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Linden Griffith, Innovator and Survivor, Helps Teens Tame Anxiety
In my first-ever podcast episode, I speak to Linden Griffith, a life coach who helps girls and women tame anxiety and find their best selves. In so doing, she presents a viable alternative to psychological or psychiatric care, one that is centered on our strengths, not our flaws. Linden knows… Listen ⇢
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How to Use Audience Data Like Today’s Masters of TV Advertising
It’s a lot more complicated to be a marketer today than it was 25 years ago. Not surprisingly, I occasionally encounter marketers who feel dizzy at times by the overwhelming amount of tactical choices they have available. My reminder to them goes something like this: sometimes, the best way to… Listen ⇢
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My Interview with Radha Subramanyam, Chief Analytics and Research Officer of CBS
In the earlier stages of my career, I like to tell people that I literally played games for a living. That was just one of my responsibilities as a marketer in the video game industry, though. I also budgeted for and planned TV advertising campaigns. On more than one occasion,… Listen ⇢
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In-House Or Agency?
When it comes to whether a brand should hire an agency or bring the work in-house, ask yourself this: is the activity in question revenue generating? Listen ⇢
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The Future of TV Ad Planning: Audience or Index-Based?
For decades, advertisers have relied on an index-based approach to determine audience concentration. This way, they can size up who’s consuming what content and figure out if it makes sense to advertise there. No one uses this method more than TV advertising planners. An index worked pretty effectively when we… Listen ⇢
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[Webinar] How Legacy Brands Can Compete in a Direct-To-Consumer Economy – My Conversation With LUMA Partners CEO Terry Kawaja
Last week, I hosted an ANA webinar with LUMA Partners CEO and Founder Terry Kawaja to talk about the rise of the direct brand economy and what traditional advertisers can do to compete. Many of you may know LUMA Partners for its LUMAscapes visualizations of various ecosystems – here’s the… Listen ⇢
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How Direct-to-Consumer Brands Succeed — and Why It’s Not Too Late for Incumbents [paywall]
A few years ago, I started noticing several former colleagues taking jobs at direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, including pet food provider Ollie and Bombfell, a seller of men’s clothing. At first, I thought of these companies as experiments in a new business model, one that bypassed traditional retail and forged relationships… Listen ⇢
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Audience-Based Planning: Advanced TV’s Most Critical Component Explained
Like so many other innovations that have come before it, advanced TV has become a crowded, noisy field. It can mean very different things, depending on who you ask. There is one aspect of advanced TV that is consistent, however: using richer data than a blunt age-gender demographic to define… Listen ⇢
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