Joelle Gropper Kaufman from Adify is seeing the broad trend across vertical ad networks of buying audiences across topics (e.g., chic moms); regions (e.g., Sacramento) or shopping (e.g., automotive). While the popular sites drive the most traffic, Kaufman argues that…
Jon Brod, executive vice president of AOL Ventures, Local & Mapping, gave attendees at Marketplaces 2010 a glimpse into the direction that AOL is moving in its local strategy, specifically with Patch.com, MapQuest, its content management system Seed, its LocalFund…
Google Director of Local & B2B Marketplaces Sam Sebastian today discussed the company's strategy to verticalize local ad sales and account support, while keeping the search product more of a broad horizontal experience. "We've verticalized from a sales perspective," Sebastian…
Google Director of Local & B2B Marketplaces Sam Sebastian today discussed the company's strategy to verticalize local ad sales and account support, while keeping the search product more of a broad horizontal experience. "We've verticalized from a sales perspective," Sebastian…
Parallel to expanding its sales team across the U.S., local search company BizNDex officially joins the competitive field of local iPhone apps. True to trends in mobile local search, the LocalNDex app comes with a discovery function to automatically detect…
Perry Evans, a founder of Local Matters and MapQuest, has launched Closely, Inc., a new group-based promotions company, joining the 100 or more companies that hope to follow in the footsteps of Groupon, and perhaps improve on the deal-a-day experience.…
Perry Evans, a founder of Local Matters and MapQuest, has launched Closely, Inc., a new group-based promotions company, joining the 100 or more companies that hope to follow in the footsteps of Groupon, and perhaps improve on the deal-a-day experience.…
MojoPages started as a Yelp-like directory of local businesses. For the past year and a half, the San Diego-based company has focused on building a distribution network of 1,400 sites, mostly consisting of radio, TV and newspaper sites. Its revenues…
MojoPages started as a Yelp-like directory of local businesses. For the past year and a half, the San Diego-based company has focused on building a distribution network of 1,400 sites, mostly consisting of radio, TV and newspaper sites. Its revenues…
The French directory publisher PagesJaunes has made a significant move by acquiring 100 percent of the Austrian people search site 123People, which has a global audience of more than 40 million unique visitors in 11 countries, according to the PagesJaunes…
Quietly, SuperMedia is rolling out a new approach to online search. If you look on Switchboard.com today, you'll notice that search results are presented differently from before. Now, Switchboard's top results based on relevancy are plotted on a map (this…
Avvo, the free legal ratings and review site that has taken on the giant legal publishers that have long dominated the business, announced that it has raised $10 million in Series C funding. The new round adds to $13 million…
Leaders of the U.S. independent directory publishing industry were passionate in their defense of print media at this morning's opening session of the Association of Directory Publishers meeting outside Houston, Texas. Jim Hail, the outgoing chair and head of Idaho-based…
Just six months after it launched its SP411 Twitter integration, Superpages is at it again with an offer to Tweet any coupon that businesses upload to an online profile. To do this it has created 72 city-specific Twitter accounts, which…
PaidContent reports that AOL Ventures is creating a $10 million venture capital fund for local start-ups. The fund expects to support the “increasing number of startups” in the market. AOL Ventures had previously announced that it is spending $50 million…
Online scheduling appears to be one of the break-out features in the marketplaces space this year. Nineteen percent of respondents to BIA/Kelsey’s most recent User View say they made a non-restaurant online appointment in the past six months. Major appointment…
Lots of news coming from mobile local app provider WHERE today. Just a week after it opened up its WHERE Ads local ad network, it has launched a new Web site and officially changed its name from uLocate to WHERE.…
Groupon has a roaring head start in the deals of the day category for groups, with more than a million users. We'll hear all about Groupon from CEO Andrew Mason at next week's Marketplaces conference in San Diego, where he…
Groupon has a roaring head start in the deals of the day category for groups, with more than a million users. We'll hear all about Groupon from CEO Andrew Mason at next week's Marketplaces conference in San Diego, where he…
Six months after launching its iPhone app, Coupon giant Valpak has announced an app for the Android platform. Reaching the enterprise BlackBerry set is next on its list. The company currently delivers about 17,000 offers via mobile which is equal…
