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...Asset managers from BlackRock to Grayscale have launched an online advertising blitz for their bitcoin exchange traded funds, taking advantage of a change to Google’s marketing rules on promoting cryptocurrency...
...The other advantage local companies have on foreign brands is domestic marketing teams and close access to factories, said Huang....
...The AI will then “remix” this material to generate ads based on the audience it aims to reach, as well as other goals such as sales targets....
...This is seldom of benefit to a traditional business, whose advantage lies in being able to differentiate its product through distribution and marketing....
...Yet it is still a distant third to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft in the cloud market and has struggled to translate its leadership in AI research into a business advantage....
...Marketers are increasingly “asking retailers to prove” how much value is added by such advertising, says Paul Frampton, global president of digital marketing consultancy Control v Exposed....
...But peers trade on even higher multiples of enterprise value to sales. At 2.9 times, Chewy is at almost double the forward multiple implied by the Zooplus offer....
...It set the sales goal on Wednesday as it raised its annual profit guidance by 13 per cent....
...“This ‘boom’ is not like the one of 2003-06, which was of the lower-to-middle end of the market and dominated by British buyers,” says Smadar Kahana of E&V....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery, at best, this is going to be a U-shaped.”...
...Joseph Evans, analyst at Enders Analysis, said: “The crisis is locking in the advantages of the largest players in the market.”...
...Boosting marketing budgets at a time of huge global uncertainty was nonetheless a multimillion-dollar gamble....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...We expect Boohoo's short-lead-time supply chain and small-batch ordering model to provide a huge advantage this year, maximising sales and minimising inventory risk....
...There were even new managers raising money specifically to take advantage of the blood on the streets. But much to their disappointment, prices have stayed depressed....
...A V-shaped recovery in kneecaps isn’t in the price, they say....
...Profitability was impacted by lower revenues/higher operating costs (largely investment in digital) although marketing was down 23% YoY....
...2.3 times sales....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...Sales rose from €153bn in 2009 to €281bn in 2019, according to Bain & Company....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Cost savings actions (pay cuts, marketing freezes, government support) will reduce costs by c.£100m....
...That will surely improve once the Mirage has been on sale for more than a few weeks, but Oculus’ head start in VR over Google turns out to be a real advantage for the Go....
...“They are holding back homes that they would otherwise be actively marketing, and which would therefore show up in inventory figures,” he says....
...We mentioned network externalities, economies of scale, economies of scope (how the data gathered through one product create commercial advantages against competitors in another market) and the addictiveness...
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