PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The latest earnings reports from Big Tech giants and social media platforms show that advertising spend is through the roof at present, after basically falling off the roof earlier this year. did strong Q3 numbers, with PYMNTS reporting that “Alphabet said search and other advertising revenues rose 6 percent year over year to $26.3

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Bloomberg ) see also If You Bought Crypto Because of Larry David and Matt Damon, I’m Sorry : Tallying the losses after last year’s Super Bowl crypto-advertising bonanza. They have each other’s phone numbers.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For investment advisers looking to attract prospective clients, advertising the performance of their investment strategies would be a logical way to market their services (at least if they had strong historical returns!). Two final prohibitions under the Marketing Rule include restrictions on the use of predecessor performance (e.g.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The New York Times witnessed 14 percent growth in its most recent quarter, with its total number of subscribers reaching a record 5.7 It’s the kryptonite of subscription merchants and brands, so keeping subscription offerings fresh and frictionless will help determine their long-term economic super-powers. Read All About It, Online.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

While adjacent revenue streams such as advertising and delivery services serve as a long-term growth engine for e-commerce, growing the number of users and transaction sizes is key to growth and boosting profitability. The sector’s GMV grew to $139 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach $186 billion in 2025, growing 16%.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 15, 2023

It succeeded spectacularly in attracting people to its platform, hitting a 100 million users in 2012, and then doubling those numbers again by 2013, when it went public ,with an initial public offering. Users: Numbers and Engagement. The Twitter Story. The stock dropped below $6 in 2019, before mounting a comeback in 2021.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

The emerging winners will be the ones who take a more nuanced approach, tailoring the answer to the strength of their own products and markets, as well as to how economic uncertainty affects their customers. Search advertising revenues experienced a sharp slowdown in areas such as insurance, loans, and mortgages.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Such schemes entail fraudsters falsely advertising offers from restaurants on social media, then duping victims into paying for them and absconding with the funds. There are a number of lessons that restaurants can learn from their experiences during this challenging time, however. Developments From The Mobile Order-Ahead World.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In the years since, I have concluded that this is not true and that expense mis-categorization is not only common, but that it varies widely across sectors, making it difficult to compare accounting numbers or ratios across firms.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

In terms of headline numbers, revenues were up 25 percent to 105.8 Drilling down into the numbers, the company said the recent initiative to assign “health codes” for individuals — a necessity if they want to move around the country — spurred 8 billion visits to the WeChat platform. billion yuan ($14.6 billion yuan ($3.2

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Consumers’ thirst for news content about COVID-19 crisis developments — including economic impacts, federal stimulus aid and effects on the presidential election — has substantially accelerated digital subscriptions this year, breathing new life into the industry. The number of digital subscriptions reached a record 5.7

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CFO Thought Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

Back in 2009, as the economic downturn dispatched a daily dose of bad news, Lanka was tasked with separating Goldman’s nervous bankers from their long-tenured messaging device of choice: the BlackBerry. Back in 2009, as the economic downturn dispatched a daily dose of […] We don’t do this, as many of our competitors do.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The Economic Times of India reported that the initiative would also include a pan-India Edge computing and content distribution network. The firm has said the number of transactions made across the platform grew tenfold since January of this year. Amazon, Too.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Amid the continuing drumbeat for taxes on global commerce done through digital means, the Czech government has approved a new seven percent digital tax on global Internet firms which will, as Reuters reports , be levied on revenues tied to Czech users across advertising, digital marketplaces and data sales. Health Records and Google.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

MLB owners are pitching a proposal to play about half the number of games, 82, for the 2020 season, without fans, according to ESPN. ESPN reported the owners agreed to a 50-50 split of revenues with players, such as television and advertising rights, in a conference call on Monday (May 11). But the union has called foul.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

“The government has addressed a lot of economic reform requirements in the last three months,” said EY’s Khetan.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

It succeeded spectacularly in attracting people to its platform, hitting a 100 million users in 2012, and then doubling those numbers again by 2013, when it went public ,with an initial public offering. While total user numbers have leveled off in recent years, albeit with a jump in 2021, the daily active user count has continued to climb.

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Future CFO

JUNE 26, 2023

The increased number of sophisticated attacks in the region gives real cause for concern, as seen in the case of the popular 3CX phone service application which was turned into a trojan as part of a supply attack, said Vivek Gullapalli, Chief Information Security Officer, APAC, Check Point Software Technologies.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The case ushered in a wave of state- and municipality-issued economic nexus laws that tax remote sellers based on economic activity rather than physical presence. Wayfair ruling paved the way for broadened U.S. tax laws, and some businesses and public sector stakeholders are now pushing back.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

percent since March, according to a World Economic Forum report , and this grim number rivals that of the Great Depression. These stark economic realities reveal why many U.S. This could be especially crucial as many in the publishing industry confront advertising revenue declines. The Department of Labor found that 23.2

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

3), the numbers put up by the players on the field will pale in comparison to the dollars that advertisers, sports enthusiasts, snack food aficionados and brands will put up, just so they can be part of America’s largest television viewing event. That aside, whatever drama goes down on the gridiron on Sunday (Feb. The Price Of Airtime.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

In terms of the headline numbers, in the latest quarter that ended in early August, sales were down 3.1 These are all macro-concerns, of course, but they do have a lasting impact on the micro-economic side, where decisions are made, where firms navigate their immediate and longer-term environments. percent to $4.4

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Retailer John Wanamaker in the early 1900s is famous for saying that he knew that half of his money spent on advertising was wasted, but he just didn’t know which half. The fact remains that an increasing number of consumers are choosing, and will choose, to conduct their shopping online.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The economic potential is also considerable, as in 2018 it is estimated that gig workers earned $1.7 Fiverr has pointed to content marketing, graphic design and advertising as key services. It’s no secret that the gig economy has grown by leaps and bounds. As many as a third of U.S. workers are involved, in some way, in project work.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

But that doesn’t mean veteran business owners aren’t comfortable with technology: 42 percent told Chase they are investing in mobile advertising, more so than non-veteran entrepreneurs. Researchers also saw a 5 percent drop in the number of SMBs that plan to increase the number of part-time employees on their teams.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In the third and final post, I will argue that Facebook’s troubles with the market have as much to do with a failure of narrative, as they are about disappointing numbers, and present a template for what the company needs to do, to reclaim the high ground.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 4, 2024

,, Cash flow numbers are really important in finance. Problem 2: Lack of Cash Reserves Unexpected events like economic downturns, natural disasters, or sudden expenses can mess up a business's money situation. Whether you run a business or just want to handle your money better, knowing about cash flow is crucial.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

It costs merchants nothing to join or remain on Sky.Garden; all they provide is their shop name, MPesa phone number and a few personal and business details (such as operating hours). Hunja explained that eCommerce in Kenya currently caters only to those at the top of the economic pyramid.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

And when you combine this advance with the above data, it means Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI) will soon be able to accurately size shoppers, and then sense their sadness when the number is going up and offer them comfort. Particularly when it comes to AI and advertising. Big Play of the Week: The Big HQ Upgrade.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the third and final post, I will argue that Facebook's troubles with the market have as much to do with a failure of narrative, as they are about disappointing numbers, and present a template for what the company needs to do, to reclaim the high ground.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Dig in a bit deeper, however, and the numbers become a bit less confidence-inspiring, since the bulk of that consumer spending is being done on credit, as household debt is skyrocketing. But the data indicates that for an increasing number of users, debt is not being managed correctly. Among changes SoFi is advertising for 2018?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

Sirkin said that in 2010 the typical hourly salary for a worker in the Chinese manufacturing sector was equivalent to about $0.72, but that number has steadily risen to the cost of about $6 per hour now. It’s good economics for the manufacturers,” Sirkin said. “If

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

And then there’s always the paper trail, which bedevils any number of activities – chasing down invoices remains only a glaring, and tedious, example. There was the Google ban on crypto advertising. To that end, bBiller seeks to take out the “middlemen” of supply chain activity tied to finance and accounting. Elsewhere in Cryptoland.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

But CPG marketing and market strategy is built around the world of bricks and mortar – particularly when it comes to traditional advertising and working out agreements with grocery retailers on how and where their products will be displayed in-store for maximum exposure to consumer eyeballs.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

The economics work thanks to the law of averages. It’s not large enough to draw advertising from the movie industry, which is its apparent goal for financial stability in the future, but it’s also not small enough to have a business model that is such a flagrant money loss.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. In addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The notion of on-call commerce will do more than simply blur the lines between the online and offline worlds: It will make commerce present – and effortless – in entirely new channels, creating new efficiencies that will have a positive impact on the economic well-being of countries all over the world. consumers said they’d be interested.

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