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I’m not long out of giving a new talk this morning for the first time, at Squared in London to the bright young things who’re just starting out on a six week intensive learning experience.  It’s always a privilege to … Continue reading →

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Yes, I know.  It’s a bit slipshod to be writing a “2013 Projects” post when a 1/12th of the year has gone already.  But hey, you know, there’s been stuff on.  The good news is that I’ve started doing some … Continue reading →

What’s happened this week: Netflix announced a modest profit and growth to 29m US and 6m international streaming subscribers, illustrating that OTT video is beginning to scale. Twitter launched Vine, the 6 second video equivalent of a tweet. Facebook announced that conversion tracking via an optimized CPM will be available…

Last year, the Herdmeister Mark Earls and I were asked to contribute to the Wharton School of Advertising.  Given that it’s a celebration of different views from across academia, business, students and more, we thought there might be enough long … Continue reading →

Just after Christmas, I happened on the Herald’s Top 50 Scottish Albums of 2012, as compiled by Alan Morrison, their Group Arts Editor. Which is initially surprising, as Alan’s introduction states: “Were there even 50 Scottish albums released in 2012?” That has pretty much been the response every time I’ve mentioned that I’ve been assembling [...]

What’s happened this week: Facebook announced Graph Search, a new feature to search within the users’ Social Graph. Another development in the rise of the Interest Graph technologies that advertisers need to understand. A little less coverage went to another disruptive Facebook move to deliver free calls to US iPhone…

Before I write the Smithery Project outline for 2012, I thought it’d be worthwhile trying to grade last year’s three projects.  Three still seems like a good number of personal things to try to do in a year, despite the progress (or lack of therein) you’ll see below. To recap; I gave each of the [...]

Just after Christmas, I’d to send something back to Amazon to exchange it.  The Home Delivery Network, one of Amazon’s many random delivery merchants, had seen fit to leave a package out in the rain overnight (despite the fact that we must have been in when they called that evening), and so ruined a book. [...]

Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. Our friends across the group and globe have been pulling together a summary of predicted trends for the year ahead. January always brings a rush of these, but we wanted to share them as there are some good points to kee[p in mind……