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July 03 2009
July 02 2009
“ Indeed. Everytime you look at today’s economic landscape — you should see the Thriller video playing in your head. Because what we’ve built is a zombieconomy, where little net value is created. ”—
Umair Hague, “Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy”
Gawker - Where Is the Great American News City?
Some sample news topic summaries:
New York: Wall Street. Fashion. The media capital of the world. Billionaires. Criminals. Mafiosos. Immigrants. Everything’s grand!
Los Angeles: Hollywood. Movie stars. Celebrities. Parties. Drugs. Bloods. Crips. Speidi. Beaches. Hippies. Weed. Glamor!
Chicago: Machine politics. Daley. Throwback Obama. Projects. Vice Lords. Second City. Jordanesque!
Miami: Vice. Cocaine cowboys. South Beach. Cubans. Jamaicans. Retirees. Cigarette boats. Money. Mosquitoes. Storms. Carl Hiaasen. Dave Barry. America’s landing strip!
Jordan? Vice Lords?! Apparently Gawker hasn’t visited Chicago or read news from here since 1992. Asshats.
Miami in this list? Really? Because of Dave Barry. Oh, Knight-Ridder… Miami, a media capital? Really?
Allow me to say at this time that marketing your new t-shirt via email probably wouldn’t have been the best strategy. What you REALLY should’ve gone is put a bunch of them “in the AH.”
HAHAHAHAHA. I kill me.
“ Advertising agencies have long been big customers of Google, Microsoft and other Internet companies, shifting an increasing portion of ad budgets online. WPP Group, the largest ad agency owner, spends $850 million a year of its clients’ money with Google, according to Martin Sorrell, WPP’s chief executive. Ninety-eight percent of Google’s revenue comes from advertising, largely from “sponsored links” that appear alongside its search results. ”— Foes No More, Ad Agencies Unite With Internet Firms - NYTimes.com (via tedr)
NYC FTW
San Francisco or New York?
New York - Even though I’ve never been there. I really want to live there, at least for a little while. Everything about it seems incredible and busy and just perfect. I’ve been to San Francisco quite often and know it pretty well, I’d like to think. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fantastic city with lots of interesting people and fascinating things going on.
Although I have to say, NYC isn’t all that interesting when you get 31 flavors of jaded at age 18 after growing up there.
Some of my favorites from twitter666.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! FNM!
I should start fuckyeahfaithnomore. Does that exist yet?
Advertising in July
As has been said many times in this space before, Web video advertising remains a roller coaster. Web video advertising is new and immature. This means that it comes in fits and starts, like anything that’s new.
We’ve had an amazing couple of months. April, May and June have all been record months for advertising at blip.tv. We were effectively sold out of all but preroll in May and June. The only reason why we weren’t sold out of preroll is because we’ve taken a very cautious approach to it — we don’t want to screw up the viewer experience.
Network-wide advertising revenue grew 24.64% in March, 148.62% in April and 100.39% in May. Revenues were up just slightly in June, a traditionally slow month. Seasonality is a big factor in advertising. Fourth quarter is generally the best, while summer is usually a low point. Spending traditionally picks up again with “back to school” marketing in mid August.
This is all to say that we’re going to have a (comparatively) tough early July. We’ve entered the dog days of summer. And that’s just the way it is. We’re going to be sold out again soon — in a matter of weeks — but we just don’t have as much to run in the first half of July as we did in April, May and June.
So you’re probably going to see a dip in your revenues and CPM for the next couple weeks. We’re sorry about that. Not much we can do about it. If it makes you feel better, know that this is equally true for the dude in his garage making a Web show and huge television networks. There’s a reason why they show re-runs in the summer.
As always our team is working hard to make shows as much money as possible. That is, after all, how we make our money. Our interests here are aligned. And revenues will be climbing again — climbing fast — very soon.
Meeting Ticker
Calculate number of meeting attendees, guess the average salary of everyone in the room, and start the timer. Then then the meeting ends, it'll tell you how much that meeting approximately costed the company! Haha!July 01 2009
The Descent Into Credit Card Debt Hell (GRAPHIC)
When used wisely, credit cards can be the cornerstone of a sound financial strategy. A solid credit history makes you a good credit risk and that in turn allows you to purchase the necessities of life. But credit cards can also be a slippery slope. One misstep and you’ll tumble into the abyss of credit card debt hell, a mounting spiral of missed paJune 28 2009
Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self
A collection of essays from artists, designers, psycho-geographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualizing intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology. The theme of this collection of essays is to investigate the apparent desire for technologies to map emotion, using a variety of different approaches.
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