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From TechCrunch, which takes a look at Nielsen NetRatings numbers over the past few months. Andreessen was right, the strike is launching digital video into the mainstream. Add that to the cancellation of the Golden Globe Awards (the Oscars might be next) and NBC giving money back to advertisers, the Writers’ strike will go down as the turning point for video online.
iMediaConnection invited me to contribute to the Best & Worst of 2007 round up. My favorite campaign of the year: Ask.com’s sponsorship of Ask A Ninja. The campaign that made best use of user-generated content — if you count editorial posts on Boing Boing or OhGizmo “user generated” — was HP iPaq 510’s sponsorship of “voice posts.” The agency that, to me, went furthest in pushing the envelope was Goodby Silverstein for Sprint’s WaitLess.org concept, HP’s campaign around voice posts (above), and HP’s Blackbird gaming system launch.
From Seth’s Blog:
“Sure, 1% of your customers blog or post or just plain talk. They’re louder than ever before. But the other 99% represent a real opportunity for you. Figure out how to get them out there. Cajole them to go to a caucus.”
(The 1% Rule explained here.)
I know it worked for Obama yesterday — get of them to caucus — but that might be the harder path, getting your quiet fans to alter their personalities so they become talkative fans. An alternative suggestion: Find talkative folks, and see if you can deliver a noteworthy experience with your brand.
Scoble attempted to port his Facebook contacts into Plaxo, and Facebook turned off his account (Scobleizer). Ironic, he pointed out, that “you can import your Gmail address book into Facebook but you can’t export back out.”
Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 lays out his “Five Guiding Principles for the Transformation of Media Companies.” Among them: The good old-fashioned monopolies over distribution channels once enjoyed by big media companies have crumbled, get used to it; search still rules the new media landscape, get smart about how search works; and figure out how advertisers can add value to the experience.
That’s from JP Morgan’s Imran Khan in his Nothing But Net report (covered here by TechCrunch). Early last year, I argued that the challenge of identifying quality content and predictably delivering ads near that content continues to weigh down prices.