Yellow Pages

I was at the Association of Directory Publishers meeting in Virginia last week. There was the usual bread-and-butter how-to content (distribution efficiency, for example) plus a little of the usual red meat incumbent bashing for the independent publisher faithful, though…

LinkedIn, the service that greases the wheels of virtual networking, is extending that concept to the Yellow Pages, by offering a directory of local service listings, with a layer of social networking. Here is a write-up on Red Herring. LinkedIn…

It was widely reported today that A9, the search engine operated by Amazon, has pruned its branches by getting rid of several features and products, largely focused on location.This is from a Reuters article earlier today: The A9 Toolbar, maps,…

In this week's Local Media Journal, we write about Australian publisher Sensis' recent decision to drop the "Pages" from its "Yellow Pages" brand, thus reshaping the brand into one that is truly platform agnostic. Along with this re-branding comes the…

OK, that headline is a little bit ahead of the facts, but the question is a legitimate one for the Yellow Pages industry. As we report in this week's Local Media Journal, Canada's Yellow Pages Group has moved its publishing…

Caribe Acquisition Holdings, the incumbent directory publishers in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, has purchased ACS Media Income Fund. ACS Media is the largest publisher of print and Internet directories in Alaska with 10 print titles throughout the state.…

Mobile search has been a growing topic in the local media space and was batted around during an afternoon breakout session on voice and mobile directories. We are still in an experimental stage of mobile search, defined by hardware restrictions,…

Ike Harris, president of BellSouth's Advertising & Publishing Group, kicked off Day 2 of DDC with a keynote that stressed the opportunities afforded by changing industry and cultural dynamics — thought by some to be a threat. There is a…

DDC today was packed full of sessions — the morning containing mostly keynotes and the afternoon divided into smaller breakouts. After introductory remarks from John Kelsey, conference chairperson Charles Laughlin took the podium to lay the groundwork for the biggest…

I am writing from Los Angeles as we prepare for our DDC2006 conference, which begins tomorrow. I plan to kick things off tomorrow with a discussion of key themes we see driving the industry today. These are among the topics…

The Directory Driven Commerce conference kicked off tonight with a session to discuss many of the points raised in Charles' previous post. Earlier in the day, we spent some time at the Santa Monica offices of emerging SEO/SEM provider for…

Don't have many details yet, but I did learn on Friday that Canadian Phone Directories, a PE-backed independent directory publisher in Canada, plans to launch a Toronto directory in competition with Yellow Pages Group, Canada's dominant directory publisher.CPD was formed…

I shop at places like Sam's Club as infrequently as possible, typically once a year before a big Fourth of July wingding that is attended (at least it seems to me) by at least as many people as there were…

What do the largest Yellow Pages company in the world and an independent privately held directory business have in common? Quite a lot it seems. In seeking a way to convey the thinking of the keynote speakers at our upcoming…

Today's Media Life talks about this week's release from Borrell Associates that shows local search revenues will jump 31.6 percent in 2007. What is most interesting about this is Borrell Associates' prediction that local Web advertising is going to explode…

R.H. Donnelley issued this statement today regarding the issue that has emerged over CEO Dave Swanson's educational background.

Two articles popped up in my Google or Yahoo! alerts for "Yellow Pages." Both were newspaper articles that related to the Yellow Pages business. They provide a good reason why newspaper circulation is falling: The columns are poorly written, inaccurate…

This one surprised me a little. The U.K. competition commission has decided that Yell, which has been operating under a pretty strict price cap (actually a regime that required annual rate reductions), will from April 2008 forward be able to…

As the lead organizer of The Kelsey Group's DDC 2006 event, I'm pretty proud of our lineup of keynote speakers and grateful for the help I've gotten from my colleagues in bringing them on board. In order to give the…

We just got off the phone with Sean Greene at R.H. Donnelley who walked us through the rationale of his company's acquisition of LocalLaunch, which was announced earlier today. We will explore the deal in next week's Local Media Journal,…