Chris Hooley’s -ThinkBait-

There are lots of posts about the neat schwag that web advertising venues have been sending to their clients this year.  Wanna know what an 8 figure + spender got this year for Christmas?  Here’s the list (which will be updated as things arrive)

• From Google: nothing (yet?)
• From Yahoo!: a $50 dollar donation to some charity on our behalf
• From Kanoodle: a card (so far, but my rep says cool stuff is coming- and they killed it last year)
• From 50% of our affiliate networks: a “customized” email, but one of them sent fairy tale brownies
• From our analytics companies: one card from one vendor and 3 no shows
• From our affiliates: nothing, but in their defense we didn’t send out stuff either and I think we really should have
• From our ESPs: nada. 
• From 6 other vendors: a card

This could mean a few different things.  Maybe I’m a dick?  Maybe since we are really low maintenance for most channels our reps forget about us?  (I don’t even have a Google or Yahoo! rep, and we spend millions a year on each… weird eh?)  Maybe tons of stuff is on it’s way?  Maybe they ALL didn’t know we had a new address since February of last year? 

Who knows.  All I know is I want some cool schwag tho.  Maybe I should train my team to dumb it down around the holidays so even us low maintenance multimillion dollar ad spenders can get some neat schwag for Christmas too!