France Telecom's effort to sell off its 54 percent stake in PagesJaunes has reportedly attracted two bidders — Texas Pacific Group and a consortium formed by KKR and Goldman Sachs.Another potential bidder, the French entertainment company Vivendi, has backed off,…
AdMission Corp. has put out a press release touting its deal with YellowPages.com to provide tools that enable businesses to go to the IYP and build their own ads. Self-provisioning is a big question mark in the IYP space. No…
The Wall Street Journal announced yesterday that as early as September it will sell advertising in the bottom right-hand corner of the front page or in a strip ad along the bottom of the page of the print edition. The…
Thirty-nine of 40 top newspaper sites now feature broadband video, according to a new report by Broadband Directions, a consulting firm headed by Will Richmond, a former executive with Continental Cable's Highway 1 initiative. According to the report, almost half…
If Internet Yellow Pages users can "store" advertiser information where they like, they'll use them much more often, according to interesting research by "Click-to-Save & Share" vendor AgendiZe.The AgendiZe platform, in use by True Local, YPG of Canada, Bermuda Yellow…
The research firm Knowledge Networks/SRI has issued a press release touting the growing size of the Yellow Pages Market Reporter, the syndicated Yellow Pages usage measurement service. According to the data in the release, some of which TKG has already…
Today there's a report that three private equity firms, including Thomas H. Lee Partners, are gathering to consider a purchase of Verizon's Yellow Pages business. This would be a significant change of plans, since most observers expect the business to…
Early next week, we will publish the third and final installment of our newspaper White Paper series. It picks up where we left off in the second part by examining the performance- based advertising models that can apply to newspapers,…
Tribune, Knight Ridder and Gannett's success with CareerBuilder has led to other newspaper companies wanting in on the national recruitment action. As Paid Content reports, CareerBuilder "had a great second quarter with network and affiliate revenues up 42 percent over…
We just saw the official announcement that Mark Canon has moved on from AOL to a new opportunity at Autobytel, where he carries the title "chief product officer." Canon, whom The Kelsey Group has followed for years, joins Jim Riesenbach,…
Cox Search is getting ready to launch new city-specific versions of Kudzu.com, its hybrid Yellow Pages/Review site in San Diego, Phoenix and Las Vegas this fall. It also says that its inaugural site in Atlanta, which launched in October 2005,…
The free community newspaper in Princeton, N.J., is called Town Topics. It has been delivered on Wednesdays to every household in town for the past 60 years. Town Topics has great editorial about the Princeton community and is always chock-full…
This Red Herring article examines the traffic modeling technologies being baked into the navigation systems of Tele-Atlas and Navteq. These are mostly in-car nav systems, but since these two companies are the primary data providers for every major online mapping…
Topix, the news aggregator owned by Tribune, Gannett and (probably) McClatchy, is teaming up with ShopLocal to distribute its retail ads to users on a hyperlocal basis. ShopLocal, a provider of onliner circulars and other local ad services, is owned…
Real estate-related Internet advertising will reach US$2 billion in 2006, or 17.7 percent of all real estate spending, according to a new report from Borrell Associates. The report predicts online will jump to 32.1 percent of all real estate spending…
IAC/InterActiveCorp's Entertainment Book is beginning to make more use of online coupons and exploring better synergies with other IAC divisions. Traditionally, the book has relied solely on direct-to-consumer sales. Local books are typically sold for $24.95 to $45, and proceeds…
Who cares about Chastain Chem-Dry carpet cleaning service in Atlanta? Actually, a lot of people, I would think — from employees and customers to companies Chastain buys from and those that are sold to. In other words, this is an…
We reported in a recent news roundup that smartphone adoption is on the rise. This could be a boon for mobile local search adoption, given hardware features (keypad, larger screen, etc.) that are more conducive to some MoLo applications (see…
Just back from a week's vacation, and in the process of catching up, saw a couple of items online regarding Yell's (U.K.) recent legal action against Yellowikis, which bills itself as an online Yellow Pages directory built on a wiki…
Backfence, the hyper-local news and information site operating in several Washington D.C. suburbs and the Bay Area, is expanding. Chicago will be its third metro area, and it is continuing to go deeper into the suburbs of its existing markets.I…
