Branding 2.0

By: Michael Raisanen
There are as many theories on brands as there are branding experts. But perhaps we can all agree on one thing: the brand as we know it is changing.

Or at least how we marketers think of it.

Traditionally, brands have been thought of as informational carriers of attributes describing a product, service or …

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Social Media Relations

by Curtis Hougland

As information moves more rapidly, and conversations percolate across the blogosphere by the [insert large number], lexicon swings in and out of vogue more quickly. Terms such as “new media,” “social media,” and for that matter “media,” are neutered as a result of adoption then overuse by newbie marketers. We are all wary …

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Advertising Age Covers Online Media Auction Run by EarthQuake

Going Once, Going Twice … You Win the Account

Online Auctions Start to Take Hold With Media Companies By Abbey Klaassen

Published: August 11, 2006

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Earlier this week, a half dozen agency execs were huddled around a conference table in the Midtown Manhattan offices of Earthquake Media. CEO Robert Davidman was manning a laptop, …

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Robert Davidman Interviewed on Digital Media and Consumer Engagement

“How digital media are transforming consumer engagement and changing the rules of the game”

by Susan Stellin, Media Magazine, July 2006 issue

If you want to get an idea of just how much the media landscape has changed, look at people’s hands. With their index fingers poised above the mouse button, hands gripping a TV remote or …

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Robert & Jon Davidman Interviewed by Advertising Age on Slingbox, Place-Shifting TV

New Device ‘Place-Shifts’ TV; Changes Media Assumptions Slingbox Facilitates Consumer Re-routing of Live TV Programming Across Broadband Web

By Abbey Klaassen

Published: June 05, 2006

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Like many American families, Jon and Suzanne Davidman used to relax after a long day of work by plopping down on the couch and watching their favorite TV shows, …

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