Here at GigaOm's NewTeeVee Live event, it's a who's who of players in the small but growing online video space. AT&T's $6 billion investment in its U-Verse IPTV rollout will get 8 million subscribers by the end of the year…
Joining the ever growing list of publishers striking deals with mobile phone companies, Yellow Pages Group New Zealand announced a deal with Vodefone to carry its content on the Vodefone Live mobile service. The service is expected to begin in…
Joining the ever growing list of publishers striking deals with mobile phone companies, Yellow Pages Group New Zealand announced a deal with Vodefone to carry its content on the Vodefone Live mobile service. The service is expected to begin in…
Yesterday in The New York Times, Borders Books announced that it has partnered with Ripple to put digital monitors in hundreds of its stores across the country. By the end of February, the company expects two monitors for its Borders TV…
I attended Warrillow & Co.'s Canadian conference in Toronto this morning where more than a hundred eager marketing managers gathered to hear about the latest trends in reaching the 2.3 million small businesses in Canada. John Warrillow’s opening presentation referenced…
Zillow is set to provide its 4 million users, Zestimate capabilities, and EZ Ads platform and nascent set of national listings to 285 newspapers, including many members of Yahoo!'s newspaper consortium. It's very much a two-way street. The newspapers, for their…
The brain drain to verticals continues. The latest executive to cross over is Anna Zornosa, who is joining Dealix as executive vice president and general manager. Dealix is Cobalt's provider of sales leads to auto dealers. Zornosa most recently ran…
Classified aggregator LiveDeal has been on a roll this year in bringing new content into the fold to become more competitive as an overall local search destination. First it brought directory listings (via YP.com acquisition of LiveDeal) to complement its…
MerchantCircle is claiming a registered base of 250,000 small businesses. That’s a lot -- a penetration of 4.8 percent of the 12 million U.S. businesses that advertise. It has also announced $10 million of new funding, adding the likes of…
MerchantCircle is claiming a registered base of 250,000 small businesses. That’s a lot -- a penetration of 4.8 percent of the 12 million U.S. businesses that advertise. It has also announced $10 million of new funding, adding the likes of…
Yellow Pages Group released its third-quarter numbers this morning and will have its earnings call at 1 p.m. Eastern today. We will listen in and post a few details from the call a bit later. One key data point: The…
Yellow Pages Group released its third-quarter numbers this morning and will have its earnings call at 1 p.m. Eastern today. We will listen in and post a few details from the call a bit later. One key data point: The…
Yell Group reported its half-year 2008 results yesterday, and the publisher revealed that while its online product in the U.K. continues to grow at a torrid pace, print grew only modestly in the U.S. and declined 4.4 percent in the…
Perhaps we have moved from a culture where small local publishers have gone from their own Web site to a blog to having a space on Facebook. That’s what Steve Gilberg at HappyHours.com has done. Steve -- the most knowledgeable…
I listened to the replay of last week's Idearc Media third-quarter earnings call, and a few items stood out. First, Idearc made the assertion that through nine months of 2007, most of its challenges in the print business were the…
AOL is set to pay $340 million (updated) for Quigo, which provides a contextual ad network alternative to Google. The deal includes PageCast, a video search product, and will be added to AOL’s impressive arsenal of network, behavioral and contextual…
At the Directory Driven Commerce conference we held in 2006, the theme was "Adapting to a Shifting Marketplace." In my opening remarks, I noted that Ford Motor Co. had been the second-largest automobile company in the world behind General Motors…
At the Directory Driven Commerce conference we held in 2006, the theme was "Adapting to a Shifting Marketplace." In my opening remarks, I noted that Ford Motor Co. had been the second-largest automobile company in the world behind General Motors…
Gannett is teaming with Tribune on a 50/50 basis to take the latter’s Metromix entertainment site national, and reach into the highly valued 21- to 24-year-old market that doesn’t typically use newspapers -- online or off. The JV plans to…
Gannett is teaming with Tribune on a 50/50 basis to take the latter’s Metromix entertainment site national, and reach into the highly valued 21- to 24-year-old market that doesn’t typically use newspapers -- online or off. The JV plans to…
