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October 2013

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Maiden full year results since its February IPO, from Internet marketing firm DGS, showed sales up 28% to US$25.5m and a pretax profit of US$3.3m for eps of 8.5 cents. DGS is a simple business: it provides online customer acquisition largely based on Google Adword campaigns using its proprietary technology dgSmart and call centre and it receives a fee for each customer acquired. During the year the top three clients, Comcast, Time Warner and Charter Comms, represented 82% and speaking to chief executive Jeff Cox post these results, he says that these three customers continue to increase their spend although they will fall as a proportion as the company adds new customers and expands geographically.A bit of a vexed question ...

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