Archive for the 'Marketing' Category


The Beer Market

We promised we’d hear the band. Which is how we, the assembled multitude, myself, the AEG guys and Ross and Laurietta, Singapore concert promoters, found ourselves in the Beer Market. There’s no litter in Singapore. I think there’s a fine for that. Or a re-education camp. They actually have signs boasting about this. So, a […]

Counting Crows/BitTorrent

It’s a publicity stunt. And based on my inbox, it worked. Hi, I’ve been on a plane all day, flying to NYC for Internet Week and then on to Philadelphia for the Non-Commvention. And the gentleman sitting next to me in business development for Amgen waxed rhapsodic that if only there was one site with […]

You’ve Got To Be There For The Accident

1 I got contacted by the George Stroumboulopoulos show. Don’t worry, I had no idea who he was either. They wanted me to be on during CMW, i.e. Canadian Music Week, I said no, I wanted to go to lunch with my buddies. But in making plans for said soiree with Barbara, I let drop […]

Pebble

Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android 1. It’s cool. No amount of marketing genius will blow into the stratosphere something that is not cool, something that is not great. There are millions of marketers out there, few idea people and even fewer who can execute. 2. Updates If you think it’s about releasing an […]