Last night, I stumbled across a native advertising article on NewsOK.com promoting the third annual Confluence Conference. It's a Digital Media Summit (yeah, they're calling it a summit) organized by The Oklahoman's internal ad agency "Big Wing." At least I think that's what Big Wing is. It kind of reminds me of Wimgo in that is has a weird name and no one really knows what it is or does. The only difference is that it's run by some quirky little English bloke so no one really gives a damn.
Anyway, the Confluence Conference article conveniently focused on how 51% of Oklahoma companies have increased their digital advertising budget this past year, because you know, digital advertising is fucking awesome! Who doesn't want to advertise on the internet? It really is an amazing deal, especially when you deal directly with local independent blogs. For example, just the other day Ryan Cunningham, Marcus Mears and I were driving around in Volkswagen asking if we should stop by Patricia's or The Hustler Store before we...