Darren Herman

While much of our days are battling agency against agency for our next client relationship that brings revenue growth, whom we’ve been competing with over the decades is changing.  When David Ogilvy wrote his famous book, I bet he wasn’t envisioning who was going to be his next competitor.  It’s no longer just JWT vs. [...]

We launched kbs+p Ventures about 6 months ago as an early stage investment arm of our agency, kbs+p.  Last Friday, we hosted a summit where we brought a small group of people with both visionary and tactical backgrounds to help us filter the areas that are of potential investment focus.  While most firms keep this [...]

One of the areas that I focus on is bridging Madison Avenue with Silicon Alley/Valley.  I think it’s unbelievably important for the future growth of both ecosystems.
At The Media Kitchen, in 2008, we launched our first Digital Media Venture Capital Conference.  We haven’t looked back since and we’re going on our 4th year of doing [...]

I’m going to buy my 2 kids, David and Ava, some Adobe stock.
I figured I’d start this post with a bold statement.  Hopefully I got your attention.
Adobe is upping their game.  They historically have been a software company focused on the creative & production industry.  They could have stayed this way and [...]

I’ve been wrestling with transparency lately – mostly around the consumer side of things.  Transparency is great, but if it comes at the cost of too data overload, then is it really worth it?
One of my blog readers reached out and said he’d started a service called VoyURL of which I’ve been participating with for [...]

Read my previous post for a good preface to this one as it’ll help with the understanding.
The 80/20 rule for products are that 20% of the product users will be vocal and you won’t here from the other 80%.  Sometimes, this is more like 95/5.
I’m going to liberally stretch this to be 80% of the [...]

I was watching [on Fora.tv] a 2008 Clay Shirky talk he gave to a bunch of folks at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard and he hit the nail over the head around a topic that I like to talk about, “technology as an enabler.”
One of my best friends, Andrew Sispoidis, one [...]

Bill, we’ve never met but I’ve been a big fan of yours since the idealab! days.  I’d love to chat with you based on your recent media coverage around UberMedia.
I’ve been reading lots of the recent news around the acquisition of TweetDeck and your other acquisitions..  This morning, I read an interview on PaidContent which [...]

I found a new content consumption occasion in my life and it’s during the time I’m on the elliptical in my home gym.  I rest my iPad against the top of the machine and have been consuming TED videos for the past few weeks.
While in the beginning I searched for specific topics that I thought [...]

For those note familiar with Ohours, it’s my friend Nate’s new experiment with helping to connect people looking to network and connect with other interesting people.  He also coded it from start to finish as his working education to learning programming.  I thought I’d try it.
I held my first Ohours day on Friday, January 7.  I [...]