Posts Tagged ‘advertising’

Will Social Rule the Marketing World?

Posted on: August 8th, 2012 by Geoff Livingston 10 Comments

54 Percent of All Ad Expenditures in 2010 Were Spent on Direct Marketing

No. It won’t.

The truth? Online media — all forms of it — increasingly rules the world, but social is just a piece of that converged puzzle.

When you look at the numbers direct marketing rules the world, at least from an overall marketing spend perspective (see above chart from the Marketing in the Round infographic), money is being invested in direct tactics like email marketing, direct mail, search, and more first. That’s because the direct marketing approach yields the most ROI at a 10:1 ratio, according to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA).
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Marketing in the Round Infographic: The Tip of the Iceberg

Posted on: May 14th, 2012 by Geoff Livingston 4 Comments

Marketing in the Round Infographic

Today, Gini Dietrich and I launch Marketing in the Round in Chicago with a virtual (1 ET) U-Stream book bomb and a live (5 CT) networking event! Read Gini’s post here about how the book happened.

Immersed in the era of visual media, what better way to start the day than with an infographic of statistics used in the book (also available directly on Flickr and Scribd). The RAD Campaign designed infographic demonstrates how today’s online marketing conversation, actual business expenditures, and business selection of tactics are not in synch.

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Why “The Pitch” Will Perpetuate Bad Practices

Posted on: April 24th, 2012 by Geoff Livingston 25 Comments

Perhaps you have seen the preview episode of The Pitch, AMC’s newest show about the advertising industry, which debuts on April 30. In this first episode WDCW competes against McKinney Advertising for a Subway breakfast ad campaign. While dramatic and entertaining, the episode also perpetuates several bad practices that plague the entire marketing sector.

This “reality” TV approach focuses on the tension of competitive pitching for major accounts. It assumes that winning depends on the creative that resonates most with the decision committee. In this case a Mac Lethal video-inspired campaign from McKinney out duels WDCW’s zAMbie campaign for Subway’s breakfast line.

But nowhere in the episode do we see serious conversations about the following:
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