Signal June 17: Great Ads Are Hard To Do. Can They Be Snapchats?
In today’s Signal: Ads that are clever and utilitarian; Snapchat: more than just a novelty; the technologies behind the NSA’s data-collection practices; programmatic’s problems; publishers look for the mobile money; Google offers native ads through...
Signal June 10: WTF is Up With PRISM?!
In this week’s Signal: The NSA’s Prism program, questions about how it was reported, and reactions to it; advertisers’ social media content problem; Facebook’s new ad strategy; Launch founder Jason Calacanis on why he broke up with YouTube; Google’s...
Signal May 3: My How Big You Are, Google!
In this week’s Signal: Google, global king of media; Twitter plans an ad exchange; Edelman’s new mantra; the disease of low-quality marketing content; tech startups help brands automate pieces of content; shedding a light on being kept in the ‘data...
Signal May 28: The Internet’s Week to Shine
In this week’s Signal: Highlights from Internet Week and the CM Summit; how mobile developers are influencing website design; what it will mean for publishers if Google News kills sponsored content; getting on the same page about native advertising...
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...
