- Madison Avenue, Brand Thyself
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, January 18, 2021
As far as industrial roadways go, Madison Avenue has lost its luster on Wall Street. That is more or less what the subject line of an email dispatch from "Campaig ...
- What Wall Street Says About Tech Company Earnings -- They Report This Week
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 26, 2020
Amazon, Facebook and Google report earnings Oct. 29. Analysts are looking for these key signals to make a difference. ...
- WSJ Identifies Thousands Of Links On Google That Vanished
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 15, 2020
A copyright claim citing a 1998 law led Google to make unfavorable articles vanish. ...
- Republican Mega-Donor, Now Twitter Investor, Seeks To Oust Dorsey
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, March 2, 2020
Activist investor Elliott Management -- led by Republican mega-donor Paul Singer -- has purchased a "sizable" stake in Twitter, and now plans to push for changes that include replacing t ...
- Is The Writing On The Wall For Zuckerberg - Like Sorrell?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Friday, July 27, 2018
A business and its leader can fail -- right up to when their stock price nosedives. A midweek report revealed flat user growth, too low to get near Wall Stre ...
- Investor Loeb Takes Aim At Nestle's Plodding Approach To Change
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, July 2, 2018
"Nestle's insular, complacent and bureaucratic organization is overly complex, lethargic, and misses too many trends," Daniel Loeb of activist hedge fund Third Point, wrote in a letter to Nestle C ...
- Salesforce Stock Rises After Earnings Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Salesforce stock rose on Wall Street on Tuesday despite a general downward trend following a report showing that revenue rose 25% during Q1, compared with the same period in 201 ...
- Wall Street Applauds Zuckerberg's Congressional Testimony
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Touting Mark Zuckerberg’s strong performance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, investors sent Facebook’s shares soaring. “The 33-year-old internet mogul managed to deflect any specific promises to support any congressional regulati ...
- TheStreet.com Appoints Generator M + A Media AOR
Accounts on the Move, Steve McClellan - Monday, March 12, 2018
TheStreet.com has consolidated media responsibilities with Generator Media + Analytics to support its online financial news, analysis, and investment products, including Jim Cramer’s Action Alerts Plus, Real Money, and oth ...
- Who's Backing The Chain Gang?
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, February 19, 2018
It's been nearly a year since I published my first story about blockchain technology being offered as a solution for Madison Avenue's media-trading woes, and the marketplace has turned in ...
- Jittery Media Investors See Soft Ad Market, Pay TV Declines
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, May 5, 2017
The Wall Street Journal senses a skittish media investor environment. In part, it seems few new product launches are in the pipeline within major ad categories. And other investors s ...
- PM Reassures Wall Street On The City's Post-Brexit Future
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 10, 2017
Theresa May has sought to reassure growing City anxiety about the impact of a "hard" Brexit, promising Wall Street bankers that she will seek to protect London's crucial role ...
- Not Many GoPro Videos Showing Bank Deposits
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, February 3, 2017
GoPro js still struggling, reports Recode. For the fourth quarter, GoPro reported profit of 29 cents a share on sales of $541 million. The camera maker beat Wall Street’s prof ...
- Analyst: Netflix To Beat Estimates (It Reports This Afternoon)
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, January 18, 2017
In the last three months of 2016, Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Kraft, usually bearish on the stock, believes Netflix added 4.35 million international subscribers, nearly 30% more than the company ...
- You're Worth A Lot To Facebook, But There's A Problem
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, November 3, 2016
Facebook says it has just about run out of ways to add more advertising without alienating current users. ...
- Wall Street Eyes Positive Programmatic Growth For 2017
Real-Time Daily, Tobi Elkin - Thursday, October 27, 2016
Wall Street has its eye on the programmatic sector -- but, according to Youssef Squali, head of Cantor Fitzgerald's Internet & media equity research, many ad-tech companies are stuck ...
- Rocket Fuel Fails To Ignite
Programmatic Insider, John Motavalli - Wednesday, October 26, 2016
I asked Rocket Fuel CTO Mark Torrance about Rocket Fuel's somewhat "disappointing" third quarter results and its stock price in an email interview. "My impression is [Wall Street] isn't real ...
- Netflix: Less Red Hot, Still Cooler Than The Rest
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Netflix's second-quarter subscriber numbers are way down. Maybe it's because their oldest customers have gone off exploring. And it's very likely they'll be back. ...
- Low-Ball Bids For Yahoo, WSJ Reports
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, May 20, 2016
The Wall Street Journal says bids for Yahoo are in the $2-$3 billion range, far below expectations. If true, that leads a long time investor writing in Forbes to specula ...
- Financial Analyst Richard Tullo Calls Foul Over Report On MDC Partners
MAD, Larissa Faw - Monday, May 2, 2016
The 40-page Gotham Research report, issued Friday, claims, among other things, that MDC will be exposed for additional "wrong-doings" by the ongoing SEC probe of the company and that i ...
- MDC Broadsided By Scathing Wall Street Report, Stock Takes A Hit
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, April 29, 2016
The report, issued Friday by short seller Gotham City Research, concluded that more "wrong doing" would be disclosed by the ongoing SEC investigation of MDC, which would restate "several year ...
- Yahoo Will Tone It Down For NewFronts
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, March 28, 2016
Yahoo wlll stifle itself a little more this year at its May 4 NewFront. Instead of a big party, it will hold its event at its New York sales offic ...
- Starboard Investors Move To Oust Yahoo's Mayer
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, March 24, 2016
Yahoo now officially faces a fight for control of its board of directors. Starboard Value, which owns about 1.7% of Yahoo’s outstanding shares and has been vocal about its displeasu ...
- Wall Street Analyst Wieser Upgrades IPG To 'Buy' Rating
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, February 8, 2016
The upgrade comes just weeks after the influential Wieser upgraded Publicis Groupe to a "buy," based on the belief that the ad holding company had been "overly punished" by investo ...
- Bernie's Artful Smear
Red, White & Blog, Philip Rosenstein - Tuesday, February 9, 2016
In last week's Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders attempted to pin Hillary Clinton as an establishment candidate and himself as a candidate of the people. One of the exchanges culminated wi ...
- How To Read 'Alphabet' Earnings
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, February 1, 2016
Alphabet, the company formerly known as Google, releases its fourth-quarter earnings today, the first reporting split into two segments: For Google and “Other Bets,” the wide accounting bucket for eig ...
- Shareholder Group Demands Changes At Yahoo
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, January 7, 2016
Starboard Value demands changes of management, board of directors and the company's direction. Yahoo responds, essentially explaining it's in a year of transition and would reveal big plans when ...
- Sanders To Deliver Wall Street Reform Speech
Around the Net In Marketing Politics, Philip Rosenstein - Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Sen. Bernie Sanders will make a speech today in Manhattan, where he is expected to pledge that his administration would break up banks that are "too big to fail" with ...
- Netflix, Amazon, Yahoo Taking Hits On Wall Street
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, January 4, 2016
Amid a market falling fast on the first day of trading in 2016, three stocks with big video profiles are among the most damaged. ...
- WSJ's Downcast Take On Media Stocks In 2015
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, December 31, 2015
Media stocks are broadly ending 2015 on a negative note as Wall Street frets over the future of a media landscape dogged by fears of pay-TV cord-cutting and an uncerta ...