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Monday, August 20, 2007

SpotXchange On Course, Booyah!!

Quick Overview and Opinion, If You Will.....

The rash of adaptation from the demanding clients and press to reach the consumer in a "new" manner, or fashion...while they are working or on the go, are two good choices I suppose. The new websites, ideas, terms, players, money, talent, sales tactics, PR; and it all relates back to marketing, advertising and PR; or does it? Sure does, that one piece of information could be what makes or breaks a start-up digital signage network, or a start-up interactive mobile billboard provider... Technology is the key to the kingdom, as some would say. I beg to differ and beleive that technology is a large part of the key to the "new consumer" and "future consumers", but lets not go 100% tech and forget to hire advertising talent, wisdom, reps-whatever their title maybe.....the part that understands and can lead the horse to water and with a big enough ego carefully groomed, can even make some of them drink the water.....you better beleive it..plus PR and marketing, remember 80% of executives buy what they have seen or read about in print (print is still and always will be a player-at least in my lifetime)....I have witnesseds networks using prime talent and their sales staff for marketing, PR, hiring, scouting talent, partner relations, and selling....yes a company must run lean, and some reps always go the extra mile and shall take on some of these extra duties to hit above and beyond the desired income....but the organization shall run clean and pay attention to it's signals and fires. Not all sales reps are going to produce PR for a company-it is not their style....I see in some of the start-up digital signage networks that often the tech side (staff) over-power or out number the advertising wisdom (or talent) by a long shot, leading the network to a crash course in advertising sales-of a new media-tricky, maybe?....I have seen this happen with two networks that are only two hours from each other. This is not an everyday event, just a reminder.

I love reading and learning about what is working, what's new, what's hot, who's buying, what brand has the latest and greatest creative, etc...
Booyah Networks the parent I assume of SpotXchange are providing new mediums or better put....ways to use current media channels in which the advertiser and consumer are both better served......SpotXchange appears to have made the correct hires from day one (Booyah) and it appears that they leaned on experts from online advertising, spent some money and now the litmus test, shows that they will make it; just fine, according to my quick but alert introduction to all of the companies of Booyah Networks.


SpotXchange Appoints Larry Goodman to Advisory Board
From NewswireToday - Westminster, CO, United States, 08/20/2007

SpotXchange, the Internet’s first online video advertising exchange, announced today that former CNN President of Sales and Marketing Larry Goodman has been appointed to SpotXchange's advisory board as a director.

Goodman will apply his more than 30 years of media and advertising industry experience to help SpotXchange expand its online video advertising marketplace.

Media buyers, advertisers and agencies use SpotXchange’s self-service tools to distribute online video ads across SpotXchange’s network of online publishers, targeting audiences by region, time of day, publisher and content category. Clients and partners include ClipSyndicate, blip.tv, Gaiam, NeoEdge and Visible World.


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