Yahoo News and ABC News Hope to Redefine Online News w/ Partnership
The big news today out of New York is that Yahoo! and ABC News are collaborating on an expansive partnership to blend their respective content streams – ABC’s worldwide network of reporters including...
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A few weeks ago, I was asked by a reporter to come up with a list of individuals who had exerted influence over multiple industries and who had initiated global changes to culture. In short, people...
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An interesting couple of days in the online subscription music space. First, we have Rhapsody announcing that it was purchasing the (legal) Napster service which was most recently owned by Best Buy,...
View ArticleGoogle Music: It is an Online Music Store – Differentiation From Competition?...
After a weeks, or so it seemed, of rumors, speculation and innuendo, Google unleashed its online music store. OK, it doesn’t have Warner Music Group’s catalog but it does have Universal, EMI and Sony....
View ArticleApple TV Numbers Makes One Think About the Real Opportunity
Apple’s financial results for their fiscal-year 2011 (fourth calendar quarter, 2011) were mind boggling — $46 billion in revenue, net income of $13 billion. They’re officially in uncharted territory,...
View ArticleJanuary: the Month of Predictions & Apple’s Rumored Expansion of Passbook to...
It’s a new year and for many Gartner analysts, it usually means a flurry of inquiries about the Predicts documents we worked on and published in December. And sometimes, a news item pops up during the...
View ArticleSummer Reading for Digital Marketers: Vendors Like Water (Blasting Out of a...
Are marketers at risk of falling into the trap many skiers and surfers fall into? That trap being the one that usually manifests itself by a skier or surfer saying something like, “Yeah, I did buy a...
View ArticleThe Future of Charts and Trying to Figure out What a Facebook Like is Worth
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View ArticleYahoo News and ABC News Hope to Redefine Online News w/ Partnership
The big news today out of New York is that Yahoo! and ABC News are collaborating on an expansive partnership to blend their respective content streams – ABC’s worldwide network of reporters including...
View ArticleSteve Jobs
A few weeks ago, I was asked by a reporter to come up with a list of individuals who had exerted influence over multiple industries and who had initiated global changes to culture. In short, people...
View ArticleSubscription Music Services Jockeying for Differentiation: The Fluid...
An interesting couple of days in the online subscription music space. First, we have Rhapsody announcing that it was purchasing the (legal) Napster service which was most recently owned by Best Buy,...
View ArticleGoogle Music: It is an Online Music Store – Differentiation From Competition?...
After a weeks, or so it seemed, of rumors, speculation and innuendo, Google unleashed its online music store. OK, it doesn’t have Warner Music Group’s catalog but it does have Universal, EMI and Sony....
View ArticleApple TV Numbers Makes One Think About the Real Opportunity
Apple’s financial results for their fiscal-year 2011 (fourth calendar quarter, 2011) were mind boggling — $46 billion in revenue, net income of $13 billion. They’re officially in uncharted territory,...
View ArticleJanuary: the Month of Predictions & Apple’s Rumored Expansion of Passbook to...
It’s a new year and for many Gartner analysts, it usually means a flurry of inquiries about the Predicts documents we worked on and published in December. And sometimes, a news item pops up during the...
View ArticleSummer Reading for Digital Marketers: Vendors Like Water (Blasting Out of a...
Are marketers at risk of falling into the trap many skiers and surfers fall into? That trap being the one that usually manifests itself by a skier or surfer saying something like, “Yeah, I did buy a...
View ArticleSuit Up for the Gartner Marketing Conference to See How an NBA Team Creates...
NBA basketball games – good NBA basketball games – always have a dynamic ebb and flow of athleticism and coaching strategy with the fans amplifying the narrative of the game just like a great movie...
View ArticlePush-notification Overload? It’s a Technique Not a Strategy
Here’s your official warning, mobile marketers, about a pending problem: it’s looking like overeager mobile marketers (read lacking in the discipline that comes with using granular mobile marketing...
View ArticleMessaging as Channel and Metaphor
Are you a multichannel marketer struggling to connect with customers or prospects at the right moments to get them to engage or re-engage with you? One word for you: messaging. Connecting with...
View ArticleJohnny Cash Started Walking the Line in the ’50s — 2020 Is the Year Marketers...
Hey marketers, you scraped through another year! Well done. Throughout 2019, you probably spent a bunch of time stressing over whether you needed a customer data platform (CDP) to manage your...
View ArticleMake Martech Investments for an Imperfect World
(Warning: Slightly discursive introduction – but I have a point!) The original Grateful Dead were known for sometimes having interminably long spaces between songs where band members would fiddle with...
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