THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THOSE WEB ADS ON TV, STARTING WITH THEIR VERY EXISTENCE
BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS WE'LL PROBABLY KNOW WHETHER THE past month's holiday frenzy of dot-com advertising in traditional media was successful or whether it was a remarkable waste of resources. I'm guessing the latter, and here's why. Broadcast has a set of tropes--or styles of presentation--that have evolved over the past 50 years or so that are useful for reaching a mass audience. For the most part, these involve linking the product or service being offered to some ideal version of