Archive for the 'Marketing' Category


Ads Don’t Work

“Bloomberg Spends Millions on Anti-Trump Attack Ads” Trump won because he was a known quantity, in the public eye for decades and then on network TV for years, starting in 2004, when network TV still counted, when Netflix was still sending DVDs by mail and Tony Soprano had no idea who the “Stranger Things” kids […]

More Irishman

“Did ‘The Irishman’ Take a Bite Out of the Thanksgiving Box Office” “Don’t blame Netflix’s ‘The Irishman’ for the Thanksgiving box office being down this year” Just the fact they’re debating this proves the point. “The Irishman” on Netflix was an event. Other than “Frozen,” was there a picture in the theatre you had to […]

World Domination

“Artist Andy Warhol is credited with saying that in the future, everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes. The world has changed considerably in the 50 years since he allegedly made this prediction. Hockney, who has outlived his contemporary by more than three decades, has surveyed today’s cultural landscape and has arrived at a different […]

“The Navarro Recession, II”

The Navarro Recession, II It’s about the money. It’s always about the money. And when you piss off money, when people lose money, there are consequences. Now you may think the stock market does not affect you, but chances are you’ve got pension money invested, and even if you don’t, its performance has consequences in […]