Phorm Corp Share Discussion Threads

[btcustomer] 27/1/2016 17:47

IgbertSponk you haven't got a clue about Truste certification. You are misleading people again.

[igbertsponk] 27/1/2016 16:57

I note that Phorm is a lovely trusted company. That should answer your tired old rants about Russia.
Phorm (AIM: PHRM), a leading advertising-technology company and first party data platform provider, is pleased to announce that it has achieved the TRUSTe Enterprise Privacy Certification across ALL of its online properties.

[igbertsponk] 27/1/2016 16:55

You'll have to wait for the annual results BTCustomer. Due at the end of June in accordance with AiM rules, and Phorm like to obey things like that. One hopes that tax-dodging Google can continue that long without running out of cash or goodwill.

[btcustomer] 27/1/2016 16:53

Deliberate lies are a serious matter on an investment bulletin board.
Perhaps IgbertSponk could produce evidence for his spurious and misleading claim about exponential revenue growth?
I produce evidence for my claims.

[btcustomer] 27/1/2016 16:52

Anyone know why these companies get contacted as part of receiving PhluidMedia ad campaigns (and when do internet users visiting thecellar.auction who are subjected to the ads give their consent to data going to RUSSIA?)


begun.ru
madnet.ru
republer.com
sspicy.ru
yandex.ru
adriver.ru
adfox.ru
imrk.net

[igbertsponk] 27/1/2016 16:47

You'll have to wait for the annual results BTCustomer. Due at the end of June. One hopes that tax-dodging Google can continue that long without running out of cash or goodwill.

[btcustomer] 27/1/2016 16:07

Revenues failing repeatedly to hit predicted published targets

The only exponential thing about Phorm is the exponential share dilution - there are now over a billion shares in issue.

[igbertsponk] 27/1/2016 14:55

Revenues clearly tanking up exponentially as less and less cash needed each time they raise some. And each time it lasts longer and longer.

[btcustomer] 27/1/2016 14:40

If no one is looking at their website, they won't generate much business. But if IgbertSponk says that insomnis-media.com gets no visitors, who am I to argue? I'm sure Alexa.com have the details.

Anyone seen the Phorm revenue figures for H2 2015?

[igbertsponk] 27/1/2016 14:33

I doubt anyone but you is looking at their website, and as you already knew from their tweet, no problem.
Gerralife.

[btcustomer] 27/1/2016 14:14

The last share subscription raised $1m during January, enough to finance aproximately 2/3 of the December cash burn.

So when is the next share subscription?
What is the available cash right now?
What are the revenues looking like, Q4 2015 for example?

Using Phorm's own figure (very recently updated), they seem to have about MINUS $0.88m cash.

IgbertSponk is clearly not very well informed on website maintenance. Routine maintenance/updates do not result in "website suspended" appearing on the WHOIS page for the domain.

Domain Tools report: "Website Title "Suspended website" | This website has been suspended "

Four routine maintenance a webmaster will put up a holding/redirection page, and the WHOIS details will be unaffected.
But the Insomnis Media website shows all the signs of being a rather cheap and amateurish operation ever since it was created, with what looked like a free website template, four days before Ertugroxson resigned from Phorm and the brand new company was incorporated - to be later proclaimed as Phorm's new "experienced" ad-partner.

One example of incompetence from a security/privacy point of view - odd for a company parnering with Phorm/Phluid Media, as they boast about TrustE certification - their contact-us page is STILL unencrypted.

and their login page requesting username and password is also still unencrypted.


Insomnis Media can't expect to be taken seriously as a privacy oriented outfit with that sort of privacy/security sloppiness - and of course, neither can their partners, Phorm/PhluidMedia.

I think I'll call it vapourmarketing.

ROFL!

[bluecar1] 27/1/2016 14:07

Smurfy, you need to run noscript as well, this prevent the adblock detection script running

Problem solved

[smurfy2001] 27/1/2016 13:40

I've been using ad blocking for years, will come a time when most websites will just refuse to serve you unless you disable your ad blocker (some sites are already doing this to my surprise). So much faster browsing the web on the phone since l installed a blocker though. Reckon Google must be nervous and monitoring closely.

[igbertsponk] 27/1/2016 13:24

A routine update is not a problem. A problem is when the website just starts spouting gibberish - see posts 50931 for an example.

[btcustomer] 27/1/2016 13:22

Hi everyone, our website will be down for the next 2 hours whilst we make some updates. Apologies for any inconvenience. Thanks.


Domain Tools report: "Website Title "Suspended website" | This website has been suspended "

Oh dear, Phorm's brand new "partner" having problems with its free website template again? you just can't get the staff nowadays... (or maybe cash is the problem?)

[btcustomer] 27/1/2016 09:50

Hallucinating? - reading posts from "custard"? Where?

As for Christmas Day - you'd better speak to TradeJunkie2 yourself.





Anyone seen Phorm's H2 2015 revenue results? Did they make the $20m that Bigger predicted? Of course not - otherwise they wouldn't still be burning cash as declared in their operational update. Their expenditure has gone down - as they have shut down operations in Turkey and China, and due to the BOD not being paid once the Golden Boot payments to Ertugroxson stopped, but revenue? Still seems to evade them, as does the cash investment nowadays - only £700k last time the begging bowl went round. Lean times ahead... esp now there are 1.028 bn shares in issue.

[igbertsponk] 27/1/2016 08:22

He has to work Christmas Day now to justify his peppercorn.

[andy pipkin] 27/1/2016 07:03

bad news for google, eh custard?

Will we be seeing less of you?

[btcustomer] 26/1/2016 15:33

Adblocking became almost as popular on mobile devices as on desktops and laptops at the end of last year, just months after Apple introduced the ability to block ads on iPhones and iPads.

Data from the last three months of 2015 from GlobalWebIndex recorded a rise in those reporting they had used an adblocker on mobile devices within the last month, compared to 38% on computers, which was also up by 10 percentage points on previous quarters.

The figure is skewed slightly by the high prevalence of adblocking in Asia, where the practice has been common for longer and where at the end of 2015 it was approaching half of all those surveyed. However it is still almost a quarter of mobile users in Europe and almost 30% in the US.

In a further worrying sign for companies who make money from digital advertising, more than 40% of those surveyed by GlobalWebIndex said they were interested in blocking ads on their mobiles in the future.

Oh dear...

[btcustomer] 25/1/2016 14:01

Using Phorm's latest publicly declared (unaudited) figures -

H1 2015 - total revenues were $0.9m ($0.15/mth) - Bigger predicted $7m, based on contact with management.
H1 2015 - monthly cash burn was $2.5m
H2 2015 - monthly cash burn was $1.5m. ($9m total)
H2 2015 - total revenues - not yet declared. (Bigger predicted $25m)

So did revenues go up by $1m per month? (H2 revenue would then be $6.9m (around what Bigger, wrongly, predicted for H1 2015)

We already know that H2 2015 expenditure would have fallen due to closure of Chinese and Turkish operations (the Turkish domains no longer belong to Phorm), and cessation of directors emoluments, BUT that the Golden Boot cost Phorm during H2 2015 - $85k per month of expenditure, but that after the third payment, the amount spent on directors came down substantially, as would the salary bill in China and Turkey. It's my guess that the reduction in cash burn is due to cuts in expenditure far more than any increase in revenue. H2 2015 operational updates showed that there was a wind-down in the existing markets, and that the "new" markets of USA and UK were not earning, but running trial campaigns.

Bigger's Jan 2015 prediction for H2 2015 revenues was $25m (revised downwards after his previous prediction went widely wide of the mark)- which would have meant NO cash burn at all, so clearly that has (once again) failed to materialise. Unless expenditure somehow went completely haywire at $25m + $9m. = $34m - which would be very worrying for investors, and contrary to what Phorm have claimed in their latest announcements to the markets.

So - yet another Bigger revenue prediction for Phorm bites the dust. They clearly didn't earn $25m during H2 2015. Far from it. But they aren't saying much about what they DID earn in the way of revenues, or where it came from.
Nor are they prepared to divulge any details about their Russian operation, and their relationship with iMarker, and what US and UK user browsing data gets shared with the Russian partners.

PS - my maths needs checking. I'll correct mistakes if you show your working and quote any sources so they can be verified.

[igbertsponk] 25/1/2016 13:54

I see BTCustomer seems to have transferred his ire from Kent to "Bigger". Helps to personalise the anger I guess.

[btcustomer] 25/1/2016 13:23

Anyone seen the new shares? I thought there were meant to be over a billion shares in issue? 1,028,089,892 to be precise.

[andy pipkin] 25/1/2016 11:34

still eating well then, gd?

[felixcatuk] 24/1/2016 21:16

Update on the Turkish situation, going forward, on a quarterly basis,... the update that Phorm seem to have forgotten to deliver...

All the PTReklam domains have been transferred to a parking page. Prior to deletion?