The Onion Covers Local Search
From the Friday afternoon humor department, The Onion has a funny article about the majority of Americans that can't locate a Payless Shoe store on a mall directory. I wonder what NearbyNow thinks of the data? ;)
OK, Here’s the Lineup for Seattle, April 30-May 2
It’s been a lot of fun putting this together -- a “who’s who” lineup for Kelsey's Drilling Down on Local: Marketplaces, which takes places April 30-May 2 in Seattle (a favorite city). This show, entirely inspired by the in-depth analysis…
Local Video Gets More Attention; SEO Is Key
Mixpo's Glenn Pingul has an interesting column in Search Engine Land today about online video's growing relevance as an ad vehicle for SMBs. He hits on all the main points, discussed here in the past, about video's benefits for local…
Seattle Times Co. Launches ‘Network Search’
One big takeaway from the NAA Marketing show last week in Orlando was that newspapers are ready to build up a zillion niche products that allow them to leverage their editorial talents. But not much progress, or even attention, is…
3-D Mapping News: Everyscape and TeleAtlas
3-D mapping company EveryScape has secured a $7 million B round led by Waltham, Massachusetts-based Dace Ventures. Similar to Google's Street View, the company stitches together 3-D renderings of street-level cityscapes. Unlike Google or any other mapping provider, however, EveryScape…
‘Local’ Surprisingly Prominent at Health 2.0
The smart “post Web” money is looking at health care (and green solutions), right? But based on Health 2.0: User-Generated Healthcare, a conference that took place March 2-4 in San Diego, the subject may no longer be search engines or…
Spot Runner Buys Weblistic, Pumps Up Local Sales Effort
Spot Runner has gone into the local reseller channel in a major way by acquiring Weblistic, a company headed by Ketan Shah (and whose president is Yellow Pages Commando Dick Larkin). The company has 50 employees and is headquartered in…
Krillion Powers Panasonic Product Search
Last week, Krillion took an evolutionary step by feeding its local product listings into TheFind.com. -- essentially becoming a data provider, in addition to a local product search destination. After talking with Krillion CEO Joel Toledano last week, it became…
TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
Here is a recap of posts from the past week on the TKG blog, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. 750 Newspapers Working With Google on Print Ads Program Google’s Print Ads program,…
750 Newspapers Working With Google on Print Ads Program
Google’s Print Ads program, which sells contextual display space in print newspapers, is now working with 750 newspapers, according to Stephanie Davis, Print Ads head of publisher development. Davis was speaking on a panel at this week’s NAA Marketing conference…
Automating Local Video: A Conversation With TurnHere
Earlier this week, I had the chance to meet with local video production house TurnHere and take a peek under the hood. The company is working on an advertiser facing production management platform that will help it scale up to…
RHD Posts Ad Sales Gain, Gloomier Outlook for 2008, Winebaum Steps Down
I've taken a quick look at the R.H. Donnelley earnings release before the company's much-anticipated earnings call this morning. Here are a few quick highlights: The company posted ad sales of US$2,743 million, an increase of 0.4 percent. Net revenues…
Yelp Gets a Boost
Yelp! has announced that it got $15 million in a fourth round of funding led by DAG and existing investors. The company also sent some growth metrics: October '07 -- 5M Unique Visitors December '07 -- 6M UVs January '08…
The Power of Public Relations for Yellow Pages
As I noted in a blog about The Kelsey Group's Local Online Media event in London last week, analysts, speakers and the audience were positively upbeat about the Yellow Pages business. The feeling by all was that the stock market…
Mueller to Leave Idearc CEO Post — Cites Health Concerns
Idearc has announced CEO John Mueller will resign after just eight days on the job, citing "unforeseen health reasons." Mueller, who was previously Idearc's chairman, had replaced Kathy Harless, who was removed following a sharp decline in the company's value.…
Yahoo! Beefs Up Local Organic Results
Yahoo! announced that it will make a considerable change to its result pages, and the content it will allow Web sites to provide in organic listings. According to the Yahoo! Search Blog: Site owners will be able to provide all…
NAA Coverage: Inside the Yahoo! Consortium With Lee’s Greg Schermer
The 19-company Yahoo! newspaper consortium is set to launch beta tests with two newspapers of Content Match, an AdSense-like product. The beta tests are expected to be followed by a launch throughout the entire consortium in September, according to Lee…
YPA Data Show Stable Print, Growing IYP Usage
The Yellow Pages Association released new usage data showing that U.S. print directory usage was stable in 2007 at 13.4 billion print lookups, while online directory references climbed 15 percent, from 3.3 billion searches in 2006 to 3.8 billion in 2007.…
Sensis Shows Signs of Print Turnaround
Sensis, Australia's largest directory publisher, recently released first-half results from its 2007-2008 financial year (ending June 30), which show solid growth of its print products. White Pages in particular grew 9.9 percent in the first half, an improvement over its 8.1…
NAA Coverage: Tierney on Philly.com’s Media Lab; Pursuing Women 35+
When a local team headed by ad agency and PR veteran Brian Tierney bought The Philadelphia Inquirer and related holdings 18 months ago, it was seen as a possible model for how “new thinking” could transform the newspaper industry. Since then,…