As we do every year across BIA/Kelsey's coverage areas, our analysts put their heads together in cross-disciplinary fashion to handicap the 2012 local media space. It's a solid exercise and great preparation for our ILM West conference less than two…
Amazon’s a sleeper bet to really shake up local commerce. But what does that look like? For sure, we see the pieces being assembled…the focus on Amazon Stores, the $175 million LivingSocial investment, the Kindle Fire rollout, the expansion of…
Source: Washington Post. Case, Leonsis and partner Donn Davis Universities stimulate major business zones in various cities. So do airports. Hence the Dulles tech corridor in D.C. So does the success of major companies. People leave with their stock options…
Amazon has just debuted an iPad and Kindle Fire app that lets kids create holiday wish lists. Known as Amazon Santa, it has intuitive functionality and a fun design to create lists and share them with parents, relatives and of…
Yelp launched its local review site in Australia today and cofounder Jeremy Stoppelman traveled to the country for the occasion. Since 2004 the company has accumulated a database of more than 22 million reviews, none of which has included Australian…
Yellow Medya, formerly Turkey Yellow Pages, announced a partnership today with the world's largest travel site, TripAdvisor, in Turkey. The Yellow Pages publisher will integrate TripAdvisor onto all its platforms, including online and mobile. As a result, it will have…
We're less than two weeks from our big ILM West conference in San Francisco, and the agenda continues to get stronger. On day 3 of the conferfence, we'll be doing things slightly different by devoting the day to discussions about…
I've been travelling internationally so I'm late to this news. But it's worth mentioning that xAd has joined the ranks of ad networks that produce reports on their network activity. We've seen these from the likes of Millennial, and more…
ILM West is shaping up to be one of the great ones. Taking place Dec. 12-14 in downtown San Francisco, ILM West really reflects a sea change in local marketing from advertising to the new hybrid model of advertising and…
Yelp’s S-1, which was issued last week as a run-up to a $100 million IPO, reveals a lot of new data about the reviews leader. The big question about Yelp has been whether it can grow against increased pressure from…
Last week, Local Insight Media emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, roughly one year after seeking protection from its creditors. The company emerges from bankruptcy with a new structure, a new board of directors and a more manageable balance sheet, having…
A big chunk of the newspaper industry has banded together to adopt Find n Save, a shopping platform featuring a single place to review deals, product inventory, weekly specials, “cents off” grocery deals and local ads. Participating newspaper companies include…
Black Friday and Cyber Monday for holiday shopping are bedrocks of the nation’s economy. Where do deals fit in? As Bloomberg reports, Yipit Data forecasts that U.S. consumers will spend $80 million to $100 million on daily deals gifts between…
Matchbin has spent $10 million to acquire 800 radio and TV accounts from Navteq’s Radio and TV Group (formely Traffic.com). It has also raised $12 million for working assets from Silicon Valley Bank, and is rebranding the combined entity as…
In the wake of Groupon's successful IPO, Angie’s List is apparently set to issue its own IPO on Thursday. The offering would raise up to $113 million for the Indianapolis-based company, which provides members-only reviews of services and medical providers.…
Last week I had the chance to talk to Goodzer founder Dmitry Pakhomkin in advance of the product's official nationwide launch today. It's also now available both online and as an iOS app. The local product search app enters a…
For newspapers, the 1/3 circulation/1/3 display/1/3 classifieds revenue model of the print days hasn’t made the transition to online, and there doesn’t seem to be enough time to right the ocean liner. But as a local media channel, newspapers have…
We keep getting more and more points of affirmation that location targeting in mobile is growing. This is happening as both large advertisers "grow into" the medium, and as it moves down market to SMBs (whose mobile advertising is counted…
The apps vs. mobile Web debate rages on in the marketplace, the blogosphere and at tech conferences. But lots of people are coming around to believe that both development platforms have lots of room for growth. ComScore puts them at…
Yellow Pages Group New Zealand is now the first Google AdWords Premier SME Partner in New Zealand after inking a deal last week. The partnership is designed to enhance YP NZ's suite of digital marketing services. "We need to transform…
