70% of print ads don’t have a URL!?

Just a quick note on a very curious fact – here is a quote of a recent finding:

I’m working on remake of I Am the Media, so I asked one of our bright and diligent researchers to do a count of the last 4 months of print campaigns on Ads of the World. And the gut feeling was confirmed. 70% of them didn’t contain any URL.

70%? This is absolutely amazing. Out of 256 print ads, only 77 Ads had a URL for more information.

Seems like the other campaigns weren’t really interested in providing further information. But why?

Stop campaining, start committing

Interesting presentation of Paul Isaakson on modern brand building.

The essence can be laid out in the two contraries:

Campaining = marketing for short term gains.
Committing = creating an evolving collection of coherent brand ideas and experiences over time.

Modern Brand Building

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Just one sentence struck me as a bit strange:

Campaining = changing your core brand message to fit what you think people need or want to hear today so that they buy your product or service

Campaigns don’t always change core brand messages, do they? I surprised by that assumption…

New „State of the Blogosphere, 2008“

It seems to me like it’s been a long time since the last state of the blogosphere analysis of technorati. I think the last one must have been early 2007.

In the new publication, they offer much more insight than they used to. They conducted a survey amongst bloggers:

For the first time, we surveyed bloggers directly about the role of blogging in their lives, the tools, time, and resources used to produce their blogs, and how blogging has impacted them personally, professionally, and financially. Our bloggers were generous with their thoughts and insights.

The whole publication is split into 5 daily segments, but I look particularly forward to day 5, when they seem to publish information about brands entering the blogosphere. Here is a breakdown of the 5 segments:

    Day 1: Who Are the Bloggers?
    Day 2: The What And Why of Blogging
    Day 3: The How of Blogging
    Day 4: Blogging For Profit
    Day 5: Brands Enter The Blogosphere