Dex One and Yahoo have extended and expanded their long-term partnership to roughly double the geographic coverage of the existing distribution partnership. The arrangement essentially involves business profile pages sold by Dex being served up in Yahoo Local search results,…
Turkey Yellow Pages has launched a new service with partner vSplash that offers all Turkish businesses a Web page, domain registration, hosting and a mobile site, as well as geo-coding and a Google Analytics account, technical support and other services,…
Today, Yellowbook is launching a group buying/deal-a-day product called Weforia.com in three of its markets -- Boston, Phoenix and Ft. Myers, Florida. This makes Yellowbook the first U.S. Yellow Pages publishers to enter this space, which has become a local…
Today, Yellowbook is launching a group buying/deal-a-day product called Weforia.com in three of its markets -- Boston, Phoenix and Ft. Myers, Florida. This makes Yellowbook the first U.S. Yellow Pages publishers to enter this space, which has become a local…
AT&T Interactive has launched a substantial redesign of its YP.com online directory with the aim of making the site an easier and more compelling user experience, with a clear theme around supporting consumer lifestyles (hence its structure of Eat, Play,…
AT&T Interactive has launched a substantial redesign of its YP.com online directory with the aim of making the site an easier and more compelling user experience, with a clear theme around supporting consumer lifestyles (hence its structure of Eat, Play, Live). AT&T is…
The Australian directories company Sensis has released its full 2010 financial year results (ending June 30) and the results show the company is resilient, though print revenues are clearly coming under increasing pressure. The company generated A$2.1 billion in revenue…
BIA/Kelsey is very excited to add Randy Wootton, Microsoft's VP of Global Search and Online Marketplace, to the slate of featured speakers at Directional Media Strategies 2010, which convenes in Dallas Sept. 14-16. Wootton will speak on the final day…
The Swedish software company 3L System Group has acquired California-based Pagenator LLC, a company that has built software enabling the automatic production of social media fan pages at high volumes. This deal enables 3L to offer directory publishers the ability…
The Swedish software company 3L System Group has acquired California-based Pagenator LLC, a company that has built software enabling the automatic production of social media fan pages at high volumes. This deal enables 3L to offer directory publishers the ability…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to recent posts on our Global Yellow Pages blog. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed here, and the e-mail alert here. -- New Yellowbook Campaign Embraces Multiproduct Approach -- DexOne See Signs…
This week Yellowbook launched a new ad campaign that pretty well captures the multiproduct sales approach that most of the world's major publishers are embracing in one form or another. The ads declare how the company has moved "Beyond Yellow"…
DexOne (the company formerly known as R.H. Donnelley) announced its first-half results this morning, and as with SuperMedia, there were signs of life amid otherwise negative results. The key number to watch for directory publishers is ad sales. DexOne's first-half…
The U.K.-based publisher Yell today announced it offers advertisers the ability to run targeted ads on Facebook as part of its NetReach ad syndication product, which features about 70 U.K. sites. Facebook is a significant addition to the network, with…
Results released on July 27 show that while its revenues are still sharply negative, U.S. directory publisher SuperMedia found signs of hope in an improving ad sales trend in the second quarter. Ad sales declined 16.9 percent in the second…
Here are some recent items of note that we've come across in the Global Yellow Pages space: BIA/Kelsey has released its Global Yellow Pages forecast, which calls for continued declines in print, offset largely by digital growth boosted by an expanding…
The line up of speakers for Directional Media Strategies 2010 has been shaping up nicely. We have a full slate of "headliners" who will either give full presentations or sit in the proverbial hot seat for a 20-minute interview by…
Earnings results from global Yellow Pages companies are starting to trickle in, and so far, 2010 looks a lot like 2009, or worse. AT&T Advertising Solutions posted first-half revenues of US$2,048 million, down 16.7 percent from the same period in…
Yellowbook had signed on to a new local ad exchange launched today by Chitika, an ad network established in 2003 that serves more than 2 billion monthly impressions across 80,000 Web sites. The core idea is to apply…
Yellowbook had signed on to a new local ad exchange launched today by Chitika, an ad network established in 2003 that serves more than 2 billion monthly impressions across 80,000 Web sites. The core idea is to apply the ad…
