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- 0:05Speaker 1: This is what the flax. I'm Brett and I've justin.
- 0:08Speaker 1: It's Friday, the twenty first of November, does it? Wait?
- 0:10Speaker 2: Webjet could be called Hello Webjetty pretty soon. Hello World
- 0:15Speaker 2: is the old school travel agent with old school shops
- 0:17Speaker 2: and making the bookings for you. And it's just made
- 0:20Speaker 2: a three hundred and fifty three million dollar takeover offer
- 0:22Speaker 2: for Webjets. Next minute, webjets share price spike seventeen percent,
- 0:26Speaker 2: So watch this airspace.
- 0:28Speaker 1: It'd be very interesting there be man by time. We
- 0:30Speaker 1: often hear in Australia that property is the great Australian dream,
- 0:33Speaker 1: But in terms of financial returns, is that actually stack
- 0:36Speaker 1: up well? We have done a deep dive comparing the
- 0:38Speaker 1: returns to the property market, ver's the returns in the
- 0:41Speaker 1: share market over the last ten years. So if you
- 0:43Speaker 1: want to learn which one comes out on top, make
- 0:45Speaker 1: sure to download the Flux app and check out our
- 0:47Speaker 1: latest article.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Three riveting Stories Today Juzzy Boy, let's do it for
- 0:51Speaker 2: our first Quantas is taking the loyalty battle to Virgin
- 0:54Speaker 2: Australia head on with a new membership program for Jetstar.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Battle of the Aussi air Lines is on BMN so
- 1:00Speaker 1: what is the story here?
- 1:00Speaker 2: Right? So we know Quantus is Australia's biggest domestic and
- 1:03Speaker 2: international airline, founded in nineteen twenty.
- 1:06Speaker 1: And it also owns Jetstar, which is the budget friendly
- 1:09Speaker 1: airline for people who can't justify the full service prices and.
- 1:13Speaker 2: Who don't need a free biki or tea on their flight.
- 1:16Speaker 1: Now, be man, get this together. Quantus and Jetstar hold
- 1:19Speaker 1: over sixty percent market share of the domestic aviation market and.
- 1:23Speaker 2: Jesus, wait, we know that Virgin holds about thirty percent
- 1:26Speaker 2: market share and is pretty much Jetstar's only rival.
- 1:29Speaker 1: So now, be man. Quantus wants to lure these Virgin
- 1:31Speaker 1: Australia customers back to Jetstar.
- 1:34Speaker 2: And they're dangling their shiny rewards program as bait.
- 1:36Speaker 1: As part of this new annual membership, Jetstar customers will
- 1:39Speaker 1: be able to earn frequent Flyer status credits and points
- 1:42Speaker 1: equivalent to Quantus flights. Now.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Quantus claims that the goal of expanding the program is
- 1:46Speaker 2: to offer more passengers the chance to gain more points
- 1:48Speaker 2: and credit.
- 1:49Speaker 1: But it seems like the real reason is to squeeze
- 1:51Speaker 1: Virgin's business on both ends of the market with their
- 1:54Speaker 1: duel brand strategy. Fascinating, So what's the key learning. The
- 1:57Speaker 1: duel brand strategy is when a company uses two dis
- 2:00Speaker 1: distinct brands to target different customer types in the same market.
- 2:03Speaker 2: This allows them to experiment with different service styles and
- 2:06Speaker 2: compete at both premium and budget levels.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Man Quantisant jets are are a classic example of the
- 2:12Speaker 1: dual brand strategy, and.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Juzboy it's not that uncommon.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Nope, We've seen it with Singapore Airlines, which owns budget
- 2:17Speaker 1: airlines Scoot as well.
- 2:18Speaker 2: And passengers can earn Chris Flyer loyalty points across both
- 2:21Speaker 2: of those airlines.
- 2:22Speaker 1: We've also seen it with Toyota and their premium brand
- 2:25Speaker 1: Lexus as well.
- 2:26Speaker 2: And jesse Boy. In twenty twenty two, the last time
- 2:29Speaker 2: jets are reported on passenger numbers, it flew nineteen million
- 2:31Speaker 2: passengers in a year, and that.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Means nineteen million more people who have the option to
- 2:35Speaker 1: snag frequent fly points when they travel.
- 2:37Speaker 2: So by capturing both the high and low ends of
- 2:40Speaker 2: the market with its loyalty program, it leaves single brand
- 2:43Speaker 2: airlines like Old Virgin battling to find their niche.
- 2:47Speaker 1: For our second story, Nvidia is keeping the AI boom
- 2:51Speaker 1: alive as it outperformed the very lofty expectations of investors,
- 2:55Speaker 1: and the whole market rose on the news.
- 2:57Speaker 2: The AI crash and burn that skeptics were hoping for
- 3:00Speaker 2: has not arrived.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Tell me more, Okay, so in Video is the US
- 3:02Speaker 1: chip maker whose GPU chips pretty much power every single
- 3:06Speaker 1: major AI model in the whole wide world.
- 3:08Speaker 2: Fun fact, in Video was worth just four hundred billion
- 3:10Speaker 2: US dollars three years ago.
- 3:12Speaker 1: And more recently, it became the first company to hit
- 3:15Speaker 1: a five trillion US dollar valuation, now Josey Boy.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Over the past week, the broader share market has become
- 3:20Speaker 2: quite jittery.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a fear of a bubble in AI stocks,
- 3:23Speaker 1: especially in Video, which they were concerned might not hit
- 3:26Speaker 1: the lofty expectations of investors.
- 3:28Speaker 2: But fear not, Juzzy Boy in Video has pulled through
- 3:30Speaker 2: once again with this quarter's numbers exceeding investor expectations.
- 3:34Speaker 1: We're talking revenue of fifty seven billion US dollars for
- 3:37Speaker 1: the quarter, up.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Sixty two percent year on year, better than expectations.
- 3:41Speaker 1: And for next quarter they're forecasting sixty five billion US dollars.
- 3:45Speaker 2: For Josei Boy, who is paying for all these chippys.
- 3:47Speaker 1: So I'm glad you asked, because sixty one percent of
- 3:49Speaker 1: in Video's revenue comes from four customers name and shame.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Well in video calls them customer A, customer B, customer C,
- 3:57Speaker 1: and D, with the largest customer accounting for twenty two
- 3:59Speaker 1: percent scent of in Videa's entire revenue.
- 4:01Speaker 2: We don't know exactly who is who, but everyone assumes
- 4:03Speaker 2: this is Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and open Ai.
- 4:06Speaker 1: So investors breeded a sigh of relief after this news, and.
- 4:09Speaker 2: It pretty much pulled up the whole market. Given in
- 4:12Speaker 2: video's impact these days.
- 4:13Speaker 1: So true, So what is the key learning here?
- 4:15Speaker 2: When one giant becomes so dominant, its results can move
- 4:19Speaker 2: entire indices.
- 4:20Speaker 1: And that means the upside is huge, But so is
- 4:22Speaker 1: the potential downside.
- 4:23Speaker 2: And the bigger in video gets, the more markets rely
- 4:26Speaker 2: on it to keep delivering ridiculous growth.
- 4:28Speaker 1: If fact, beman in videos share gains this year have
- 4:30Speaker 1: accounted for eighteen percent of the entire sm P five
- 4:34Speaker 1: hundred total turn for this year.
- 4:35Speaker 2: The problem is that if in video ever misses or
- 4:38Speaker 2: hits an unexpected speed bump, it will drag the whole
- 4:40Speaker 2: market down.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Think Microsoft, Think Amazon, Alphabet Meta. The very customers buying
- 4:45Speaker 1: all of these chips, in fact, be man Even in Australia,
- 4:48Speaker 1: the tech sector gets confidence from in Video.
- 4:50Speaker 2: In fact, it was up five point one percent yesterday
- 4:52Speaker 2: off the back of the Nvidia news. So for now
- 4:55Speaker 2: the results have settled the concerns of investors.
- 4:57Speaker 1: But you can only imagine this concern will come up
- 5:00Speaker 1: again and again each quarter for in Video given their
- 5:03Speaker 1: frothy frothy evaluation.
- 5:04Speaker 2: For our third and final story, Adobe has dropped almost
- 5:08Speaker 2: two billion US dollars to buy sem Rush so it
- 5:10Speaker 2: can beef up its marketing and AI tools.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Everyone's favorite PDF overlord is a backshopping again, so tell
- 5:16Speaker 1: me more.
- 5:17Speaker 2: So. Adobe is the creative software giant behind Photoshop and
- 5:20Speaker 2: Illustrator and Premiere Pro and of course Acrobat.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Basically the entire design stack used by designers and marketers
- 5:26Speaker 1: and video editors.
- 5:27Speaker 2: And what about old sem Rush, Well, they're.
- 5:29Speaker 1: A marketing platform and they basically help businesses grow their
- 5:32Speaker 1: online presence through a lot of data.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Yep, they help marketers improve their SEO content marketing and
- 5:38Speaker 2: also just spy on competitor's activity.
- 5:40Speaker 1: And now Adobe's announced it will acquire sem Rush for
- 5:42Speaker 1: one point nine billion US dollars.
- 5:44Speaker 2: That is large. A seventy seven point five percent premium
- 5:47Speaker 2: on their previous share price.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Sounds like a pretty steef price to pay our record.
- 5:51Speaker 2: Yep, that's because sem Rush isn't a big revenue machine yet.
- 5:54Speaker 1: But Adobe reconds the strategic value of having a marketing
- 5:57Speaker 1: platform could be huge for their existing customers.
- 6:00Speaker 2: So what is the key learning here?
- 6:01Speaker 1: The easiest revenue boost isn't finding new customers, it's given
- 6:04Speaker 1: your current ones more reason to stick around.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Adobe knows its core audience inside out.
- 6:09Speaker 1: We'd been talking designers and marketers, creatives as well as
- 6:12Speaker 1: agencies and Josie Boy.
- 6:13Speaker 2: These days, those customers don't just create content.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Nope, they manage social channels, they write ad campaigns, and
- 6:19Speaker 1: they obsess over seo.
- 6:20Speaker 2: So rather than finding new customers, Adobe is widening its
- 6:23Speaker 2: offerings so it can sell more solutions to the same
- 6:25Speaker 2: loyal base.
- 6:26Speaker 1: And Spotify did the same thing. It built a huge
- 6:28Speaker 1: audience around music streaming.
- 6:30Speaker 2: Then it realized those same listeners also wanted podcasts and
- 6:33Speaker 2: audiobooksp So.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Adobe is now trying to create a product ecosystem so
- 6:36Speaker 1: that it's customers never want to leave flux am did
- 6:39Speaker 1: you know in the past twenty years, Australian property has
- 6:42Speaker 1: delivered an average of seven point seven percent annual growth
- 6:45Speaker 1: and the share market well hasn't done too badly either.
- 6:48Speaker 1: So if you want to know which investment might have
- 6:50Speaker 1: been better, they shore you download the Flux app and
- 6:52Speaker 1: check out our latest article Shares First Property.
- 6:54Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and we'll see you on Monday