*Are you beginning to the see the problem?

[Image] We want active consumers, because an active consumer is one who is buying. In this sense, active doesn’t mean getting off the couch, or even exercising, it means buying stuff. An active consumer is wonderful to brands.
Indeed, branding is about getting the name, and or product/consumer benefit in front of consumers so that when they are actively looking to buy something, they pick the thing we’re marketing.
So back to interactive. Outside of the notion that you can’t interact with a billboard, billboards certainly want to promote activity. Unlike Billboards, websites and banner ads and things that come out of the “interactive department” are interactive.
Are you beginning to the see the problem?
General advertising wants to promote activity, but it doesn’t demand it. General advertising doesn’t say, “Do it now.”

Source: Isn’t all marketing inter-active?

*What is the 10% problem?

[Image] How will newspapers shift their business center of gravity online the same way most have shifted their audience center of gravity? That is the question keeping every newspaper executive awake at night.
Bill Keller, the New York Times Executive Editor and excellent editorial emissary, made the following comment in an interview:
But the Web audience is growing at a great clip, while print circulation is not. And online revenues are growing faster, too, albeit from a smaller base. If the trend continues, there’s little doubt that — “eventually” — online becomes the main business.

Here is the rest of the article Newspaper Online vs. Print Ad Revenue: The 10% Problem by Scott Karp

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