Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A barrier to cross for online advertising

There is an interesting interview with Sarah Clegg,the MD of John Menzies Digital over on Paid content this morning.

Sarah tells the site that

publishers would rather invest to boost their headline ABC print circulation figures than in digital development
adding that

“To my knowledge, there has been no interest whatsoever from any ad team in any publisher in what is being sold in digital editions. It’s a chicken and egg situation because there’s not enough critical mass to sell. But we have to start somewhere.”


This is not the first time that I have heard this in the past few months.There have been a few speakers here at UCLAN who have alluded to the fact that ad salesman do not "get the web" being able to sell print content but not being able to translate that enthusiasm to online content.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting content.

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