May 14

What you missed this week: marketing spend, media stats, socio-local, plagues and more

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Here’s what you might have missed if you didn’t visit my blog every day this past week; Continue reading

May 10

Performance Indicators : Online Gaming

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We talk a lot about the digital revolution that traditional media is being put through: upheaval, readership and audience shrinkage, bankruptcy, pay walls… This post is a major update to a previous one “Traditional media performance indicators” (20 January 2010), however this one is segmented in that we’ll discuss only online gaming in this post. Others will follow to cover individually television, radio, newspapers, magazines and other media platforms.
What’s the situation really like in 2011? Traditional media are not dead – not yet, and not for a while at least. They’re not all as strong as they’ve once been, but they still occupy an important place in the media landscape. Let’s look at the situation with online gaming a bit: Continue reading

Apr 05

Quebec’s State of the Online Nation

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This is the culmination of a nine part series detailing how online media is different and similar in Quebec as compared to English Canada and the United States. Continue reading

Mar 29

Gaming is less gender specific in Quebec

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This post is the ninth instalment in a series that depict the state of the online nation in Quebec vs the rest of Canada, North America in general, even France in some cases. The story began here in case you missed it focusing on what’s so different in Quebec. Part two is here and explains about our inferiority complex, our star system and how we are latin. Part three looked at who’s online in Quebec and how time spent online compares to other media. Part four compared online surfing habits of French and English Canadians by looking at the categories they navigate online. Part five looked at ad spend online in Quebec compared to other media. Part six looked our social networking habits, which sites we consult the most and which are we not returning to… Part seven explained the agency-publisher relationship in Quebec as it differs from that in Toronto or elsewhere. Part eight detailed how online sales reps need to be more creative, more resourceful than their counterparts in Toronto. Continue reading

Jan 25

What are users’ needs when it comes to online advertising?

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This fall IAB Canada held its annual MIXX event in Toronto (Sept.30th) and Montreal (Oct.5th). This is the first in a three part blog series to relate to you what was brought forth during the event as new learning. Continue reading