014 – Nominations
It's time to nominate your favourite posts from December 2014 (if you can think back that far) for the Post of the Month vote. I have a couple of nominations already but please do add to them and once I have a good list I'll stick them up for a vote. As usual, I have…
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On the Renaissance of Email Newsletters
The email newsletter seems to be undergoing something of a continuing renaissance. Quite a number of the smartest people I know now do their own update, and the list of insightful newsletters that now arrive my inbox keeps on growing. Since I first wrote about the Rebirth of the Newsletter, there's a number of others…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: It's not out just yet but Adam Morgan's (of EatBigFish) new book 'A Beautiful Constraint' ('An inspiring yet practical guide for transforming limitations into opportunities') looks well worth pre-ordering. I saw Adam speak at the APG Big Thinking conference recently and he was excellent Gosh. Bots now outnumber humans…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: Some starkly alarming stats on digital display and bot fraud from an ANA report that found that up to 50% of publisher traffic is bot activity, 11% of online ad views and 23% of video ads are from automated cumputer programmes. Google also revealed that around 56% of digital ads…
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Google Firestarters NYC – The New Operating System for Agencies
Last Wednesday Ben Malbon and I hosted the first ever Google Firestarters in the US. We took as our theme ‘The New Operating System for Agencies’, a subject that had elicited much debate when we ran it in the UK and one that Mel Exon (who spoke at that event) called at the time ‘a hairy,…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: "Seven years into the smartphone world, it seems like it’s time to change the questions". A lengthy, good post from one of the smartest analysts on mobile Ben Evans. Also worth checking out this challenging post on disruption,…
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Post of the Month – November 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: There's No Such Thing as a Bad Client from Richard Huntingdon A Survival Guide for New CMOs by Jeff Goodby What Makes a Strategist by James Caig What do you Use for Fuel? from Dave Trott The Disease of Being Busy by Omid Safi And you can vote…
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Post of the Month – November 2014 – Nominations
It's Post of the Month time, which means time for me to ask for any nominations for good posts that you've read over the past month. As usual I have a starting list below but please do add to these by letting me have a link to any nominated post. So my starting four are:…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by the brand new Fraggl: I really liked Flic - the wireless smart button (above). It's currently busting through it's funding target on Indiegogo. Meanwhile over on Kickstarter: Hashkey is the dedicated one key keyboard for the hashtag Fantastically useful – an excellent series of free Stanford lectures on 'How to Start a Startup' A smart…
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Google Firestarters Comes to New York
I'm really excited to announce that Google Firestarters is coming to America. We've been running Firestarters events for over three years in the UK, bringing planners, strategists and the inquisitive, restless and disruptive minds of advertising and media together to discuss and debate the most interesting and challenging issues facing our industry. Over that time they've…