Marketing

The Alphabet Moneymaking Machine Grows Despite All Challenges

Alphabet is beset on all sides. Antitrust suits across the world portend potential major breakups of the business. Google’s collecting nine and 10-digit fines like they’re going out of style. Its iron grip on the global search market might be loosening at last. All of which is to say, Alphabet’s earnings are absolutely unaffected. The […]

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Why Celebrities and the Super Bowl Aren’t Likely to Part Ways

There was a time when most Super Bowl commercials didn’t feature a celebrity. No Serena Williams. No Payton Manning. No Martha Stewart. In 2010, only about one-third of Big Game spots included a well-known actor, athlete, or musician, according to television analytics firm iSpot.tv. This changed in 2018, when famous faces appeared in the majority…

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Goodbye, Outcomes Era: Why Quality Will Define The Industry’s Future

An industry narrative is emerging that has the potential to exacerbate the structural flaws in digital advertising rather than usher us into a new paradigm. Some of our industry’s sharpest minds are claiming that we are entering the Outcomes Era.  Instead, I posit that we have been in the Outcomes Era for over a decade.

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