Run! The Advertising Sky is Falling!

Run! The Advertising Sky is Falling!

Last week’s post revived a discussion from two years prior.  So it seems we do this again.  A little over two years ago, we addressed a debate over “art vs. science and math” with regard to advertising and once again an alarmist is presenting a failing, emotional argument to fight  a business argument. This week’s Advertising Age ran “The Dangers of Online Advertising’s ‘Math State,’” Kendall Allen of the Laredo Group laments that “Filling […]

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CXOs – Get Marketing On Track! Part II

CXOs – Get Marketing On Track! Part II

No sooner had the Marketing Consigliere posted yesterday’s blog entitled “CXOs – Get Marketing On Track!” did another occurence involving online metrics and web analytics come to his attention. Reporting on the Interactive Advertising Bureau‘s Ecosystem 2.0 Annual Conference, ClickZ writer Zachary Rodgers wrote in “Millard Issues Plea for More Art, Less Science in Online Ads” that Wenda Harris Millard, co-CEO at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, said during her speech about online advertising […]

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