Digital Chameleon Blog

How digital media is different

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

If you’re making the transition from buying or selling other media channels, you may be in for a surprise! In some ways online/digital media buying and selling involves a similar process to other media channels, but in other ways it’s far more complex and time consuming. More

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Traditional media consumption rises with internet

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Mumbrella reports that, according to Nielsen’s 2010 Internet & Technology Report,  the increase in internet use in Australia has not affected the time people spend with "traditional" media.

According to the report, the average Australian internet user spent 17.6 hours per week online last year, up from 16.1 hours in 2008. More

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The iPad's Threat to Advertising

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Interesting post by Shira Orbach on the IAB US' blog last week

The point being that the proliferation of new devices (like the much proclaimed iPad), based on real (or presumed) consumer behaviour is generating more "walled gardens" and less ability for content (and advertising) to be delivered seamlessly across platforms:

"Put simply, a company's opportunity to create, sell and use advertising effectively and profitably will depend on its ability to deliver it seamlessly across multiple devices. Fostering seamless delivery across multiple sites has been the rationale underlying the IAB since our founding 15 years ago. Yet as successful as we've been in standardizing advertising unit formats, measurement guidelines, work-flow processes, and the like, other central standards have proved elusive. For example, the creative agencies on the IAB Agency Advisory Board have said categorically that their single greatest obstacle to advertising effectiveness and growth is their inability to deliver the same rich-media ads to tens of millions of households across multiple sites because, as they put it, "the rich media toolkit differs too much from site to site."

The proliferation of device-based walled gardens risks making our complex supply chain even more fragmented and complicated than it's been. As Forrester's Bernoff wrote, "Web marketing has grown since 1995, based on the idea that everything is connected. Click-throughs, ad networks, analytics, search-engine optimization -- it all works because the Web is standardized. Google works because the Web is standardized. Not any more. Each new device has its own ad networks, format, and technology." The Apple iPad's lack of Adobe Flash - a core component of much interactive display advertising - only serves to underscore how splintered the advertising economy could become."
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Four Big Web Trends to Watch

Thursday, February 04, 2010


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2010 Will be Brighter Year for Advertising

Sunday, January 31, 2010


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The day the media died

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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10 things that matter

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Joanne Bradford, SVP, U.S. Revenue and Market Development, and Michael Walrath, SVP, Advertising Marketplace Group, both from Yahoo! are sharing 10 things they think really matter to the industry and Yahoo! at the IAB Leadership meeting in the U.S.: More

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Replicating the magazine experience on the web?

Friday, February 20, 2009

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Are media sites a "distant 4th place"?

Tuesday, February 17, 2009


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“I think this will be an enormous business for us someday.”

Friday, February 06, 2009

“I think this will be an enormous business for us someday.” Steven T. Florio, president of Conde Nast, on the CondeNet web operation established in 1995. More

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