Paid Attention
Innovative Advertising for a Digital World
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The advertising attention marketplace is a confusing and vast playing field where the rules have changed drastically over the last decade. Make yourself heard and win the attention of your target audience with the new edition of this ultimate guide.
Paid Attention delivers new and innovative insights into advertising ideas: what they are, why they are evolving and how to use them in day to day strategy to ensure commercial stability within a changing digital landscape. Packed with real-world examples of advertising campaigns such as Google, Sony and Old Spice, it provides a robust model for influencing human behaviour and toolkits that offer best practice on brand behaviour and effective communication.
This second edition includes two new chapters exploring the latest evidence about attention spans and trends in online advertising, as well as new case studies on compelling brand ideas. In a world where being a consumer is confusing, learn to take control of the situation and make yourself heard in today's crowded attention marketplace.
About this Author
Faris Yakob, Based in New York City, New York, is co-founder of Genius Steals LLC, an ideas and innovation consultancy and of The School of Stolen Genius, an online learning community for marketers and creative thinkers. He is former Chief Innovation Officer at MDC Partners, EVP & Chief Technology Strategist at McCann Erickson, plus Global Digital Strategy & Creative Director at Native Communications. Yakob is a prominent international speaker, guest lecturer for a number of universities and has written for publications including the Financial Times, Forbes, Advertising Age and Media Week.
Reviews
"A must read for anyone in the communications industry."
"Paid Attention is the most stimulating and useful blueprint for genuinely fresh thinking about advertising and communications that I have read in the last ten years."
"The most useful, entertaining and insightful examination of communication theory and commercial creativity that I have read."
"In a world where the rate of technological change is ever faster, this new edition is a must for any ambitious marketer, strategist or creative."
"What next for media, brands and even humanity now we have reached peak attention? Faris powerfully explains and expounds the future in his trademark smart, witty and always surprising tone."
"Faris's book is a roller coaster of a book - full of ideas on ideas, it held my attention at every turn. Packed full of theories and evidence to weigh and consider, this is the advertising/communications/ideas book of the year."
"At a time when almost every pundit seems to be questioning whether advertising has a future, Faris is offering some answers."
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