October, 2007 Archive

If you can’t measure it, should you even include it?

All kinds of articles this year have stood up to be counted on the topic of measurement. Executives, especially CFOs, want marketing to be more and more accountable. A good recent piece on CMOs in strategy + business ranks accountability second only to putting the consumer at the heart of marketing. At PJA, our clients [...]

Where global warming meets interactive marketing

”Our stock in trade seems to be going away.” Is this a) a print media-based marketing agency or b) a geophysicist lamenting the disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean?

Adbusting BtoB

Adbusters is a curious experience, if you’ve never picked up this ‘culturejammer’ journal at your local Whole Paycheck. Presented in a magazine format, it contains no ads whatsoever, though if you visit their Vancouver-based Web site you can pick up a nice anti-sweatshop, cruelty-free, pro-grassroots travel mug for your plug-in hybrid. The stories, such as [...]