Yelp is heading down under to Australia via a partnership with the directory company Sensis where it will integrate Sensis' local business listing data into its site. In turn, Sensis' local sales force will sell Yelp.com.au to Australian SMBs. Neither…
"Social is the new black," asserted Ben Silverman, CEO, Electus, to Billy Bush of "Access Hollywood" in a lunchtime interview at yesterday's Social TV Summit at the Belair Country Club. The point is it goes with everything. Well, almost. Later…
Internet Yellow Pages sites saw a modest 5.1 percent boost in usage over the past year, according to new data from comScore and the Local Search Association, detailed in a press release and webinar today. That's the good news for…
In true McLaughlin Group style, Greg Sterling moderated the final session at Deals 3D -- “Deals: The Next Stage” -- more as a rapid-fire roundtable than a traditional panel. He dished, they debated. So, consistent to the theme, here are…
There are already many types of deals and a plethora of deal providers. And all signs point to even more growth and variety. To peer a year or two ahead, moderator Matt Booth led a discussion with four seasoned players…
For Part Deux of the Mobile Meets Deals series, host Mike Boland continued his dialog with segment leaders. First up was Brian Knapp, VP of Business Operations, Loopt. Knapp presented Loopt's new u-Deals program, launched a few weeks ago on…
While deals are getting most of the attention right now, coupons remain a substantially larger player in the promotions business, says Steven Boal, CEO of Coupons.com, who was keynoting at BIA/Kelsey’s Deals 3D conference this week in San Francisco. Boal…
Deals are more than a one off when combined with merchant services such as mobile payment processing and scheduling, according to panelists at BIA/Kelsey’s Deals 3D conference in San Francisco today. Daily deal merchants can get a higher rate of…
Who cares what happened when Harry met Sally!? The real action is here at the Deals 3D Conference, where "Mobile Meets Deals." In "Part I: Heavy Hitters," host Mike Boland ran a triad of fast-past interviews with key players rooted…
An afternoon session at Deals 3D focused on social media's impact on deals. The panel titled "Social Media and Deals: The Saturday Night Play" featured Cityvoter CEO Josh Walker and Signpost CEO Stuart Wall. Signpost features "deal scouts," which are…
Today at Deals 3D The Dealmap VP of marketing Dan Visnick shed light on his network data, as a directional representation of the trends we're seeing in local deals. The Dealmap, for those unfamiliar, aggregates 350 deal sources for its…
The Yellow Pages industry is moving rapidly down a path toward selling bundles of services designed to help its small-business customers acquire, retain and manage their clientele. ERPM (email marketing, reputation and presence management) is arguably a key element of…
Media companies are beginning to strongly leverage their databases and promotional capabilities to push deals, according to several panelists at BIA/Kelsey's Deals 3D conference today in San Francisco. Radio stations, for instance, haven’t really cashed in with online opportunities, but…
Facebook touts itself as a platform that allows and encourages partners to further build out its social graph. In Deals, it has now found its most significant partner yet, inking a deal with American Express to push socially curated deals…
Group buying is growing up…and growing more complex in the process. It has long-outgrown the Groupon-and-the-seven-dwarfs phase and has added new layers reminiscent of other, more mature digital sectors, expanding into vertical niches, attracting media companies and necessitating aggregators. Now,…
David Krantz, president and CEO of AT&T Interactive, announced the launch of AT&T's "Deal of the Day" program this afternoon at the BIA/Kelsey Deals 3D conference. The program is being offered initially in three markets: Atlanta, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Los…
Today at BIA/Kelsey's Deals3D conference, Gary Kearns, MasterCard group executive for information services, was all about the data. The volume of purchase data that flows through MasterCard puts it in a unique position to target offers in ways that boosts…
In a keynote at Deals 3D in San Francisco today, Gary Kearns, MasterCard InfoServices group executive, said that "I am probably what I buy, not what I search for," and noted that "purchase data is the new demographic" information that…
Writing about Google+ wasn’t an option. When an 800-pound gorilla makes a frontal assault on Facebook, Skype AND Twitter, sending the tech punditry into breathless buzz and sparking curiosity about the potential seismic effects on social networking, well, that warrants…
Yelp reached a sizable milestone today, hitting 20 million reviews. More notable is the rate of growth. It reached its first million reviews in about 2.5 years. Then it took another three years to get to 10 million. That was…
