Remove 2013 Remove Advertising Remove Operations Remove Travel
article thumbnail

How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad

Harvard Business Review

Second, she needed to convince local residents to sign up, usually through tailored advertising campaigns and direct appeals. Rocket’s competitive advantage often centers on achieving operational excellence in difficult settings (for example, in Amazon clones, getting books to customers in countries with poor infrastructure).

article thumbnail

Ad Blockers and the Next Chapter of the Internet

Harvard Business Review

Yet ad blockers have been around almost as long as online advertising — certainly as long as we’ve had browser add-ons and extensions. But that’s what you get when you visit most advertising-supported commercial websites, whether you want it or not. See PageFair’s 2013 and 2014 reports). Insight Center.

article thumbnail

The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

Media 9