This past Wednesday, April 11, we hosted our 5th annual TMK Digital Media Venture Capital Conference for our agency staffers, our clients, and our friends. I was particularly excited to host the event this year because we had an all-star lineup of speakers including but not limited to Dan Porter (OMGPOP), Albert Wenger (Union Square [...]
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On Wednesday, April 11, The Media Kitchen is hosting our 5th annual Digital Media Venture Capital Conference. Here is the writeup from 2008, our first one we ever held. It’s one of my favorite days of the year because it’s packed with inspiration from some of the greatest minds in venture capital, technology, and entrepreneurship. [...]
I was fortunate enough to be asked by Ari & David Goldberg to speak at their State of Style Summit which was held today at the 92st Y in Tribeca. They threw an A+ event and the turn-out of attendees was awesome; it looked like standing room only from the stage. Job well done, Goldbergs. [...]
If you’ve been watching any of the major television channels over the past week, you’ve probably seen a little button on some of the commercials that pops up with a call to action to Shazam. For those unfamiliar with this nifty app, it allows you to use your mobile device to take a sample of [...]
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post talking about how I was optimizing my content consumption. I spoke about both Knowabout.it and Summify, both of which I continue to use. Summify was just acquired by Twitter, which I think is a good move for them, however I hope Summify still exists to help [...]
One of my friends runs an engagement agency in Irvine, CA called The Buddy Group. One of the services he sells clients is a “Connected14” strategy which intrigued me since the day he mentioned it. Essentially, the Connected14 is an engagement strategy (and execution) across your 1 foot experience (tablet, mobile phone), 3 foot (desktop/laptop), [...]
According to some simple excel calculations (see below), Google controls about 5.85% of the worldwide advertising billings. According to a recent article I was reading, ZenithOptimedia has 2012 advertising expenditures pegged around $485 billion. Google derives 97% of its revenue from advertising so they are around $28.4bln. Do the math and it comes out to [...]
Ever wonder who is the marketing technology behind the $35 billion dollars in e-commerce sales this holiday season? If you are an agency, wall street analyst, marketer, optimizer or any other player in the digital media ecosystem, you probably want to read below. I always tell my team at The Media Kitchen that you can [...]
