News from World Directories that the company has chosen Local Matters to power its local search platform. This is a particularly interesting win for Perry Evans and team as it presumably beat out competitors Platefood — a collaboration of Sensis…
Monster has finally broken through the newspaper blockade, making a deal to launch a new Philadelphia-specific job site Aug. 14 with the new owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com. The newspapers and Web site were bought…
Rupert Murdoch, in a wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter's Diane Mermigas, emphasizes that broadcasters need to push harder on local and take their Web sites more seriously. "Broadcasters will be more successful if they commit more to local, [and…
GateHouse Media filed last week for an IPO that will enable it to buy and develop clustered "hyperlocal" media properties in the Northeast, Western, Northern, Midwest, Southern Midwest and Atlantic regions, including newspapers, directories, traders, shoppers and locally focused Web…
Blogs are beginning to emerge as a key element for local vertical marketing, such as real estate and insurance. Eye Ball Farm, for instance, has developed a blog template for one of its Sacramento insurance clients. It will be used…
I'm back from vacation with little time to post, as I'm running off to meetings and digging out of the requisite backlog of e-mails. But I just saw this item that relates to our ongoing coverage of video game advertising.…
The Australian Age reported that Publishing and Broadcasting LTD has hired Tony Faure as chief executive running to run its Nine-MSN Internet property. Mr. Faure most recently sold HomeScreen Entertainment, the online DVD rental he founded, to Quickflix. Previously, Mr.…
MSN released some numbers that claim 25 percent of users in Britain are writing blogs. Not surprisingly, the study also suggests the demographics of blog writing skew younger. Forty-two percent of people under 25 regularly update a blog compared with…
According to Nielsen/NetRatings, Google grabbed 49.9 percent of searches in June, up 31 percent from the previous year. Yahoo! served 23 percent of searches, up 29 percent from a year earlier, followed by MSN at 10.3 percent, up 3 percent.…
Reuters reported that an Arkansas court handed Google a victory last Friday "over disgruntled advertisers who had sued the search engine giant accusing it of trying to drive up fees through so-called click fraud." An independent report was commissioned as…
MediaPost reported some interesting comments from Karen Crow, director of sales and operations for Google: "We've been doing a lot of linking with advertisers' back end to find out, for example, what specific products their local store has, and which…
MSN plans on spending US$500 million on AdCenter, Windows Live and other online services this year to bolster its competitive edge. Advertising revenue on the network declined 3 percent from the same period last year. In fiscal 2006, the unit…
AT&T and MetroFi submitted a joint proposal to operate a municipal Wi-Fi network in Riverside, California, that covers 65 square miles. The proposed project has similarities to the Google-Earthlink partnership for San Francisco. The AT&T MetroFi network will be supported…
In a big change for the music industry, Yahoo! and Sony BMG have started selling Jessica Simpson's new single without Digital Rights Management (DRM). This marks this first time labels with any market clout have opted to sell unprotected digital…
This just in. The LBO Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and investment bank Goldman Sachs have acquired a majority stake in PagesJaunes for US$4.3 billion, according to this item in Market Watch. KKR, you may recall, did quite well on Canada's Yellow…
Just saw this item announcing that Verizon Directories has acquired SEM firm Inceptor.com. This appears to be an effort to bolster SuperPages.com's ability to drive traffic to support its online advertisers.Verizon Directories is in the process of being spun off…
Google announced the results for another stellar quarter today. Second-quarter net income rose 110 percent to US$721 million from US$343 million a year earlier. Revenues increased 77 percent to US$2.46 billion. Google's financial performance was highly anticipated, given the softness…
LiveDeal announced record growth in June. The site recorded more than 1.4 million unique visitors, with traffic up 34 percent from May. ComScore reported the following growth rates for the Directories/Resources>Classifieds category: Craigslist.org (+11 percent), apartments.com (+8 percent), AutoTrader (-2…
