On ads and memes and chasing clicks.
Dec 4, 2014
Search as Signal -- Ad Age on the Google / MindShare
partnership
56% of Digital Ads are Never Seen – Ad Age on Google Report
Mesh Networking by Fred Wilson
Dark Social by Alexis Madrigal
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Is FB the be-all and end-all? AM thinks it is THE platform for readers. In doing
so discounts loyal readers, the most devoted and concentrated bunch, who go
straight to the original site.
Dec 5, 2014
Chasing clicks on Medium:
From a Twitter for Business email: “72% of businesses are
more likely to make a future purchase from a business they follow.”
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But is that simply because users follow businesses they’re already interested
in? Yes, Twitter can muster the existing troops (fans of the author or series) in
ways similar to email…. But it has a harder time converting new troops on its
own.
Development is cheap. Production is not. (via Fred Wilson):
Shatzkin on store shelf space
The human
attention it takes to make the stocking decisions for a bookstore has not
really been scaled.
Dec 10, 2014
A
tiny 7 percent of users generate nearly half of all smartphone app downloads in
the U.S.
ComScore’s U.S. mobile app report:
Skillz u need:
Dec 15, 2014
The Invention of Clumsiness (Delacroix, photography and the
evolution of the nude):
Dec 17, 2014
Medium’s native ads:
Dec 18, 2014
State of the art of digital advertising, according to Google:
Dec 19, 2014
The “Uncanny Valley” of an ad that seems to know you a
little too well. Via Alexis Madrigals “5it” newsletter:
Dec 30, 2014
Terrifying, exciting, accurate, wrong. The New Yorker on “The
Virologist” and what it might mean for all of us in the “content” business
(publishing, advertising, etc): “I know I can kill it”:
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