Dave Fleet

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I Am Terrific! A Lesson in StoryBranding

Dave Fleet

But I’m going to take a leap of faith and hypothesize that the chances of someone responding with “okay, I’m buying whatever terrificness you’re selling,” are slim to none. Okay, so most advertising isn’t quite as objectionable as some stranger walking up to a person pronouncing human superiority.

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Why Paying Bloggers For Posts Changes The Game

Dave Fleet

The PR person becomes a client, just as someone buying ad space is a client of the publication selling the ads. When companies allocate marketing budgets to PR, advertising, interactive and social programs, they make a decision on how to allocate those resources to get the best results. Again, is this bad?

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Weekly Reads: Facebook, Marketing Trends and Social Media’s Effect on Stereotypes

Dave Fleet

Betting on News, AOL Is Buying The Huffington Post. AOL buys HuffPo. Johanna Blakley talks about the demographic profiling used by traditional media and the advertising industry, and how online communities and social media may bring an end not only to false demographic targeting but also to gender stereotypes in mainstream media.

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Reflections on the changing digital agency environment

Dave Fleet

They cater to a media-buying model that is based much more in the traditional ‘interrupt and amplify’ world than that of community and connection. Side point – this may be leading to an erosion of broader trust in social networks ). Secondly, this exacerbates the tension around shrinking budgets and the focus on nimbleness.

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