Marketing In An Attention Economy

Last June, at the Innovation Marketing CMO Summit, led by Corante and Columbia Business School, John Hagel delivered one of the best talks I’ve ever heard. In his 15-minute, Powerpoint-less presentation, he posed a shift in business economics:

We are in the early stages of a profound shift in the economics of business that will transform marketing (along with many other things).

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Marketers: Don’t Get Burned By Consumer-Generated Media

iMediaConnection just published a nice piece by Robert Moskowitz titled “Don’t Get Burned By User-Generated Media.” And there’s a great quote from none other than…me:

Max Kalehoff, vice president of marketing for Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a global measurement service for user-generated media, makes clear that UGM’s popularity exists at least partly "because all the other controllable stuff is losing effectiveness."

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