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Tag Archives: Television

Pay-per-view has come a long way

Television meets the Internet with a joint product venture between Google and Sony. Sony’s new Internet TV, powered by Google TV, merges the best features of digital cable with new developments in Internet television and VOIP* technology. Integrating our favorite social networks, search engines and other share points; Google TV and Sony have rolled out [...]

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Second acts

So print is dying. But the smart print brands are whistling past the graveyard.  They are assessing their content and figuring out new ways to cash in. Meredith Corporation, the Des Moines based publisher of Family Circle, Better Homes & Gardens and Ladies Home Journal has evolved into a digital  licensing giant. The New Yorker’s [...]

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Google is Super

If branded experiences are the new advertising, how does a brand play the Super Bowl?  You get 30 seconds to engage 90 million viewers in the flashiest, noisiest television event of the year. Do you join the tired parade of tricky animals, slapstick, bimbos and cute babies? Or do you engage people with a simple, [...]

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Media is creative

I worked at Ogilvy in the 1980’s and knew a media planner named Kristy. She had a sign in her office that read, “media is creative.” Kristy steered clients to MTV before it took off.  She predicted what new shows would be hits and what would bomb.   Kristy had a feel for people and the [...]

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