Yellow Pages

Nokia made the significant announcement today that it has partnered with directory publishers across Europe to provide quick access to directory content for users of Nokia N-series multimedia devices and Nokia devices based on its S60 platform. The directory content…

The Kelsey Report® issued an Advisory yesterday that offers some insight into the online strategies of three leading European directory publishers. Here is what the cover letter says: The latest Advisory from The Kelsey Report® chronicles the progress being made…

Buried in an item from channelnewsasia.com on Singapore Yellow Pages' recent annual results announcement was the following: Going forward, Yellow Pages is looking to expand, including possible acquisitions in Asia. Singapore YP, which posted a 42 percent improvement in the…

Reports circulated over the weekend that France Telecom is considering selling off the 54 percent it owns of PagesJaunes Groupe. PagesJaunes is among the best Yellow Pages assets in the world. It has had the great advantage of learning from…

This is an interesting story from the Miami Herald about post-hurricane remodeling. Note the mention of Home Depot and Lowe's installation services. This development in the local services marketplace is something TKG will be following in the coming months.

Yell Group got a loud round of applause from Merrill Lynch as the company reiterated its "buy" advice after releasing its full-year results. Among the various metrics shared by Yell, the most impressive was the 10 percent organic growth. This…

This morning's New York Times (subscription required) has two major stories about the newspaper industry on the front page of the business section. Columnist David Carr reported a conversation he had with an editor of a major newspaper about a…

It is an old saw in the Yellow Pages business that the industry's three greatest strengths are its sales force, data collection and ability to publish a virtually error-free directory. Like most businesses, Yellow Pages looks simple from the outside…

Over the past several months, we have been working on expanding our coverage and building new proprietary research, market estimates and company profiles around several new coverage areas. We will be releasing forecasts, data, research and White Papers this year…

It seems the folks at GoYellow.de saw something in Paris Hilton that escaped the rest of us. And then Paris broke their hearts. The German online Yellow Pages directory has cut short its relationship with Paris to promote the upstart…

Online directory technology provider Local Matters is touting the launch of R.H. Donnelley's Chicago.B2B.com, a "local search and shopping marketplace" for Chicago-area businesses. The site uses Local Matters' Destination Search platform, which is being positioned as a solution for directory…

Here is a write-up of today's Yellow Pages Group annual meeting. I am traveling today and have not yet been able to listen to the call.One interesting item is the C$2.5 million purchase of 389 Canadian domain names across vertical…

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm having a hard time getting past the first obvious question that comes to mind as I read this announcement. If this is such a breakthrough business concept, then how come it's being sold on…

The following is an excerpt from an article we prepared for Local Media Journal regarding Yahoo!'s new ad engine. It was published last month for our client advisory service. Given Yahoo!'s announcement today, we thought that a portion of the…

What is the best way to bridge the so-called digital divide? • Provide a sub-$100 notebook computer for educational use in developing nations?• Introduce an ultra low-cost computer that is a combination phone and personal organizer that can be fitted…

Bob Garfield, editor at large for Advertising Age, tried hard (perhaps too hard) to entertain the audience at the recent Yellow Pages Association annual convention. It was one of those multimedia presentations where he used a combination of PowerPoint, video…

Canadian publisher Yellow Pages Group announced this mornings that it will acquire Classified Media Holdings (Trader Canada) for C$760 million. You can read the release here. The deal expands YPG's classified footprint nationally following last year's acquisition of Trader Media…

This just in: Yell will acquire Spain's Telefnica Publicidad e Informacin for US$3.9 billion. Here is a Bloomberg article with some details. We will cover this in more detail in an Advisory. This is a new direction for Yell, which…

Here is the press release detailing the winners of this year's Yellow Pages Association Industry Excellence Awards. This year's crop includes many very well-deserved honors, and we congratulate all the winners. It's fair to say that the list of winners…

Yahoo! has launched a new local advertising search product called Featured Listings. You can see it here on the product page.The advertising product is a fixed ad unit that is sold by position across all local categories. There are "North"…