Safa Rashtchy
Safa Rashtchy
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We also expect more spending on search advertising. On top of these broader economic sectors, we expect the Internet companies, in particular e-commerce players, will increase their spending noticeably. These trends together will bring more maturity to the online advertising sector in China.
advertising brand largest yahoo
Yahoo is the largest destination for brand advertisers. Unfortunately, it has been overshadowed by search.
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Yahoo! is still seen as heavily dependent on advertising, and since there is no clear recovery in the ad market yet, people aren't getting excited about Yahoo!. In reality, Yahoo! has diversified outside its core advertising market, and growth there will help it grow the top line nicely.
advertising bottom hit seeing slow slump
We have hit the bottom of the advertising slump and are seeing a slow recovery, ... Things are not getting worse, and they are getting progressively better.
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It is a positive move. Investors almost hated the e-commerce business because a it was low margin operation, ... What they like about Internet media companies is they get 80-to-90 percent margins on advertising and sponsorships agreements. Why bring it down by selling something that has no margins?
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It's not a disaster, but it's a bit of a letdown,
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Everyone expects them to make a profit on operations, but if they can make more than $10 million from operations, it shows they are making some good improvements in the margin as well.
guidance looks quarter revenue
The revenue guidance for the first quarter looks pretty solid.
shows strength
It just shows the strength of their non-advertising revenue.
ebay issue lost
The issue is that eBay has lost some momentum,
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Crossing the 50-percent threshold on broadband usage, increasing focus of traditional media companies on Internet, and most importantly, the gradual but profound change in consumers' behavior for content consumption is pushing many more advertisers to allocate more dollars online at the expense of traditional media.
amazon further goal increase saw slower takes
While this may be a slower increase than we saw in 2005, this takes Amazon further away, not closer, to its goal of double-digit margins.
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With growth pushed off until 2007 and beyond, we would not be active buyers yet but rather look for potential catalysts over the next year.
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Competition is seriously hurting Amazon and it needs to increase spending just to keep up with the market. The picture is getting worse: more spending, steeper decline in margins.