GLG News by Online Advertising Experts (North America)

Deutsche Bank posted a profit in the third quarter of 2008, but only after adopting EU accounting rules (avoiding a loss by making so-called “mark-to-market” valuations of its investments) that allowed it to apply a new method of valuing its assets. Deutsche Bank senior executives will not be paid...

Ford is expected to move 124,000 units in October 2008

Cerberus Capital Management's current issues with other holdings and issues such as Mervyns, the possible merging of GM and Chrysler, and a very difficult lending environment within GMAC reflect the firms focus towards an eventual profitable book.

The internet and specifically search engines are where people go today for deep discounts, low costs, answers, information, and new jobs... Each and every year, the rotation (when feasible) more consumers find comfort within Internet properties.

More competition, not less is required within the automotive industry. Positive results will eventually be rewarded by a free market.

CAL is the first to report September traffic and it is NOT pretty, while capacity was cut - traffic declined even further. There will be more cuts to come as load factors fall across the US System. CAL is one of the airlines better positioned to handle the downturn so their numbers are likely to be...

1. Zenith Optimedia, Universal McCann, WPP, BMO Capital Markets, Oppenheimer, Lehman Brothers and eMarket all have announced downward revision of overall Ad spend for 2008           2. Nielsen Monitor-Plus: first-half U.S. ad spend declined 1.4 percent,...

Under reporting of audience listenership to Urban and Spanish-language stations hurts everyone, the listeners and advertisers. It's taken main stream marketers a while to fully understand the importance of these audiences

As with other mediums, revenue is down but radio is far from out of business. New technologies and a return to localism will help.

Airlines have been milking their frequent flyer programs and essentially selling something for nothing. But with IFRIC13 there is now a significant impact on their balance sheets. Are airlines opening themselves up for a problem that will haunt them for the future?