by Jeff Yablon | Dec 4, 2014 | Business Process, Media
Media Standards? I Told You So. No seriously, this post is all about things working as expected, and also me being in I Told You So mode. I’ve done I told you so a few times here. If I’m honest about it I acknowledge that I kind of enjoy being right and am...
by Jeff Yablon | Dec 1, 2014 | Content, Media
Once upon a <blank>, there was a <blank> called <blank>. And young people loved it, and <blank>ed it for decades. And then one day, Mad Libs became important to Pixar’s 22 Rules for Phenomenal Storytelling. The End. Of course, that...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 25, 2014 | Business Process, Content, Media
In business, we often think we need to know where we’re going if we have any hope of getting there. But if your business is storytelling, sometimes the path undefined is the path to greatness. And that’s Rule #3 of Pixar’s 22 Rules for Phenomenal...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 21, 2014 | Business Process, Influency, Marketing
Despite his name have come up here over two dozen times, I have at best only a passing interest in model/wooden actor/über-investor-cum-pitchman Ashton Kutcher. But this week, Ashton Kutcher made what can only be called an Ashton Kutcher Uber Mistake. How big a...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 18, 2014 | Content, Marketing, Media
When we launched VideoNetworkOne, I produced the little piece you see here. In it, I praised the work of Hank Green. Hank, brother o’ John (the nearly-forty-year-old writer of Teen-Angsty drivel like The Fault in Our Stars), does cutting through the noise...
