UA vs. UCLA
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🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Verizon, and Unilever are just a few of the companies that have stopped advertising on social media platforms. How worried should Facebook shareholders be? Is Under Armour’s attempt to get out of a $280 million deal with UCLA a negotiating tactic or the start of a new era in fiscal responsibility? Maria Gallagher analyzes those stories and weighs in on Gap’s new 10-year partnership with Kanye West.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, June 29th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill with me today from our nation's capital. It's Maria Gallagher. |
| 0:10.0 | Good to see you. Thanks for having me. We've got a lot of apparel news to get to. |
| 0:16.0 | Athletic apparel, fashion apparel. |
| 0:18.0 | We're going to start though with the social network because shares if Facebook are down 10% over the past week. |
| 0:26.6 | As more companies have announced they are pulling their ad spend from Facebook. |
| 0:33.0 | On the list, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Verizon, |
| 0:36.5 | Unilever, Diageo, Honda, Lulu Lemon Athletica, |
| 0:40.3 | those are just some of the companies |
| 0:41.8 | that are taking a break from social media advertising and there are a couple things going on here Maria |
| 0:48.0 | One is this movement within social media with the hashtag stop hate for profit that some |
| 0:56.9 | groups have come together to form to encourage advertisers to pull their |
| 1:01.6 | ad spend from social media platforms that they feel aren't doing a good |
| 1:07.2 | enough job with hate speech online. So that's part of what we're seeing with some of these |
| 1:14.3 | advertisers. Others are just not formally joining this group. They are they are |
| 1:19.2 | hitting the pause button and I should mention the Twitter's shares are down a little bit more than 10% over the past week as well. |
| 1:27.0 | So it's not just Facebook, it's social media in general, but Facebook is one of the biggest companies out there, so they are the biggest target. |
| 1:35.0 | Therefore, a lot of the focus from this group and others is focused at Facebook. |
| 1:42.0 | Let me start with just a business. focused at Facebook. |
| 1:43.0 | Let me start with just a business question. |
| 1:45.0 | How big a threat do you think this is right now? |
| 1:49.0 | Because it's certainly a bigger threat than it was a week ago? I think that's a good question. I mean I think |
| 1:55.3 | thinking in context, Cambridge Analytica happened to everyone was like is this |
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