March 21st, 2008
John Battelle riffs on how Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL are screwing up by following in Google’s footsteps trying to create huge ad platforms, while ignoring their brand ad strength. And AdAge asks if we may one day see a web free of push display ads.
If traditional ads become less effective, we will still end up trusting ads that are links that look just like content. How to article linkbait, user generated content, and 100% blended affiliate links now make up the Mahalo business model. Which is really no different than the affiliate marketing Jason despises. That really puts a new perspective on somebody lashing out at SEOs and affiliate marketers before creating something that aspires to be more polluted.
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November 12th, 2007
Via TC, I discovered IBM released a report on how the they think the $550 billion global ad market might change in the coming years. The predictions look bleak for most ad agencies and traditional media gatekeepers, but good for niche publishers who have a solid stream of attention:
The “voice” delivering a message, along with its perceived authenticity, will become as powerful perhaps as the message or offer.
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October 2nd, 2007
Radiohead announced that you can pay whatever you like for In Rainbows, the latest album from the best band in the world. A TIME article states:
Thom Yorke told TIME, “I like the people at our record company, but the time is at hand when you have to ask why anyone needs one. And, yes, it probably would give us some perverse pleasure to say ‘F___ you’ to this decaying business model.”
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