Art of the Super Bowl Ad: Father of Super Bowl Spots
From Ad Age Magazine, watch this video on the Father of Super Bowl spots. What you hear might amaze you. Click here. […]
Do You Know What Happens To The Listenership of Your Ad When Commercials Come On?
In an alarming but somewhat expected study about what happens to the listenership of your commercial in a commercial break, you can see for yourself when you click here to read the article. With a loss of audience around 15% in some cases, you should be paying 15% less if the audience is 15% less. Hold […]
Why You DON’T Want Your Ad Vendor to Design Your Creative
Assuming you have high frequency (the average number of times that your prospect will be exposed to an ad), almost any properly-targeted media will perform if the creative (the message) is compelling with intrusiveness, is viewed as a spectacular offer with “real” logic to make people believe your offer, and has a time limit (urgency) […]
Nielsen: Time And Place-Shifting Accelerate, Digital Options Boosting TV Viewing
If you’ve ever wondered about how DVR’s and other electronic devices affect the LIVE viewing of TV events, Media Post News has an excellent article. Click here. […]
The Rewards and Pitfalls of Global Social-Media Campaigns
Social media is a key part of any marketing campaign these days, but a major challenge with the channel is achieving wide reach while still crafting appropriate messaging by region or country, executives speaking at Advertising Week said. Good article and also introduces you to social media measurement services. Click here to read the article […]
Reebok Agrees to $25M Settlement Over Butt-Shaping Shoes
Be very sure your advertising claims do not run afoul of the Federal Trade Commission and other government watchdog agencies. Click here to read an article about Reebok’s $25 million settlement from Advertising Age magazine. […]
Posting to Facebook: The Truth About Third-Party Applications
If you are using social media and posting using “blast” programs to automatically post to multiple platforms, here is a good article from Michael Lazerow. Click here. […]
The Danger of Self-Reference Criterion
One of the biggest problems in all marketing campaigns is failing to get ourselves OUT of the way and allowing our opinions to unduly influence our thought processes. Projecting One’s Own Opinion and Experience Can Be a Very Costly Mistake In the marketing arena, self-reference criterion is using one’s own opinion and experiences to project […]
The 10 Best Ads to Come out of Steve Jobs’ Reign at Apple
You will undoubtedly remember some of the leading-edge Apple ads that have run on TV over the years. You may not have the budgets that Apple has, but if any of these commercials inspire you, you may be able to produce a real winner for your business. Click here to see what real creativity is all […]
How to AVOID paying rate increases
Here are 5 things you can do to eliminate the continual barrage of rate increases for your media. 1. Add up the total dollars you have spent with a particular vendor over the past 5 years, and remind them how much money you have spent. If that amount of money is not worth a no-rate-increase […]