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Which companies might prosper in an ad recession?
I have previously posted on which online media companies will survive the ad recession. Clearly, all online media companies will feel the advertising recession, but some companies will hold up better...
View ArticleEtailers will need to grow to counteract the slowing economy
Earlier this month I wondered which companies might prosper in an advertising recession. But some companies might do more than survive – they might prosper. Companies that buy advertising (rather than...
View ArticleMore signs of consumer discretionary spending slowdown, online feeling the...
Last month I wondered which companies might prosper in an advertising recession: Companies that buy advertising (rather than selling it) will find that they can now buy advertising more cheaply than...
View ArticleWhy online display advertising may be down in 2009.
Henry Blodget has been saying for some time that online display advertising will be down in 2009. For a year, we’ve listened to analysts passionately explain how online ad spending will power through...
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Where is there upside in ecommerce in this recession?
Although Internet Retailer is reporting 20% ecommerce growth among the top 500 etailers in 2008 based on their preliminary survey returns, Comscore notes that there was actually a 3% decline in...
View ArticleAlmost as many down rounds as up rounds in December 2008
Fenwick and West analyzed 128 venture financings completed in q4 2008 for companies headquartered in the bay area and found that there has been a significant increase in the proportion of down rounds,...
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Long term future still bright for online advertising
James Mitchell, lead internet analyst for Goldman Sachs, presented to a group of around 100 internet and mobile media company CEOs that Lightspeed pulled together last week. There is clearly near term...
View ArticleWhich categories of advertiser are still buying online media?
More from James Mitchell’s presentation last week: Checks with large online buyers confirm the obvious – that discretionary and some lending-oriented financial verticals remain weak. Also, we do not...
View ArticleYou know it's a recession when porn sales are down
The Economist notes that the pornography industry is going through hard times: Most of the industry consists of small private production companies whose numbers are secret, but Mark Kernes, an editor...
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