Month: November 2008

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so along with my hipster PDA, i’ve been a big fan of Moleskine notebooks over the years.

i’ve used all sorts of sizes and styles.

however, the smaller hardbacks like this always seem to capture my imagination.  i’ve got 8 previous ones filled up with notes, stories, rants, poetry, etc over the last 5 or so years.  not too shabby considering they are about 200 pages.

i really got into the Moleskines while teaching 8th grade.  there was something cathartic to writing in them.

i’m back to using them heavily now.  missed them.  don’t know why i ever stopped using them, really… but it’s always great to look back months and years ago and see what was going through my head and heart.

Ad Spending Predictions Dire (But What About Peformance?)

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It puzzles me that “online ad spending” and “online marketing” are seen as one large homogeneous block by pundits and analysts.

Surely, this sort of thing is true for the Madison Ave crowd that relies on display and CPM advertising/marketing for their bottom lines:

eMarketer Cuts 2009 Projection for Online Ad Spend to Single Digits | Epicenter from Wired.com: “The revised projection data puts online ad spending at $25.7 billion in 2009 — a mere 8.9% over the $23.6 billion that will be spent this year and down from the 14.9 percent estimate it made only three months ago. In 2010 eMarketer estimates growth will barely return to double-digits — 10.9 percent — and that it will not be until 2013 before it hits 13.5 percent.”

However, what about performance marketing?

I have a feeling that as the economy continues to sour with no end in sight, performance marketing will increasingly be the “goto” for large companies and advertising agencies seeking shelter from the storm.

Nonetheless, I’m daily puzzled at why this isn’t happening sooner.