November 19, 2005
SOLD OUT: Come back in 18 month's time
This morning's Wall Street Journal wrote up (subscription required) on the burgeoning Web platform and the conundrum facing pretty much any mainstream marketer with money to spare and the premium web publishers (portals) with limited inventory. My thoughts are two-fold: 1. According to the article, MSN is charging up... [MORE]
November 16, 2005
Demand For Ad Inventory Outstrips Supply At Major Portals (sub. req.)
: Nothing new about this in one sense ... ad inventory has been at a premium for months and is among the top drivers of the push for more video with its 15-second broadband bookends and the move to ad-supported video for sites like CNN. Still, when OMD Digital's... [MORE]
November 13, 2005
Clemson Fan's Pass Is On The Money
ABC News: Before Saturday, Chris Bostic was a $10-an-hour landscaper whose favorite football memories were running for touchdowns in Pee Wee football. But after his perfect 25-yard spiral made it though the tiny hole in a promotional contest, the Army veteran has a new favorite memory and is South... [MORE]
November 08, 2005
Wake me up when NBC and CBS do something really interesting
Sorry folks, but it was a tad underwhelming to read about CBS and NBC’s moves into video-on-demand, which—like ABC’s deal with Apple—allow consumers to buy a limited number of the networks’ series for later viewing. Was it that ABC, as...... [MORE]
November 05, 2005
How I learned to stop worrying and love Dan Lyon's blogosmear in Forbes
Xeni Jardin: Snip from "Forbes Fumbles the Blogosphere: Does an Attack on Bloggers Signal the Dawn of Blogosphere-Dominant Media?," an ABC News commentary by Michael Malone (who used to run Forbes' technology magazine, Forbes ASAP): Let me make a prediction. Five years from now, the blogosphere will have developed... [MORE]
