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By Stephen Foster on October 18, 2012
Google’s shares were suspended on the New York Nasdaq exchange when the company’s third quarter figures were released early, due to a printing cock-up apparently. The share price had fallen by nearly ten per cent per cent as the Q3 numbers showed a 20 per cent fall on last year’s equivalent period, coming out a [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Finance | Tagged android, Eric Schmidt, google, Larry Page, motorola, nasdaq, profits slump, search, wall street
By Paul Simons on October 5, 2012
In an earlier comment on Facebook I suggested they should think about getting on the front foot and consider proper marketing for the brand. Now we have their first attempt via Wieden+Kennedy of Nike fame, a very fine advertising agency. I’ve been trying to figure out who the real target audience is for this work [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged facebook, Playstation, Ries and Trout, the battle for your mind, things that connect us, Volvo, wall street, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2012
OK, let’s take it from the top: Facebook’s IPO was a fiasco as there was clearly information available about the company’s struggle to reach ad revenue targets that were made available to some investors (the big boys) and not the millions of others who bought into the massively over-priced IPO. This is just Wall Street [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged adam & eve, amv/bbdo, blatherskite, bskyb, David Cameron, ddb london, facebook, google analytics, google news, ipo, Jeremy Hunt, John Lewis, leveson inquiry, media ethics, moreaboutadvertising, multiples, news corporation, omnicom, Rupert Murdoch, social media, stock price, Vince Cable, wall street, west country farmed rabbit, £60m deal
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 Paul Simons on May 23, 2012
I hate to offer a view that is counter to what many people clearly believe but I have been trying (and failing) to understand the metrics behind the Facebook IPO. So I’ll lead with my chin. The IPO offer price was $38 on May 18 (and rose to $42.05) creating a value of $104 billion, [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, Research | Tagged advertising, brand valuation, brandz, Branson, coca-cola, facebook ipo, Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, market cap, mobiles, Paul Simons, Pepsi, revenue, Rosamund Urwin, saatchi, Sculley, Sorrell, Steve Jobs, sugar, Vodafone, wall street
By Stuart Smith on March 4, 2012
Can bad guys play a redemptive, positive role-model in advertising? I touched on this in my (seemingly popular) post on SS colonel Otto Skorzeny, who has been hailed by British adman Dave Trott as a creative thinker. Now, bizarrely, the two anti-heroes of 1987 film Wall Street have, quite separately, been recruited into public service [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged celebrities, Charlie Sheen, chrysler/fiat, Dave Trott, fbi, fiat abarth, gordon gecko, greed is good, Hollywood, junk bonds, Michael Douglas, Otto Skorzeny, ponzi schemes, role models, Stuart Smith, wall street
By Stephen Foster on February 6, 2012
$500m in bonuses may not be much by the standards of Goldman Sachs or Barclays Capital (whose bonus pools run into billions) but WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has moved to get his retaliation in first as the marcoms giant prepares to reward its staff for a ‘record-breaking’ year. The bonus pool presumably includes the company’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged $500m bonuses, banker bashing, city of london, graduates, inequality, lehman brothers, occupy movement, Sir Martin Sorrell, sunday telegraph, wall street, WPP
By Stephen Foster on January 20, 2012
It’s tough in the tech market these days and not just for the likes Yahoo, whose founder Jerry Yang departed this week, and BlackBerry owner RIM which is believed to be seeking a rescue from Samsung. Now even the mighty Google has shocked Wall Street investors by reporting an eight per cent decline in its [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged big bets, BlackBerry, cost increase, cost per click, display ads, google, Jerry Yang, Larry Page, rim, samsung, wall street, yahoo
By Stephen Foster on September 27, 2011
Well the Institute of Practitioners in Advertisers (IPA) thinks so, announcing an ‘International Brand Incubator’ to help Chinese companies turn their big domestic brands into big global brands, one of the very few areas where China currently lags the Western business world. To get the ball rolling IPA president, the hyperactive Nicola Mendelsohn from agency [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged 3, addiction, China, city of london, creatives, hsbc, hutchison whampoa, IBM, insitute of practitioners in advertising, international brand incubator, ipa, ipa president, jardine matheson, karmarama, lenovo, Nicola Medelsohn, planners, rkcr/y&r, standard chartered, the brooklyn brothers, wall street, WPP
By Stephen Foster on August 31, 2011
Ever since the crash of 2008 the world’s bankers, many of whom have pitched their tents in the UK, have had more verbal ordure heaped on them than any group of people since, well, the last religious martyrs in Western Europe. But are they bothered? No, it would seem, as the UK banks’ concerted and [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Angela Knight, arsenal, Arsene Wenger, barclays, Bob Diamond, british banking association, David Cameron, George Osborne, honk kong, hsbc, independent commission on banking, lloyds banking group, lobhbying, manchester united, Nick Clegg, pr blitz, RBS, Sir Alex Ferguson, Vince Cable, wall street
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