Global Yellow Pages Blog
Last week, DMS dominated our blog coverage, with lots of takeaways from the show. Here is a sampling of posts, in case you missed any. Future Search: Where Will We Be in Five Years? DMS ’08 concluded with a "big…
The “Deconstructing Internet Yellow Pages” panel at DMS ’08 revealed a number of areas in which IYPs need to evolve. Based on Kelsey’s IYP research, conference chair and TKG Program Director Charles Laughlin said, “IYPs appear too conservative and unwilling…
Yellow Pages Group of Canada, which is widely considered as one of the best positioned Yellow Pages companies in the world, will continue to focus on manning its sales channel, resisting efforts to rely too heavily on self-serve solutions, according to…
Sami Kassab, analyst on the European Media Research Team at Exane BNP Paribas, gave a data-laden, insightful perspective on the many of the world's largest Yellow Pages publishers in "The Financial View" panel at Directional Media Strategies 2008. Highlights of Kassab's…
The theme of actively evolving local ad sales forces, touched upon by Charles Laughlin this morning, continued at DMS in a session titled "From Perception to Performance: The Sales Channel Revolution." "Multi-product selling is becoming a means to survival," said…
The online video space is crowded these days, so having a clear point of differentiation is critical. One of the more interesting players in this burgeoning field is Spotzer, which is trying to bridge the gap between quality content and…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Mixpo Expands Channel Partners Local video production provider Mixpo today emboldened its pipeline into the elusive…
Yellow Pages Group New Zealand has acquired a majority stake in grownups.co.nz, a Web site targeting the over 50s crowd, as reported on Stuff.co.nz. Voted as New Zealand’s best lifestyle Web site in 2008, this acquisition may well prove…
While investors and Yellow Pages pundits continue to bang the drum telling everyone that the “younger generation” isn’t using print Yellow Pages to the degree it should, and that without this younger demographic of users the book can’t deliver…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog this week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Regulators Approve Netherlands Directory Consolidation The Dutch competition authorities today approved the planned merger between the…
With the recent acquisition of Get It Pages in Saskatchewan, Yellow Pages Group in Canada has now consolidated a national footprint in Canada. According to the New Brunswick Business Journal, Get It Pages publishes directories in the regions of…
As an innovative way of promoting its Yellow Pages and Yellow Frontdoor, its magazine-styled directory focused on home improvement and decorating, Yellow Pages Group New Zealand is now the main sponsor of New Zealand’s largest home show as reported…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Google Brings a Taste of Online to Traditional Media We've long known Google to be on…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Here Comes the GPhone, Part IV Early rumors of a Google phone, before the Android platform…
Australia's Sensis released its results for the financial year ended June 30, and many in the global Yellow Pages industry will be interested to find that print revenues are growing in Australia, bucking a global trend of often steep declines. We…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Old Online Services Never Die, They Just Fade Away France Telecom is finally pulling the plug on…
France Telecom is finally pulling the plug on the 26-year-old Minitel service, which it launched in France in 1982. (Actually, Minitel is really 15 years older than that according to SEC filings: "Under an advertising sales agreement entered into in 1967,…
On Thursday's second-quarter and first-half earnings call, Yellow Pages Group CEO Marc Tellier made it abundantly clear that his company’s acquisition of Volt Information Sciences was driven by the need to secure strategic technologies and not to gain a toehold in…
As many of us have read over the past week, some major hotel chains -- Hyatt and Hyatt Place Hotels, Omni and some Starwood properties -- have made the decision to remove Yellow Pages directories from their hotel rooms. (Although a…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Social Networking and Local: How's It Gonna Happen? In local, there have also been some moves…
