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Mobile Advertising Trends

Mobile Advertising Trends

According to ComScore Mobile Metrix, the average 18-24 year old spends 93.5 hours per month using smartphone apps. That’s 28 forty-hour work weeks per year. Time spent on desktop and traditional media is holding steady or going down while time on mobile continues to increase. By 2018, AdAge predicts the share of internet advertising going to mobile platforms will be 53%. As of 2016, mobile represe... »

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

If you or your parents grew up when the popular opinion in Congress, the news media and universities aligned with Roosevelt’s New Deal and the idea of redistribution of wealth, you’ve seen things come a long way from that ideal to Regan, who brought back the old Federalist lines of argument. These aligned closely to Alexander Hamilton, who has garnered much current interest and is the subject of a... »

Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

I enjoy authors who can mix and match stories and lessons from figures as diverse as Picasso, Proust, Edison, John Lennon and Michael Jackson while creating a book that still maintains a common theme and excellent core concepts. Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire have written such a book, Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind, and it’s been one of my favorite referen... »