Nerd Stalker

In this episode we talk to Daniel about how the advertising industry has totally changed on a massive level. We discuss specific points where ad strategies and failing and conversely how one can course correct and leverage better ideas to win. Daniel Brian Cobb is an Emmy Award-winning advertising executive, keynote speaker, and business strategist who has partnered with some of the world's most remarkable brands for nearly three decades—such as Disney, Warner Bros., Chick-fil-A, Coca-Cola. Cobb founded Daniel Brian Advertising (DBA) with the intent to reinvent the marketing industry. Cobb's motto is, “better brands for a better human condition”. He also serves on the board of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, CA-based Missions, and Me And Angel House Orphanages. He is the author of, "Surfing the Black Wave: Brand Leadership in a Digital Age".

OMMA gives your AR/VR Panels for Marketers Live [ View the story "Scenes from the OMMA VR/AR" on Storify ] At the Online Marketing Media Awards (OMMA) VR/AR they explore how marketers will take Virtual and Augmented Reality from this mind-altering novelty phase into an opportunity to enrich branding, deepen consumer relationships and maybe even sell a couple things along the way. Watch it live now!

NewTeeVee conference Nerd Stalker aka Adolfo will be covering and liveblogging from the NewTeeVee conference in SF today around 12pm pst. http://www.nerdstalker.com

We were one of the lucky few who got word that the Spot.us web application goes live today. We speak to Founder David Cohn at Project One in San Francisco about the breaking announcement. David was conducting research for Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business, when he thought that this concept could apply to journalism. Spot.us empowers both the general public and journalist to cover (and contribute to) the stories that they want, while circumventing the possible exclusion by traditional editors. This could very well be the new face of traditional news and we will be watching closely. See a demo of Spot.us .