I just spent a lovely weekend on Catalina Island off the Pacific coast near Los Angeles. When I flew home, a miracle happened. My drive from DFW to my house takes 45 minutes in good traffic. This time, at peak Dallas nightmare rush-hour time, it took …. 45 minutes. Did the traffic gods part the
Month: July 2019
The customer journey has become increasingly complex over time, with users often switching back and forth between desktop and mobile and various channels before buying. It is thus fairly challenging for marketers to gain an accurate and complete view of their customers’ paths to purchase. Two great tastes. Google has historically had two separate tools
Podcasts have been around for over a decade, but it’s only within the last few years that the format has begun to capture the attention of the general public. Shows like Serial and This American Life have garnered over 50,000 reviews on Apple Podcasts. The Joe Rogan Experience has more than twice that amount —
Facebook announced Tuesday that it will be removing thousands of outdated and infrequently used interest targets such as old movie and band names and other older cultural references. The vast majority of advertisers won’t notice the removals, said Graham Mudd, VP of product marketing for ads at Facebook, in an interview Monday. The interest targets
I contemplated the theme for this mid-summer article while I was prepping my beach reading list, looking for easy, engaging and entertaining material to replenish my brain while my body rests waterside. This is important work for me as research has proven that we need to take mental-breaks to avoid the pitfalls of over-thinking. Thinking
Third party data is increasingly under threat. As one case-in-point, a bill introduced this week would amend the New York City administrative code to prohibit the transfer or sharing of consumer location data with third parties within city limits. In other words, the party that collects or captures the data could not share it with
The dog days of summer are upon us! There’s an astronomical explanation for the name, but for most of us the “dog days” are a time of year when the kids don’t have school, everyone is piling into the car for road trips and vacations are finally around the corner. In the good (or bad,
A panoramic Casper ad draws curious eyes in the subway car. Free product samples and a sponsored insert find their way into a glossy bag at checkout. And there’s a 3D Heineken wallscape stretched across a block of bars around the corner. It’s a delicate balancing act for brands teetering between the worlds of traditional
Facebook earned $16.6 billion in ad revenue for the second quarter of 2019, a 28% increase year-over-year. Facebook CFO David Wehner said the strongest ad growth on a regional basis belonged to North American and Asia-Pacific, both up 30%. The company’s total revenue for the quarter was 16.9 billion. More than three times what the
In my career, I have had the pleasure of interviewing an incredible variety of people. From CMOs of the biggest brands in the world to world-class athletes to award-winning entertainers and a whole host of folks from many, many other areas of life. However, I had never interviewed a former Navy Seal. So, when the