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David Berkowitz

David Berkowitz is Vice President of Emerging Media at 360i, where he ensures the agency and its brands stay ahead of trends and changes in digital media. He also spearheads Startup Outlook to guide brands on how to evaluate new technologies. An avid traveler, he has toured dozens of countries and has managed to eat at McDonald’s on five continents.

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Should Owned Media Join Paid and Earned Media?

Image by lilivanili via Flickr Forrester’s Marketing Forum offered a bunch of thought-provoking subjects we’ll probably be chewing on for awhile. One that should spark more conversation is the Starbucks and Blast Radius presentation on the (STARBUCKS) RED holiday campaign that melded the complementary hobbies of caffeination and philanthropy. The presentation referenced how Starbucks considered ...

How to Take Manageable Marketing Risks, from Forrester’s Marketing Forum

360i’s live in the front row of Forrester’s Marketing Forum, so we’ll share some highlights of the coverage here (some more rambling, messier, but detailed notes are at my own blog). Forrester Principal Analyst Shar VanBoskirk set the stage with an energetic presentation about risk taking. I had talked with Shar about this last month, ...

Search 224, Social Media 0: David Berkowitz on His Search Insider Days

It’s time for a short trip five years in the making. This is the 224th Search Insider I’ve written for MediaPost, and most likely my last. As of next week, I’ll be switching over to the Social Media Insider. My first Search Insider was published Friday, July 2, 2004, which was mercifully right before the ...

Twitter Counters Facebook with Its Own Login Tech

Twitter has debuted Sign In with Twitter to match Facebook Connect (Image by VanMildert.com via Flickr). Twitter is now making it possible for site owners to let users log in with their Twitter accounts. Should you offer this option as it becomes widely available? We’ll get to that momentarily. This comes on the heels of ...

Searchers Don’t Pay Retail

Image via Wikipedia It’s no secret that Google isn’t the best search engine for everything. We saw that in recent explorations of live search and bathroom search engines. Another such area is finding coupons. Google’s a great place to find coupon sites, but then you have to sort through the clutter. I tried a search ...