The Serially Sporadic newsletter is back, and I’m trying to change things with the approach. I did away with the table of contents, the pro bono ads (which was a fun idea, but couldn’t last indefinitely), and other things that distracted from the main purpose of informing and inspiring. Below is the opening letter, and […]
Tune into VentureBeat to Hear about the Future of AI
I talked to VentureBeat a little bit ago about where artificial intelligence is heading and the future of social media. It was one of the more wide-ranging and fun interviews I’ve given, thanks to the interviewing chops and intellect of Stewart Rogers and Travis Wright. I met Travis 10 years ago at a Web 2.0 […]
When Will Facebook Find Its Voice?
A more polished, edited version of this appeared in Ad Age. You’re stuck with the original ‘director’s cut’ here. When Will Facebook Find Its Voice? Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and now Apple made their voice-activated hardware approaches clear. There’s one proverbial elephant that isn’t in the literal living room right now though: Facebook. Does that mean […]
The Rebirth of Advertising
La French Touch, a conference series connecting French entrepreneurs around the world, invited me to speak at their NYC event in June and gave me 20 minutes to talk about anything I wanted regarding marketing. After toying around with some ideas, the presentation ultimately became The Rebirth of Advertising. It was originally dubbed “The End […]
A 5-Step Framework for Visual Search
originally published on Convince & Convert How would you hashtag the Mona Lisa? You can probably come up with a lot of ideas. Perhaps your list would include: #art, #DaVinci, #smile, #masterpiece, and #Louvre, among others. Conversely, reading a few of those hashtags would make it easy for most literate, English-speaking adults to guess the […]
Divining the F8 of Image Recognition for Marketers
Originally published in Ad Age; image via Wikimedia Commons Facebook’s F8 developer conference this week provided the most fanciful view yet of where augmented reality is headed. The event also gave marketers — Facebook is, after all, one of the world’s largest ad-supported busineses — a glimpse of AR’s commercial potential. While Facebook previewed its […]
Why I Don’t Respond to Random LinkedIn Connection Requests
I originally shared this post on LinkedIn, which makes sense. But for those of you who don’t follow me there or missed it, here it is in full. Why I Don’t Respond to Random LinkedIn Connection Requests Hi, I’m David. Like you, I’m a LinkedIn member. I’ve been a LinkedIn member for a long time. […]
Care for a Free Ticket to the Virtual Summit on Content Marketing?
Friends of Serial Marketer, on May 24, I will be sharing my talk on Trends in Visual Search and Image Recognition with the Summit on Content Marketing, a virtual summit featuring scores of great speakers like John Hall, Jon Wuebben, and… well, pretty much anyone I know of here is named some version of “John.” […]
5 Reasons Brands Could Be the Next Victims of Fake News
originally published in Adweek The specter of fake news debatably made an impact on the past presidential election, forced Google to take new steps to mitigate the problem and spurred Facebook to make changes to its Trending section. Now brands are starting to feel the effects. There’s little doubt that the influence of social media […]
The 5th Edition of the Serially Sporadic is Here!
More content! More product recommendations! More text-only newsletter goodness! Yes, it’s that time again where you can read a newsletter, and find it excerpted on this blog. The web version is online, you can sign up at bit.ly/seriallysignup, and I’ve pasted the upcoming events below in case you’re in the same city. One addition: I […]