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Quoted For Truth…?

In: Personal

17 Jan 2012

I spotted a couple of quotes from the web that I thought I would post here, from discussions on the world economic slowdown, banker bailout, sovereign debt crisis, yada yada. Personally, I don’t fully agree with them but I liked the fact they make me think about advertising and marketing, and role it plays in society…plus they [...]

Seeing as I haven’t posted in a while, and since being at V Festival last week, I thought it would be fitting to post this old(ish) note I scrawled. I really don’t care who you are, where you’ve come from, what genre you chopped up, filtered, spliced and sellotaped back together again. I don’t care where you [...]

As you’re no doubt aware, Spotify recently made changes to its terms of use that put in place much heavier restrictions for users of the free service.  Can’t really blame them.  Though ad supported, their free service was pretty tolerable.  You could quite easily leave it streaming all weekend, initially getting an ad every 6 [...]

“In a world where no one experiences a commercial they don’t want to, do you really expect people to listen to what you tell them and be sold to every third minute?  You’re dreaming.” I can’t admit that I’m not guilty of ad avoidance.  Working in advertising, I should probably feel a little guilty about [...]

Since the recent rise in popularity of Spotify, I’ve had a few discussions with people regarding the business models it uses. I’ll assume you’re familiar with how it’s advertising and charging model works; get the service for free and get ads, or pay a monthly premium and receive the service ad free. It’s an interesting [...]

Yep, that’s right.  As of the end of this month I’m moving – both at work and home.  Relocating to the West country. Having been at my current company for over 6 years, I’ve been looking for a fresh challenge in new areas for a while.  In my own time I’ve setup a blog to [...]


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  • Dan S: It would be great if ads could be better targeted. I guess google and facebook are trying very hard [...]
  • John Scott Cothill: blink-182 for example - 10 years ago they were singing about dog f***ing - now it's all about the 2 [...]
  • Adam T: Hmmm... I think there should be an element of targeting used most of the time. Dull? I would love t [...]
  • Swissss: Although, as aBay have found out, the higher the targeting, the less room for serendipity. eBay (al [...]
  • Joel: Well written. As generic ads become more intrusive, developers are making a fortune in blocking the [...]

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