10. The Real Problem, part 2 As if that wasn’t enough, how comes the Internet!! (a renewed focus on content, content makes sites “sticky”, Google loves content…)
12. The Real Problem, part 2 The Internet gives us more content than we can use, PLUS much of it cannot be trusted. (54,345 sites on poodles? Can all of it be good, and how do I find that one site that tells me how it is?)
15. A flood of EMPTY and MEANINGLESS clutter and hidden somewhere is the information that will convince ALL your customers
16. This problem shows up in a wide range of place Companies, instead of focusing on selling with their marketing, develop an over-dependence on tactical solutions, tactical experts, and creativity. Twitter, MySpace, Creative, Banner ads, Flash, TIVO busting technology, fake blogs, real blogs, and on and on and on
17. Even the behaviour of customers reflect their attempt to solve this Especially online, you see the growth of blogs, social networks, Web 2.0, networking, rating systems, sharing, and so on. (These are ad hoc systems designed to add human meaning to the piles of data out there.)
19. Back in the old days… Ads were sellers, there was more time, more space In the US, only a handful of companies were national, so there was much less competition…
23. Changing of the Gaurd Claude Hopkins Caples Rosser Reeves David Ogilvy Leo Burnett Bill Bernbach
24. Branders!!! Their success led to a spread of the methods of branding, which led to a paradigm benchmark, which led to universities changing their curriculum to educate new advertisers and marketers in the concepts of branding, which led to a sea change in what was thought of a good marketing and advertising. So advertising changed from trying to educate the customer to advertising focused solely on the CREATIVE.
25. So, we deal with a flood of EMPTY and MEANINGLESS clutter And most people cannot see what the real problem is because after all, the flood is exactly what everyone thinks is good advertising anyways