Greg Grimmer, partner, Hurrell Moseley Dawson & Grimmer: “Wasn’t the internet supposed to encourage freedom, proliferation of brands and consumer choice? The actuality is that it is dominated by a hegemony of super brands.”
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informitv’s William Cooper says “for ITV, the challenge may be to think global while acting locally”…
In response to Derek Jones’ ‘Will video kill the reach and frequency stars?’ article, Vic Davies, course leader and senior lecturer at Bucks New University, says it will be dangerous if the digital behavioural concept gets used as a trading currency…
“The old metrics of reach and frequency won’t matter in this brave new world.” So Rhys McLachlan said – Mediacom’s managing partner for implementation and future investments – at The Future TV Advertising Forum last week.
In the latest Mobile Fix, Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, wonders who will pick up the bill for the bandwidth needed by mobile web players…
In response to John Billett’s comment on CRR (and Marshall’s age, hearing and understanding), Jim Marshall begs to differ…
In response to Jim Marshall’s TV Summit write-up John Billett, director and owner of Johnbillett.com, says the operation of agency deals means CRR acts as a barrier to entry for smaller buyers and as a protection for the larger agency…
Raymond Snoddy wonders what Nick Shott will make of ‘Channel 6’. “Is it a cunning attempt to launch a new national channel by the back door? I think we can assume that neither Kelvin MacKenzie nor L!VE TV (or even topless darts) have anything to do with this latest plan, though history rarely repeats itself in such a perfect way”…
Jim Marshall wonders whether MediaTel’s recent TV Summit makes the case for scaling up to a full TV Conference now – the sort of TV conference that used to happen in Monte Carlo and Barcelona some years ago when everything was less complicated, more profitable and more profligate…
Raymond Snoddy says “the Lords Select Committee might come out with a clarion call to abolish CRR but I doubt it; the CC will not wish to re-open the can of worms anytime soon; and while the idea of a wide-ranging investigation into all the dark workings of the advertising business is superficially attractive it is difficult to find anybody who actually wants such a cumbersome and time-consuming thing to happen.”