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From AdTech London to Shanghai

As I am on Virgin Atlantic Flight #1833 flying from Heathrow to JFK, I ponder about my last five days in London, two of which I spent at AdTech London. Nothing excites me more than seeing the amount of energy at this show. Bigger than AdTech Chicago...

DM Pimping Cartoon V1

Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

Google, Lost in Space?

Google and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have joined forces, an unlikely alliance you would think, unless of course Google has already begun preparations for dominating other planets. While one rules the search space...

Sanded Alone

A break from Direct marketing talk, The column may be about politics, or s@x, religion, lost youth, lost love, or lost lives, but it will be something that relates to you. It will be something that relates to us all

Digital Thoughts – AOL-MSN or is it MSN-AOL?

AOL earned more than a billion dollars last year on advertising revenues and will earn even more this year. A healthy chunk of those ad revenues come from search, and no surprise to those in our industry, AOL’s search revenues come from Google...

Eating Dirt

I have a confession to make. For the two days that I sat through the FTC's workshop on how to curb childhood obesity, I kept craving Tater Tots. It was

Making your Co-registration Offer Stand Out from the Crowd

Strong, compelling ad copy is a key to running a successful co-registration campaign and one of the hardest things to prepare. Co-registration campaigns give you a small window of opportunity to attract the attention of thousands of consumers and...

Digital Thoughts – TradeShow Valuation – Part 1

You won’t find it on the calendar. No official date exists, but with Advertising Week almost complete, one that included MediaPost’s OMMA East and the IAB’s MIXX-Expo in New York City not to mention iMedia’s Brand Summit in Coronado Bay, California, it’s safe to...

Digital Thoughts – TradeShow Valuation, Part 2

When I set out for New York City early this week, I had an idea that I would write about the tradeshows. In the past, that has meant a descriptive account of the goings on, not an attempt to ascertain the value of going in the first place. Intrigued by...