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When advertising spend for digital video doubles to $12 billion by 2018 in the U.S., half of that will be around mobile platforms, says David Hallerman, Principal Analyst at eMarketer, in this interview with Beet.TV. By mobile, he means both wi-fi-connected devices and phone devices connect via cellular.
We spoke with him about the growth of video ad spending as well as the emerging opportunities around targeted and addressable advertising.
We interviewed him at the VideoNuze summit in New York on Wednesday, where he was a featured speaker.
You can find this post on Beet.TV.
As I celebrated Gay Pride this past weekend with family and friends, I couldn’t help but notice a completely different feeling in the air compared to prior Pride weekends. While the festivities started last week and ran all weekend, it’s the Sunday parade that best captures the prevailing spirit so I really enjoy that day the best.
Of course the best part of the day, at least for me, is reading all the slogans on t-shirts, buttons, and stickers. Not only are they cleverly written, they always capture people’s sentiments and what they want to fight for.
This year was vastly different. The slogans felt more victorious than in years past. Through the years we’ve seen messages about “Equality” and “My Bedroom, My Business.” The fight for equal rights, employee benefits, anti-discrimination, and gay marriage dominated the messaging.
This year a lot of that was gone. I saw “Gay. OK.” and “Let It Go” much more frequently than anything else. Of course the most prominent was “Just Married,” which made me smile every single time. The most common “jewelry” was a colorful beaded necklace with a circle rainbow flag in the middle with no slogan at all. It was from TD Bank.
My absolute favorite was the t-shirt saying “Love Conquers Hate” with the “Hate” almost completely erased so that you could barely read it. Fabulous.
I also couldn’t get over the number of brands marching in the parade. Unbelievable. From Google to Macy’s to American Express to HSBC to Shutterstock. Back in the day it was rather uncommon to see a mainstream brand other than Orbitz or a vodka. Now it seems almost mandatory to be marching, especially if you care about your employees. These employees were marching proud; heads held high that their companies support them. I was proud to see them all there.
Have we turned the corner? Is this the year we are victorious?
I am not sure we can claim that quite yet, but there was a clear sense of victory in the air, and I couldn’t be prouder. The streets were filled not just with gay people, but with human beings from all walks of life, every flavor in between and from every vantage point to celebrate Pride. As well they should. If it is a victory, then it’s a victory for us all.
“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it”
– Irving Berlin
As one of the coaches of my ten-year-old son Cole’s baseball team, I usually find baseball exhilarating. But after a recent weekend tournament, I was wiped out from dealing with the number of emotions these fifth-grade kids were dishing out.
We have one player who cries–when he strikes out, when he grounds out, when he makes a bad play in the field or a mistake running the bases. You get the picture. And this attitude has started to permeate the dugout. Now we have two more kids with the same problem. We know as coaches that we must nip this behavior in the bud. But we are only coaches and not their parents, who may be fostering their behavior.
In baseball and especially when batting, you are going to fail more than 66% of the time. It is part of the game.
During most of the tournament (we played six games in three days), my son Cole pitched lights out, not giving up any runs. When we eventually needed a relief pitcher to finish an inning for him, I was shocked to see tears well up in his eyes as he sat on the bench. Having never seen my son cry in all the years of baseball or any sport, I sat down beside him, put my arm around him, and told him that he had pitched great (there were numerous errors the prolonged the inning, but that is what baseball is all about, even in a travel league, when you are ten years old). My son normally has the mind-set of a friendly dog–always smiling, laughing, and able to forget about setbacks quickly. Did he think this meltdown was perfectly fine because the other kids were doing the same thing?
During Cole’s next at bat, he let a third strike go by and was loudly called out by the ump. We have always taught the kids to run back to the dugout after a strike out and to show an attitude of “I will get you next time.” Cole came back to the dugout slowly, and his eyes welled up again. Keep in mind that at the time he was leading the team in hitting with an over-400 batting average. This time he and I had a different conversation.
I am responsible for developing a man, not just a baseball player. In life, everyone has ups and downs. We all must learn to be resilient. As a salesperson and business owner, I really can’t count the number of setbacks, and outright failures, I have experienced in my lifetime. After a failure, you have to be defiant with yourself and loudly exclaim, “NEXT” or “Bring it on”! Embrace your failures as learning experiences and let them motivate you to win the next time.
Cole complained that the pitch was outside and a ball. I immediately told him that he was responsible for guarding the plate, and if he let a close one that could be called a strike go by, it was his issue and not the umps’. I then looked him directly in his teary eyes and told him that if I see him cry again after a minor setback in baseball, he would be sitting on the bench the rest of the game. And if it continues after that, I would pull him from the baseball team.
See, baseball is a microcosm of life: it’s fun to play, it’s competitive, it can be hard, and no matter if you win or lose, there is always another at bat, another play to be made, or another game to play. My son will learn to be accountable for his actions, but I also want him to enjoy the overall experience. That is hard to do if you are crying all the time.
Why are kids today so upset with a little failure? I believe society hasn’t done them any favors by trying to make everyone a winner and claiming everyone deserves a trophy. This doesn’t build character. Instead, it atrophies resilience so that our children can’t overcome their setbacks.
My dad was the great modern-day motivator. I confess that I didn’t always have a positive attitude, and Dad’s great motivational advice to me was, “I will give you something to cry about.” Here’s the beauty of my dad’s strategy: while I was busy outwardly appearing happy (or face my punishment), I actually became happy. I learned I could control my attitude. Thanks, Dad!
We need to help mold the character of our kids by helping them understand that they control both their attitude and effort. If they have given their best effort, then they will accept setbacks as part of life. Let them struggle and experience failure so when they succeed they will feel that much better.
What are some strategies you can employ to keep you attitude positive when experiencing setbacks?
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