1950s Lilli cartoon sample, see note 6 Over her years, Barbie (the doll) [1] has been a massive marketing success story. A bigger success than the very successful Barbie the Movie [2]. But because I did not have a daughter and because my two boys are [...]
The story that started here as GOOGLE’S DÉJÀ VU will have lots of future twists and turns as the (third-party) cookie crumbles. We decided to follow the chapters that we actually understand and think are important in the Marketing Wilderness context: “Google Grants a [...]
The story that started here as GOOGLE’S DÉJÀ VU will have lots of future twists and turns as the (third-party) cookie crumbles. We decided to follow the chapters that we actually understand and think are important in the Marketing Wilderness context. Let’s do this in [...]
In January, 2020, Google advised the marketing world that it was doing away with the third-party browser cookie by 2022. Then came the pandemic. So earlier this month, when Google (Alphabet Inc) announced it would not develop its own replacement for third-party cookie data, or [...]
verbosity alert About a month ago, Mary Meeker, aka The Queen of the Internet, delivered the annual report that Silicon Valley loves the most: the Internet Trends report [1]. It’s also reported in the marketing media. This year’s report is a 333-page slide deck that [...]
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” John Wanamaker, 1838-1922 This is a quote generally attributed to John Wanamaker, an American department store magnate, US Postmaster General, religious leader and politician, born in 1838. Yes, [...]
