Why I still believe in Mass media

… and why “new media” is just old media on a computer.

My last post looked at describing what makes small brands small and big brands big- as a means of helping new General Managers understand how to grow their businesses. We also discussed what factors need to be considered in growing a brand.

Here we’ll take a closer look at another myth smashed by Byron Sharp’s work at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, we’ll explore brands’ customer bases and which—if any—buyers they should be targeting using what type of media.… Read more

Online media habits are changing, diverging

To start 2015 I’ll focus on online media for a while to enable both managers and Boards to better understand how-mid-decade- advertising is changing.

This change is led by technology- both hardware and software- and both brand owners and agencies are struggling to keep up. And while there are a few brands and agencies surfing the wave of new media habits, the vast majority of us languish in traditional-media unaware of how fast things are changing.… Read more