Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill 📚


Shorter copy drives more action. It’s science!

3 ways to shrink your copy:

  • Fewer words
  • Fewer ideas (be really clear on your goal)
  • Fewer requests: more requests = less action on any of them

Be clear
Be concise

via the Nudge podcast


Anybody can get traffic, but it’s hard to build an audience.

-Casey Newton

via Sounds Profitable


Everything is marketing.

Unless what you’re doing is unique, it’s really marketing at the end of the day.

&

Brands are becoming media companies. So we’ll see more Red Bulls of the world.

& media companies are becoming brands.

We’re just going to see this amalgamation of everything being everything

via the Future Forecast podcast


Is attention the new attribution?

The New York Times is partnering with Adelaide, a company that uses signals like eye-tracking data to gauge whether readers are paying attention to ads.

The Times started using its own proprietary attention metric last year

The goal is to eventually tie attention metrics to advertisers’ campaign performance

Attribution is getting increasingly difficult. So is garnering attention.

As the value of attention increases it could function as a proxy metric for ROI and related metrics of attribution.

What is the return on attention?

via Marketing Brew