Day Man, fighter of the Night Man, Champion of the Sun, you’re a master of karate…and friendship for everyone.

This clip from a recent Fox Business channel interview with the smart and entertaining Gary Vaynerchuk is fun to watch on multiple levels. Here’s a quick list, in no particular order:

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There’s a theory that good advertising doesn’t make you buy something, it makes you buy something sooner.

If that’s the case, then most online advertising isn’t good advertising.

But we knew that already.

The inability for the online advertising market to develop standardized metrics that prove real ROI to brands has been a major hurdle in the evolution of a sustainable digital content economy.

But the financial crisis that has so many companies pulling back on spending and laying off warm bodies has a silver lining - it has set the stage for brands to help define the future of online advertising products that most effectively transmit their message. (more…)

The indictment of Illinois Governor Blagojevich reads like a pulp thriller.

Blago Indictment

I’ve noticed the print version of the Wall Street Journal getting thinner each day. Not just in the substance and integrity of the reporting (which I’ve mentioned on occasion - here’s an analysis of another questionable feature article), but in the actual volume of the paper.

Big media dies not with a bang, but with a frail whimper. (more…)

Choose your poison: market-driven contraction, the digital revolution claiming its victims, fear mongering, paranoia, shock doctrine or just opportune cost-cutting under the auspices of financial burden, the strains of the financial crisis have culminated in an orgy of blood bathing for media and entertainment companies.

Scanning the trades today is an exercise in gloom. Layoffs across the big studios. Venerable newspaper companies filing for bankruptcy. Production deals not getting renewed. SAG rattling its sabers for an insane strike. The sky is falling fast for traditional media leaving lots of questions and very few answers. (more…)