Marketing Mistake: Did I Just Break Stock Market Regulations?
Marketing Mistake: Did I Just Break Stock Market Regulations?  
Podcast: Embracing Marketing Mistakes
Published On: Thu Jul 03 2025
Description: Neville Hobson, a former Vice President of Corporate Communications, shares a near career-ending mistake when he accidentally published financial results for a public company 12 hours early by hitting "publish" instead of "schedule." Quick thinking and a lot of panic led him to unpublish the content, reschedule it correctly, and immediately report the incident to the stock exchange, which fortunately responded with understanding.• Preparing financial results publication using FrontPage software• Potentially illegal early disclosure of financial results for a public company• Learning the critical importance of attention to detail• Modern publishing risks are even greater with multiple access points• First public disclosure of this corporate communications fuck upSend us Fan MailStruggling to prove marketing's worth to your board? Grab our free one-page Board-Proof Scorecard: 👉 Download the scorecard 👈Got a marketing problem you would rather not admit to? Reply to this and we will answer it anonymously on the show.Subscribe to our newsletter The mistakes we see marketers make, every fortnight. 👉 [Subscribe here] 👈Follow Chris:X, TikTok, LinkedInFollow Will:LinkedInFollow The Show:TikTok, YouTube