This week The Brandery received some nice news coverage courtesy of local ABC affiliate WCPO.   The coverage came in parallel to a press conference by former Sequoia Capital VC Mark Kvamme who recently served as the Director of the Ohio Department of Development.   The coverage revolved around the effort by The Brandery to create high growth jobs through Consumer Internet startups.  

Later on today, I will be presenting at Ad Age’s Media Evolved Conference in New York City.   The event is about 2 hours in already and I’ve been really impressed by my fellow speakers including Dana Anderson of Kraft and George Bodenheimer of ESPN. My presentation is later this afternoon and I’ll be talking about “Moving Beyond Advertising” and how

In January, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a study on young people’s media use entitled Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds. I came across the study thanks to a post by Chas Edwards at Digg who called out some really interesting stats such as: Young people are spending more time per day consuming media on a

The bat signal lights up the Woolworth Building to promote The Dark Knight.  I haven’t been this excited for a movie in a long time. Photo courtesy of Olga Bas

Lately there has been some good discussions about other companies acting like Venture Capitalists, especially ad agencies.  Personally I have major concerns if an agency starts acting like a VC, especially if they are investing in New Media companies.  The potential for conflicts of interest are huge.  First, theses agencies need to be media-neutral.  I need to trust my agency