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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penel Podcast. I'm Paul swing you,

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Speaker 1: along with my co host Lisa Brahma wits. Each day

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Speaker 1: we bring you the most noteworthy and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money. Whether at the grocery store or

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Speaker 1: podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts, as well as

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Well. According to Magna, global internet

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Speaker 1: ad spending globally in en was about two fifty billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's about forty five of global ad spending went to

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Speaker 1: the Internet. We're starting to see some of those big

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Speaker 1: internet companies report their first quarter earnings. We had some

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Speaker 1: good numbers out of Twitter, Stock ran up big time.

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Speaker 1: Snap had some pretty good numbers. And after the Clothes

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Speaker 1: tonight we have Facebook help us talk about all things

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Speaker 1: digital advertising. We welcome back Mark Douglas. Mark is a

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Speaker 1: CEO of Steelhouse based in Los Angeles, California. Mark, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Boy, business seems pretty good

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Speaker 1: for these big digital media companies. What are you thinking

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Speaker 1: about Facebook after the close? Yeah? I think Facebook, Um,

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Speaker 1: what's going to be really confusing for a lot of

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Speaker 1: people is Facebook faces and has face and continues to

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Speaker 1: face all this turmoil about privacy and other issues. But

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Speaker 1: the bottom line is they don't really have much competition.

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Speaker 1: They don't have much competition in terms of what other

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Speaker 1: social networks consumers are going to use. Is not just Facebook,

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Speaker 1: bails don't Instagram and WhatsApp. And on the advertising side,

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Speaker 1: they have even less competition. So we're not seeing at

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Speaker 1: field House, we're not seeing any kind of decline in

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Speaker 1: spend on Facebook and Instagram. If anything, we're seeing an

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Speaker 1: increase in spend on Instagram in particular. Did Twitter kind

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Speaker 1: of show us that there is a shift though among

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Speaker 1: advertisers that they're willing to pay for quality i e.

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Speaker 1: Human beings rather than thoughts, sort of encouraging Facebook to

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Speaker 1: possibly uh clear out take accounts or you know, ones

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Speaker 1: that kind of come from dubious providence. Um, they're definitely.

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Speaker 1: Twitter definitely seems to be investing in making sure that

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Speaker 1: all their accounts are valid, they're real humans, Um, things

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Speaker 1: like that. The issue there is scale. So as an advertiser, Um,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of work to create ads, it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of work to create and manage these campaigns, and

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Speaker 1: so Twitter just doesn't have anywhere close to scale as

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Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram. I mean, I think Facebook is eleven

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Speaker 1: then it's you know, you're probably approaching twenty times larger.

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Speaker 1: And so they're doing a good job, I think Twitter,

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Speaker 1: but they just don't have the scale to really capture

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Speaker 1: the advertising dollars and the revenue that that Facebook can.

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Speaker 1: You know, speaking of Twitter, it's was reported that Jack Dorsey,

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Speaker 1: the CEO of Twitter, met with President Trump yesterday. Boy,

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Speaker 1: I would have love to been a fly on the

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Speaker 1: wall for that one. What do you think was going

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Speaker 1: on there? Um that? I, you know, it's an interesting

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Speaker 1: meaning I read about that also, Um, I the strategy

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Speaker 1: at Twitter seems to be, UM, don't get blamed for

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Speaker 1: the election cycle. The election cycle, so UM seems to

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Speaker 1: be part of the strategy. So I think, UM kind

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Speaker 1: you know, just like going to Washington might show well. Ever,

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Speaker 1: right now, uh, we are getting some color around it,

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Speaker 1: saying that Jack Dorsy was explaining to President Trump that

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Speaker 1: some of his eliminated followers were bought, and that was

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Speaker 1: part of the issue. I am wondering, from your perspective,

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Speaker 1: whole deal of competition, what do you care? What are

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Speaker 1: whether there's any shift toward any of its competitors. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for years, Facebook's um CPM kind of the cost per

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Speaker 1: what those kind of metrics would I'd be looking for.

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Speaker 1: It's more the long term investment, not the near term.

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Speaker 1: You can just even feel it as an individual, just

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Speaker 1: monetize herble. That's not something Facebook has told me. I

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Speaker 1: just think that it's a logical step and it's something

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Speaker 1: Mark Douglas, chief executive of Steelhouse, who used to run

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Speaker 1: the engineering for e Harmony, and Steelhouse is focused on

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, you know, we are expecting these earnings,

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Speaker 1: artificial intelligence and targeted ads that you specialize in. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: business has traditionally been very human focus. You have media

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Speaker 1: seeing that the ad buying is now becoming more and

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Speaker 1: more automated. And so that's kind of technology we provide,

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Speaker 1: I think where the industry is moving to pretty rapidly.

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Speaker 1: So Mark, just you mentioned that, you know, there's not

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Speaker 1: UM where they potentially are going to go beyond just

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Speaker 1: Mark Douglas, chief executive officer of Steelhouse based in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time. This year has

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Speaker 1: been a tremendously good year for US equities, including the

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Speaker 1: hospitality sector. I'm looking right now at the sub indext

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Speaker 1: for the SMP five hundred focused on hospitality and it's

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Speaker 1: returns nearly nine year today joining us to talk about

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Speaker 1: the latest and greatest in the industry. We're lucky to

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Speaker 1: have Guilda Perez Alvarado. She is chief executive officer of

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Speaker 1: j L L Hotels and Hospitalities. J L L Jones

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Speaker 1: lang Lassalle is actually one of the biggest in the

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Speaker 1: space operating in in the hotel and hospitality sector. I'm

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Speaker 1: just wondering, Guilda, what do you think is really behind

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Speaker 1: the incredible boom that we've seen, at least in the

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Speaker 1: share prices of the hospitality sector so far this year.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Lisa, Very happy to be here. Listen, fundamentals are

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Speaker 1: related to GDP growth. So what's going on in the

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Speaker 1: M and A space here? We see a lot oftentimes

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Speaker 1: when a big hotel trades uh, you know, it makes

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Speaker 1: wise in the hospitality space. It's great question. Listen. We

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Speaker 1: thing I'm struggling with is. On one hand, people seem

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Speaker 1: of a lack of faith in the ongoing strength that

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Speaker 1: How are you seeing that playing out in the hotel sector?

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Speaker 1: Are people increasing their spending on vacations right now or

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Speaker 1: heading into a recession, right, So totally agree, But you

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Speaker 1: you know, are you seeing it actually affect business sediment?

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Speaker 1: You know, from a business perspective, No, From a travel

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Speaker 1: the areas you know, eminently you've talked about fresh capital

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Speaker 1: chasing hotel properties. Are there certain regions of the world

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Speaker 1: terms of activity? Listen, what are people chasing right now?

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Speaker 1: But um uh, those have certainly been you know, coming

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Speaker 1: other day, you know, muskmates some very bold claims about

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Speaker 1: although the way he framed in, particularly criticizing some other strategies,

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Speaker 1: investors are also looking at the fact that you're struggling

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Speaker 1: to build and deliver these cars. Tesla the gift that

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Speaker 1: keeps on giving. Liam. I'm sure you are excited to

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Speaker 1: write your next column. Yeah, he looks thrilled. Liam Denning

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