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One of the most obvious observations any Ad:Tech 2009 attendee was likely to make is that the conference attracted a very diverse crowd, in terms of age and professional expertise, among many other...
Ad:tech NY is still going strong. This year’s event was at the much larger Javitz Center, had excellent speakers (as usual) and a great crowd. The overall mood was enthusiastic and upbeat about t...
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My mother and sister came up to see the new addition to our family last weekend. If you read my 2007 M&A Research Report, I noted how my little sister and her friends spent an entire evening over ...
Peachtree Media Advisors, Inc. would like to welcome its new Vice President, Raymond Yip. Ray began his career in 1997 as a Financial Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex Brown covering financial sponsors...
Wow. A $35 billion dollar bid for NBCU. I feel like a small African village at the UN when the big boys are talking about nuclear proliferation and I’m at the podium talking about mosquito nets, ...
I’ve been spending my free time away taking tests to get a broker/dealer license and preparing for a newborn, which is a double excuse for such a short post and duration since my last post. Althou...
Peachtree Media Advisors would like to welcome our new intern, Elena Tarassenko. Elena joined Peachtree in September 2009 as an intern. She was an analyst on the Power Team in Investment Banking a...
I’m clapping my hands like I just saw a great performance of a Tennessee Williams play. Well done Disney. Acquiring Marvel was a strong consolidation move, but please do not Disne-fy the product ...
Peachtree Media Advisors, Inc. is launching a green technology division today to provide the same high-level investment banking services to the renewable and clean tech energy sectors. Peachtree G...
Reader’s Digest is going bankrupt. This article is not necessarily about Reader’s Digest, but more about a project I was given early in my media investment banking career. In 1999, I was tortured...
Similar to the rumble of a wave under a surfboard, the third quarter of 2009 appears to be start to a period of aggressive smart acquisition strategies. Amazon’s acquisition of Zappos.com, Faceboo...
After a quiet first half for digital media M&A in 2009, Amazon made a big splash to kick off the second half, acquiring Zappos, the largest online shoe retailer, for $847 million. The move doesn’t...
I need to start this post out by saying my Mom is one of the best persons in the world. Why? Her house in Florida was robbed yesterday while she was at work and these guys took a lot. Her respons...
Peachtree Media Advisors, Inc. has released a mid-year digital media M&A transactions report. Although the first half of the 2009 saw a significant drop-off in capital raised and transactions vers...
In the period from April 2009 to June 2009, ad-supported consumer digital media companies managed to squeak out a increase in valuation. As a perennial optimist, I will say that it is time to star...
Last month, I went to Streaming Media East to learn a bit more about streaming media and delivering video online…(I know, I’m starting to fall into that half-life blogger statistic!) The reason I ...
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I just read an interesting article written by Mark Walsh at Media Post and based on a press release from Forrester Research. I’m not exactly sure what to make of an article that is dated today and...
Digital media acquisitions have been far and few in between in 2009 because the current recession has slashed prices of publicly traded firms (creating a gap in perceived market value) while causin...
There’s a great deal of talk about Twitter and Apple. Every digital media blog out there is writing about the acquisition rumor or who should buy Twitter for $700 million. I just wanted to write...
Peachtree Media Advisors, Inc. would like to welcome its new Analyst, Joshua Feng. He joins the team from MDT Advisers, where he managed the daily trading process for quantitative equity strategie...
The Peachtree Media Advisors, Inc. workout Wicking T-shirt is here. Although the t-shirts were made for clients, potential clients, champions of the firm and employees, the t-shirts are clearly av...
This post is just an update on valuations in Q1 2009. All of my positions from the 2008 M&A Round Up, About Peachtree (www.peachtreemediaadvisors.com) and my podcast interview with DishyMix remain...
I was shocked to see that Conde Nast Portfolio was closed. My goodness. My wife almost bought me a subscription to the publication and I said, “Naaahhh, I’m ok with Business Week.” I pretty much...
Ad-tech SF was a solid event that is still one of the better shows for meeting people in the industry and listening to diverse panel opinions. Ad-tech seems to be one of the few shows to focus on ...
Ad-tech San Francisco is next week and based on the recent conversations, there is much more optimism than pessimism regarding online advertising spending this year. Most people accept the fact th...
Here is a link to a digital media M&A podcast interview with the one and only Susan Bratton of Personal Life media. The interview covers the M&A market in 2008, favore M&A transactions last year, ...
Ron Gardner of Audio Stocks (www.audiostocks.com) wrote me a note regarding China Broadband, Inc., which at first I thought would not be relevantt to me or any of the VIPs that have read this blog ...
AOL buys Bebo for $850 billion.
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