Agencies. The Industry’s Family Tree 2010 is out.

April 26th, 2010 • Brands, Business, Strategy
Tags: 2010, Agencies, Brands, Business, Diagram, List, Strategy, Trends, visual, visualization, World

You are working for a network agency? You were part of one or the other merger? Time to zoom out and locate you on ad age’s annual agency family tree. The statistical compendium lists the big players, specialized agencies, compares winners and losers. And just like last year it offers a perfect overview about the state of the marketing industry worldwide. To help you locate your agency you can download the whole tree as pdf or get into it as navigatable map. The 2010 issue was just published. So go check it out.

By the way. Congratulations to my employer. Razorfish has just become the largest digital agency in the U.S. by revenues.

The Truth. God and Tufte hate your ugly Charts.

März 22nd, 2010 • Allgemein
Tags: Diagram, Funny, kittens, Philosophy, Powerpoint, Truth, visualization, World

Twenty years after the invention of Powerpoint and two weeks after Edward Tufte has been appointed to become Obama’s Presidential advisor there is only one thing left to say…and I hope you remember it before you merge Comic Sans Headlines and Smart Art next time. Understand it as a warning.

Thanks to Mark Goetz for the idea. I found the link via Flowing Data.

Facts and Figures. The world of google.

Februar 26th, 2010 • 3 comments Allgemein
Tags: Brands, Business, Cool, Diagram, google, Strategy, Tech, visualization, World

Twitter is crowded with marketing people. And what do marketing people really, really like? Right, statistics. Among loads of animated short movies which stage facts & figures from the web, we have seen a lot of wallpaper-like statistical info visualizations lately lately. First I thought “Nice”, until I found out that pretty much everyone nowadays puts his facts and figures into these kinds of banners. Anyway, I think this visualization is one of the better ones. It was created by Pingdom and tries to integrate many interesting facts about google in one place. Interesting!