Kelsey Local Media Blog
I continue to catch up on missed items from the past few weeks of conferences and iPad frenzy. During the week of our Marketplaces conference, a new SMB reputation management tool called Chatmeter was launched by former V-Enabler Collin Holmes.…
I found myself in a funny place on Saturday morning. I was lined up at 8:10 a.m. to purchase a new iPad. Funny, because in a million years neither I nor my colleagues or family would have expected me to…
We're just a day from the iPad's official release and the media storm has predictably begun. An early set of extremely limited units were given to entertainers like Stephen Colbert and David Letterman, and shows like "Modern Family," reflecting a…
The early iPad reviews are out from Walt Mossberg and David Pogue, and their reactions are mostly positive. We're generally not a product review house but happy to link to the experts to handle that. What's more interesting to me…
I just heard from a reliable source at Apple that iPads have shipped early to Apple stores and are available for purchase. They aren't advertising the availability, so some casual shoppers will get a surprise. The list of stores wasn't…
Prompted by my writeup of Google's new mobile pay-per-call program, I had the chance today to speak with the executive team at RingRevenue. The company provides a platform for partners to monetize incoming calls. It private labels the platform for…
One of the challenges of running conferences is keeping our analyst hats on and covering the world outside the venue walls. We're still catching up on notable media and tech news items from last week. But luckily there's a fair…
As my colleague Peter Krasilovsky notes below, eBay has rebranded its global classified company Kijiji as eBay Classifieds. Parallel with that announcement, the company has launched two new iPhone apps and some projections about the merchandise value it expects to…
In the second “installment” of its quarterly report “State of Small Business Online Advertising, Search Edition," WebVisible reports that its SMB clients increased their online search spending to an average of $2,149 in Q4 2009, an increase of some 30…
Yellow Pages Group Canada announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Canpages for an estimated C$225 million. In addition, YPG has secured a deal with ZipLocal to essentially combine its U.S.-based Your Community Phone Book property with ZipLocal. "The…
One of the most talked about presentations at last week's Marketplaces 2010 conference was MojoPages CEO Jon Carder and his breakdown of game mechanics. Characterized by Carder as "the new black," game mechanics are behind the growth of lots of…
Groupon is one of those "cool" companies that come along every now and again with a good idea, and a certain intangible vibe that captures the industry's imagination. This morning, the company's founder told the Groupon's story and answered questions…
Jordan Glazier, CEO of Eventful, mapped out the company's latest social, mobile and crowd sourcing efforts to the day-three audience here at Marketplaces 2010. The company currently has 15 million users through online, mobile and partner channels. At this scale,…
Serving mom-and-pop small businesses is a challenge in digital marketplaces. They want to be online, but they don't know where as there are no huge, recognizable brands. It's a challenge for them to know whom to work with in the…
Urbanspoon, our pre-season pick for favored mobile loca app, has passed half a billion shakes (searches), according to CEO Jay Herratti during his keynote at Marketplaces 2010 today. This comes almost a year after Urbanspoon was bought by IAC and…
"People still underestimate what is happening," Loopt CEO Sam Altman said of developments in mobile local search. His big message was that mobile is becoming far more infused into consumer behavior than the desktop Internet ever was, with location awareness…
This panel, moderated by conference-meister Peter Krasilovsky, peered into the boiler rooms that power vertical search, with presentations by three leading players in the nuts and bolts of this space. David Kidder, Cofounder and CEO, Clickable, presented a solid vision…
"What’s missing from online markets that offline markets have?" Jim Delli Santi from AlikeList sees that online markets need to develop better relationships, utility, transparency and establish ROI. Word of mouth drives trade. Consumers want to find the right business…
DexOne has announced a distribution deal with IAC's Citysearch to give DexOne's online advertisers the option to appear across Citysearch's CityGrid local ad network. This deal is part of DexOne's effort to find new and varied sources of traffic and…
Canada's Yellow Pages Group has launched a new modernized company brand that aims to reflect YPG's "evolution into a performance media and marketing solutions company." YPG has also launched a new ad campaign that is clearly focused on the company's…
