Advertising in the future will be much more like PR, observed former Publicis COO Richard Pindner for the ever thought-provoking Ignition group “We’ll be run more like a daily TV show or an interactive newspaper than an advertising factory.” As in political campaigns, agencies today need to operate as a nerve center. Most PR firms are already built on this model; ad agencies must learn to do the same
Like YouTube, Blip splits advertising revenues with Web series producers. But unlike YouTube, which also streams amateur videos, and Netflix, which streams feature films and television shows, Blip is solely focused on those producers. Rather than competing directly, it is trying to carve a niche next to YouTube in the expanding world of Web video.
Online Video Start-Ups Seek Niche Beside YouTube – NYTimes.com
This is a great article. Feels so good to see everything we’ve been working on written up in the Times.
(via mikehudack)
»> Nice to see the good guys who’ve been working their asses off, get the press they have earned
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Dirtbombs killin it at the Bell House…
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Dennis Coffey @ Bell House
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Old97s? Brooklyn? July?
Yes please
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Artist Chris McMahon buys cheesy landscape paintings from yard sales, then paints in monsters of his own.
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We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.
– Jonathan Ive
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If you look at [Steve] Jobs and [Steve] Wozniak, they were makers, the more we can turn the nation into a nation of makers, they will be smarter, they’ll be better problem-solvers, and they’ll be more equipped for the problems of tomorrow.
-Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck-E-Cheese