Are You An Index Or Alpha Marketer?

Marketing on the quantitative side can be treated essentially as investment management. Thus there are parallels marketers can learn and apply from the investment world. In the investing world, there are two competing approaches – Index investor. Believes you can not beat the market, so buy a piece of every stock in an index (e.g.,…

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The Most Insidious Trap in New Media Targeting

Is it – Fuzzy strategy? Unclear target segment? Bottom fishing for cheap inventory? While they are all valid issues, the sin that is most insidious and common is aiming for relevance but buying reach instead. Various media research and targeting tools available in the market today make it easy to get reach with some relevance…

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Can you “buy brand”?

Thanks to Chris O’Hara for his excellent article on ClickZ today. He covers it very well on the upcoming transition for brands – to think of their media buying in terms of their brand audience, not their media audience. This is a monumental change for brand marketing, but is inevitable. Digital is already leading charge…

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