{"id":651,"date":"2007-11-12T13:12:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T17:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/11\/12\/ad-age-interviews-iacs-barry-diller\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T16:31:47","slug":"ad-age-interviews-iacs-barry-diller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/11\/12\/ad-age-interviews-iacs-barry-diller\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Age Interviews IAC&#8217;s Barry Diller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/11\/05\/iac-split-up-conference-call-summary\/\">I wrote about the  breakup of IAC by Barry Diller<\/a>. At the time I stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>He\u2019s quite animated and interesting to listen to, I wish he did loosely  structured calls like this more often.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/digital\/article?article_id=121930\">Adage released an interview with Mr. Diller<\/a>. In it he adds some sensibility to the Facebook valuation discussions, confirms that the Google sponsored listings deal is for five years and discusses how he&#8217;d like to buy AOL. I&#8217;d love to pick his brain on the future of Ask in a more detailed interview. It&#8217;s clear that he is shaking up a lot of things and it will be interesting to watch this breakup as it progresses for clues as to how the company will be run going forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ad Age:<\/strong> You in the past have had a pretty good grasp on speculation. What  do you think of the valuations being thrown around about a site like Facebook?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Diller:<\/strong> Those are not valuations based on anything  fundamental; those are valuations based upon rather enormous hopes and dreams.  Not that they won&#8217;t necessarily come true, but at this point, that&#8217;s what they  are in terms of revenue and profits getting to the level that would sustain a  very high asset value. &#8230; The physics would demand that this becomes more  rational at some point, I think maybe sooner rather than later. But again,  that&#8217;s a prediction based on nothing but hot air, to mix many different  metaphors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ad Age:<\/strong> I can&#8217;t let you go without asking about Ask. Are you happy with  how Ask.com is doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Diller:<\/strong> We feel great. We&#8217;ve been able  to grow queries second only to Google. We&#8217;ve increased retention, frequency. All  the metrics for Ask are very good. Now we have a new five-year arrangement with  Google on the sponsored listings that&#8217;s going to be very, very remunerative to  us. Ask is going to be able to continue to innovate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I wrote about the breakup of IAC by Barry Diller. At the time I stated: He\u2019s quite animated and interesting to listen to, I wish he did loosely structured calls like this more often. Today Adage released an interview with Mr. Diller. In it he adds some sensibility to the Facebook valuation discussions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask","category-google-goog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}