One of the bigger questions that emerged from last week’s Business Insider Ignition conference revolved around whether traditional television will endure the same pain as the newspaper industry has. In his opening remarks, BI founder/publisher Henry Blodget audaciously stated as much: “Netflix 70M subs, Hulu 10M, Amazon 45M, Apple TV 35M. TV will soon feel…… Continue reading Will Television Follow Newspapers’ Fate?
The Flack
Millennials, Gen X To Rule Our Digital Future
What better way to lead into a post on my adventures at this year’s Business Insider Ignition: Future of Digital conference than with a Bloomberg News story suggesting that BI’s new Berlin-based owners, Axel Springer, is considering putting the digitally native news site behind a paywall. It’s part of a larger push by the German…… Continue reading Millennials, Gen X To Rule Our Digital Future
Full Frontal Media: Kylie vs. Kim
No. Kylie Jenner is not a client of my firm’s. In fact, I find her latest PR stunt offensive on so many levels. Yet, here I am writing about it, as an unwitting marketing pawn in a carefully choreographed chess game designed to add more media fuel to the fame flame that has kept her…… Continue reading Full Frontal Media: Kylie vs. Kim
How Anonymous and Southwest Airlines Fight Terror
Governmental, organizational and individual reactions and overreactions to the terrorist attacks in Paris and Mali run the gamut and have spurred both fear and action. Global hacker group Anonymous suddenly morphed from Guy Fawkes to Charles Bronson in mounting an attack on ISIS vast online and social networks. “A hundred thousand twitter accounts have been…… Continue reading How Anonymous and Southwest Airlines Fight Terror
In Search Of A Better Media Experience
The clients of each company include many of the most prestigious news brands in the media industry. One works with the likes of The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, ABC News, and NewsCorp, while the second represents prestige publishers like Time Inc., CBSi, Hearst, NBC, Meredith, Vice, and Vox Media. Each, in its own way,…… Continue reading In Search Of A Better Media Experience
Newspapers Getting Their Game On
A few years back at SXSW, the ubiquity of QR codes earned that promising AR-like technology the conference crown, in spite of its obvious flaws. The previous year, it was the geo-locating, Mayor-making check-in app FourSquare that emerged as the clear winner, especially for night crawlers and humble braggers. Each had their proverbial 15 minutes…… Continue reading Newspapers Getting Their Game On
Startups Shine At Web Summit
As with any conference attended by 42,000 people, it’s virtually impossible to take in everything the organizers have served up. The Web Summit in Dublin this week was no exception. Only meticulous planning, a willingness to pivot and just plain serendipity will permit one to find fulfillment over the course of three, impossibly hectic days.…… Continue reading Startups Shine At Web Summit
The Home of Guinness Gets Geeky
Some 40,000 tech geeks descended upon Dublin this week to attend, speak at, report on, sell and/or demo their wares at one of the biggest and most condensed web events in a sea of such events globally. Now in its 5th year, the sold-out “Web Summit” is not without a fair share of intrigue, including…… Continue reading The Home of Guinness Gets Geeky
Threats Create Dilemma for SXSW Organizers
As I prepare to head off to Dublin this weekend to attend Web Summit, I’m reminded of another overwhelmingly large gathering of geeks (and those who wish to profit from them). I’m talking of course about South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, which today finds itself in the proverbial PR pickle. Before I delve into SouthBy’s…… Continue reading Threats Create Dilemma for SXSW Organizers
Blood Simple: A Photogenic Stanford Dropout
I have been a long-time fan and somewhat regular attendee of the New York Tech Meetups where month after month ten entrepreneurs take the stage to showcase their tech-driven startups before a most discerning audience of coders, students, VCs, journalists, entrepreneurs, etc. Mostly missing from the mix, however, are PR professionals who would be charged with…… Continue reading Blood Simple: A Photogenic Stanford Dropout