Edition #358 QR codes, how Fortune got to $100m and attention.
One big thing
The sheer bravery of Coinbase to run that ad in the Super Bowl is to be applauded. Yes it performed well, 20 million visits in one minute. Crashed their site. One quip I saw was that marketing beat engineering! But it might not have.
For those that havenβt seen it here it is. A QR code bouncing around a screen, just like the old DVD logo would. A visual youβve probably long lost.
Imagine the team signing that off, what if it doesnβt work. What if people just donβt pay attention. Did I really approve that? Iβm losing my job if this doesnβt come off. Rather than taking just a 30 second slot going for the full 60 seconds really doubled down. Taking that home, showing their partner, what do you think? Am I crazy.