Don Cole
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Advertising |
| Occupation | Media Analyst/Consultant |
| Location | Towson, Maryland, United States |
| Introduction | Don Cole has been a media analyst for 50 years. He was a media director and partner at Doner and Moroch and worked at two other agencies plus Arbitron. His focus with this blog will be to discuss the rapid changes going on in the advertising industry and especially its impact on broadcast TV, cable TV, and mid-sized and smaller ad agencies. Don is available to consult or to speak to your organization on a wide variety of topics. |
| Interests | The global economy, currency fluctuations, champagne,wind energy,Peak Oil, Block Island, history of economic thought, the Vatican, equity markets, baseball history, golf history, economic history, Portugal,Dornoch, Scotland, Donald Ross golf courses, The Masters,alternative energy, Anarcho-Capitalism , lighthouses, Channel Islands, New Zealand white wines, baseball cards, Canadian history, The Cleveland Indians, attending live theatre, austrian school of Economics, British Mysteries, Film Noir |
| Favorite movies | Paths of Glory, Grand Illusion, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Wild Bunch, Double Indemnity, Ball of Fire,The Best Years of Our Lives, Out of the Past, Sullivan's Travels, Ride the High Country, Breaker Morant, The Great Escape, Godfather II, High Noon,The Third Man, Gosford Park, Rules of the Game,Amorcord, The Searchers, Remains of the Day, Howard's End, The Bicycle Thief, The Grapes of Wrath, Goodfellas, Twelve Angry Men, Shane, Patton, To Kill a Mockingbird, Margin Call, The Big Short, The Apartment |
| Favorite music | The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, old Broadway showtunes |
| Favorite books | Road to Serfdom, Capitalism and Freedom, Hedgehogging, Money of the Mind,The Grand Slam, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Financial Reckoning Day, The End of Oil, Big Three Economics, Mukiwa, Hidden Order, Adventure Capitalist, The Long Emergency, Great Wine Made Simple, The Long Tail, Team of Rivals, Running on Empty, The Coming Generational Storm, John Adams: Party of One, Graham and Dodd's Security Analysis, Churchill,The Worldly Philosophers,Tyranny of The Status Quo, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Growing in Faith, TR, Contrarian Investment Strategies, The Wise Men, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Economics in One Lesson, Human Action, World on Fire, Twilight in the Desert, Investment Biker, A Bull in China, Chindia, The Little Engine That Could, Vienna & Chicago: Friends or Foes?, A Humane Economy, Dividends Don't Lie, Hayek's Journey |