Grayboxx, which ranks local businesses based on the number of mentions they receive on online consumer services, has finally launched, almost a year after I first wrote about it. The service, which assumes that people generally only mention services they…
Grayboxx, which ranks local businesses based on the number of mentions they receive on online consumer services, has finally launched, almost a year after I first wrote about it. The service, which assumes that people generally only mention services they…
Using the Web to drive customers to restaurants via online ads, 2-for-1 coupons, certificates, menus and/or reservations is a big idea that hasn’t totally arrived but is getting closer. There has definitely been some progress in the space. For instance,…
Every Yellow Pages publisher is trying to answer the question of how to increase revenues through the addition or enhancement of an Internet Yellow Pages product. The larger publishers are able to hire a team of highly skilled and increasingly…
Every Yellow Pages publisher is trying to answer the question of how to increase revenues through the addition or enhancement of an Internet Yellow Pages product. The larger publishers are able to hire a team of highly skilled and increasingly…
Video search and monetization has been a hot topic lately, following in the wake of the general hot topic of online video (as advertisers invariably follow the eyeballs). This was accelerated by YouTube's announcement last week that it will integrate…
Today I had the chance to speak with a few members of the executive team at MetaCarta, an enterprise software company that has traditionally served, among others, major oil companies and government agencies with geocoded data for oil exploration and…
R.H. Donnelley announced today that it will partner with Yahoo! to give its advertisers a more substantial presence on Yahoo! Local. This will come in three flavors. From the release: Featured Listings -- Sponsored listings with guaranteed placement on the…
New local search destination Grayboxx launched today in its first locality of Burlington, VT. As mentioned in Grayboxx: A Sneak Peek, the site will have a staggered launch starting in small towns and cities where it believes it has a…
In case you missed any, Here are some greatest hits from the past week of blog posts. Click below to read each post in full. Yelp Integrates Event Listings in 10 Cities Yelp has added events to its listings, maps…
Here is an article on the bond offering for Yellow Pages Group New Zealand. The company's owners are cutting back on its size to improve demand. This is certainly a sign that at least for now, conditions are not good…
Yelp has added events to its listings, maps and user reviews in 10 cities -- San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, San Jose, Austin, Chicago, Washington D.C., and San Diego. The feature includes a landing page for each…
I've come across a few items this past week worth noting. Will give a quick take on each here. An article in the Dayton Daily News reports that The Berry Network, the CMR wing of The Berry Co., has landed…
I'm a day late to this because of the natural tendency to get caught up in SES, but LiveDeal announced that it will integrate community discussion boards into its classified engine. This is a good integration for LiveDeal that will…
Jingle Networks, the provider of 1-800-FREE411, has expanded its relationship with Nuance for speech recognition technology. Under terms of the deal, Nuance will also be referring its voice-enabled customers to the Jingle ad platform. Presumably, if Nuance does audio work…
The big picture we’ve all been looking at is that online ad spending for search and lead generation is beginning to plateau. ComScore pegs search's share at around 40 percent. Google certainly sees it, hence its recent effort to entrench…
I'm at SES San Jose today and tomorrow, where there are some interesting local, mobile, social and shopping search sessions going on. I'm in a mobile session now while blogging, responding to e-mail and juggling the bouncy balls they are…
Planet Discover, the pioneering local search and Internet Yellow Pages vendor, won’t sign new contracts with local media outlets that compete with Gannett newspaper and TV properties, according to sources. Gannett purchased Planet Discover in May 2006, but up to…
YouTube has launched a new video ad format it has been testing for months (see past post). These ad units, known as inline ads, involve translucent windows that are overlaid on video content for about 10 seconds near the beginning…
White Directory Publishers, a division of Hearst Holdings, announced a marketing partnership with Jingle’s 1-800-FREE411 making it the first independent publisher to resell sponsorship products on the 1-800-FREE411 media channel. The deal with White Directory comes on the heels of…
