Signal May 20: Yumblr, Data Vizes, and the Programmable World
In this week’s Signal: Tumblr joins Yahoo! (though it’s not officially official yet); The potential of a ‘programmable world’; social command centers that allow brands to think and act in the moment; apps that turn the personal into the predictive;...
Signal May 13: An Instant Fortune, Algorithms FTW!
In this week’s Signal: Vanity Fair on Kevin Systrom; What if machines finally ran the world?; get back to your quick, dirty, scrappy roots; Eric Schmidt on the morality of data collection; interactive ads that enable viewers to interject their …
Signal May 6: Could You Leave The Internet?
In this week’s Signal: Tech writer Paul Miller is back online after leaving the Internet for an entire year; Yahoo fights for advertising dollars; Microsoft’s new Windows Phone campaign; a look at the “Anti-Cyberhate Working Group”; Digital Newfronts and...
Signal 4.29: Does Privacy Sell?
In this week’s Signal: Microsoft is all-in on privacy; the democratization of media; the RebelMouse mashup; riding shotgun on the native ads bandwagon; Tumblr launches mobile ads; IAB’s “Traffic of Good Intent” task force; an interactive look...
Signal April 21: No Ads For Glass – Yet.
In this week’s Signal: No ads on Google Glass; authenticity is the first casualty in the social media war; Twitter allows advertisers to target; Is it time to make critical distinctions within the Native Matrix?; Data is a hardcore business …
Signal April 15: 20 Years Ago, We Got Wired
In this week’s Signal: Wired’s 20th anniversary; what viewers want from branded video; banner ads — creepy interruptions; AOL is automating everything that can be automated; Tumblr disbands Storyboard; OpenCo is headed to NYC with your help; Intel...
Signal April 8: Media’s a Trip, Man
In today’s Signal: ‘Intelligent Content’— machines over publishers; find the programmer in you; policing display advertising fraud; autoplay equals auto-annoyance; automated ad buying myths; data’s effect on storytelling; Facebook’s HOME is missing the...
Signal April Fools Edition: Twitter’s No Joke
In today’s Signal: Dick Costolo on building the global town square; Facebook introduces FBX-targeted ads in News Feed; ad model suggestions that might end the cookie-blocking privacy debate; brands dabbling in the VC space; “Borrowed Interest” as a...
Signal 3.24.13: Fraud and the Internet Minute
In this week’s Signal: An Internet minute is nothing like a New York minute; ghost sites — inside the new breed of cheats; the reality of shifting ad dollars from TV to Web video; experiments with paid content reached a turning …
Signal March 18: What Facebook Knows, Google’s Glass, The Death of a Reader
In this week’s Signal: The FTC makes a rule update important to digital advertisers; Google Glass — on your face and in your face?; Digg picks up where Google left users hanging; marketing meets tech at SXSW; Facebook as a …
Signal March 11: Twitter Rising, Healthy Data, CM Summit Coming
In today’s (rather lengthy) weekly Signal: Why mobile ads are “lousy”; Adam Bain’s marketing vision for Twitter; another Facebook makeover; is Scroogled evidence of Microsoft’s obsessive-compulsive disorder?; data’s role in serving humanity...
We’re back, with the new weekly Signal Format. A bit of a hiatus as we got our CEO transition on. With that and more behind us, we’re ready to get back into a cadence of delivering you …
The New Signal: The Best Stuff Of the Week, Feb 19 Edition
Welcome to the renewed Signal, where I’ll be reviewing the best stories in media, marketing and Internet culture from the week that was. The past seven or so days have seen plenty of notable news, including the launch of our …
The 2013 CM Summit: Made For You
Signal readers: We’ve had a hiatus in Signal, because we’ve been very hard at work preparing the theme and initial lineup for this year’s CM Summit. We’ve now unveiled the result of our work: Parting the Clouds: Bridging Data and...
The Weekly Signal, Jan 28: Apple, Snake Bit?
So many stories broke last week, it’s hard to pick the ones I might highlight. But reviewing the lot, it’s clear we should start with Apple: Last week marked the moment the wormed once again turned on the perennial press …
