Ubiquitous Marketing

Maybe competition is what is huring traditional publishers? This is kind of funny - via WE’s Frank Shaw: The New York Times serving WSJ ads.
Quasi-related - I got an e-mail from one of PRWeek’s competitors, asking if our publication was interested in sharing content. I think it was a mistake on their part (to send), [...]

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CrotchetyMan-in-Chief Jack Shafer e-filed an interesting column on the search for the next New York Times ombudsman.
In fact, he offered up inspired choices: publishing upstarts like Josuah Micah Marshall and Elizabeth Spiers. It’s an interesting way to go (and all candidates seem worthwhile), but I think it demonstrates that “gotta interest the kids” mentality that, [...]

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Apologies for spiraling into one of those prolonged absences. Thank the world for RSS readers, right? Because you guys haven’t left me, have you? Hello?
Anyway, I found this turf war on my computer to be hilarious. Here’s what happens when you try to install Yahoo widgets to a computer well accustomed to Google products.

Enjoy the [...]

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Geico caveman ad campaign (which, virtually everyone loves), is being turned into a sitcom. Of course.
AdRants gets in a pretty good line.
Product placement is for losers. Getting your ad campaign turned into a TV show is the new new thing. Just think. Now, we can expect TV shows about a fast food worker who dreams [...]

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you might appreciate this.
While I’m sending you to other sites I write for, you might want to check this out.

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I urge you to check out Target Green, a PRWeek blog dedicated to our conference on green matter. Conference details here.
I really wish I hadn’t taken to blogging. Otherwise I wouldn’t obsess about making that blog better (I’m obsessing about making that blog better - tell me how to!) in the six seconds of free [...]

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