Some research outfit called VSS are claiming that “Internet advertising is expected to reach US$61.98 billion and become the largest ad segment in 2011, surpassing newspapers“. Sounds good to me. Hopefully a chunk of that will go to podcasting. I’ll be happy to settle for 1% of it.
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“”We are moving from a speech to a conversation.” – News Ltd Chairman John Hartigan
Welcome John. Hope your stay with us is nice.
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This has to be the next step in my career. It’s in the guidebook for aspiring media giants.
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So I finally got the new Dopod, went out and bought a battery, and I’m back on the air. In addition to forking out for the new battery, I had to buy a new screen protector and, I just found out, this Dopod takes miniSD cards. The other one took MICRO SD cards. And the two don’t fit in each other’s slots. GODDAMN!!!!!
Did I mention? 3 suck.
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This is the link to the online version of the Anthill article. Anthill have just launched the new version of their site. Now the guys have the full text of their articles online and for free! Way to go gents.
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I got a call tonight from Roy Morgan Research. Guy asks me if I will answer a survey. I ask “What’s in it for me?” He says… “well we’re Roy Morgan.” I say “Yeah, you going to pay me for my time?” He says “no”. I say “So you’re going to take my answers, sell them for money, but you won’t pay me for the content?” He says “No”. I say “Then no”. He says “well what about just two questions?” I say “ok”. The two questions are about the upcoming federal election, who I’m going to vote for, and whether or not I think the Libs are taking the country in the right direction. I bite. Get all political on his ass. Then I say “okay, you can ask me the rest.” He asks another ten questions, then I get “Did you know there is a ship which travels from Melbourne to Tasmania?”
I say “What’s that got to do with the election???” He says “nothing”. So I say “yeah I did know that”. He asks “do you know the name of it?” I say “No. What happened to the election?” He says “It’s called the Spirit of Tasmania. Had you heard that name before?” I tell him to stick the Spirit of Tasmania up his cheeky ass….
You look rather serious!
Nice one, Cam.
Cam – this is brillian marketing!
Not only they did not pay you for your time but they managed to get you (a considered influencer) to blog about their product/service (Spirit of TAS). Free advertising.
Wow – this is impressive!
I’d love to hire these guys to help with our marketing 🙂
Hey Christophe, I’d be happy to talk smack about you or your company anytime! Just cold call me and waste my time, you can be famous too!
Cam that’s a nice approach to the telemarketer.. love it and I am going to try that sometime.
Having just moved to the place we are at – we are yet to get any calls from the tele’s – but I guess that is only a mater of time… then the fun starts. My wife is polite… I am not.