The advertising and public relations industries have to prove their worth. They have to show that what you bought delivered a return on investment (ROI). And the demand to create more accountability for social media increases every single day. Just last month, accountability was the basis for most of the discussion at ad:tech in San […]
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Twitter revenue from in-email advertising
This is complete speculation so bear with me. Very recently, Twitter changed its email alert messages from pithy text-only notices of new followers or direct messages to branded, graphical emails. Well, Twitter has always been in a conundrum: If they monetize the sparse web interface, they’ll alienate their very touchy early adopters and send people […]
Highlights from ad:tech San Francisco 2009
Today, I reported from ad:tech in San Francisco for ad:tech. Ten times a year all around the world, people associated with the online advertising industry convene for ad:tech. Every year the conference rolls into San Francisco, I attend. This year, ad:tech hired me to report on the event for their blog. Just a few years […]
The social media fallacy
One of my pet peeves about the topic of social media is it almost always revolves around “the conversation” and “the tools that enable conversation.” While that is all useful, and it’s the part of social media that excites everyone, I get the sense that people are forgetting that social media is first and foremost […]