The Magic is Back, and don't let anyone tell you different.Here at the Yellow Pages Association's annual confab, there is a general air of optimism about the industry. It's sort of the same feeling people get when they anticipate a…
This writer shares a personal experience that convinced him at least that Craigslist was a more efficient way than Yellow Pages to locate a tradesperson to install his ceiling fan. It's worth reading and absorbing. The premise is that posting…
Saw this today in an AP report on Yahoo!'s 1Q earnings: In a report released earlier this month, Merrill Lynch media analyst Lauren Rich Fine estimated spending on Internet ads this year will increase 27 percent to $14.5 billion, surpassing…
Reports came out over the weekend that Yell Group is the sole remaining bidder for Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion, the publicly listed Spanish publisher that is 60 percent owned by Spanish telecom Telefonica. According to news reports, several private equity…
Australian publisher Sensis has launched GoStay, a print + online travel service that TKG wrote about in a recent article in Local Media Journal. Here is an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the new service. This is another…
Yell and two private equity consortia are reported to be the final round bidders on Spain's Telefnica Publicidad e Informacin. This excerpt is from the Financial Times. UK telephone directory group Yell and two consortia comprising four private equity firms…
Lots of pick-ups on an AP article that talks about something Verizon's Eric Chandler discussed at last week's Drilling Down conference, namely the addition of a pay-per-phone-call feature in the print Yellow Pages. We will write about this notion in…
Amdocs announced today that it has acquired the Danish firm Stibo. This appears to be a way for Amdocs to get deeper into the European market. Here is the announcement.
Found a couple of new items on the results from the Yellow Pages Market Reporter, the syndicated usage measurement product from KN/SRI. One is a press release from BellSouth touting its results from Birmingham, Alabama. And another is a news…
Here is what we have found about the bids that have come in for the 60 percent stake in Spanish publisher TPI currently owned by Telefonica, Spain's leading telecom. This is from the AFX news service. Note an apparent contraction…
Fast Search & Transfer has announced it landed a deal with the Finnish directory publisher Fonecta, which is part of the PE-backed European Directories organization. Here is the release from FAST. Here is what we picked up from Norwegian News…
Yellow Book continues its stready pace of acquiring independent directory publishers — large, small and in between. The company just announced the acquisition of Banana Publishing in Springfield, Mass. This is not the Springfield of "Simpsons" fame (at least we…
Just got my hands on a copy of the "Style at Home Special Issue — Home Improvement" produced by Canada's Yellow Pages Group and media partner Transcontinental Media. The product was recently distributed in Toronto. The joint venture between the…
Found this press release interesting. One independent publisher is suing another in federal court for allegedly copying ads for a competing publication. This is not such a big deal as a business dispute, but it does offer a small glimpse…
Word from Italy is that Seat Pagine Gialle, Italy's leading directory organization, is not interested in buying Telefonica's 60 percent stake in Telefnica Publicidad e Informacin, Spain's top YP publisher. TPI is on the market to raise cash for Telefnica…
Neil Steinberg, a columnist at one of my local newspapers, has a peculiar obsession with Yellow Pages. You might find his take amusing. It begins down the column a bit, after his brief take on the Iraq war (which I…
It appears next week is the deadline for initial bids on the Spanish publisher Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion, and there are reported to be five suitors: PagesJaunes (France Telecom), Yell Group and three private equity consortia. Saw this today on…
As we get ready for our Drilling Down event in San Jose later this month, we are also setting our sights on Directory Driven Commerce 2006, our directory industry event, which happens this Sept. 18-20 in Los Angeles. We are…
A Reuters report today reveals that Britain's Yell Group has taken formal steps toward submitting a bid for the 60 percent stake in the Spanish publisher Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion currently owned by Telefonica. Yell has retained Goldman Sachs to…
Yesterday, I attended the ADM regional meeting held here in Chicago, where I maintain the Midwest regional office for The Kelsey Group (which consists of me, a computer, phone and a tiny fridge filled with Diet Cokes). The ADM is…
