Tag Archives: wall street

Moving on from (Silicon Valley) douchenozzles… Now, it’s time for intrepid freelancer George Parker to meet The Prince. His name is Joe Nacchio, he was the CEO of Qwest Communications, and he’s now serving a six year jail term in ...

Turn your back for a moment and what happens? The agency merger of the decade (or perhaps ever) happens while you’re enjoying the primi and secondi at the charming Ristorante Palmieri in Puglia’s Monopoli. My thanks to Stuart Smith and ...

P&G and Mondelez are adjusting their payment cycle. And it’s all my fault. From now on if you are a Mondelez agency you will do your work and wait four months to be paid. If you want a laugh, read ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...