What’s Now? Chapter 15 – “Most online ads suck”

Mary Meeker is one of the most well-known and well-respected tech gurus. Every year Meeker presents her highly anticipated “Internet Trends Report.”  While the 213 slide deck included all kinds of insights about the Internet (and you are encouraged to review it), part of the presentation was particularly critical of online advertising. As you know from chapter 15, advertisers are following people’s “attention” which has moved from TV to online and particularly to mobile devices. Yet advertisers are still struggling to figure out how to break through and grab customer’s attention. Read more about it in “Mary Meeker is right – most online ads suck” (recode, June 7, 2016).

List three reasons why online advertising is not working well. Offer two examples of good online advertising on mobile devices.