Archive for the ‘online advertising’ Category

Glam - Proof Once Again that What Sounds to Good to be True Usually Is

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Glam sent out notice on Friday that it would stop paying their guaranteed flat rate for unsold inventory.  For online ad industry insiders, Glam has always been looked at with an of eye of befuddlement.  Glam's business model which was basically to buy up remnant inventory from a network of ...

Where do laws come from? (The Utah Story)

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Thanks for John Battelle and Eric Goldman for pointing out Utah's rediculous attempt to save businesses from the vagueries of competition.   In a prior role, I had the good fortune to meet and get to know Eric.  Eric's a really smart legal professor who has to be one of the leading legal ...

being early = wrong v2, the spot runner story

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Today Henry Blodgett argues Google should buy Spot Runner essentially arguing Spot Runner is enabling targeted TV advertising for the long tail of local advertisers.  Spot Runner's not the only company dreaming the dream of enabling the long tail video advertising (both online or offline).  And based on a conversation I had ...