One day in the near future we will reach some sort of a tipping point with everything social. The new-platform frenzy of the last 5-8 years where almost every year we saw the explosion or a new social platform sometimes at the expense of an old one will slowly fade out. I might be wrong [...]
There’s a piece in today’s campaign that asks the question “should social media be handled in-house or outsourced to agencies” which I’ve been interviewed for and as it usually happens with these cases people are looking for conclusive black n’ white answers where there’s none so I just wanted to expand on a very narrow [...]
Similarly to other big interweb hits the old spice shenanigan brought upon us another wave of stupidity or as I called it previously the false causality bias. People using success stories to prove the effectiveness of the channel as if only by ‘doing’ the digital/social you will generate buzz etc. Following the old spice hugely [...]
There’s a lot of plannery chatter on agile planning and how brands should be more reactive, take part of the conversation etc so I won’t add to that. I just want to share a quick timeline observation on the fascinating evolution of brands comms and their responses to the live (social) web. 2008 Tiger walks [...]
I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about life in/with the cloud. That near future where every piece of content (music, video, books etc) will be accessible in real-time, at all locations, on all platforms. Or something like that. Now there’s been some interesting writings about our changing notions of ownership. Increasingly, some predict, people [...]
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the word LIKE? Until very recently, LIKE, for me, was the lukewarm, shy cousin of LOVE. “I like you” was merely a regulator, a milestone on the path to saying “I love you”. Of course it also means to favour something (not [...]
Couple of months ago two clothing/fashion brands wanted you to look at their new collection. And they both doing it in a very interesting way. One was very innovative but complex, the other was no new-news but very simple and slick. I thought it’s be nice to compare their performance, mainly from a social media [...]
Last weekend i decided to switch off. I needed a break from the world of stuff and so exercised my Jewishness and went offline cold turkey for the Sabbath (From Friday eve to Monday morning). Apart from the much needed break and the (leaned) ability to not be (self) distracted one thing I found really [...]
Here is something I never thought I (or anyone else) would ever say… [if you want to skip the words and just join the group] So Constantine films decided to join the hall of fame of media dinosaurs who simply don’t get contemporary culture and brutally savage the wonderful showcase of recombinant culture that are [...]
Earlier today I watched this video on John’s blog and I have to say it made me want to poke my eye with a new-media fork (You know I’m your #1 fan John, right? and the content of the post is great as usual…). The last advertising agency on earth my ass. Sorry ya’ all [...]