fsa investigation?
ADVFN PLC
24 November 2006

ADVFN PLC (the 'Company')

Exercise of Options

The Company announces that options to subscribe for 150,002 ordinary shares of
one pence each in the Company have been exercised at a price of 1.25p per share.
These shares have been allotted and application for the shares to be admitted to
trading on AIM has been made to the London Stock Exchange. Admission of and
dealings in these shares are expected to commence on 1 December 2006.

Chambers should scrap all euro sites..total disaster and concentrate on US and Japan sites...US sites look like they are doing well with loads of advertising plus they give a list of subscribers unlike UK site where he won't disclose the actual numbers...should be made to by shareholders

I would be interested to see a list of how many subscribers have visited the site in the last month!

It has seemed quieter for a while now, only a few good threads left.

Totaly agree Andy.

Looks to me like the UK board is suffering for some reason. Less and less well known names disappearing by the day.

Surely this will have a negative effect on there revenues.

Maybe slightly grasping at straws here. Facts are facts. They have gone from an average of around 37M pages views daily to a little under 60M recently, in six months.

If they could control the manic spending they may even have a financial success.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=advfn.com

Fair enough DD, but as you know as well as I do how many are being converted to
money subscribing subscribers rather than freebies???????????????.

DD,

I must say that page view statistic is impressive, and I have to admit I'm surprised, given the quietness of the boards recently.

Presumably that figure includes the foreign boards that have just come online?

If so it would be interesting to know when each one started up, and the individual monthly figures for the last six months to see where the real gain is being made, ie UK BB , or the new foreign ones.

Sometimes due to internet glitches, I enter via the US BB, and that seems quiet, and sometimes via the German one, and that looks quiet too, so maybe the Italian or Brazilian one is generating all the traffic?

As Goldfinger states, I don't see many new faces on the premium BB, which suggests many are only visiting the free boards.

take it from me the european sites are dead...new US sites are doing well,not surprising with the performance of the dow...subscribers should be signing up in their droves this new year...especially if they cut the time out to a few seconds

happy new year all

It is very difficult to gauge just how much more in the way of advertising, subscriptions and reduced spending would cause a break even scenario. Once the latter is achieved it may be easier but then the equation becomes just how much more can the current set up take, or will they have to buy even more space to decorate with advertising. If so then further dilution is a strong possibility and it may well become clear that the current policies will not produce the required revenue. Some of the other add-ons, which were the subject of great hype at their birth, are now struggling to find a mention and so one assumes that their contribution to the pot is limited.

I hope I'm very wrong but I cannot see a profitable way forward other than to charge for membership, to all companies, so that we at least know there is a yearly lump sum which can be relied upon. Everything else 'paid for' after that would be a huge bonus and cash with which to build for the future.

Regards Bloomers

bloomers,

Happy New Year!

I agree that it's difficult to see how they will generate sufficient funds with the current business model.

IMO they should reduce the price of level ll to encourage more subscriber based takeup, I'm convinced they would sell a whole lot more if another 10 came off the price.

Absolutely SPOT ON there Andy.

Youve hit the nail on the head. Whoever out of the top financial sites eg, Money am, advfn, hemscott, Scrazy, ample etc, etc, has the guts to go ahead and bring down level 2 charges to a reasonable monthly charge will win a big market share I believe.

In fact I can see someone doing this, its just a matter of time.

Could turn out to be a little like the lowering of price on broadband.

hi i use the afn web site
but on the bottom of the web page
affilation scheme copyright run from 1999to 2007
will they get other remember you need 30 working day by letter
to stop the account
do anyone no the date it runs out?

Wayne, you're all set to get the 2007 award for the most impenetrable post :-)

I'll have a bottle of whatever he's on. Judgeing by the second part of his name his maths are much better.

So will I.

I thought it was myself after yesterdays festivities, glad you 2 guys have comforted me.

looks like AFN is going bust...Chambers looking for another gravy train

Maestro

Do these one liners of yours come to you in any particular form or is it totally down to insider knowledge. Their accuracy is so spellbindingly poor that I often wonder if QXL was just a lucky guess, as opposed to all your unlucky ones. LOL

bloomers..why do you think they have moved offices to ONGAR?...hardly the action of a successful company...not exactly a prestigious location is it?

dead cat bounce before the lights go out

Goldfinger,

I think it's a question of who blinks first!

I totally agree, the site that brings down level ll prices to a lower level will generate a lot more traffic IMO, especially if it was bundled with a premium BB membership package.

I would imagine a price of £20 would seriously increase takeup, and any fall in profits could be offset by imaginative use of the increased numbers and hits.

I invest rather then trade, (in theory at least!) so in practice don't have much requirement for level ll, but would subscribe at a lower price.

I think MAM has missed an opportunity since inception to make itself a more serious competitor to ADVFN, and continues to do so.

Quite why MAM or Sharecrazy don't think outside of the box a bit more is puzzling, and MAM are not even leveraging their relationship with Shares either IMO.

Your broadband analogy is a superb example of increased takeup of a product as the price has fallen.

let's hope somebody is listening!

Yes fingers crossed andy.