Comments on: Creativity vs. the Quants http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2009/05/31/creativity-vs-the-quants/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:06:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bluerabbit http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2009/05/31/creativity-vs-the-quants/comment-page-1/#comment-732 bluerabbit Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:38:33 +0000 http://thereformedbroker.com/?p=3668#comment-732 LOL! Ah, business. Actually, they did have statistical analysis before. They hooked people up to gizmos in those auditoriums and tested their reactions to TV ads. Problem is, the TV audience is shrinking. Magazines are shrinking (literally), billboards are banned, so they've started to put ads on everything that moves. Question is, have they reached a point of diminishing returns. LOL! Ah, business. Actually, they did have statistical analysis before. They hooked people up to gizmos in those auditoriums and tested their reactions to TV ads. Problem is, the TV audience is shrinking. Magazines are shrinking (literally), billboards are banned, so they've started to put ads on everything that moves. Question is, have they reached a point of diminishing returns.

]]> By: Joshua M Brown http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2009/05/31/creativity-vs-the-quants/comment-page-1/#comment-736 Joshua M Brown Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:46:27 +0000 http://thereformedbroker.com/?p=3668#comment-736 lolololol my faves are the Murray Hill chicks, 15 minutes out of school who say "I'm, like, in marketiiiiiiiing" with the influx of Wall Street analysts into the ad/marketing world, they'll have plenty of prey for husband-hunting lolololol

my faves are the Murray Hill chicks, 15 minutes out of school who say "I'm, like, in marketiiiiiiiing"

with the influx of Wall Street analysts into the ad/marketing world, they'll have plenty of prey for husband-hunting

]]> By: Anal_yst http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2009/05/31/creativity-vs-the-quants/comment-page-1/#comment-735 Anal_yst Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:40:37 +0000 http://thereformedbroker.com/?p=3668#comment-735 Also WPP, don't forget them! With a few exceptions, most of the people i know that are in "Advertising," "marketing," etc are pretty retarded, and to hear them talk about work is to think you're being punked. Also WPP, don't forget them!

With a few exceptions, most of the people i know that are in "Advertising," "marketing," etc are pretty retarded, and to hear them talk about work is to think you're being punked.

]]> By: Joshua M Brown http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2009/05/31/creativity-vs-the-quants/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Joshua M Brown Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:07:25 +0000 http://thereformedbroker.com/?p=3668#comment-734 lol i only know of omnicom and interpublic, both stocks suck but i dont follow them closely enough to determine whether they are longs, shorts or holds.... the web advertising stocks are probably uninvestable as well if mainstream ad companies are going to ape their strategies. thx for reading lol

i only know of omnicom and interpublic, both stocks suck but i dont follow them closely enough to determine whether they are longs, shorts or holds....

the web advertising stocks are probably uninvestable as well if mainstream ad companies are going to ape their strategies.

thx for reading

]]> By: Manshu http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2009/05/31/creativity-vs-the-quants/comment-page-1/#comment-733 Manshu Sun, 31 May 2009 21:28:27 +0000 http://thereformedbroker.com/?p=3668#comment-733 Josh how can short these ad agencies ;) ? Josh how can short these ad agencies ;) ?

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