Every summer has its own story. And what a summer it’s been for traditional media companies and platforms to come up with new ways to interrupt the consumer, even though everyone in the industry knows that interruptive advertising is dead. Here’s what Fox and YouTube executives cooked up over the summer barbecues: The Six Second Ad! Cue
Ground Control to Major Tom. We have a major problem. It seems that Marketers, Agencies, and Platforms are only thinking about themselves. They haven’t learned that consumers now control when, where, and how they interact with brands. Brands no longer control the medium, the message, or the consumer. Even the data that marketers love so
Like it or not, we live in a world with so many screens, yet so little time. The amount of messages we receive from work, friends and family can feel overwhelming at times. On top of that, we’re bombarded with messages from brands every day. It’s estimated that we we see 300-700 marketing messages per
No one can argue that the way brands and consumers connect with each other has been flipped on its head. Here’s the cold hard fact: consumers are now in control of when, where and how they interact with brands. It’s a hard reality for many brand and marketing executives to admit. In a multi-screen world filled