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Listening to my morning Celtics podcast when host John Karalis uses the example of leaving a party as a metaphor:

You know when you’re getting ready to leave a party and you start looking at your watch and you’re like “ok, I’m going to start looking for the opening here”. And unless somebody comes along and hits you with a great story, unless somebody comes along and hooks you to stick around…you’re going…

That’s everyone on the internet scrolling and clicking.

They’re constantly leaving the piece of content in front of them until it hooks them.

You have to hit them with the great story.

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Amtrak on creating a viral messaging campaign

We need to be really different and captivate … attention

Similar with a twist is the recipe for algorithmic attention.

Being the same doesn’t stand out.

Being too different might backfire.

Using a familiar hook (Friday! Friday! Friday!) in a new context provides an on ramp to curiosity.

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via EMARKETER

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Partnerships and ad buys with prestige names confer status internally in the businesses that make the buy. “No one ever got fired for choosing IBM.”

Your audience doesn’t care that you paid to be on the top / hot channel. They care that you met them where they are.

Vanity / scale metrics are lazy proxies and ladder climbing fodder.

44% of the U.S. podcast audience who do not listen to shows within the top 1,000 have ever purchased a product as a result of hearing it on the medium, similar to the rate (47%) of U.S. podcast listeners to shows in the top 1,000 who say the same. 

via Edison Research

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The work of marketing is not the selection of suitable messages. The work is the task of engaging another mind. It is a constant dance between understanding your subject and understanding how a future customer will react to it - a customer you can never know, but which you still have to intuit.

vandalizing a quote from John Higgs

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”By Humans, For Humans”

How long until this is a positioning signal?

How long until this is a signal of the new luxury?