After giving a keynote presentation a few weeks back, I had the chance to sit down with a marketer from a fairly large logistics company. This meeting was about how this marketer could target their audience more effectively with a content marketing approach. We ran through all the activities they were currently using to communicate […]
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On episode #227 of PNR’s This Old Marketing, Joe and Robert dissect the best and worst super bowl ads of 2020. In other news, the creation of less content is actually a winning strategy of successful online publishers, while Warren Buffett leaves the newspaper media industry…or does he? There were a slew of M&A
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So, another Super Bowl is here. For those advertising during the Super Bowl, the average 30 second spot will cost approximately $5.25 million dollars to reach over 100 million viewers worldwide. For those counting, that’s $175,000 per second. What if, instead of buying that $5 million dollar ad spot (which doesn’t include the cost of
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In episode 226 of #ThisOldMarketing, Joe and Robert dissect an intriguing report by the World Economic Forum on the future of jobs. In it, the WEF predict that sales, marketing and content jobs will be among the most plentiful. In other news, the death of the cookie (as declared by Google) is big news
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Every few years I re-read Disney War by James Stewart (it’s one of my all-time favorites) about the rise and fall of Disney. The majority of the book focuses on the Michael Eisner years, just after Eisner became CEO of Disney in 1984. Like him or not, he brought about a much-needed change in culture
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In episode #225 (the Happy New Year episode) of #ThisOldMarketing, Joe and Robert look at the advertising industry, and whether a “move” away from smartphone usage will hurt digital ads (uh, not really). Facebook says it will ban artificial intelligence “deepfakes,” but will it make a difference since Facebook isn’t changing its policy on
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I’ve had a chance over the past few weeks to talk to many people about their plans for 2020. In most cases, people are feeling overwhelmed in a chaotic world. They are having a hard time grasping meaning with so much going on around them. Do you feel this way? I know I do sometimes.
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