CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Fox – Shares jumped 6% following the company’s earnings showing its free, ad-supported streaming service helped boost advertising revenue. Deutsche Bank reiterated the stock as a buy and said it was well positioned, but did concede that macro challenges were challenging advertising budgets. billion forecast.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 15, 2023

American’s revenue forecast rose as much as 17% over 2019, up from a previous 11% to 13% increase. The Wall Street firm, which also boosted its price target to $385 from $310, said the launch of its advertising-based offering and crackdown on password stealing will drive revenue and EBTIDA above estimates.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Revenue came in above analyst forecasts, increasing 19.9% Meta derives nearly all of its revenue through selling advertising space, based largely on the strength of MAUs, on its social media sites and apps. The bigger its user base, the more attractive its platform is to advertisers. from the year-ago quarter. Source link.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • All Markets Are Uncertain : The Forecasters’ Hall of Fame Has Zero Members: In any given year, someone, simply due volume of forecasts, is “right”. I have yet to see anyone who can repeatedly, accurately forecast market outcomes. There is no one to induct. (

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

For me, it’s been flashback time,” says Anna, who joined the company in February this year and is responsible for business insights, budget forecasting, profit and loss and cash management. . I’ve been doing a lot of scenario building, short and medium-term forecasting, cash management and so on. . “So

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Not only will you find financial statements easier to disentangle, but you will also be able to develop a framework for converting these numbers to forecasts fairly easily. In short, Facebook uses what it has learnt about the people inhabiting its platform to focus advertising to them.

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CFO Share

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

CFOs use CAC and LTV for forecasting revenue and planning cash flows. Acquisition cost is an essential assumption to forecasting revenue growth. Acquisition cost is an essential assumption to forecasting revenue growth. Direct CAC includes only directly scalable expenses like advertising fees or wages for direct sales.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

NRF Increases Sales Forecast For 2018. Amazon Web Services (AWS) may be the driver of growth for the eCommerce giant now, but Piper Jaffray predicts that, in three years’ time, advertising will bring in more revenue for Amazon. Citigroup has let go of a payments executive, and initial coin offering (ICO) exit scams are taking a toll.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Adobe maintained its forecast for the new fiscal year, while announcing a plan to buy hot startup Figma in the quarter. The Wall Street firm cited recent underperformance in net adds as well as growing macro headwinds to advertising revenues. New York Times — The newspaper stock fell 3.7% Accenture — Shares dropped 5.1%

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Jedox Finance

MAY 17, 2022

What Predictive Analytics Cannot Forecast. From the opening of Lloyd’s Coffee House in 1686, financial services professionals have been attempting to forecast what’s going to happen next. Whether or not the results of such forecasts beat random chance is highly dependent on the subject matter expert’s skills.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

Fortunately, despite weakness across nearly the entire advertising market, our exposure to some of the most affected segments like travel, automotive, and restaurants has not been significant.”. Still, Pinterest is anticipating the coronavirus pandemic will diminish its global advertising. billion. billion.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Despite showing strength in several measures — revenue and Q1 forecasts beat pre-release estimates, Snap showed notable growth in its active user base, Discover video content platform and advertising revenue and relationships — Snap Inc. Unfortunately, not quite enough of a pick-up, as analysts were forecasting $563 million.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Paramount is still down more than 30% this year as it suffered from cord cutting and a drop in advertising revenue. after the company cut its earnings guidance and cash flow forecast. Paramount Global — Shares of the media company jumped more than 9% after a filing revealed that Berkshire Hathaway increased its holding to $1.7

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CFO Share

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

That may mean hiring one employee instead of two, or moderating your advertising spend below your team’s goals. Use your operating forecast to analyze investments and project free cash flows. A moderate approach to risk buys you flexibility in case of an economic downturn, especially if you remain cash flow positive.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Google has said it won't use Fitbit users' data for advertising purposes, and it made concessions earlier this year that it would tighten monitoring, support other wearable manufacturers and allow Fitbit users to connect to third-party services through application programming interfaces (APIs), PYMNTS reported.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Not only will you find financial statements easier to disentangle, but you will also be able to develop a framework for converting these numbers to forecasts fairly easily. In short, Facebook uses what it has learnt about the people inhabiting its platform to focus advertising to them.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Recent analysis from the World Advertising Research Center forecasted corporate spend on advertising campaigns this year to drop by 8.1 But for the commercial spending technology world, these forecasts aren't exactly rosy. percent — or nearly $50 billion — for example, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Amazon is forecast to reach the number three spot among sellers of digital ads in the U.S. Monica Peart, senior director of forecasting at eMarketer, told the publication that advertisers are increasingly turning to Amazon because it has a lot of insight on the impact ads have on purchasing decisions.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That’s right, it is Outlook season and some of the forecasts for ’24 have been quite dour. LA Times ) • What It’s Like Working in a Building Shaped Like a Hot Dog : Owning “mimetic architecture”—structures designed to look like what they sell—is great advertising, but it can be a headache. They charge a fee of 0.95%. (

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Paramount Global — Shares of the media company dropped more than 11% after Paramount’s quarterly results missed expectations, as it suffered from cord cutting and a drop in advertising revenue. million compared to a forecast for $911.4 Paramount said revenue for its TV media segment was down 5% to about $4.9

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CFO Share

MAY 26, 2022

Hiring a professional outsourced CFO to provide a pricing analysis will trickle down to other aspects of your financial strategy like your annual budgeting process and your revenue forecast. When planning a new product or service, sales will commonly forecast their cost expectations and then validating them over time with actual data.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

In an effort to have big pharma companies advertise on Snapchat , the social media platform is reportedly pitching itself as a friendlier alternative to Twitter and Facebook. Be prepared for an interactive conversation around DTC (direct to consumer) advertising on a smaller screen,” an agenda from the conference reportedly stated.

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Bramasol

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Refocusing on profitability has incentivized several streaming companies, such as Netflix and Disney+, to create new ad-supported tiers that offer lower costs for subscribers but are intended to boost advertising revenue. Boosting revenues with new advertising initiatives. Driving new subscriber growth while reducing subscriber churn.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

Today in PYMNTS data, payment service providers are joining forces to create even stronger offerings, initial coin offerings (ICOs) fall prey to hackers to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, digital advertising may not be doing as much good as some think, businesses are having a difficult time forecasting risks and U.K.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 28, 2021

Their job is to ensure the company has the right financial reserves, a strong balance sheet, and the in-depth forecasts that allow their CEOs to take the right steps forward. It shifted the finance role to the front and centre of organizations, with CFOs tasked to find the right steps forward in the absence of long-term forecasts.

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CFO Share

JULY 13, 2023

Growth planning through uncertainty Business owners struggle to forecast new business growth due to uncertainty. Planning through uncertainty follows a simple process: Develop a comprehensive business plan (often already complete in the CEO’s head) Build an operating forecast to project growth and help cash flow management.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 4, 2021

From SaaS payments to travel and advertising costs, it’s easy to lose track of where your money is going. You can analyze your expenses and spot trends to increase future forecasting and opportunities for cost reduction.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

21), and though it beat on both top and bottom line expectations, domestic subscriber growth was weaker than forecast and guidance for Q1 was less robust that what analysts had been looking for. Netflix reported 550,000 new subscribers in its domestic North American market, missing the 589,000 forecast by FactSet and down from the 1.75

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Hershey and Mondelez have cut back on advertising in recent months, to avoid boosting demand while they struggle to fill orders from retailers. The company forecast full-year 2022 sales growth of between 8% and 10%. The candy makers, along with other U.S. Hershey’s stock rose 2% on Thursday morning as it reported sales of $2.33

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Centage

APRIL 19, 2022

Without a comparison between your forecasted income and expenses and your company’s actual income and expenses, you have no way of knowing whether you are on track, doing better than expected, or falling behind. Your budget is a forecast and a flexible plan. You might need to adapt or adjust it based on what actually happens.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Mobile devices will account for 75 percent of global internet use next year, according to Zenith’s new Mobile Advertising Forecasts, published last week. times over four years, and Zenith forecasts it to rise to 63 percent by 2018. In 2012, just 23 percent of people in its 60 markets had a smartphone, and 4 percent had a tablet.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Its online gaming ecosystem generates content, advertising, esports and more. Vietnam’s digital payment market is forecasted to hit $8.6 AppotaPay, a division of the gaming and entertainment firm Appota Group , is among the 39 entities in Vietnam that have been granted payment licenses. percent to reach $14.59

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The agency and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as the State of Connecticut claim the scam’s perpetrators, which ran under Click4Support and other names, harnessed advertising on search engines, such as Google , and website popups.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2020

Reuters reported on Monday (July 20) that “major retailers in the United States, EU and UK are aggressively discounting back-to-school backpacks and uniforms and airing new advertisements featuring students happily taking classes at home.” Deloitte predicted roughly flat year-over-year U.S. back-to-school spending of $28.1

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

sales come out ahead of analysts’ forecasts. And the aggregators are going to keep advertising and discounting because he thinks they don’t have any choice. per share on an adjusted basis, which was 15 cents higher than forecast. As it contended with delivery aggregators, Domino’s Pizza Inc. Net income arrived at $3.12

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The rules, which are set to take effect in the spring, will provide consumers with the right to opt out of tailored advertising and make firms share more about the way in which they harness consumer data, among other elements. A potential “Netflix Tax,” which is forecast to bring in more than $1.2

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