How’s your paycheck? Does size matter?
Compare it to Apple's Tim Cook at $348 million or WWP's Martin Sorrell who didn't get his $10.5 million or a lot of rich CEOs in between How much is $348 million? (graphic: NYT) Wow! And we thought times were tough. Somewhere between the 99% and the 1% there was supposed to be a tempering of the ghastly Read more...
In the flotsam of the digital avalanche, Warren Buffett is still buying newspapers. What’s going on in media?
No, that's not Warren Buffett but the Buffalo News is his newspaper and Stanford Lipsey is the publisher. They do look a little alike. (photo: bbannon/NYT) Just when you thought you had media figured out Not only is Warren buying newspapers but he owns the Buffalo News – a ghost of its former self – in a city that has lost Read more...
Masters of the uterus, repent! The Dark Ages are over
16 years after its debut, The Vagina Monologues is packing them in everywhere, including State legislatures (photo: wikipedia) What is it about women, politics and vaginas that don’t fit? If ever the cliché, “Politics makes strange bedfellows,” was considered a truism, it was proven last week in the Michigan State Legislature. If ever men needed to be reminded Read more...
Marketing with product placement: When subtle can go viral
Three-time Superbowl champion, Tom Brady goes on a rant (see short video below) If you want funny, get truly funny people to create your spots If you haven’t seen the Tom Brady promo that has gone viral then check it out. Some great advertising lessons embedded in this one. Comedic writing has to be done by great comedic Read more...
We know where the insanity is. So where’s the outrage?
When it comes to guns, why does insanity trump outrage? It’s actually fairly simple. Insanity resides with the minority, outrage with the majority. And it’s much easier to organize and voice the views of a minority than it is to get a majority to do anything. Not because the majority of us don’t want to do Read more...
$85 or your life – pay attention and stop walking the talk
This is one time “walk the talk” is a bad idea I am not sure we need a study or poll to tell us this but there is one that says, “ Texting while walking can be a distraction.” Reality tells us even more: It can get you killed. In the town of Fort Lee, New Jersey (across Read more...