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[leluot3] 03/5/2016 16:19

boohoo its the gimp

[geheimnis2] 03/5/2016 16:10

afternoon, loops!

[leluot3] 03/5/2016 16:08

I see Geheimnis bought back into Blinkx just as the share price started to plummet.

He must be the biggest loser now on these threads. Boohooo!

[jonc] 03/5/2016 15:57

Red into the close.

Only manipulation in the auction will turn this blue.

[leluot3] 03/5/2016 15:53

More lows today


10p nailed on for the share price - keep shorting guys - fortunes to be made

[leluot3] 03/5/2016 15:51

Some tasty sells today. Now why would people be selling just before the results?

Just a thought

[geheimnis2] 03/5/2016 13:41

^^^^ ffs is she still trolling away?

[alex1621] 03/5/2016 13:39

Unlike your posts which are paragons of objectivity?

[football] 03/5/2016 13:27

I know stt as gone missing after this

"Where did R1 say they were expecting to be in the top 10?"

[geheimnis2] 03/5/2016 13:18

did clubbie write the second review?

[1gw] 03/5/2016 13:05

STT - but why? Does your preferred TV channel / magazine / newspaper get more interesting and relevant in a General Election year? The content for most outlets will stay the same, but for some (e.g. newspaper broadsheets) it will have a lot more political content - which for a relatively small part of the population will be interesting and relevant but for (I would guess) a large part of the population will be boring and irrelevant.

On Quantcast reach, I think R1 is doing fine. The 30-day running total has been fairly steady at around 190m +/- 5m US monthly people since mid-March. In my book that is operating at scale in terms of reach. What they now need to do is convert that reach into ad spend. The recent dramatic rise in page views may be a good pointer in that direction, or it may be a meaningless reporting change - difficult to say for sure so we'll have to wait for the results and hope for a steer on current trading.

Where did R1 say they were expecting to be in the top 10? I know they have reported being at a certain rank but I don't remember seeing them state an expectation.

[football] 03/5/2016 13:02

28 Apr 2016

"Promising Future"

StarStarStarStarStar
Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
Recommends
Positive Outlook
I have been working at RhythmOne full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
- pieces of the puzzle are getting put together, which is promising for the company's future
- lots of opportunities for individual growth
- open doors, open communication
- recognition for contributions
- outstanding benefits (great health insurance, time off, 401k, free food/drinks, etc)
- very active management team (seeks and accepts input from anyone within the organization, no matter what their p…
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Cons
- company is still in transition, so depending on the area where you work, there may be some risk
- office consolidation has been taking place for the past 6 months or so, which was openly broadcast (depending on where you live, could be a risk)
- turnover
Advice to Management
Seems like you're heading in the right direction now, so kudos to you. Keep working on communication though, it's better but can still improve.


or this one?


17 Apr 2016 Helpful (1)

"RhythmOne Is the Pits"

StarStarStarStarStar
Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
Doesn't Recommend
Negative Outlook
Pros
-Health Benefits

-Catered lunches a coupe times / month

-Attempts at building culture

-Coworkers put in a lot of time and effort, many are very ambitious

-Attempts to change business
Cons
-Grew by acquisition, not by growing product. Stock priced has tanked over the the last couple years once the market caught on

-Dirty reputation it will never be able to shake

-Layoffs done death by a thousand cuts. Never know when you'll walk in and your fellow coworkers will be packing heir belongings into a cardboard box

-Long hours: 24-7 for some departments

-Senior leadership not forw…
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Advice to Management
Cash out the company or hire a new CEO

[sikhthetech] 03/5/2016 12:42

1gw, i would expect a site's content to get more interesting and relevant as the Presidential Election year, wouldn't you???1R have dropped to 13th in the quantcast ranking....they were expecting to be in top 10!!

[geheimnis2] 03/5/2016 11:54

not sure that is true gowlane

blinkx had always guided to a 40:60 H1/H2 split - so I think your post is misleading

[gowlane] 03/5/2016 11:35

Not out of it yet Alex, I would agree

But the great unexplained mystery in terms of revenue performance in recent years was in Q4 2013, which included Obama’s second inauguration event

Guidance for H2 was for flat revenues, similar to H1, which clocked $82m, this was reiterated in mid November on interim results presentation, half way through Q3

But the actual outturn for H2 showed that revenues soared to $116m, increasing by over 40% from H1, and given the guidance I am guessing that most of that boost must have come in Q4

How on earth did this happen, right out of the blue?

One theory is that they simply ‘switched on the bots’, but actually couldn’t control them properly so were clocking up these 'bot inspired' views and clicks all over the place

They must have switched them off again quickly enough because 2013-14 was the year when for the first time ever sequential H1 revenues were lower than for the previous 6 months.

All speculation on my part but plausible

[1gw] 03/5/2016 10:47

STT - but people go to R1 network sites because of content not because of advertising. So reach should only increase if the sites get more interesting and relevant (and therefore attract more traffic) because of the events. So if they have dedicated political sites, those sites might get more hits during an election campaign - but not necessarily so because much more specialist or news-focused sites would also be going big on the elections and might actually draw traffic away from more generalist networks (or networks having smaller specialist areas) such as R1. Similarly with the Olympics - they might get more page views for Olympics-focused pages on sites which have regular customers, or they might lose regular customers as those customers go to sites with a much bigger budget for Olympics coverage.

I think the events are more likely to attract more advertising dollars rather than more visitors. Particularly for the election campaign, I would have thought there are likely to be attempts to reach out to "hard to reach" but undecided voters, which may mean (if we're lucky) targeting ads at some of the more specialist "long-tail" sites in the R1 portfolio (and perhaps also influencer marketing spend), as well as a general increase in political spend which all ad networks would hope to get a piece of. The Olympics advertising will presumably target mainly sports-themed sites and so R1's sports demographic sites stand a reasonable chance of getting some of those dollars.

[sikhthetech] 03/5/2016 10:01

Timetable of Primaries voting...

[sikhthetech] 03/5/2016 09:55

The quick and the dead – Arbitrage bidding in Adtech and network latency

[sikhthetech] 03/5/2016 09:44

1gw, The US Presidential Election campaign is naturally across entire US (and beyond)....therefore, I would expect 'reach' to increase...

The same goes for the Superbowl...

Likewise, with the Olympics, being an international event...I would expect quantcast for 1R to increase..

am I missing something?

[1gw] 03/5/2016 09:19

STT - I still don't understand why you think comScore and quantcast stats should be correlated with big advertising events. They are measuring reach (audience size) and in the case of quantcast, the number of visits to sites/pages, not the volume of advertising. What is your theory here?

[rocket fuel] 03/5/2016 09:15

got my full time trading boots on again boys n girls, in and out of anything with a bit of momentum, smashed 170% profit in last two trading days on matd and hnr. will be dipping in and out of everything that moves, like an old slapper. will be putting on my blue advfn suit again here very soon. hehe

[alex1621] 03/5/2016 08:51

That's right Mathersenior ... crumbling buildings? Have you been to Detroit recently? Or New Orleans?

[brigadier1] 02/5/2016 21:53

Nothing is going to improve with a bunch of wogs in charge.

[sikhthetech] 02/5/2016 20:21

1gw, thanks..
you'd expect quantcast/comscore to increase during the US Presidential Election Year...

However, will it show through to the bottom line??..

Maybe, we're heading for a 3rd 'transformational' year!!...