Kelsey Local Media Blog
Many of you have heard by now that Twitter this week integrated the ability to annotate tweets with specific place information. This is an extension of the location awareness first integrated in its API and then more recently to Twitter.com. But instead of…
The Nordic directory and search company Eniro has signed a deal with Amdocs to use its digital advertising system to help power its expanding online advertising network. According to Amdocs, the key elements of the deal are: Eniro selected Amdocs…
Catching up on notable items in the local space over the past week, you may have heard that Yelp has partnered with TurnHere to exclusively offer video to its SMB advertisers. This will include a few different tiers of service…
Catching up on notable items in the local space over the past week, you may have heard that Yelp has partnered with TurnHere to exclusively offer video to its SMB advertisers. This will include a few different tiers of service…
What will it take to get a local television station-based mobile DTV service off the ground and running? Leading broadcast groups and networks may just be putting together the alchemy that will breathe life into the monster. Broadcasters across the…
SB Nation, the fan-centric sports blog launched by Kos.com founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and Tyler Bleszinski and run by former AOL EVP Jim Bankoff, is launching 20 regional sites this month. The sites, themed “your new local sports page,” are…
You've probably noticed a series of aesthetic upgrades to this blog (OK, a complete overhaul). As part of that, we decided our breadth of coverage -- everything from Yellow Pages to broadcast media to mobile -- deserves some segmentation. So in addition…
You've probably noticed a series of aesthetic upgrades to this blog (OK, a complete overhaul). As part of that, we decided our breadth of coverage -- everything from Yellow Pages to broadcast media to mobile -- deserves some segmentation. So in addition…
SuperMedia has joined forces with Yext to offer a co-branded version of the new Yext Rep product to its small-business advertisers. The Yext reputation management dashboard enables small businesses to track their online reputation through a single, easy-to-follow interface. Read…
From the "why didn't that happen years ago?" department, Yelp announced today it will integrate OpenTable reservations. According to the Yelp Blog: Logged in Yelp users are now able to easily book a reservation using this feature and you don't…
Economists are always searching for market revealed information from businesses. Whether it is quarterly data on sales, revenues and profits or decisions made by businesses in their day-to-day operations, this information provides insight into the “economics” of the business and…
Truvo revealed in its first-quarter earnings report that in March it agreed to divest its Romanian operation to the German company People Holding GmbH for 1 euro, essentially giving the operation away free of debt in order to get it…
SEO is something we pay attention to but probably don't spend enough time covering here. Besides its level of sex appeal to some of our readers, it's often sidestepped because of the can of worms factor or the general "that's…
My notes from yesterday's Mobile session at TechCrunch Disrupt can be found over at our Mobile Local Media blog. It featured Google's Vic Gundotra, Facebook's Chris Cox and Foursquare's Dennis Crowley, who each provided good insights on mobile innovations to…
National retailers are increasingly looking to get their local stores into local Web sites, directories and social and mobile sites. But they are confronting issues such as bad local store listing data, and the challenge of competing with locally owned…
SuperMedia has made some updates to its business profiles, organizing business details into four tabs: “Info,” which gives you basic details; special features and offers; and a website link, if available. “SuperGuarantee,” which indicates if the business participates in the program through…
I always enjoy the TechCrunch-style start-up competition involving quick pitches, then a grilling from a panel of "experts." Because local search and mobile local services are so hot right now, more and more of these start-up pitches are squarely focused…
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (an actual Mayor) made a surprise appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt today to pitch the benefits to tech start-ups to operate here. Much of it was just that: a pitch (albeit an eloquent one). But…
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (an actual Mayor) made a surprise appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt today to pitch the benefits to tech start-ups to operate here. Much of it was just that: a pitch (albeit an eloquent one). But…
Following Peter Krasilovsky's post on AOL's 25th anniversary, CEO Tim Armstrong just gave a keynote interview with Mike Arrington here at the TechCrunch disrupt conference. As is a common topic -- and modus operandi in his stewardship of a transforming…
