34% in the 18-49 target demo, and 29.5% overall. Is it television or is it the music? Both. Let’s start with TV, we no longer live in a monoculture, the only appointment TV is the Super Bowl, not because of the game but because it’s become a national holiday, many attendees at parties don’t even […]

“Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis” Why are the tireless self-promoters always the ones who fall from grace? Why do they always have blind spots? Why do we buy their act and then find out it’s built on fiction? We knew this. Sheryl Sandberg lived a charmed life with little loss, […]

Clapton Christmas Sometimes you try too hard. In today’s competitive market, where you can make it but the label won’t put it out until it’s convinced it’s a hit, everybody feels the pressure, and this works against music. Whereas Eric Clapton’s Christmas album seems to be a toss-off, getting a group of people together in […]

The Eric Clapton Christmas album is amazing… and I’m a Jew… I can’t remember when Clapton had a great album… You must listen.. It’s brilliant.. Kindest Cheers, Jeff Laufer This is the kind of stuff the papers should be covering, their upper middle class demo will eat it up. Instead I have to wait fully […]