I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving feasts. apparently, a lot of folks ate and ran for their cars – not to get home before Aunt Sally passed out but to the stores to get a head start on their shopping for the next holidays. I was really surprised about how the Thanksgiving Day newspaper had several pounds worth of ads, in many cases for sales that would be over before many of us were getting out of bed on Friday.
One mistake anyone commenting on things can make is to assume that the way in which we see the world is the norm, and so while I’d never ponder running to a store to try to be one of the lucky 10 people who actually can get the $2 waffle iron (hopefully without a dose of pepper spray as occurred in some places), I know others do. But while retail sales were up vs. a year ago, comScore reported something interesting occurring over the weekend. Continue reading
Burp Then Buy!
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Ephemeral
All the prep work for tomorrow’s holiday is in full swing here at Rancho Deluxe. The turkey stock is made (no pan drippings when you fry them, bubba), shopping is done, silver is polished, and we figured out that we can use an old set of Colorforms shapes as stickers on wine glasses to identify everyone’s drinks without spending a fortune on those cute little charms. It’s a lot of work that the Mrs. and I do each year and we’re happy to do so. Having the 25 or so family members and friends around the table (more like around the room) for dinner is a highlight of the year. Which of course got me thinking about a business point. Continue reading
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TV Is Only Half Of It
A little research to start the week. A new study came out from Burst Media last week. It was about how people view and interact with online video. Not very much surprising in it – 71.6% of web users overall watch online content in a typical week—and 39.0% of all viewers spend between one and five hours per week with online video. Men aged 18-34 are the heaviest consumers of online video content, with 19.7% saying they consume 10 or more hours of video on the web per week. Not much of a shock – almost every content company with which I work has a focus on video and I suppose it’s sort of chicken and egg – there’s more content offered in the form of video so the usages rises and because the demand goes up, content providers produce more.
There was also a nugget that made me pause. Continue reading
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