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By Paul Simons on May 25, 2012
It looks like embattled Facebook has pulled a PR rabbit out of the hat in double quick time – ‘with a little help from my friends’ as the Beatles sang. In a previous opinion piece on the Facebook IPO saga I commented on what I saw as poor communication from FB which is a weakness [...]
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By Paul Simons on May 23, 2012
According to the business press, Wall Street is full of recriminations over the Facebook IPO. Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter, allegedly ignored downward revisions of forecasts from its own analysts during the roadshow pre-IPO. The top securities regulator in Massachusetts has issued a subpoena to Morgan Stanley as part of an investigation in to FB’s [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged $104bn, apple, brandz, facebook, google, investors, ipo, iPod, istrategy london, Mark Zuckerberg, morgan stanley, multiples, p/e ratios, Paul Simons, valuation, wall street
By Stephen Foster on November 18, 2011
WPP will increase its sales by four per cent next year CEO Sir Martin Sorrell says, to just over £10bn. This compares with a sales increase of just over six per cent this year (2011) so hardly joy unconfined but not a disaster either. “A couple of months ago had you said to me what [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, Research | Tagged acquisitions, barcelona media conference, gfk, Interpublic, ipsos, kantar, morgan stanley, omnicom, profits, publicis groupe, research, sales, Sir Martin Sorrell, tns, WPP
By Stuart Smith on November 4, 2011
Word reaches me that StrawberryFrog, the maverick international advertising network, has hoisted a discreet ‘For Sale’ sign. Whether it will succeed in its objective is open to doubt, as will be seen below. First a little background. StrawberryFrog – curiously named after a colourful, nippy and spectacularly poisonous Latin American amphibian – was founded in [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged amsterdam, BlackBerry, brazil, digital, heineken, morgan stanley, movement marketing, Neil Smelser, New York, pampers, pfizer, procter & gamble, publicis groupe, sao paulo, Scott Goodson, search for buyer, sociologist, strawberryfrog, Stuart Smith
By Stephen Foster on December 1, 2010
And there aren’t a lot of them are there? Mary Meeker is the Morgan Stanley analyst whose views on the internet drive investment into (and out of) internet companies. Her point here is that online advertising, for all its growing share of the global ad market, has singularly failed to produce ‘iconic’ campaigns, the ones [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged iconic campaigns, Mary Meeker, morgan stanley, online advertising, X-Factor
By Stephen Foster on June 10, 2010
That’s Morgan Stanley’s internet analyst Mary Meeker who told a conference in New York that online advertising is due for another huge boost based on figures showing that it takes just 13 per cent of US adspend although it accounts for 28 per cent of media viewing. The comparable figures for TV are 39 per [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged apple, google, Mary Meeker, morgan stanley, online ad spend
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