We are pleased to welcome Ragini Bhalla as a monthly contributor to The Makegood. Ragini is Director of Content and Communications for Maxymiser, the leading expert in online testing, personalization and cross-channel optimization for some of the world’s largest brands. Look for her column on the second Friday of every month. For those of us… Continue reading »
The online media industry will by now have had time to digest the news that Firefox 22 intends to block 3rd party cookies by default. What this means is that when an ad is served to a website hosted by this version of the browser, the technology that serves the ad will not be able… Continue reading »
Tom Hespos is the chairman and president of Underscore Marketing, an independent media agency that creates and manages digital marketing programs. The Makegood recently spoke with Tom about Social Media, Online Marketing and the changing digital landscape. (Read Part I) The Makegood: On your corporate blog, you write about brands on Facebook. Can you explain the… Continue reading »
Tom Hespos is the chairman and president of Underscore Marketing, an independent media agency that creates and manages digital marketing programs. The Makegood recently spoke with Tom about Social Media, Online Marketing and the changing digital landscape. The Makegood: Tom, you started Underscore Marketing in May 2002, focusing on digital media for clients from all product… Continue reading »
I feel like we’re at an important juncture in digital media. Consolidation is happening all over the place so that a few key players are emerging in ecommerce, in social and in technology.. We’ve witnessed Facebook struggle in 2012 potentially putting a spanner in the works for many upcoming tech companies. The impact of this has signalled a warning sign… Continue reading »
Rob Friedman is the Executive Vice President of Digital Element, a business unit of Digital Envoy, which is a is part of Dominion Enterprises, a leading media and information services company that delivers the de facto standard in IP Intelligence and NetAcuity Localization technology. Rob brings to his role more than 15 years of experience… Continue reading »
I’ve recently been reading an outstanding publication called ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman. The book is about ‘human rationality and irrationality’ and how the brain can often jump to the wrong conclusions. One reason for this cites Kahnenman is ‘because people are prone to apply causal thinking inappropriately, to situations that require statistical… Continue reading »
I’m going to be totally honest and say that I had originally planned to fill this this article with a diatribe about mobile display advertising. I was going to criticize the misleading stat that click through rates are 15 times higher on a mobile, (50% of which occur in error I might add), especially in view of… Continue reading »
When I began my career ten years ago my initial desire was to be in TV (or on TV I hasten to admit). The glamour, wealth and fame factors drove me to apply for an ad operations job at a television sales company. However, the sheen soon wore off and my ambitions were muted when… Continue reading »
