Digital advertising has come a long way since the days of annoying pop-ups that flooded a user’s screen, but most advertisers still don't fully respect what users want. As new research shows, internet users want organic ad experiences that cater to their personalized wants, rather than invasive and overt ads that have little relevancy.
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Language Matters in Life and Business: Impulse Control When You Shop
Don't let marketing buzzwords and scarcity messaging urge you into impulse purchases this holiday season.
Read More »Language Matters in Life and Business: Minimalism Can Pay Major Dividends
Slogans are as key as product names for marketing, and the shorter the sweeter, especially in the 140-character Twitter era. Sometimes advertisers hit the nail on the head. Other times they don't.
Read More »Language Matters in Life and Business: Getting It Right This Holiday Season
Ad agencies have copy editors who make sure the verbiage in their messages is correct. But when businesses do their own marketing, correct English and even correct spelling often go out the window.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success’ by Denise Bosler
With proven methods and interesting images and procedures, you are taken into a world of color and creative process, one that is intriguing and stimulating.
Read More »Book Reviews: SXSW Interactive: Newsjacking, Uncertainty, and Accidents
Cover bands don't change the world.
Read More »Fresh-Squeezed: Florida Orange Juice Exposes Assault on White Middle Class
Negative stereotypes of race, class, and gender persist in the media.
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Using the word mayhem can make a world of difference.
Read More »Book Review: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War by Jerry Della Femina, Edited by Charles Sopkin
A great time capsule of 1960s Madison Avenue.
Read More »Book Review: Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements by Dwight Garner
An illustrated volume with over 300 vintage book ads, documenting 20th century literature.
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