Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts

Monday, 14 June 2010

This Marketing Crisis is an Opportunity to Call...

...Advertising to Account!

 


This Marketing Crisis is an Opportunity to Call Advertising to Account


By Paul Ashby


           


 


Are we at all surprised that
the current advertising crisis has come this far? Let's be honest: the warning voices have been around for a long time, the fact that these warnings were consistently ignored has now brought about the near collapse of the system.


 


We live in a schizophrenic world and we will be held accountable for our sins. The reasons why the writing on the wall was ignored has to do with the denying of inconvenient truths and also because nobody

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Saturday, 26 May 2007

Understanding why we shouldn't be advertising on the Web!

The Internet is part of a revolution that is causing business a lot of headaches. With its networked communities, based on trust and candour together with a huge contempt for corporate smugness.

Initially marketing ignored the net, then they had an awakening, and are now rushing headlong onto the Web thinking that this is the New Medium.

As a result Corporations, ably aided by their minions, the Advertising Agencies, are treating the Internet as a source of a mass market – which it isn't!

We must never forget that Mass Media existed to serve the marketing needs of Corporations – the Net was never created for that purpose.

Sadly however, marketing and advertising executives regard us as fools! For years they have become used to preparing ads, and sponsoring programmes that fit all their pie charts.

But their simplistic formulae's will not replicate on the Web, how do you, after all, sell advertising to billions of sources each with a handful of viewers?

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