Year: 2013

  • Desperation driving ad creativity

    How do you address the clear trend of people not paying attention to your ad during the commercial breaks on TV? They’re either not watching at all during the breaks, or fast-forwarding through the ads if their programme is recorded;…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #696: March 25, 2013

    Intro: FIR Interview with Steve Rubel set for this week, still time for your 10% discount for this week’s Social Media Measurement & Monitoring conference in London, Neville on panel discussion with Marketing Profs’ Ann Handley on March 27 and…

  • The dawn of the valuable-ad era

    Here are two ideas about advertising – online and offline – that could catch on in a big way and ‘evolutionize’ entire industries. Social news and entertainment site Reddit plans to let users vote on the ads they see when…

  • Easy content-sharing to your Kindle

    Some years ago, Amazon made my blog available as a subscription option for Kindle users. It would cost you 99 pence a month; in return, you’d get all my content delivered to your Kindle device (or Kindle app on your…

  • The future can be rosy for advertising and mobile

    I must have walked past Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London’s Soho scores of times over the past decades, yet I’ve never enjoyed the moments of being inside. Until last Wednesday. On March 20, the iconic venue was the place…