As a precursor to our launch on the 23rd, we will be upgrading both hardware and software during the early part of the week.

I will be emailing everyone with more details on the launch as well as pricing and services that we will enable at that time.

This betatest phase has been invaluable and a huge thanks to everyone, to be honest we would not have been able to launch without you.

We will making sure that when we open up for business that we are careful about the introduction of products so we have decided to enable level 1 data first and level 2 data a few days later.

I hope you will, agree that by implementing a staged approach we can avoid any conflicts which might potentially affect the paid for services. I can assure you that level 2 is worth waiting for both in terms of product and pricing ( but then I am bias). I will next week announce an interesting and important tie up on level 2.



Regards

Mike

PS Off to bed, long day:-)

Good timing, Mike :-)

Kayak; i know, had a bit of a day and was going to announce this at midnight, but got waylaid,

M

Mike
Good luck with the launch. But... I think like me you will find that a large number of people use the internet from work. You need to get this port 80 issue resolved before launch so that visitors get the full benefit of a visit to this site. If they come and cant get streaming, live trades etc they may well go away and not come back.

Looking forward to the launch party.

Mike, it says on the invite that we should bring passports with us. Please can you confirm that you have *NOT* booked concorde?

Thanks

Gausie

Mike,
I hope all goes very well. This is going to be a great success and deservedly.
Best wishes,
Richard

Mike

Good luck and I hope all goes well.

Bon voyage, Mike!

Best of luck with the launch Mike.

dcb

Thanks for giving us an alternative.
Much success and all that Jazz.(Hep cat term Gausie) :-)
Iain.

Brasseye: All that Jazz?

Quote from Mike: "I don't care about expensive things, cashmere coats, diamond rings, Don't mean a thing. All I care about is love ...."

;-)

I echo jeffmacks point that streaming/html stockwatch behind a firewall issue needs resolving.

Mike

Looking forward to having a look at the wider spread of services, particularly L2. I'm sure you don't need it but good luck for the day.

Regards
Rob

Good luck.
Can I reserve the thread tittle "MoneyAM - idiots bringing the FBB (or whatever it is called) into disrepute"
M

Best of luck to the team.

Mike when does my free L2 start? You know the free life time membership thingy :-)

Best wishes to all at MoneyAM

good luck for the forthcoming launch

best of luck on the launch

let the "moneyam competitior"-butt kicking begin

what a day to pick



I get the BIG 50 on that day !!



well done Mike & the team, all the best for the 'off'

good luck to all at moneyam,best regards l.l.

Yes, well done and best of the luck with best wishes...

Good luck Mike and all at Money AM with the launch, hope all goes to plan. The most important tip I can give you that will guarantee your success - Keep listening.

l'd like to join in and wish u every success with the launch, have been using what we have already on a daily basis .... and now look forward to even more, especially after l have "croc" computer :):)

Good luck for the 23rd, looking forward to the L2 data

CS

You and your team are doing a great job, Mike, and I will keep my fingers Xssed for takeoff.

What a shame, I fly out on holiday on 22nd so will miss launch, still even
moneyam can't compete with sun sea and surf,
Mike,
Best of luck with the launch, must say I like what I've seen so far

regards
Roger

Good luck Mike and the team (not that you need it, Im convinced that your success is assured)

Neil

Good luck with the launch, Mike. Amazing achievement to get so far so fast.

Martini
Thats my thread from the other site. Anyways, only be complaints about Ash on it

Perhaps its an honour to be attacked by AJ
L

Good Luck.

Which Sunseeker have you ordered!

Yep, Good Luck. What has been achieved so far is amazing and I'm sure the site will continue to be a success. Well done on taking all the comments positively and responding so well to them. I know that this is what beta testing is all about but I bet there are days which don't have enough minutes in them to do it all - and everybody is getting on your case - and you wanted to go home six hours ago.

All hard work greatly appreciated.

Andy Pandy,

Going home six hours ago would have been wonderful :)

J.

Jeff,

"MoneyAM - idiots bringing the FBB (or whatever it is called) into disrepute"

So it should be a busy thread then.

LOL!

Cheers

Ash (;-))

Mike and all at MoneyAM

Wishing you the very best on your launch and for great success in the future!

Tom.

Good luck. I don't think you will need it. Having a superior product makes a big difference.

You obviously have the opposition rattled. I have received yet another promo Email. That's several over the last couple of months now.

Dear ADVFN'er,

Thank you for using ADVFN. We hope you enjoy our free or premium service with its real time streamed prices, active BB and many advanced tools.

We'd like to make you a special offer to take full advantage of our premium services.

We have recently introduced a yearly special offer for our premium services. If you purchase a yearly subscription you get a free month! In effect you get 12 months service for the price of 11.

This has proved very popular and we have decided to run a special promotion to premium ADVFN users like you.

For one week from today, ending at Midnight on Monday 27th January, we are running the following special offer:

Good luck for tomorrow and best wishes for the future.

Mike, Ross, Mighty Micro, Kam, TulletJ, Andy et al at AM.

Sounds like you've got the L2 stuff covered anyway.

Best of luck with the launch.

Cheers

Ash

Afer hours today and tomorrow we will be switching in new features, marketing gifs, subscription options etc etc.

Just to let you know that we have mounted a largish PR campaign in the Press and TV/Radio plus adverts in National and local press. It will be interesting to see the reaction.

Mike

Will there be coverage in this week's Shares mag?

Mike

Best wishes for the launch.

Any news on the Port 80 issue?

Regards,

PlanB

PlanB; In fact they are working on that today. It was/is a reasonable size issue but things are progressing. fingers crossed for it being finished tomorrow.

Haystack; they wanted too much money;-)

Try the Aberdeen Press and Journal. They always have an eye for a good story.

When the Titanic sank their headline was 'Kenethment man drowns at sea'.

On the outbreak of WW I they had 'Giant neap found at Turrif'

Their best headline in WW II was 'Ike flies back to front'.

A MoneyAm headline competition might be nice.

Bullshare,

Best of luck with the launch and may you
prosper even more!

:-)

Jeff

To the MoneyAM Team,

The site gets better every day; thanks.

I wish you well for the Launch and in the Years to come.

Regards, Jon.

Mike,

Good luck for the launch.

Hope all those Shares readers don't jam the servers up though :-)


Regards,

M

Well folks after 16 years as MD of MSM/AJ Bell Media, I am going to hang up my commuting boots at the end of September.

It's been an incredible journey, first off co-founding ADVFN, then founding MoneyAM and incorporating that into Shares Magazine. Myself and fellow partners sold the business in December 2012 to AJ Bell. AJ Bell has recently announced a float of its business at the end of this year or early next year, so I am going to make the most of the opportunity and enjoy a quieter life.

Its been a great journey and I have made some amazing friends on these Bulletin Board. We have sadly lost some of the greatest characters such as Crocodile and MG.

I plan on taking a few days off then I am going to take on a few Non-Exec roles and have a few of my own start up ventures to play with next year!

I leave AJ Bell Media in a very strong position. We moved Shares from print to digital in 2016 and have since seen readership grow from 15,000 to over 70,000. MoneyAM and its white label spin offs such as the solutions we host for the Telegraph, Daily Mail, AJ Bell , Hargreaves Lansdown and many more businesses mean that MoneyAMs traffic is over 2,000,000 unique users a month.

For the past 12 months the dev team have been working on a back end move into Amazon (AWS) which is nearly complete. Users will then hopefully see better resilience and speed.

I will still be on the boards and as I will no longer work for a Group that’s ’regulated’ I will be able to ramp properly again!

Cheers

Mike (Bullie)

Yes it has been fun Mike, See you for lunch soon, M

All the best Mike and good luck in your "ventures".

You won't miss the commuting!

Good luck Mike and all the best for the future.

Good luck Mike, enjoy your retirement.

Thanks Mike,

You transformed the nature of these boards. Are you having a leaving evening? Maybe at one of the shares presentations?

All the best Mike.

Yes Mike , we need someone to ramp on the Versarien board , what ya wait'n for . ( just kiddin ) .

Best wishes Mike; thanks for all your hard work.

Steve

Mike,all the very best for the future

Best wishes to you, Mike!

MAM,

For goodness sake get rid of the talking adverts. Every click I make on MAM, the same 'Southbank' (or similar) advert restarts.

Are you trying to drive your customers onto alternative sites?? - You are overdoing the 'In your face' advertising element!!

Pse dump the talking advertisements. The other adverts are bad enough. - Its like navigating a minefield.

Cheers.

HAb

Well done Mike and hope all works out with future ventures!

Banjo. Many thanks, counting down the days


Hiram I have noticed the advertising dept, it is very annoying

Notified or Noticed?

Hmmm? Could be either, I suppose. :o)

He could just turn the fecking sound off :-)

Dil; That's just too easy for some people.

1 week to go and will be able to post my usual old tripe and ramps :-)

Well folks I can now start ramping 😃

Just caught up with this! Shows how much I look at the threads here, although I have Stockwatch on all the time :P

Mike, if you are still watching, I would wish you the happiest of “work-related” retirements and expect you to enjoy the countryside!

As a relic of the ETrade/ADVFN/MAM past myself, I remember all too well the many riotous or at least noisy Christmas meetings/meals/pubs of the MTM era and years after that. Much missed times (apart from the hangovers)!

It would still be good to catch up with you and other people when the opportunity arises. I must look at the threads more often over here.

ATB
Tony (Bones)