OMMA = OMG
September 30, 2005
"We got it; you don't". That's the message I got sitting through 2 days at the OMMA East Expo. To be exact, just 1.5 days until I can't stand to hear another self-serving speaker/panelist.
To start, we had Samsung telling us to use Internet as billboards. Consistency and frequency, the speaker said (apparently they're blasting on some 600+ sites 24/7)… Well, that's all good if you have millions of budget to waste – Aren't we going the opposite direction with the Internet when one can get more targeted and thus smarter in posting ads? I must have heard the word "Samsung" over a hundred time during that speech.
There's also a panel called "Is Micromedia in Wikipedia?", where the 6 panelists agree on how the rest of the world is not getting blogs. I'm fascinated by how self-absorbed and arrogant some of these guys are; they think they're the only ones getting blogs, and they'd like to keep it that way. As the gentleman from BlogAds explained: they don't have the resources to bring [blog illiterate] people from A to Z. Very well – I thought they're running a business there for a second.
The industry really needs to stop victimizing itself and blame the rest of the universe for not adopting – break from the cult and stop speaking in "wikipedia" terms!
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