The New York Times writes about jewelry outfit Cartier and its recent social networking activity. This is nothing new for large advertisers and has become a new form of branding that follows consumer activity -- especially among some demographics…
This week Canada's Yellow Pages Group acquired directory-related assets from Volt Information Sciences for US$178 million. Volt has been a technology partner to YPG for seven years. It offers technology for database management and customer relationship management, and it also owns the independent…
The Wall Street Journal today wrote about the challenges that newspapers have in trying to sell to small local businesses. Beth Lawton at the Newspaper Association of America kindly asked us to add some context to the article (subscription required). Here…
The economy isn’t doing too well, but that hasn’t hurt the hiring picture for Yellow Pages and local search sales pros, according to YP veteran Ken Clark, who put out an interesting promo for his recruitment firm, Hawthorne Executive Search.…
R.H. Donnelley posted its first-half results today. While ad sales are clearly trending negative, the company was able to report modest revenue and EBITDA growth. Ad sales, however, are the best indicator of how the business is performing. The following…
Frank Jules believes there is a clear shift from print to online taking place. And the best way for publishers to make a successful transition is to move from selling individual products to selling a bundle of products based on…
This just in: Microsoft's flagship search engine unveiled a new home page interface that will include rotating background images with embedded "hot spots" that direct users into various vertical searches when moused over. This is essentially a visually driven discovery…
To save costs and reduce reading time, many newspapers have begun to downsize the daily print edition, cut back pages and delete stock tables. They’ve also downsized editorial. Now, several have begun to fold in dedicated sections for various verticals,…
The 32-company-strong Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, which covers 41 percent of Sunday newspaper circulation, has 700 to 900 reps selling Yahoo inventory, with a couple of the newspapers selling more than $1 million in annual inventory, reports Yahoo's Lem Lloyd, who…
Marchex has announced the launch of Marchex Connect 2.0, an updated version of its private-labeled local ad platform that is used by local ad resellers such as AT&T and Yellowpages.com. The new version's highlights include integration of call tracking (from…
Michael Rogers, The New York Times Co.’s futurist-in-residence, told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees last week that over the next few years, “mobile [will be] the most important piece of the interactive space.” Largely driving the adaption of mobile will…
New media pioneer Deanna Brown, who is running Scripps Networks Digital after stints at CondeNet, AOL and Yahoo, told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees last week that their responsibility is to make sure real estate brokers are “on mobile, the…
New CEO Scott Klein presented Idearc Media's first-half results and previewed his plans for reorganizing and reenergizing the company. The main theme of the presentation was a “Journey of Transformation,” which is truly what Idearc needs based on the results of…
Google Maps has rolled out a new look and feel, which involves larger maps and "less clutter." From the Google LatLong blog: "With the new look for Google Maps, you can do all of the same things, but without the…
CityVoter has partnered with SFGate to power the online newspaper's new lifestyle section. Called the BayList, at its center will be CityVoter's signature "best of" local pics from users of the site. This will include voting on 1,100 businesses in…
Google and Salesforce.com are using some of their market power to help local cultural institutions. Last week, while in San Francisco for Inman, I found “Tartuffe” by the African-American Shakespeare Co. when I searched “San Francisco” and “Theater.” It was…
On Friday, we released a report that looks at the 3G iPhone and new App Store. One overall theme is how the iPhone's new features and lowered price tag will combine with easy availability of mobile apps to bring new…
One of the hard and fast truths about print Yellow Pages advertising is that the ads at the front of the heading almost always generate more calls and leads compared with those further back. The current trend is for small-business advertisers…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog over the past week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Mixed Earnings for Yell, PagesJaunes Yell Group saw an 11.3 percent rise in its…
Yell Group saw an 11.3 percent rise in its share value yesterday (to 79 p) following its first-quarter 2009 earnings (its financial year ends March 31) announcement, in which the publisher topped its U.S. guidance, fell a bit short in the…
