Alas, we've been away from this blog for too long [insert apology here]. But that does not mean we have been inactive. In fact, we recently (and happily) completed campaigns for some of the largest brands in the country, and we've got more on the hopper.

We're also happy to announce a new member of the group, one who's name a lot of you have become familiar with in your inboxes. But just in case, we are pleased to have Aisha Abubakr on board. She's moving things up and actually helped Mad Crowd Media record it's best month ever! We know that Aisha will be an important part of Mad Crowd Media's future, and look forward to all the fun she's got in tow.

Finally, I've often defended why we refer to "bloggers" as "publishers" -- big deal daw. Well, read article. Rest case.

The Wily Filipino, who recently blogged about Taken By Cars, sent over details to a recent NYU study of the correlation between the amount of blog entries vis-a-vis the success of a music album (hence, the Taken By Cars blog entry context). The study found that "the volume of blog posts about an album is positively correlated
with future sales."

If that's not interesting enough to our friends in the music industry, then there's this: "greater increases in an artist's Myspace friends week over week have a weaker correlation to higher future sales."

Read the study here. The Wily Filipino is part of the Mad Crowd Media network of publishers.