Kelsey Local Media Blog
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Here Comes the GPhone, Part IV Early rumors of a Google phone, before the Android platform…
Early rumors of a Google phone, before the Android platform was announced, gave the device a name of "GPhone" (remember?). That name ended up being not that far off the mark -- though Google ended up building the OS rather…
Sebastien Provencher points to the small but hopeful collection of local sessions that have been proposed for the 2009 South By Southwest conference taking place in March. One is led by Topix.com CEO Chris Tolles ("Think Globally, Post Locally: The…
Cox Enterprises has announced that it is putting most of its newspapers on the block, as well as Valpak, its direct mail giant. Newspapers, TV and radio currently now make up just 20 percent of the company’s revenues as it…
Windows Virtual Earth evangelist Chris Pendleton writes on his blog about the availability of display advertising on Live Search Maps. Known as "highlighted listings," this is similar to the mapvertising Google Maps offers. Both place icons on map locations --…
Australia's Sensis released its results for the financial year ended June 30, and many in the global Yellow Pages industry will be interested to find that print revenues are growing in Australia, bucking a global trend of often steep declines. We…
Real Cities, the national ad network owned by McClatchy, has been sold to fast rising Centro. Or at least, the Real Cities brand has been sold, along with access to Real Cities’ list of 250 national advertisers. The network’s local…
The Huffington Post has launched a beta of its first local “Internet newspaper” in Chicago, with promises to produce 10 to 20 more local efforts in the next couple of years. The Chicago site is a mishmash of local news,…
Last night, while watching reruns of The Office on TBS, I noticed something peculiar. During a commercial break, one of the network's stand-up comedy shows was advertised -- a typical house ad. But it had an odd feel to it.…
Matchpoint will soon be rolling out a new set of ad products to complement its flagship online lead-gen forms. On its own site, it will integrate more of an IYP setup with searchable business listings. With each search results page,…
Online newspaper pioneer Chris Jennewein, who was recently re-orged out of The San Diego Union-Tribune, has started a new position as publisher and senior vice president of Greenspun Interactive in Las Vegas. Greenspun dominates Las Vegas as the publisher of…
Yahoo Brickhouse division-head Tom Coates officially launched the Fire Eagle platform today to a packed room of San Francisco journalists, analysts and bloggers (and Yahoo cofounder David Filo). The platform, in beta since March, is based on managing users' location…
The iPhone App Store is kicking butt to the tune of $1 million in sales per day ($30 million to date) and 60 million total downloads. This from an article put out yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, based on an…
Freedom Interactive President Michael Mathieu is leaving to be CEO of YuMe Networks, which is sort of positioned as the “DoubleClick of video.” YuMe is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, California, and backed to the tune of…
Classified Ventures, the holding company for Cars.com, Homescape, Apartments.com, RentalHomesPlus and HomeGain that is jointly owned by McClatchy, A.H. Belo Corp., Gannett Co., Tribune Co. and The Washington Post Co. is now valued at $338 million. The valuation, contained in…
Following closely behind the TKG report and forecast on the growth of SMB video advertising, The Wall Street Journal writes today about the opportunity. It's a good introductory glimpse into the medium and how it has been growing with lowered…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Old Online Services Never Die, They Just Fade Away France Telecom is finally pulling the plug on…
Online menus are a good thing, and a number of companies, mostly regionally oriented, have tried to aggregate them and sell advertising and delivery services around them. I am a big user of MenuShark in my area.At least two companies…
France Telecom is finally pulling the plug on the 26-year-old Minitel service, which it launched in France in 1982. (Actually, Minitel is really 15 years older than that according to SEC filings: "Under an advertising sales agreement entered into in 1967,…
Sebastien Provencher takes an interesting look at UrbanSpoon's iPhone application and also poses the question, have we already jumped the shark with mobile local search on the iPhone? This question relates more to the volume of apps vs. early adoption…
