I read something this morning which I find to be disturbing. It’s a quote from Michael Roth, the Chairman of Interpublic. I’ll get to the quote in a second but the reason why I find it disturbing is that it reveals a fundamental flaw in the media world. It’s not something that’s new but it has had a negative impact for many years and that impact is only increasing. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Thinking Our Way Into A Depression
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There are dozens of media trade publications and hundreds (thousands?) of blogs writing about the media business. For the past six months, nearly all of them have adopted this “world is coming to an end” mentality that seems to leave little choice for anyone selling online media but to drink heavily and abandon all hope of making your numbers. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, digital media, Helpful Hints, What's Going On
Careful What You Wish For
I’m one of those people who is on the “we have to bail out the auto guys – they’ve screwed the pooch badly but are too big to fail” bandwagon. I’ll save the histrionics about the hundreds of times over the last 30 years, when last you and I bailed out one of the Big 3, these guys made bad decisions for another post. For now I want to focus on a plan these guys have to use the web and social media to plead their case. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, digital media, Reality checks
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