In the past, the Marketing Consigliere has made it known he’s a big fan of BtoB Magazine. And he always takes the time to read emails that he has opted into from that impressive trade publication. This morning he received an email from them that he found rather amusing. The subject line stated “Recession Survival Strategies – Invest in CRM Now“ This was an announcement for a […]
In a Marketing Consigliere blog from last year, it was noted that the integration of eye analytics and ultrasound by companies such as Influence Media make possible the delivery of audio messages to precise spots in a public space, based on eye contact. Another blog from around the same time described the possibility of using video and off-the-shelf technologies to profile automobiles entering a parking lot and target messages via digital […]
We have all heard about the problems facing the advertising world, but fortunately there are those in it that tacitly agree with the Marketing Consigliere about the opportunities derived from net-centric marketing . This is a well-produced video of some of the agency representatives that attended the iMedia Agency Summit last month. Chris Arens of DraftFCB, Sherry Bennett of JWT Boom, Susan MacDermid of Real Branding, and David Shor of WongDoody gave terrific insight into what leading agencies are thinking […]
Prediction 1: Robert Scoble will become marginalized as a new “Twitterer to follow” emerges that is less condescending and opinionated. The Marketing Consigliere actually likes Scoble, has met him twice, but understands that like all “celebrities,” a new one will probably come along that the huddled marketing masses will want to anoint as their new savior. He will never be relegated as the “Lindsay Lohan” of […]
This weekend The Marketing Consigliere spent some time checking out Moviestorm, a British firm with an application that allows you to make your own scripted virtual world videos. It had been a while since he toyed on Second Life, which almost seems passe now (and besides, you can’t get good cannoli there); but this sounded too cool. He was really curious so downloaded the 25Mb installer and […]
The Marketing Consigliere received many emails regarding last week’s blog, “Sounds Like REALLY Targeted Advertising to Me.” Several people, while liking his adaption of the Munch’s The Scream, wanted to know where ultrasound advertising was really being used. He found an example on YouTube – the A&E Channel was promoting it’s Paranormal State show. The picture above is a still of the billboard on the side of a building near Mulberry Street and Mott […]