In this presentation, Phil Georgiadis argues that the industry spends too much time worrying about the next big thing as opposed to fully understanding how to exploit the current big thing. As examples he suggested that Touchpoints surveys encourage the wrong planning behaviours, and digital media’s importance in media planning has been exaggerated. Where change is required however is in the media trading market, which needs to overhaul its habits.
7. A proverb making the observation that
turbulent changes do not affect reality on a
deeper level other than to cement the status
quo.
source:wiktionary
The great Chinese emperor Xianfeng gathered all his wise men together and asked them to distil all the knowledge of the world into one place. After many months the men returned bringing with them dozens of books detailing everything they believed there was to know. He wasn’t happy because there wasn’t enough clarity and the writing wasn’t incisive enough
so he set fire to the books and told them to go away and come back with a more concise summary of what was known…
Eventually after many years of trying to satisfy the emperor and more bonfires and a few summary executions the wisest of all the men returned with the answer written on one piece of paper…two words…
Everything changes
And nowhere is this more true than in the world of media. We are privileged to be involved in such a dynamic and challenging industry although for all the stimulus it is interesting to observe how conservative we are as an industry.
although for all the stimulus it is interesting to observe how conservative we are as an industry.
As an industry we have been talking about a shift in the paradigm for a long time and the latest manifestation of this is the annoying habit of people to talk about owned, bought and earnt media which is in many ways simply a means of trying to justify social media
We need a metric that measures the % of the internet that offers a ‘media friendly’ environment…the IAB can’t keep getting away with their bland assertions
discuss
and we have witnessed limited success in new business propositions…witness I level and naked and whilst we are undoubtedly more robust and wide reaching organisations than ten years ago the acceleration of the commoditisation of media has happened faster than the emergence of exciting new ways of planning and communicating
TV is planned the same way
Not least because it’s bought the same way
But a share deal with ITV,C4 made a fair amount of sense when they were the only kids on the block…the share deal was with the content provider
Now the share deal is with the channel owner or representative and the assumption in most instances is that the money will be distributed across most if not all of the channels represented
Discuss…abdication of responsibility by planners etc
That’s akin to someone doing a deal to represent 200 magazines in WH Smith that aren’t that large in circulation terms and then selling the inventory in bulk to the agency for a print advertiser currently limiting their exposure to 10 carefully crafted choices