Advertisers Catch The Twitter Bug, But Too Small To Matter?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Advertisers are starting to move, en masse, towards Twitter but is it too small to matter? Southwest Airlines and JetBlue have taken the lead and Zappos.com uses the service ardently. Last week, in the throes of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, I had a great conversation ...

Consumer 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Changing Moods, Metrics, & Monetization

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The Web 2.0 Expo is kicking into high gear tomorrow in San Francisco. I'll be participating on the Consumer 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Changing Moods, Metrics, & Monetization panel. Rafe Needleman from CNET will moderate and I'll be joined by Konrad Feldman from Quantcast, Murtaza Hussain from Peanut ...

Online Is The New Primetime

Friday, April 18th, 2008

ComScore came out with some interesting data around internet usage and TV viewing habits recently. Marv Pollack, who posted his findings on the ComScore Blog, found that "during most waking hours, more people (age 15+) are using the Internet than are watching television. It is only for the last two hours ...

Scrolling: Do They or Don’t They? A Data-Driven Analysis

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

We've all heard it: "Web users don't scroll." But through our analytics work, our team has found very little actual data to support that common web myth. In fact, one of our biggest clients knows that users can be motivated to scroll down even the longest page (89% of users scrolled ...

Quick Web Design Hits For Hard Economic Times

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Last week I had the opportunity to talk to a leading industry analyst about a number of potential small web site investments that marketers and publishers could make to yield the biggest possible pay-off. The premise being, of course, that in economic hard times site owners needed to stretch ...

The Web Agency: There Will Be Blood…Or Not?

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

And if there is going to be blood in the digital agency world, who's blood will it be? That was the question (or more accurately "questions") that hung over the SXSW panel that I spoke on at this year's conference in Austin, Texas. The answer was far from clear, however. The ...

Does the Home Page Still Matter?: Why Distribution Trumps Destination Online

Friday, February 29th, 2008

From the Avenue A | Razorfish's Digital Outlook Report...my take on why marketers, advertisers and web site publishers are still placing too much emphasis on the role of the home page in the consumer experience when all of the data is telling us to do otherwise. ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, ...