Yellow Pages

The senior management of TMP Worldwide Advertising and Communications in North America has acquired the agency from Monster Worldwide with backing from VSS Mezzanine Partners, an investment fund managed by Veronis Suhler Stevenson. The deal is valued at US$45 million.…

Yellow Book issued a press release yesterday citing new results from the Yellow Pages Market Reporter that showed it has a usage leadership position in Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Northern Virginia. The release also noted that Yellow Book has moved…

Under the headline "Here's a $14 Billion Print Business That's Loving the Digital Revolution," Ad Age's Abbey Klaassen writes that the Yellow Pages industry "is finding traditional plus digital equals a whole greater than the sum of its parts." What…

The recent personnel changes at European Directories — the addition of Peter Darpo in the Netherlands, Kimberli Lewis in the Czech Republic, the exit of Lex Cohen and the addition of Cornel Riklin as CEO — signal a significant change…

The Yellow Pages Association just released the industry's annual usage numbers. The good news is overall usage continues to grow for the industry and Internet Yellow Pages usage is increasing ... the not so good news is continued decline in…

Telecom New Zealand has confirmed reports that it is considering selling its directory business, Telecom Directories Ltd. According to The Dominion Post, Telecom New Zealand's CFO has acknowledged the possibility of a directories sale and that the telecom would use…

Like most of us in the Yellow Pages industry, we have taken the 30 seconds or so required to set up both a Yahoo! Alert and a Google Alert for terms such as Yellow Pages, directory publishing or IYP. Today's…

Yellow Pages Group announced today it is buying MTS Media, the directory unit of MTS Allstream, for C$281 million. This is a healthy price for a business that generated C$42 million in revenues, but YPG is a motivated buyer, given…

Earlier this week my colleague Charles Laughlin wrote about "The Yellow Pages Brand Fight Developing in Germany." In short Deutsche Telekom, the largest communications company in Europe, lost its trademark for the name "Gelbe Seiten" (Yellow Pages), which it registered…

Canada's Yellow Pages Group just released its 2Q and first-half numbers. On a comparable basis, its 2Q directory revenue growth rate was 4.7 percent and EBITDA was up 8 percent. The company's guidance for the full year is top-line growth…

Google and Fox Interactive signed a three-year and nine-month agreement worth $900 million, assuming certain traffic levels are achieved. As part of the deal, Google will become the exclusive search and text-based ad partner for Fox Interactive properties including MySpace.…

We've been following news reports today regarding the decision of Germany patents and brands office (the German acronym is DPMA) to delete the term "Gelbe Seiten," the German phrase for "Yellow Pages," from its register of brand names that are…

Yahoo! and Canaan Partners have invested US$8.6 million in BharatMatrimony, a group of India-based wedding, lifestyle and vertical search sites. This is the first investment in India by both Canaan and Yahoo!. Canaan was an original investor in Match.com in…

Intel is in discussions to build a new broadband network with Woosh Wireless in New Zealand. Recently, Intel invested $A37 million in a Sydney-based wireless company called Unwired. Intel's investments in WiMax networks are part of a larger strategic initiative…

New to the college orientation agenda this year are warnings about the consequences of posting on social networking sites. A few colleges across the country have been telling students that employers are starting to check student profiles. In some instances,…

Taiwan-based Alpha Networks is planning to mass produce a Wi-Fi mobile phone that includes Google Talk functionality. According to Alpha Networks CTO Tim Kang, "In addition to its voice functionality, Alpha Networks' first Google Talk-enabled WiFi phone will also support…

Google will start distributing video clips from MTV Networks shows as a source of content and revenues for its video affiliate partners. The deal includes 100 hours of programming, including "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County," "SpongeBob SquarePants" and MTV's…

Yell's acquisition of the Spanish publisher TPI was made official earlier this week. Here is the statement from Yell:Yell Group plc ("Yell") today announced the closing of its acquisition of the Spanish directories business Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion S.A. ("TPI")…

Google has entered an agreement to compensate the Associated Press for stories and photographs. Google suggested that the content will become the basis of a new product that will launch in the next several months. The as-yet-undefined product will complement…

Jonathan Miller informed employees that AOL will eliminate 5,000 of 19,000 positions, or about 25 percent of its workforce. The reductions will take place over the next six months as the company focuses on advertising instead of dial-up subscriptions. A…