Valuing Content: Nine Inch Nails

Finding this video so quickly after yesterday’s post proves some­thing. More on making money from media content, even though people can get it for free. Mike Masnick of Techdirt describes the ways Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails have created a prof­it­able business from their music, after they sacked their record

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Valuing Content: Dragon Age

I wrote yes­terday about the dif­fi­culties of selling media content when people can get some­thing more-​​​​or-​​​​less identical without paying. It looked a bit bleak. In this – more positive – post, I’m going to look at some of the ways media owners might persuade people to pay for their content, focusing on the

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Book Review: Blogging to Drive Business

Many thanks to Pearson Education for sending me two recent books about blogging for review. The first of these is Blogging to Drive Business by Eric Butow and Rebecca Bollwitt. It seems that Eric has written the more business and strategy-​​​​centric chapters, and Rebecca the more prac­tical inform­a­tion about

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Social Media ROI, Again

Via Stuart Bruce, I found this funny clip in which social media mar­keting guru David Meerman Scott lambasts client-​​​​side mar­keting managers for con­tinu­ally asking about the ROI of social media projects.

His point is that mar­keters don’t know the ROI of tra­di­tional forms of advert­ising like bill­boards and 30-​​​​second TV

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Good News; Bad News

AdWeek covers a story that most people working in the digital sector will already have had some intuition of:

Forrester Research con­ducted a “state of inter­active agencies” survey of about 100 global inter­active mar­keters. It found just 23 percent believed their “tra­di­tional brand agency” is capable of planning and managing inter­active mar­keting activ­ities. About 46

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Don’t Be Evil

Life just got better. At the end of last week, Google announced that its per­son­al­ised search had now become avail­able to ‘signed-​​out’ users.

What does that mean?

Well, per­son­al­ised search means that Google uses its history of what you have searched for before to provide more relevant results for sub­sequent search queries. It records everything

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