Not Online? Not A Real Brand.

Terry O’Reilly writes:

A strong sign of television’s slow fall from media supremacy came in 2005, when I was hon­oured to rep­re­sent Canada on the first-ever Radio Lions jury. There we were told of two inter­est­ing trends: that entries in the TV ad cat­e­gory were down and that entries for the “Cyber Lions” category–that’s for online marketing–were up. To put this in per­spec­tive, the Cannes Lions Inter­na­tional Adver­tis­ing Fes­ti­val was founded on tele­vi­sion and film in 1959, and those two media have been the flag­ships ever since. Until now.