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Jan31
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Wall Street never fails to amaze me... Not because of its "Smarts" but because of its asinine dumbness. Today's news that Google... The "God" of the stock market posted a fourth quarter increase in profits of 17% seemed to me to be pretty impressive. Earnings were $4.43 a share... But guess what? The Armani suited, tasseled loafer wearing, MBA wielding analysts had been forecasting earnings of $4.44 a share. So Google missed it by one penny. Which in my book is pretty damn minuscule. But hey, I'm not a Wall Street Wiz. So, in after hours trading, Google is down nearly $45 a share. That's nearly 8% of it's value. And just the other day I was reading that the reason these clowns still get the multi-million dollar end-of-year bonuses, is because their employers don't want to lose their expertise. Yeah... The same guys who lost them billions in the sub-prime fiasco. If it was me, I couldn't wait to get rid of them!  .
Damn right Baby!
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Jan30
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After a few weeks of speculation and rumors, the knife finally came out at Yahoo, and while the blood bath wasn't as radical as some thought it might be, it was still painful -- 1,000 jobs are going, which is...
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Jan29
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As I'm sat here, I'm reading with a great deal of glee that Rudy Giuliani has had his arse severely kicked in the Florida GOP primary. He finished with a miserable 15% of the vote. This in spite of the...
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Jan28
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There's a piece in today's online AdAge about "Cognitive branding" as it relates to the upcoming Super Bowl. Now, I'm usually a big fan of AdAge, rather than AdWeek, which I strongly believe will not be with us for much longer....
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Jan27
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Remember just over a year ago when Yahoo made a big yahoo out of the fact that it was creating "Brand Universes?" The plan was to have over a hundred of these destinations for consumers to celebrate brands. Supposedly people...
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Jan25
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Yet another ugly "Ad Biz Harassment" case is grinding its way through the legal system with the news that a judge in New York today rejected Dentsu's motion for a summary judgment in the case of Steve Biegel v. Dentsu Holdings....
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Jan24
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News today that a California consumer is suing Dannon for false advertising claims for Activia and DanActive, the company’s "probiotic" yogurts, doesn't surprise me. The consumers attorney charged that “Deceptive advertising has enabled Dannon to sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth...
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Jan23
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Just so you understand how the American job market works... In January 2006, three IBM workers filed a class action suit claiming Big Blue had illegally deprived thousands of its workers of overtime pay by classifying them as exempt under labor...
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Jan22
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With all the recent hoopla about Apple's new iTunes movie rental service, has anyone thought about what will happen when more than a few thousand people start downloading movies at the same time? I mean because unlike the Korean government,...
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Jan21
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You have to take your hat off to the Swiss. Apart from having lots of snow, great food and wine, and cows that don't shit... It's true, you can drive around Switzerland for days and never see any cow shit...
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Jan20
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Yes... It's that time of the year again when everyone is making forecasts on where the ad biz will be in 2008. Leo Burnett UK, is no exception to the rule. You can read their full list as posted by Piers on PSFK,...
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Jan19
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I often wonder why readership is down over the weekend... Is it because everyone is so fried by the time the weekend rolls around, they can't be bothered to troll the Web... Which I can completely sympathies with. So... I've...
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Jan18
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I must say, I am a bit surprised by the news today that the NFL has decided Brit's are either too drunk all the time or perhaps brain dead, that they'll welcome a re-run of last years game at Wembley...
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Jan17
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On today's Internet Evolution, computer security expert Kevin Mitnick predicts that, based on the government's current abuse of warrantless surveillance, we can expect invasions of private property to be conducted by government robots within the next twenty years. In his blog,...
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Jan16
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The world's second most evil man, finally gets his long sought prize. News today that Larry "The Shogun" Ellison's Redwood City software company, Oracle, said it is buying BEA Systems of San Jose for $8.5 billion, ending a courtship that began...
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Jan15
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As usual, the Apple Freaks were screaming their lungs out at the Moscone center in San Francisco today as Steve "God" Jobs came down from the mountain with the stone tablets. Taking the drool-worthy honors was the new MacBook Air,...
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Jan14
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Anyone familiar with the ever expanding and increasingly expensive world of "Graffiti Art" will know that London artist "Banksy" is at the top of his profession. What with having his stuff on everything from the Berlin Wall to the Israeli/Palestine Wall, his...
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Jan10
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AdWeek today talks about "Mobile Phone Ads Gain Ground." The article states that one in three mobile phone users are exposed to cell phone ads. But there is a quote in the article that I take issue with... "The fact...
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I am always amazed that the majority of American State Tourism advertising goes for people who may be associated with the state, rather than talking about what the state itself can offer. This is demonstrated by the news today that...
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Jan 9
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As I've been in Ogilvy bashing mode for the last couple of days, I did a bit of retro-research to see what I had written about them in the past... Came up with this gem from November of 2006... Chris...
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Jan 8
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One of the chapters in my upcoming book "The Ubiquitous Persuaders" deals with healthcare advertising and the veritable bonanza this has provided to both ad agencies and the media since Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising was allowed by the FDA in 1998....
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Jan 7
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Why am I not surprised to read the news from researchers Advertiser Perceptions who survey ad reps twice a year to find out whether they think their mediums share of ad dollars will increase, decrease or stay the same. Not surprisingly, 76%...
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Jan 6
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In case you are sometimes baffled by the President's insistence that we have a healthy economy and everything in the garden is lovely, You might be interested in news just out of England... Living standards in Britain are set to...
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As I still get dozens of emails from lawyers in Nigeria promising me millions if I'll just forward them my bank information, I was pleased to read the other day that at least one notorious spammer has just got his!...
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Jan 4
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Interesting to read the results of the Iowa Caucus. I can't explain what a caucus is, I can't even explain American politics. It seems to me that all politics, anywhere in the world, are crooked, and all politics run on money. But...
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Jan 3
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Pretty funny to read that Qwest has been appointed to be the official telecommunications provider for the upcoming August Democratic National Convention in Denver. Qwest will provide $6 million in services for the convention, and receive a sponsorship designation in...
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Jan 2
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Google is talking to several British newspaper publishers in the hopes of extending its Google Print Ads program across the Atlantic. Launched in the US this summer, Print Ads is an outgrowth of the company's online advertising juggernaut, Google AdWords....
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The fun-loving Burmese (Myanmar) regime has just come up with a non-violent method to restrict satellite TV access to foreign news services - They've hiked the cost of a licence by 16,700 per cent from 6000 kyat ($5.00) to 1m...
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