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Etsy Delights Investors With Earnings Win, Disgruntles Sellers With Advertising Fees

PYMNTS

In other notable numbers, consolidated GMS reached $1.7 That honor went two the new mandatory advertising fees coming soon to Etsy sellers. Etsy historically has taken a 5 percent fee from sellers for using its platform, which will continue to be charged in addition to the advertising fee. billion – $1.06 billion.

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Is The Future Of Advertising Already Here?

PYMNTS

When it comes to ad spend these days, programmatic advertising — using software and algorithms to purchase data-based and highly targeted digital ads automatically — is the new king. In 2016 alone, programmatic advertising will account for 73 percent of all digital display ad budgets. That’s a total of $25.23 That’s a $15.45

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Block, PayPal, Carvana, Twilio and more

CFO News Room

Analysts polled by Refinitiv were forecasting earnings of 23 cents per share on revenue of $4.49 Twilio — Shares tumbled 16% after the cloud communications software maker issued a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast for the fourth quarter, despite an otherwise strong third-quarter report. PayPal — Shares declined more than 6%.

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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

CFO News Room

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. In the first session of my valuation class, I pose a question, “What comes more naturally to you, telling a story or working with numbers?”

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Facebook (Meta) Earnings: What Happened with FB

CFO News Room

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.

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META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

Musings on Markets

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. That is because the answer will vary across people, with some exhibiting a more natural tendency towards story-telling and others towards working with numbers.

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Predictive analytics: opportunities and limits for the future of finance

Jedox Finance

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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