Today at EADP, I had the privilege of participating on an analyst panel with Peter Buxton, Jesper Simonsen and Jim Easton. The panel, moderated by Kimberli Lewis and Michael Oschmann, was a lively discussion of global trends in the directory…
This morning at EADP, European Directories (EDSA) CEO Cornel Riklin outlined the company’s strategy to be the top provider of lead generation to SMBs in its markets. The path to get there includes offering leading local search platforms to consumers.…
Clemens Riedl, CMO of VZnet, Germany’s largest social network (yes, larger than Facebook across all age segments) spoke at EADP today about the ups and downs of holding that market position. The site counts 15 million unique visitors, with 80…
Following up on yesterday's post, days two and three from Prague continued with the march of thought-provoking presentations. Among them was Centrum Holdings, a Warburg Pincus-backed company that's one of the few pure-play digital entities in Czech Republic and Croatia.…
Day 1 of the European Association of Directory and Database Publishers Congress being held in Prague, Czech Republic, was squarely focused on the pending and necessary notion of transformation. The congress was kicked off by EADP President and Mediatel CEO…
Today’s New York Times ran a story about how both The NYT and The Wall Street Journal plan to launch full-fledged regional editions, beginning first in the Bay Area. According to the story, Bay Area residents could see regional editions…
Wow -- $245 is nothing to sneeze at. This past Saturday morning I was greeted with one of those -- ugh -- moments: The car wouldn’t start. So I fished out my AAA card and a couple of hours later…
Yesterday, I spent about three hours with Idearc Media CEO Scott Klein, who shared the vision he and his management team have for the company. Some of that vision is encapsulated in the rollout of SuperGuarantee, a major new initiative.…
Ran across this interesting piece via Topix that was produced by the local ABC7 affiliate here in the Bay Area. The story uncovers a nervousness among local SMBs that the Internet is increasingly having an impact on their business outlook.…
Dan Pulcrano closed out Day 2 of Drilling Down on Local ’08 with a presentation to expose attendees to the wild west of the geo-domain space. Pulcrano, owner of numerous city sites such as Seattle.com and SanJose.com, argued that the…
During yesterday’s afternoon session focused on Auto at Drilling Down on Local ’08, the panelists nearly universally said U.S. automaker giant General Motors was the furthest along in figuring out how to leverage the Web. Mitch Golub, president of Cars.com,…
Since our founding, The Kelsey Group has been committed to delivering our unvarnished view of the dynamics of the ever changing and evolving local advertising market. We have been criticized by some in traditional media who suggested we have overstated…
The recent hubbub over our "prediction" regarding print media usage -- see my earlier blog -- has created an exaggerated picture of the perils facing print Yellow Pages. While it is true print YP has some serious challenges, we often…
American Public Media's Marketplace ran an interesting piece yesterday about the launch of NBC Everywhere, NBC's foray into the expansive and growing out-of-home media market. According to the piece, there are some 500,000 out-of-home display monitors delivering content and advertising into…
The Kelsey Group has generated considerable attention (and some confusion) in the media and on the blogosphere from a statement that appeared in an Advisory issued by our Marketplaces program on Jan. 4 offering picks and predictions for 2008 (each…
Witnessing the rain that has drenched the Bay Area over the past couple of weeks begs the rhetorical question -- what could be more local than weather? Now with reports surfacing that weather.com is up for sale, one wonders if…
Earlier this month the Kelsey program directors -- Charles Laughlin, Matt Booth and Peter Krasilovsky -- offered up their predictions for 2008. These predictions present Kelsey clients a partial road map for navigating what could be a stressful and challenging 2008.…
An interesting op-ed piece in The New York Times on Sunday looked at the importance of “word of mouth” in defining individuals' candidate preferences. The essence of the article was that voters are swayed much more by what an acquaintance…
The concept of localized e-commerce was discussed at one of the breakout sessions this afternoon at ILM:07. The essence of the question is how soon will SMBs be part of the growing trend that helps consumers find out where brand…
The concept of localized e-commerce was discussed at one of the breakout sessions this afternoon at ILM:07. The essence of the question is how soon will SMBs be part of the growing trend that helps consumers find out where brand…
