Tag Archives: accounting

Your Facebook Rebate

Posted on Monday, 16 July 2018 10:27 am by markpilip

Q2 2018 is in the books. Plenty of time for advertisers and their agencies to true up Q1 and really start work on the second half of the year. As a reminder, in Q1 Facebook removed: 583MM fake accounts. 21MM … Continue reading →

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GroupM Shines Light on Middlemen

Posted on Wednesday, 15 November 2017 8:05 am by markpilip

Bravo to Group M for starting to shine the light on the adtech middlemen who reduce our working media to, at times, a pittance. Advertisers need to demand more of this behavior from our agencies. Here’s the report I want … Continue reading →

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Just reviewing a marketing services (adtech) company’s financials and found myself laughing over the non-GAAP section of the investor presentation. It started my day off with a smile. Takeaway: Put your hand firmly in your pocket when the IR team … Continue reading →

Posted on Friday, 27 January 2017 8:01 am by markpilip | Comments Off on “Non GAAP” = We Just Made This Up