I recently had the chance to catch up with G5 Search Marketing CEO Dan Hobin about the company's recent appearance on Inc. Magazine's "Fastest Growing Private Companies in America" list. At No. 146, the company had 2008 revenues of $3.4…
MSNBC.com, the Seattle-based entity co-owned by Microsoft and NBC, has acquired EveryBlock, Adrian Holovaty’s hyperlocal site. The price was apparently “several million dollars,” per reports. The six-person site, an outgrowth of Holovaty’s Chicagocrime.org, is a leading-edge example of “mapping journalism.” It maps…
Newspapers are down in the dumps. But they remain powerful forces in local. Accordingly, the search engines (Yahoo, Google and Microsoft) are now beginning to fight for partnerships with newspaper sales channels, which they see as one of the best…
Video ad provider AdVideo announced today it will work with Yellow Pages Group Canada to help the publisher deliver online video to its SMB advertisers. YP publishers continue their push to integrate video into the local ad bundle, for many…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. ReachLocal Grossed $147 Million in ’08, Projects ’09 Growth One of the big questions in local has been how…
One of the big questions in local has been how well ReachLocal is doing. The SMB online advertising consultant was reportedly valued at $305 million after an October 2007 investment round. While ReachLocal says that number is “inaccurate,” the company’s…
The U.S. directory industry's two leading trade groups (YPA and ADP) have joined forces to promote a Web site, www.yellowpagesoptout.com, that allows consumers to search for opt-out information on local publishers by typing in their ZIP code. This site is…
Top speakers and candid talk filled Steve Espinosa's Local Search Summit held today in conjunction with SES San Jose. Running from stage to stage, I had the chance to check out at least the second half of it. Tech A-lister…
The Australian directory publisher Sensis posted 4.9 percent growth in its Yellow and White directory business (print and online combined) for the year ended June 30. Print directory (White and Yellow) growth for the period was 2.5 percent, while online…
Web publishers distributing streaming content and media files rely on Content Distribution Networks such as Akamai, Limelight or Level 3 to scale cost effectively. As Web 2.0 has become richer in content, naturally CDN traffic has grown commensurately. In fact, new…
Andrew Shotland, top thinker at the intersection of local search and SEO, compiled a list of the most effectively optimized IYPs out there. The rankings are below, and additional drill downs, results and methodology can be found on his LocalSEOGuide…
Yesterday I had the chance to catch up with NearbyNow CEO Scott Dunlap about its new Seventeen Magazine and Runner's World iPhone apps. You may remember, the company powers the app for Lucky Magazine -- a nice tool that lets…
This morning I received an e-mail from Claudia Poepperl, previously of mobilePeople, regarding the first product to come out of her new company, Adaffix. Known as Yellix, it's a mobile app that identifies incoming calls with Facebook information of the…
We've been hearing more and more chatter in the Yellow Pages business about pay-per-call advertising programs, in print as well as online, moving beyond selective use and into the mainstream. Our latest conversation supporting this assertion was with Bill Dinan,…
Spot Runner announced today that it has chosen Yodle as its official local online ad partner. This will bring Yodle's local search marketing products (local SEM reseller) into Spot Runner's existing ad bundles. The deal is also about local…
Local search technology provider Local Matters has announced an upgrade to its flagship Destination Search product as well as its search marketing platform Traffic Director. For those unfamiliar, Local Matters specializes in private-label local search products for online publishers and…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Mobile Local Discovery: A Conversation With Aloqa A few weeks ago, we covered Aloqa and its most recent funding…
In case you missed our webinar yesterday on mobile local media and advertising, a free webinar replay is available here. It is a streaming Windows Media file that includes slides and audio. The slide presentation itself is also available for…
A few weeks ago, we covered Aloqa and its most recent funding news, but today I was able to catch up with CEO Sanjeev Agrawal to dive deeper. The application, currently in the Android marketplace, is a container for series…
For years, Realtor.com has been widely predicted to fail, even with an audience that is more than twice the size of its next closest rival. Its technology has not been considered innovative, the quality of its customer service has been…
