Misreporting Paid Political Search – Is McCain Really Ahead?

An Advertising Age article asserts that John McCain is beating Barack Obama in search engine advertising. The problem is not merely that a publication of advertising experts got the story so breathtakingly wrong, but that mainstream news organizations pick up the story as if it were fact.

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Interruption Advertising

Traditional television advertising is broken and the networks and cable channels need to figure it out or more and more entertainment will be produced by the advertisers themselves.

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The End Of Nostalgia Marketing

With no broadly popular music star or movie or television show, the common touchstone, the shared experience of liking the similar thing that makes nostalgia marketing work, is eliminated. Is, then, nostalgia marketing viable?

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