Welcome to 2009: TV, Advertising and Media Face Their Transformational Era
In media and advertising, we can expect bankruptcies, consolidation and disintegration of conglomerates and holding companies. The dominoes have just begun to topple.
In media and advertising, we can expect bankruptcies, consolidation and disintegration of conglomerates and holding companies. The dominoes have just begun to topple.
William Bradley | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
Potential Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Is it a masterstroke by President-elect Obama? A mousetrap for the Clintons? Is it even happening at all?
Jack Myers | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business
It is time to set a new agenda, built upon new principles and a commitment to reestablish advertising as a marketing tool for which we all.. take responsibility.
William Bradley | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
Don't look now, but the national Republican Party is on the verge of becoming the California Republican Party. And that ain't a good thing -- unless you're a Democrat.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media
By Stephen C. Rose Since I write a political blog and have no particular brief to write about TV advertisements, I thought long and hard about doing ...
Jack Myers | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business
Within the next 120 days, Verklin says Canoe will release its first product, a creative versioning tool that will enable cable TV networks to divide national inventory into demographic footprints.
William Bradley | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
In Barack Obama and John McCain, we representatives of an emerging set of values and an enduring tradition. But we didn't get the sort of constructive debate between these traditions showing the value of each.
William Bradley | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media
Despite John McCain's pledge this spring not to make Rev. Jeremiah Wright an issue in the campaign, at least one official organ of the party he now heads is running a hit spot on Wright.
William Bradley | Posted 11.28.2008 | Media
For all the rumor-mongering about Obama as a "Manchurian candidate," there is no silver bullet to defeat the vampire that haunts the nightmares of the far right. Reality is dawning.
William Bradley | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media
McCain is going with Joe the Plumber as the advertising centerpiece of his campaign and absent some fantastic new character attack against Obama, it's his best shot left at an economic message.
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 11.07.2008 | Entertainment
The crowd always has the power - the power to not give the comedian the laugh. If you want people to elect you leader, it's best to avoid putting yourself in a position of having less power.
William Bradley | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media
It's all negative all the time now in the TV ad wars. For once, Obama has stolen a march on McCain in the campaign hit parade. And his attack strategy seems to be much more on the axis of decision for this election.
William Bradley | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
So, you think it looks really good for Barack Obama. Well, maybe so. Yet, Obama can still lose this. Though I'm not planning to head over to Vegas to shoot craps (John McCain's favorite) on that deal.
William Bradley | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics
This is an attempted reboot in a losing scenario. McCain has been all over the lot on the financial crisis. He is a staunch deregulationist, at a moment in history in which it is clear that that approach has failed.
William Bradley | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media
In a political crisis, Team McCain moves to change the subject and stay away from what may be unfriendly issues and instead switches back to a negative focus on Obama's personality and image.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media
Apple has been having its way with Microsoft for a while now, but the one-sided televised fight for tastemaker supremacy has just gotten interesting.
William Bradley | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media
The absence of clarity around Obama's policy on the present crisis presents opportunity in the Hobbesian media universe. Vagueness can be cast as anything. In this case, probably something bad.
William Bradley | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media
Here's what Team McCain is doing, with its advertising and overall messaging, to give the veteran senator a pretty good chance of winning the White House.
Jacqueline Leo | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media
Although Svennson's initiative is directed at television, it will have a chilling effect on other advertising if it passes Parliament, and it may even affect French and British politics.
William Bradley | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media
What a bizarre week for Obama to mount a counter-programming effort. He has the RNC and Hurricanes Gustav and Sarah. It's going pretty well for him -- not that he has all that much to do with it.
William Bradley | Posted 09.26.2008 | Media
Free from the no doubt horrifying responsibility to run positive TV ads during the Olympics, the campaign is back to its all-attack ways.
Phil Trounstine | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
McCain's campaign is playing the TV news shows for hapless fools -- getting millions of dollars in exposure for attack ads for which the campaign never intended to buy major air time.
William Bradley | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
So why did lovable old John McCain suddenly put out FOUR negative TV ads in less than two weeks? Are new campaign director Steve Schmidt and company crazy like foxes? Or just crazy?
William Bradley | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
With the eyes of the world, and the U.S. media, trained intently on Obama during his week-long tour of the Middle East and Europe, for McCain, there is the question of what to do while all this is going on.
William Bradley | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media
While insiders obsess over the constant back-and-forth on cable news and in the blogosphere, the campaigns seek to drive longer range messages for the non-insiders who will decide the election.
Jack Myers | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business