Tag Archives: Digital Media

Welcome to the Fiberhood

Google’s ambitious Fiber experiment has been rolling along rather quietly since its announcement made some big waves in the tech media in the middle of 2012. Initially, the project got a mixed reception; equal parts excitement and skepticism. The company’s largest pilot test has been ongoing in certain suburban neighborhoods of Kansas City, and so [...]

A Prime Cut of the New Food Business

Eating is a biological necessity. Every human being must eat, but for millions of people nationwide, developments in recent years have placed an increasing emphasis on gastronomy that is healthier, more localized, more gourmet – providing something far beyond mere sustenance. As a result, massive changes in social and economic behavior surrounding this shift are [...]

The Price of Gut Instinct is High

Ad Age’s CMO Strategy recently published a survey of 243 CMOs and other marketing executives about their current practices, yielding some surprising results. With an alarming 28% of the respondents claiming they establish budgets based upon ‘gut-instinct’ and perhaps more surprisingly, 7% saying they do not base strategy upon metrics at all. It is time [...]

Which Way is Up?

The state of the advertising industry has received mixed reviews by the media. The New York Times reported from the annual conferences of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) that speakers and audiences were worried about the ‘sluggish’ pace of the industry’s growth. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs reports that online advertising will grow by 14% this [...]

What Financial Marketers Want from Digital Marketing

On June 3rd, 2011, Junction attended The Gramercy Institute’s Journal of Financial Advertising & Marketing (JFAM) Forum held at the New York Stock Exchange. Bill Wreaks, Chief Analyst, JFAM, assembled seven powerful groups of panelists in a fast paced, 30 minute per panel discussion of “What Financial Marketers Want from their Digital Marketing.” Bill gave [...]

The Rise of Outsourcing in China?

Suzhou, the second city on our tour, is considered one of the best tourist cities in China.  Aside from cultural and historical relevance, Suzhou’s economic development recorded the highest rate of growth since 2003.  We visited the Suzhou Industrial Park which is an important cooperative between the Chinese and Singaporean governments which is responsible for [...]