This is an altogether different thing about newspapers whereby they are a medium of advertising. Newspapers themselves advertise in aggressive ways for eg.  Look here . If  one thinks about it, newspapers may be the closest field whereby advertising is pretty much closely related to sales. What say people?

@ABHIRUP_BHATTACHARCYA :Yes,it is possible for a company to engage in advertising without actually selling the product. Take for instance,our local newspapers that advertises numerous ads ranging from mobile apps, retails shops to NGOs and stuff like that. The newspaper company isn’t selling anything but from advertising such ads,it is earning a…Read More

Great insight Binu. And Yes I also read about Google being interested in buying WhatsApp for around 10 billion $.                                      Still it is argued that Facebook will not be able to  make back its purchase price. Hence, it all comes down to the manner in which we are talking about the profitability here. If in terms of the…Read More

Regression Analysis can surely help. You may begin with the Survival Analysis, Time Series Models to Logistic Regression , Discrete Choice Models and so on.

Interesting thread guys.. Here’s my take on this. Facebook / any social network is measured by the number of users and how long they stay on the site. More the merrier. They realized that their user base is more but time spent is not what they want it to be. Meanwhile, WhatsApp was taking this “social media” world by storm. Facebook introduced th…Read More