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IPG Acquires Stake In Online Marketing Firm Huge

IPG.jpgInterpublic Group (IPG) took an undisclosed stake in Huge, an online marketing firm that creates Web sites for clients like Ikea, JetBlue, Nutrisystem, Scholastic and Warner Music Group. Terms of the deal, and the size of the stake, were not disclosed. Huge has 130 employees in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and London and says it generates "more than $3.5 billion in annual revenue."

<>Global ad agencies like Interpublic have been eager to follow the advertising dollars flowing away traditional media and into marketing services. So far, the strategy has worked and they've managed to weather th...
By  Henry Blodget   (+7.48%  risk: moderate)  07/30/08 Comment


What Ad Recession? Ad Giant Interpublic (IPG) Beats Estimates, Keeps Guidance

crystal-ball.jpgYesterday Viacom told us that the bottom dropped out the ad market last quarter, and that the future was so hazy it wasn't going to make any more predictions about ad sales. Today we get a different take on the ad market from big ad conglomerate Interpublic (IPG): Things are fine, as far as we can tell.

<>IPG outperformed the Street's consenus for Q2, and said it was keeping its guidance for the rest of the year. One tiny hedge, via CEO Michael Roth: "While the growth that we posted during the first half demonstrates that we have yet to see retrenchment on the part of clients, we...
By  Henry Blodget   (+7.48%  risk: moderate)  07/30/08 Comment


Worst 10-year performers: Interpublic Group of Companies kicks its Coke habit

Filed under: Major movement, Bad news, Marketing and advertising, S and P 500

In this series, we take a look at the 25 stocks on the S&P 500 Index (SPX) that have turned in the worst performance during the past decade -- what went wrong, and what happens next.

<>New York-based Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG) is a marketing services firm, but they're not your average PR hucksters. Flip through IPG's resume, and you'll find that they were once tapped as the "brand steward" for Coca-Cola Classic. Is there a more solemn task in the world of marketing? Perhaps -- Coke also handed IPG the ...
By  Elizabeth Harrow   (+27.62%  risk: conservative)  07/26/08 Comment


Financial Relations Board Impressed Itself
Could not resist this one as earnings season starts up. The Financial Relations Board (FBR) which is part of Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) announced that during the first six months of 2008 they advised on more than $12 billion of M&A. This is impressive because they have already surpassed the volumes they did in the entire last year.

These guys are financial communications specialists. They are part of a publicly traded company. Their web site claims that they have helped their client’s share prices rise higher than major stock market indices. But when they talk about themselves < />< />...
By  George Gutowski   (-38.39%  risk: aggressive)  07/10/08 Comment


Analyst initiations: BSY, SOL and CHRD

Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst initiations

MOST NOTEWORTHY: British Sky Broadcasting, ReneSola and Chordiant Software were today's noteworthy initiations:
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  • Jefferies believes British Sky Broadcasting's (NYSE:BSY) exposure to discretionary household expenditure seems more dangerous than it is. Shares were initiated with a Buy rating.
  • Oppenheimer assumed ReneSola (NYSE: SOL) with a Perform rating and said it is waiting for margins to re-accelerate before becoming more constructive on shares.
    • <>Chordiant Software (NASDAQ: CHRD) was initiated at B. Riley with a Buy rating and $7 ...
    By  Eric Buscemi   (+0.00%)  06/30/08 Comment



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