Press

MAR 15, 2016 Quoted in Streaming Media, The State of Media and Entertainment 2016

MAR 09, 2016  Quoted in New York Times, What's in the (Cable) Box? Possibly The Future of Television

MAR 09, 2016  Quoted in Los Angeles Times, Facebook Reportedly In Talks To Stream NFL's 'Thursday Night Football' Games

MAR 04, 2016  Quoted in Fierce Cable, Greenfield: DirecTV Now Will Force Comcast To Take Xfinity Stream National

FEB 23, 2016  Interviewed in Digital Sport, Talking The Future Of Sports And The Digital Revolution With Alan Wolk

FEB 22, 2016  Article in Found Remote, To Box Or Not To Box: What The FCC's Set-Top Box Intentions Mean For The Future Of TV

FEB 17, 2016  Quoted in National Post (CA), How Netflix Inc’s New Global Recommendation Algorithms Are Upping The Ante With Canadian Rivals

FEB 09, 2016  Quoted in Digital TV Europe Recommendations To Drive 75% Of TV Viewing

FEB 08, 2016  Quoted in National Post (CA), YouTube Launching Original Content Featuring Its Homegrown Stars

FEB 08, 2016  Quoted in  TV Predictions, Super Bowl Live Stream Was Not Super

FEB 06, 2016  Article in  Slate, Why Can’t Apple Figure Out Television?

FEB 03, 2016  Quoted in  Los Angeles Times, YouTube Moves Closer To Becoming A Netflix For Millennials

FEB 01, 2016  Quoted in  MediaPost, Better Measurement: It's A Give And Take

JAN 28, 2016  Guest on  NPR's Morning Edition with Neda Ulaby, How Do You Measure Passion? Figuring The Value Of Social Media Followers

JAN 27, 2016  Quoted in  Fierce Cable, Comcast, DirecTV Among Pay-TV Operators Kicking The Tires On Virtual Reality

JAN 06, 2016  Quoted in Digiday, Univision Isn't Giving Up On Second-Screen Apps

JAN 05, 2016  Quoted in  Denver Post, Hardware Still Rules For Dish, As Electronics Fade At Annual CES Event

DEC 28, 2015  Quoted in USA Today, Cutting The Cord: Next Year Will Bring Even More Streaming Options

DEC 22, 2015  Article in  The Guardian,  Audiences Down, Christmas Ad Revenue Up: Has The TV Industry Gone Mad?

DEC 04, 2015  Quoted in  Los Angeles Times, YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights To TV Shows And Movies To Bolster Red Subscription Service

NOV 13, 2015  Quoted in The Wrap, Why Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Keeps Sinking – And Whether She’ll Be Around Long Enough to Save It

NOV 05, 2015  Quoted in The Wrap, Facebook’s $300 Billion Milestone Proves Small Social Army Can Beat a Corporate Goliath

NOV 05, 2015  Quoted in TechHive, The Hated Cable Box Is Finally Coming To The End Of The Road

OCT 27, 2015  Over The Top reviewed in New Zealand Herald, What Is The Future Of Television?

OCT 27, 2015  Quoted in StreetWise, Facebook, Inc. Dominating Twitter in Near Term, they claim my report on Social TV boosted Facebook stock prices

OCT 26, 2015   Quoted in DigitalTV Europe,  Facebook To Overtake Twitter As Top Social TV Platform

OCT 23, 2015   Quoted in Fierce Cable, Countering ComScore And Rentrak, TiVo To Give Away Set Top Demographic Ratings Data For Free

OCT 22, 2015   Quoted in VideoNuze, TDG: Facebook to Dominate Social TV

OCT 21, 2015   Quoted in Los Angeles Times, YouTube Launches Subscription Service For $9.99 A Month

OCT 20, 2015   Quoted in Digiday, Movie Studios Are Still Fighting The Death Of The DVD

OCT 19, 2015   Quoted in MediaPost Online Video Daily, UPDATE: Digital's Future Run Faster Than Authors

OCT 05, 2015   Quoted in Multichannel News, Rentrak-comScore Amps Up Ratings War

OCT 05, 2015   Quoted in Fierce Cable, AT&T's U-verse And Tribune Extend Retrans Talks To Oct. 13

OCT 02, 2015   Quoted in MediaPost, Online Video Advertising Isn't Just Like TV

SEP 27, 2015   Quoted in USA Today, Cutting the Cord: Changes Abound For Consumers

SEP 22, 2015   Interviewed by Found Remote,  The 3 Best Books About the Future of Television and What The Authors Would Add If They Could

SEP 18, 2015  Over The Top reviewed in New York Review of Books. TV vs. The Internet, Who Will Win? by Jacob Weisberg

SEP 07, 2015   Guest Column in Variety,  Streaming Services Should Be A Part Of Pay TV

SEP 03, 2015   Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle,  Did Apple Pick The Right Or Wrong Time For New Apple TV?

AUG 28, 2015   Quoted in FierceCable,  Sinclair Says FCC Actually 'Delayed' New Deal With Dish, Didn't Help Lead To It

AUG 26, 2015   Quoted in FierceCable,  Amid Pay-TV's Biggest Station Blackout Ever, Dish Handily Beat Sinclair In Perception

AUG 25, 2015   Write up of Over The Top in Adweek, Alan Wolk on His New Book and Predictions for TV

AUG 21, 2015   Appearance on "Stocks and Jocks" radio show. Decline of Prime Time

AUG 21, 2015   Quoted in TheWrap, Media Stocks Continue Freefall as Stock Market Sinks 600 Points in a Week

AUG 18, 2015   Quoted in Ad Age, What NBCU's Investments in BuzzFeed, Vox Could Mean for Advertising

AUG 14, 2015   Article in Digiday, For Streaming Video Apps, Data Is The Only Way Forward

AUG 10, 2015   Quoted in Digiday, TV is dead! Long live TV!

AUG 07, 2015   Quoted in The Wrap, Media Stocks Bounce Back After Cord-Cutting Panic

JUL 24, 2015   Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, Netflix Has A $5 billion War Chest. Look Out HBO

JUL 18, 2015   Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, In Fantasy e-sports, Everything Is Virtual Except The Money

JUN 26, 2015   My book, Over The Top, reviewed by Canvas8, Deep Reads: Our Pick of Reading Material That’s Worth Your Time

JUN 26, 2015   My book, Over The Top, reviewed by Canvas8, Deep Reads: Our Pick of Reading Material That’s Worth Your Time

JUN 26, 2015   Quoted in The Street, HBO Now Is a Hit on Apple's iOS but Is It Really a Big Deal?

JUN 25, 2015   Interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition with Neda Ulaby, For Online Video Stars, YouTube Is No Longer The Only Stage.

JUN 22, 2015  Guest column at The Guardian, Time Is Running Out For The 30-second TV Commercial (Picked up by MediaREDEFINED)

MAY 12, 2015  Quoted in The Wrap, AOL May Spin Off Huffington Post in Wake of Verizon Deal

APR 24, 2015  Quoted in Variety, NewFronts 2015 Preview: Digital Players Push Superiority To TV

APR 13, 2015  Quoted in Digiday, The Future of Digital Advertising in Five Charts

APR 10, 2015  Quoted in International Business Times, Nielsen-Adobe Ratings Will Help Web-TV Ad Revenue Quadruple, Report Says

MAR 20, 2015  Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Comcast Faces Open Season on the Cable Bundle

MAR 13, 2015  Quoted in MediaPost's Online Video Daily , Maybe HBO Now Won't Be As Disruptive As You Might Think

FEB 05, 2015  Guest column at The Guardian, When Netflix and Other On-Demand Services Killed the TV Ad Golden Goose. (Picked up by MediaREDEFINED)

FEB 05, 2015  Guest column at Adweek's Lost Remote, A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing: Jesse Redniss and Alan Wolk on Twitter’s Latest (and Genius) Play

JAN 24, 2015  Quoted in USA Today,   Cutting the Cord: Dish's Sling TV Could Win Older Fans

OCT 16, 2014  Interviewed by Neda Ulaby of NPR's Morning Edition about the ramifications of HBO's new standalone app.

SEP 09, 2014  Lost Remote writes up appointment to 2nd Screen Society Chairmanship.

AUG 07, 2014  Quoted in The Guardian:  House of Cards, Breaking Bad and Binge Viewing Pull Audiences Online

MAY 11, 2014  Guest column at The Guardian, The Future of Monetizing Television

APR 23, 2014  Interviewed for segment on CBC National News on the Aereo case before the US Supreme Court 

FEB 11, 2014  Interviewed for segment on CBC National News on the future of television

OCT 01, 2013  Quoted in Digiday article: The Limits Of Twitter's New TV Pitch 

SEP 30, 2013  Binge Viewing Survey cited and quoted in VOD Professional article: Why Binge Viewing Is On The Rise

SEP 29, 2013  BeanCast Podcast: #270 - Disruption Is The Enemy

SEP 24, 2013  Beet TV Interview: Most Viewers Watch Fave Shows On-Demand or Streaming, Study

SEP 18, 2013   Video and article at Video Ad News: Piksel’s Alan Wolk on the Second Screen, Data and Binge Viewing

SEP 17, 2013   Binge Viewing Survey cited by VOD Professional: IBC 2013 Review

SEP 16, 2013   Binge Viewing Survey cited by VideoNuze: Survey: Binge-Viewing Catches On With A Wide Majority of Video Viewers

SEP 14, 2013   Video on TVB Europe at IBC: Piksel's Global Leaders Talk Industry Trends

SEP 13, 2013  Beet TV Interview: KIT digital Relaunches as Piksel at the IBC Show

SEP 09, 2013   Article in Civolution's Vision Newsletter: Beyond The Bubble

SEP 05, 2013   Quoted in Digiday article: Social TV War Ends, Twitter Wins

SEP 04, 2013  Thought Leaders Column and Video on NAB's Connect2Media: The Future of Second Screen

MAR 28, 2013  Guest Column at VideoNuze: Aereo: The Hands On Review

MAR 26, 2013  Guest on NPR Morning Edition with Neda Ulaby: Why Are TV Remotes So Terrible? 

MAR 20, 2013  Guest column at Digiday, Second Screen Is Not Social TV

MAR 11, 2013 Guest column at The Guardian, Beyond Apps: The Future Of Smart TV

MAR 03, 2013  Beet TV interview: The Slow Adoption of Innovation In The TV Industry

FEB 22, 2013  Beet TV interview: The State of TV Everywhere Is At An Impasse

FEB 14, 2013  Guest on NPR TV's, The Brian Lehrer Show, The Impact of House of Cards on the Television Industry

JAN 28, 2013 Guest column at VideoNuze, Social Recommendations: No Surprises There

JAN 23, 2013 Guest column at Digiday, TV Everywhere Just Got Blown Open

JAN 13, 2013  Beet TV interview: KIT Digital Turns Video Ads Into Retail Experience With Ad Locker

JAN 11, 2013  Quoted extensively in Engadget: The State of the Second Screen: Will TV Companion Apps Proliferate or Dwindle? 

JAN 03, 2013 Named one of Top 20 Thinkers In Social TV and Second Screen


DEC 26, 2012 Beet TV interview: The Future TV Remote Control is a Tablet, Says Analyst Alan Wolk

DEC 18, 2012 Guest column at Digiday, 5 Myths About Social TV

DEC 12, 2012 Guest column at Digiday, The TV Industry Is Alive And Well

JUL 05, 2012 Quoted extensively in M+E Daily post: Creating the ‘Killer’ 2nd Screen App: What Do Audiences Value the Most?

JUL 01, 2012 Guest, BeanCast podcast: Size Matters 

APR 20, 2012 Monthly column on VOD Professional: The End of Triple Play?

APR 16, 2012 Quoted extensively in Lost Remote post, "KIT Digital launches white label social program guide"

APR 16, 2012 Host of demo video for new KIT Social Program Guide: The End of Triple Play?

APR 03, 2012 Guest column in VideoNuze, Building the Next Remote Control: Kinect Is Just the First Step

MAR 26, 2012 Monthly column on VOD Professional: Zeebox, Content Discover and Remote Controls


MAR 23, 2012 Digiday column: Just Say Not To Nielsen (co-authored with KIT COO Alex Blum)

MAR 13, 2012  Interviewed in SocialTimes.com: The Evolution and Future of Social TV

MAR 01, 2012 Beet TV interview: KIT digital Readies "Social" Video Program Guide

OCT 27, 2011 Digiday column: Why Social TV Will Extend The Reach of Shows (Part 3 of 3)

OCT 20, 2011 Digiday column: When 30 Second Spots Morph Into 'Social Intermissions' (Part 2 of 3)

OCT 12, 2011 Digiday column: The Social TV Decision Engine (Part 1 of 3)

AUG 08, 2011 Guest on CNN Radio Everything Internet show

JUL 22, 2011 Named as one of "world's most influential bloggers" by UK's  Brand Republic/Campaign magazine

MAY 25, 2011 Digiday column: A Word In Defense of Social Media Gurus

APR 13, 2011 Digiday column: Facebook Brand Page Follies

MAR 11, 2011 Wikipedia entry on SXSW (see “2010”)

JAN 24, 2011 Guest on The BeanCast podcast “Goats Are The New Monkeys” with Rupal Parekh, Dirk Singer and Bill Green

DEC 13, 2010 Silicon Alley Insider column: Location Based Services Would Be A Lot Better If They Weren’t In Real Time

NOV 5, 2010 Business Insider column: Stop Giving All Your User Data To Facebook

OCT 01, 2010 Interview with WADV’s Doug Zanger on trends during Advertising Week in NYC

SEP 22, 2010 iMedia column: Best and Worst Practices for Building Brand Apps

JUN 28, 2010 New Ad Age column: Execution Has Become As Important As The Big Idea

MAY 06, 2010 Quoted extensively in Information Week article My Smartphone Sent Me

APR 26, 2010 Guest on The BeanCast podcast with Joseph Jaffe, Darryl Ohrt and John Wall

APR 06, 2010 Noted blogger Faris Yakob offers his take on the Hive Awards winners

FEB 09, 2010 New Ad Age column: What Thug Life Can Teach Us About Twitter --also picked up by Gawker

DEC 02, 2009 Leading UK ad blog If This Is A Blog Then What’s Christmas names The Toad Stool as one of the Top 10 Ad Blogs of the Decade

DEC 01, 2009 Millburn-Short Hills Patch writes feature story on my involvement with the Hive Awards

OCT 12, 2009 Ad Age runs my first column, Niche Brands Should Embrace Big Market for Offbeat Content

OCT 11, 2009 Guest on The BeanCast podcast with Åsk Wappling, Ken Wheaton and John Wall

SEP 30, 2009 Huffington Postc article on Advertising Week cites my presentation at IAB-MIXX

SEP 03, 2009 Quoted in Brandweek article about Google and GMail outage

AUG 28, 2009 Quoted in USA Today article about IZEA’s sponsored tweets

AUG 05, 2009 Quoted in Fast Company article about sponsored tweets

JUL 22, 2009 Three different write-ups of Chicago NYF panels: Gods of Advertising, Collective Thinking and Flagged For Follow-Up

JUN 22, 2009 The BeanCast podcast with Ad Age Editor Jonah Bloom and award winning producer Hal Goodtree

JUN 08, 2009 Tweetfreak list of “Five to Follow” and follow-up “Twit of the Week” interview (via Adweek)

APR 20, 2009 The BeanCast podcast, with Microsoft’s Duane Forrester & Bill “Make The Logo Bigger” Green

APR 01, 2009 Contributing author of Connect! Marketing In The Social Media Era. Published by Blurb

MAR 22, 2009 Cited by Big Spaceships’s Qapture.net as one of top 10 leaders in Strategy and Trends

FEB 20, 2009 Contributing author to eBook The Passion Economy

FEB 18, 2009  Adweek runs latest column Field of Dreams

FEB 17, 2009   Guest column at TalentZoo.com "Advertising After The Real Digital Revolution."

FEB 12, 2009   Five blogs posted about my CATFOA presentation in Minneapolis: The Wah Report, the MIMA blog, The Image Lab Blog, YAYBIA and Greg Swan

JAN 23, 2009   “NASCAR Blindness” and “Scoble Blindness” theories cited in Marketing Profs article The Blind Tweeting The Blind

JAN 20, 2009   “Prom King Brand” theory cited in Huffington Post article, A Million Views (and Then Some) on Obama’s Inauguration

JAN 19, 2009   Quoted in Campaign, the UK’s leading advertising industry trade magazine on Adland’s Social Revolution

JAN 16, 2009  eBook, Marketing In 2009 with Fast Company’s Valeria Maltoni, available for download

JAN 05, 2009    Scoble Blindness runs on Marketing Profs Daily Fix

DEC 23, 2008   Walgreen's social media lead Adam Kmiec names Alan Wolk #7 on his Top Ten People to Follow on Twitter list, alongside industry notables  Guy Kawasaki, Ann Handley and Peter Cashmore

DEC 16, 2008    Interview with Fast Company’s Valeria Maltoni: Social Media and Marketing: Alan Wolk on her Conversation Agent blog

NOV 03, 2008    Adweek  runs the Election Day version of NASCAR Blindness

NOV 02, 2008    3-part panelcast: Campaign ’08: Brands, Messages, Marketing Lessons

OCT 01, 2008    Video of the panel discussion Social Media and The Tech Entrepreneur is available on its own YouTube channel as a 9-part series

SEP 17, 2008    Ford’s Head of Social Media, Scott Monty, delivers a lengthy recap of the Your Brand Is Not My Friend theory during this panel from Social Ad Summit.  (Find it at around 08:40 into the video)

AUG 27, 2008    Adweek  runs the 2008 version of The Real Digital Revolution

AUG 06, 2008   Context Is To Chicken As Content Is To Egg.   MediaBistro’s Matt van Hoven  quotes my theories on Your Brand Is Not My Friend and The Real Digital Revolution extensively in his piece about content vs. context

JUL 01, 2008   Tuesday Tip: How To Do Social Media on Scamp  UK’s most popular ad blog  runs a weekly “How To Do” column and I was tapped to write the one on Social Media

JUN 23, 2008  Adweek runs a version of the landmark “Your Brand Is Not My Friend” series

JUN 03, 2008   Third Place Blog   Adweek’s digital editor Brian Morrissey calls Alan Wolk  “one of the “must read” bloggers of our industry.”

MAY 29, 2008   Torontoist Blog’s Cate Simpson talks about the Toad Stool’s participation in Jane Sample’s “My Brand Day” meme

MAY 28, 2008    Interview on Daily (Ad) Biz blog  Alan Wolk discusses the rise of social media and what agencies need to do to adapt to the new landscape

MAY 18, 2008   The Denver Egotist chimes in, commenting on the MediaBistro and Adpulp interviews. Very meta

MAY 18, 2008   Interview on AdPulp blog  Noted industry blogger David Burn discusses Alan Wolk’s decision to “de-anonymize” and his plans for the future

MAY 16, 2008  Interview with MediaBistro  Alan Wolk lays out his theories on the role of bloggers on the advertising and marketing industries and how traditional agency creatives often seem like immigrants in the digital space

APR 17, 2008   Clicking Through The Internet in Campaign magazine (UK)  Campaign magazine reprints a goodly chunk of a much buzzed about blog post in their “Best of the Blogs” section

OCT 08, 2007  B2B Magazine names OgilvyOne 2007 Agency of the Year IBM “Mystery of the Maze” campaign cited as key factor in the decision

SEP 24, 2007   Interview with PR guru Toby Bloomberg discusses the role of bloggers and how an anonymous blogger can still maintain authenticity

AUG 27, 2007   B2B Magazine on IBM “Mystery of the Maze” campaign  Analysis of IBM’s breakthrough campaign with social media elements 

OCT 01, 1995   Ad Age  “ The New Math At Steve Trygg's Anderson & Lembke Is Business-To-Business Plus Consumer Equals Super Bowl Commercial

OCT 02, 1991    New York Times on SYJP “Boat” ad  Columnist Stuart Elliott on JWT’s small client ad program. Very first advertising press mention