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There’s a discrepancy, it seems, between the amount of time marketers spend talking and blogging about digital marketing and their likelihood to actually execute digital marketing efforts. From the volume of articles written, conferences attended, and twitter chats participated in, one would assume that all marketers and the brands they represent are completely digitally savvyRead more

Josh Ostrovsky, otherwise known as “The Fat Jew” is quite a big deal these days (pun intended). Ostrovsky has amassed a large social media audience, predominately on Instagram (5.5 million followers) and Twitter (251,000 followers), through which he shares his humorous take on life. Often, these viewpoints are profanity-laced, lewd, and/or off-color comments and images,Read more

We’ve all heard the analogy of social media acting like a megaphone, digitally amplifying your voice to a large crowd. While this is technically correct, amplification  no longer the end-goal of social media marketing.  Well, at least it shouldn’t be. When we were first introduced to “Web 2.0,” marketers were excited about the fact thatRead more

Social media was heralded as the greatest thing to happen to brand marketing since, well, since ever. Consumer-generated advocacy and publicity, direct conversations with customers and advocates, and free advertising through YouTube and other social networking sites were supposed to turn garage-based businesses into mega-conglomerates and save businesses tens of thousands in marketing costs. Yeah,Read more

This is not a Super Bowl commercial post; it will not rank the best/worst commercials. I made a promise to myself that I would never write another one of those; God knows there are way too many already being published. However, this post, on the day after the 2015 Super Bowl, is certainly inspired byRead more

We’re often amazed at the number of trade shows and industry conferences that occur across the country every day, and the number of new conferences that seem to pop up monthly. It seems there are more events than potential customers. The sheer volume of available events makes it that much more difficult for businesses toRead more

The landscape in which businesses operate has changed dramatically in modern times, yet the roles of marketing executives and departments have been slow to change. According to consulting firm Deloitte, the influence and agenda of marketing executives have expanded, yet their organizational context has not fully caught up — they often have only indirect inputRead more

It’s almost time to reveal the secret location and videos of the hinted-at debauchery of Bud Light’s Party City!   BBDO’s campaign, called “Up for Whatever”, has been promising Millennials the opportunity to be invited to the party of the year on Labour Day weekend at a yet-to-be revealed Bud Light town called “Whatever USA.” AlongRead more

This time last year, marketing strategists and bloggers declared 2013 the “year of real-time marketing.” These marketers felt vindicated when Oreo famously reassured everyone that we could still “dunk in the dark” when the lights when out in the stadium during Super Bowl ’13. The reaction to the real-time social media campaign received an extraordinaryRead more

The cost of a Super Bowl commercial, while remaining flat at a rate of $4 million in 2014, has increased by an average of 10% per year since the first Super Bowl was aired ($45,000 for 30 seconds), according to SportingCharts.com. Clearly, there’s no shortage of interest in this event by the public or advertisers.Read more