Category Archives: Agencies

Agency Reality Check

Agency Reality Check

Agencies behold! Today I ask you to look in the mirror and ask yourself one simple question. “Are you proud and confident of your digital services, or are you faking the funk?” If you are truly proud of your digital … Continue reading

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Commoditizing Valuable Service- "We Didn't Budget For This"

Agencies have become commoditized. To a degree many may have deserved it. But a good strategically minded agency is a good partner and needs to be treated as such. Commoditized agencies have no problem doing spec work, or bowing to clients’ … Continue reading

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To GRP Or Not To GRP?

To GRP Or Not To GRP?

As many readers of this blog know,  I often expose my inner media geek. Since leaving the agency world two years ago, I’ve had the opportunity to share all of the secret digital media sauce amassed throughout a carreer at the healm of an innovative, … Continue reading

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Bigger Ad Units, Badder Facebook Pages, & Burgeoning Social Networks Oh My!

Bigger Ad Units, Badder Facebook Pages, & Burgeoning Social Networks Oh My!

Shame, shame, shame on me for breaking my own blog rules. The last 2 weeks has been the longest I’ve gone without updating The Digital Blur in a very long time. I apologize to my regular readers and have adequately … Continue reading

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Throwning Down The Mobile 3rd Party Ad Serving Gauntlet

Throwning Down The Mobile 3rd Party Ad Serving Gauntlet

In a move that will surely help to further propel mobile display advertising, OMD, Omnicom’s media buying agency, has officially become the first [influential] agency to mandate that mobile publishers accept 3rd party ad serving tags and bill off of … Continue reading

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OMMA Ad Networks Panel

OMMA Ad Networks Panel

Today was Media Post’s first iteration of a conference specifically focused on the topic of ad networks. (OMMA Ad Nets) I moderated a panel entitled “”Buyers Place Their Bets: Are Networks Living Up to Their Hype?” (details on the panel … Continue reading

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"E" For Efficiency ... Well, One Day We'll Get There

"E" For Efficiency … Well, One Day We'll Get There

For years the digital media industry has been plagued by the ironic amount of paper pushing and inefficiency that should not exist in a “digital” industry. From the RFP process, to planning, to billing reconciliation, we have had an exhorbinant … Continue reading

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