by Samuel Scott | Mar 5, 2018 | Marketing Essays
My new column is live at The Drum: If your public relations campaign involves going after children who have survived a mass shooting at their school that killed 17 of their classmates and teachers and injured many more, then you have already sold your soul for...
by Samuel Scott | Feb 19, 2018 | Marketing Essays
In a second and special The Promotion Fix column in The Drum today, I look at Robert Mueller’s indictments and discuss what it means for the future of social media and the high-tech world: Facebook appears Russia’s biggest useful idiot in Vladimir Putin’s bold...
by Samuel Scott | Feb 19, 2018 | Marketing Essays
My new column is live at The Drum: That’s not a marketing textbook. This is a marketing textbook. Or so Byron Sharp might say. After university, my first full-time job in 2002 before I became a reporter was as a staff assistant at the Beacon Hill Institute, an...
by Samuel Scott | Feb 5, 2018 | Marketing Essays
My new column is live at The Drum: Brand publishers should learn quality versus quantity and shut up If content marketing is so wonderful, then why is the largest company that is best known for selling, using and advocating the practice losing more than $40m every...
by Samuel Scott | Jan 22, 2018 | Marketing Essays
My new column — this time, a feature on the pros and cons of blockchain — is live at The Drum: Blockchain takes on ad fraud and the Google-Facebook duopoly Cryptocurrencies are beginning to smell a lot like tulips. Still no one I know in the world wanted...
by Samuel Scott | Jan 8, 2018 | Marketing Essays
In addition to being a marketing speaker, I also discuss the tech world as a contrarian. My first column of the year for The Drum focuses on the latter topic: Want to join a martech startup in 2018? Here’s what you need to know first Almost 70% of executives will...