by John Cataldi | Apr 5, 2011 | Marketing Mishaps, Mommy Blogs, Social Influencers, Viral Marketing
A big apology to the 12,000 socially engaged moms subjected to an April fool’s joke in poor taste My name is John Cataldi, I am considered by many to me an authority on social media targeting, engagement, privacy, and on occasion social media edicate. I...
by John Cataldi | Sep 23, 2010 | Brand Strategy, Marketing Mishaps, Media / Sales Mishaps, Politics, The Real Mad Men, Traditional Advertising
There seems to be about 3 Billion Reasons to Leave Coal in the Stocking of Several Political Media Buyers for Wasteful Media Spending Political advertising may potentially outperform holiday advertisers in hyper spending by November. Mediaweek reports that...
by John Cataldi | Sep 16, 2010 | Marketing Mishaps, PR Crisis, Social Media, Software Industry
Could a Stock Buyback of 2.9 million shares be a factor in TuCow’s Slow Response? TuCows (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) , out in the pasture?! With possibly 6M consumers affected my Malware spread through popular web portals, ground zero for the Malware attacks came from a...
by John Cataldi | Sep 16, 2010 | Marketing Mishaps, PR Crisis, Software Industry, Viral Marketing
Digital Social Listening Detects a Global Attack of One of the Webs Largest Software Sites! Reports began coming in September 14th that TuCow’s (AMEX: TCX) may have been affected via Ad Malware from blog sphere reports as detected by Adreka, Inc, using social digital...
by John Cataldi | Sep 16, 2010 | Marketing Mishaps, Mobile Technologies, Social Mobilization, The Real Mad Men
Damn You Twitter SMS for Getting My Hopes Up! I was experimenting with twitter’s tweet to mobile platform, and what started out as a great user experience, quickly turned into a reenactment of Laurel and Hardy famous 1927, Who’s on First. Like ICQ, Apple,...