The Next Big Media Battle:
Publishers vs. Ad Agencies

The media business has been in chaos for a decade, and there’s more coming. The next big media revolution will be an escalating and increasingly bitter competition between the content creators–especially newspaper and magazine publishers–and their former friends, the traditional …

A Story about the Future of Advertising

The latest news from the upper-echelons of marketing and advertising is that storytelling is the path to advertising’s future. There’s still a lot of what can be called “TV thinking” hanging on stubbornly, but no one any longer denies the …

HP, Racism and Failing to Face the Music

HP’s social media strategist, Tony “Frosty” Welch, aka @frostola on Twitter, has been getting mostly high marks for his handling of a YouTube video that dramatizes how HP’s facial recognition software tracks white faces a whole lot better than black faces. We’re not …