Kelsey Local Media Blog
We had the opportunity to spend a few minutes this morning with Alfred Mockett, the new CEO of Dex One, on his first day on the job, and it's clear that he plans to follow an aggressive change management agenda.…
Yesterday Apple updated various pieces of its developer rules/requirements. The change that got the most press was that Apple was "opening up its popular App Store to products made using Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) Flash program," according to The Wall…
The reputation management space will be yet another hot topic at DMS ’10 next week. It's garnered a lot of press and new competitors in the past year, and as BIA/Kelsey anticipates this area to grow to roughly $3.1B in…
With just a few days remaining before the start of our DMS ’10 conference in Dallas, we wanted to preview a couple of hot topics that will likely receive a lot of buzz at the show. I will be co-moderating…
SMBs are looking for their phones to ring and their doors to open, pure and simple. These cash register-related activities largely sway their perceptions of online marketing campaign effectiveness. Kenshoo Local, a division of SEM provider Kenshoo, aims to specifically…
Pretty big news from Dex One today. The company announced this morning that it has a deal with rival SuperMedia that allows advertisers from each site to have their business profiles appear on the other publisher's online directory. The obvious…
In case you didn’t see these, here are links to some of the more important posts from the past week on our Global Yellow Pages blog. Be sure to submit your e-mail address to “Subscribe to Our Blog.” You will…
In addition to announcing 1 billion users per week, You may have heard about Google's new "Instant" search feature launched today at its Search event in San Francisco. The new search paradigm will serve results in real time as users…
Universal Business Listing first launched as a "list once, be found everywhere" label to enable SMB listings to comprehensively populate the "fragmented Web." However, with social media fueling an even more fragmented Web, UBL is now coupling listing enhancement with presence…
Following up on our coverage and initial reactions to Facebook's Places launch, my monthly column on Search Engine Watch digs a bit deeper. Below is the teaser and link. As non-cave dwellers have likely heard, Facebook has launched its own location…
Dex One has gone leaderless since May when longtime CEO Dave Swanson announced his retirement, which took place immediately. Rather than appoint an interim CEO, the company was run by a temporary leadership team comprising senior members of the board.…
Eniro has replaced Jesper Karrbrink as CEO of the Swedish directory company with Johan Lindgren, former CEO of Telenor Sweden. Eniro's board is apparently frustrated at the pace of improvement resulting from the new strategy put in place by Karrbrink.…
The competitive tide is rising, seemingly by the minute, in the IP video/next-generation TV market. Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Hulu, Boxee, Roku and Sony are just a few of the myriad brands competing to "cut the cord" on cable's ironclad reign over this…
BIA/Kelsey has asserted that a logical next step for deal-a-day providers is to target smaller geographical radii and specific consumer preferences to bolster their value proposition. LivingSocial has made a move in that direction by serving deals at the neighborhood…
Online scheduling vendor Agendize has bolstered its fleet of local media partners through a deal with weblocal.ca, a leading Canadian local search site. Weblocal.ca will utilize Agendize's Online Scheduling as an implementable feature for clients that are using its business…
Both Seat Pagine Gialle and PagesJaunes Groupe are reportedly denying press reports that the French publisher has plans to acquired Italy's Seat. Seat PG's share price has risen today based on those reports, despite a broader market decline. The two…
Dex One and Yahoo have extended and expanded their long-term partnership to roughly double the geographic coverage of the existing distribution partnership. The arrangement essentially involves business profile pages sold by Dex being served up in Yahoo Local search results,…
Turkey Yellow Pages has launched a new service with partner vSplash that offers all Turkish businesses a Web page, domain registration, hosting and a mobile site, as well as geo-coding and a Google Analytics account, technical support and other services,…
Earlier this month, mobile video platform MobiTV released findings from its delivery of the 2010 FIFA World Cup suggesting that the larger the screen, the longer the time spent viewing. No surprise there, as total average minutes viewed for 5-inch screens…
You probably heard today that Google launched a voice dialing feature within Gmail. This isn't necessarily Google Voice (which is basically a call connection service), but rather a voice over IP client, akin to Skype, right within Gmail. The thing…
