Not an analogy but he said in one of his speeches that "Preaching is moral violence", he said that in respect to religion but that that kind of helped me change my attitude whenever I talk to younger kids or cousins.
One thing about this guy is, he's been buying gme calls since summer 2019 and people made fun of him overtime and he continued doing so. Hes been giving monthly or weekly update about his calls since then.
Things are much worse at Gannett, parent company of usatoday. Personally, being laid off on March 31! Almost every employee is effected at this time, either furloughed for few hours a week, pay cut or let go !!
I'm surprised. I'd think online news would be one of the industries benefitting from this crisis. Is the revenue tied to lack of conversions on online ads?
It's tied to lack of ad spending. This is global across the entire advertising industry. Companies are spending less because of the pending recession and in particular they're spending a lot less on advertising, because people are not buying much right now (they often aren't even going anywhere for days at a time).
This, 100%. My institution advertises with local news agencies and newspapers. The local television CEO contacted our President to thank him personally for keeping up with the ad buys. They've had a 90% drop in ads being purchased.
Apparently it's us (community college), the state, and grocery stores still buying ads.
I guess the "adworth" of a single consumer is sort off fixed and when the consumer browses the internet twice the amount of time the revenue per impression falls. Also I guess the "adworth per capita" has gone down alot when people are reluctant consume extravagenza.
Each advertiser is trying to optimize ROI for the search ads it spends on. They do that by tracing clicks to subsequent purchases. This tells them how profitable/unprofitable the ad purchase was.
The advertising system is self balancing on cost per click if each advertiser optimizes it’s spend based on portfolio theory and because of the reverse Dutch auction that Google runs.
With the virus, some advertisers just don’t have anything they can sell right now (cruises, concerts, sporting events). They won’t even be bidding. Others will have things to sell that are in far less demand (cars, restaurants). The decreased demand will drive down cost per click (or adworth as you call it).
I have noticed many companies dive into emails to previous customers. They are also offering deals. This is cheaper than ads.
Entirely possible. They're predicting that half (1/2) of the businesses in my city will fail by the end of summer. If you're still holding on then you're cutting expenses to the bone... with the 2nd and 3rd order effects being that ad revenue, ether via click, or just in a "Eat At Joe's" ad in a local paper, is gone.
Apart from some online-only businesses, pretty much every business it cutting back at this point. Ads are one of the first ones to go. Esp. with the whole travel industry cutting by nearly 100%. Airlines, hotels and cruise ships spend a ton on ads and there's no point of running ads for them at this point.
Ad shows up with an ironic twist in a Coronavirus article >> somebody screenshots and posts to reddit >> instant front page >> even more free advertising but somebody calls the CEO who tells his subordinates to find somebody to yell at
For regular run of site ad buys, you're right. And a lot of CMS and ad systems come with a way to flag content as sensitive. For a small ad buy, nobody cares that much.
For big campaigns - bread and butter for print and web - different story. These are carefully designed in-your-face takeover ads and the brands care much more how they're presented.
The bigger problem is ad sales for newspapers is usually just AdSense backfill or national sales from the parent company. The former is just beer money unless your publication is NYT size, the latter is drying up because there's nobody to sell to!
Think this post is being slightly downvoted, but it is the reason according to multiple contacts in the industry. Even the ad spend which is out there is explicitly blocking COVID content for their ads.
First thing I do at my computer if I am groggy is to do chess tactics. Based on the results, I take a break or continue with my actual work. I should probably be looking at ELO as well, I just go by numbers at this time !
I started getting WSJ April last year and read it everyday now. Saves me a lot of time and got me back into reading books, set a target of 24 for the year.
I come in at around 11 45 every day and work until 7 with couple of 15 minute breaks for ping pong. No loss in productivity and extremely satisfied with commute(DC metro). But I make sure, I check my emails and respond at around 930 am, if some one needs me.
