Zapak is firing all cylinders….preparing for blast off….got this in my mailbox today…
(However, the typo …’click here to check your mails‘ .. is a total dampener)…
Zapak.com Aggression
April 7th, 2007Really neat Royal Enfield Advert
April 2nd, 2007Yahoo! India launches Maps
March 30th, 2007How Consumers Hijacked the Media Model
March 27th, 2007 From Marketwatch:
It is no secret that the traditional media are under assault from audiences.
In the magazine industry, advertising pages at Time Warner Inc.’s Time magazine were down 23.8% in 2006 from 2000, according to Publishers Information Bureau. Newsweek’s ad pages fell about 17.6% in the same period. In the newspaper industry, the New York Times stock has been halved since trading above $50 in 2002. In the music industry, sales of CDs have been declining in the last seven years and fell 20% in the first quarter of this year. Contd…
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Most indian marketers and traditional media professionals would discount these as western trends. Keep in mind, indians are highly aspirational and have shown a higher affinity for technology-entertainment than most developed countries (a classic example is india’s booming Mobile VAS Industry). India’s share of global internet users has hovered between 3-4% since 2000, clearly illustrating a set of advanced users and new user growth proportionate to the rest of the planet. We’re already approaching the tipping point and distribution continues to get better (wi-lan, mobile…). While traditional media waits and watches, online media models change …real-time…by the user, for the user, of the user!
He who laughs last, laughs loudest…
Yahoo Mobile Publisher Services Launch
March 27th, 2007 instead of pointing you to a PR announcement, here’s quoting Search Engine Journal….
Last week Yahoo introduced their oneSearch mobile search experience for the majority of cell phones which offer Internet access. This week, Yahoo is working to fortify its innovative hold on the mobile search market with a suite of services which enable publishers to increase the discovery, distribution and monetization of their content via oneSearch; Yahoo Mobile Publisher Services.
AB in the Rokr Ad
March 25th, 2007 Hats off to Moto & Ogilvy for pulling this off… there is nothing i can say that will do it enough justice!
