Darren Herman
Marketing, Media, and Technology Conversations
Category: Advertising & Marketing

I spent much of 2007/08 exploring the world of online ad exchanges and data.  If you are a regular follower of this blog, you were with me for much of the journey as I wrote quite a bit about it.  After digging deep in the industry, I wanted to put together a White Paper that [...]

InterClick president Michael Katz had a nice writeup in MediaPost today entitled Ad Budget Crunch Puts Pressure On Supply Line. I believe that ad networks are going to be disintermediated in some capacity over the next few years and Katz sheds some light on this notion (from an opposite perspective. Advertisers and agencies are shifting [...]

I was at the Washington Post Digital conference this past week down in the Caribbean.  Had great conversations with many of my agency peers and met some fantastic people who are innovating in the heart of Madison Avenue. What would Obama do?  This seems to be the underlying tone of the best digital media campaigns.   [...]

I’ve got two questions that I’d like to pose to you and hopefully, there will be a lively discussion in the comments section of the blog. Question 1:    I was talking with one of my best friends and he referenced a recent blog posting by Mark Cuban.  In this posting, Cuban states:  If the fact [...]

I’m a huge fan of celebrating superior products, services, and people.  Last night was the Crunchies – an award ceremony for industry achievement within digital media.  Cnet has a very nice writeup.  I wasn’t able to attend due to some client meetings that I had to be in New York for, but was able to [...]

Happy New Year to everyone!  I want to start 2009 strong by announcing the New Platforms Fund to empower developers of applications on top of platforms such as Twitter, Boxee, AppNexus, Trulia, iPhone, and more.  The goal of the fund is to seed up to 10 cutting edge ideas with both money and human capital [...]

I generally hate buzzwords.  I can stand them for a short period of time, but when they become mainstream they turn into my pet peeve.  Social Media has been a word that we started hearing about a few years ago and now everyone and their mother have turned into social media experts or have even [...]

It’s that time of year again.  Approximately 360 days ago, I posted the 2008 prediction list that was picked up all over the web.  We all know that any prediction in itself holds little weight but when you aggregate many predictions together, you can start to see trends and use this for guidance to where [...]

I’m involved in many discussions about the future of advertising agencies and the way that technology plays an increasing role.  I’d like to have an open discussion in the comments section here on this blog and would love to crowdsource your ideas. I have a specific vision that I’m going to illustrate in a general [...]

I’ve spent the past year (and change) at a top media agency here in New York and constantly attend plenty of technology conferences (like Web2.0, DPAC, etc) and listen to entrepreneurs on stage bashing ad agencies because they don’t understand technology business [insert publisher here]. Put yourself in ad agency shoes:  think of how many [...]