Local Insight Media President and CEO Scott Pomeroy has resigned, effective Friday. Pomeroy was replaced as interim CEO by Scott Brubaker, a director at the turnaround firm Alvarez & Marsal, and since October 2010, LIM's chief restructuring officer. This move…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts over the past week from our Global Yellow Pages blog. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed here, and the e-mail alert here. Independent Publishers Texting for…
I recently spent two weeks attending directory industry events and meeting with companies in the space in Europe and Asia. Many of the issues facing the industry are amazingly consistent across geographical boundaries. There is a need to transform, and…
Last night, Local Insight Media's parent company filed for Chapter 11 protection. In speaking with President and CEO Scott Pomeroy early this morning, it became clear that this is a necessary step in ensuring the business can recapitalize its debt…
ZipLocal, the U.S. independent directory publisher, has launched a new "hyper local" leads-based advertising model called Local Leads that taps into a distribution network featuring 18 properties and 80 billion monthly impressions, according to ZipLocal execs who briefed us last week.…
It's Yellow Pages earnings season again. AT&T is usually among the first out with its results, and the latest numbers show a worsening picture for its Advertising Solutions business, which includes print Yellow Pages and yp.com. The results are compounded by very…
I am planning to attend an event next month in London called IYP Search Meet 2010, which is aimed at giving those in the Yellow Pages world in charge of making online directory products better an opportunity to share best…
The independent directory publishers gathered here at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver for the past two days appear to be even more convinced than ever that the print directory product is not only their past but also their future,…
The Nordics directory publisher Eniro seems to have a success on its hands with its new "search and purchase" directory, launched Sept. 29. The company announced today that since that product was launched, the number of searches for "points…
SuperMedia announced today that CEO Scott Klein has resigned, effective immediately and has been replaced by industry veteran Peter McDonald, who was most recently president of DexOne (then R.H. Donnelley). BIA/Kelsey understands that the company's largest debt holders have been…
Two sometimes rival U.S. directory industry associations have joined forces to build a more robust one-stop opt-out Web site (due out early next year) that they hope will mitigate the growing trend toward local opt-out legislation. The new site will…
The Canadian publisher DirectWest has teamed up with VendAsta to enter the hot group buying space.The new service will be called Mysaskdeals, and it is reportedly the first of its kind in Saskatchewan. “We are very excited about this new…
The Canadian publisher DirectWest has teamed up with VendAsta to enter the hot group buying space. The new service will be called Mysaskdeals, and it is reportedly the first of its kind in Saskatchewan. “We are very excited about this…
We had the opportunity to spend a few minutes this morning with Alfred Mockett, the new CEO of Dex One, on his first day on the job, and it's clear that he plans to follow an aggressive change management agenda.…
The reputation management space will be yet another hot topic at DMS ’10 next week. It's garnered a lot of press and new competitors in the past year, and as BIA/Kelsey anticipates this area to grow to roughly $3.1B in…
With just a few days remaining before the start of our DMS ’10 conference in Dallas, we wanted to preview a couple of hot topics that will likely receive a lot of buzz at the show. I will be co-moderating…
Pretty big news from Dex One today. The company announced this morning that it has a deal with rival SuperMedia that allows advertisers from each site to have their business profiles appear on the other publisher's online directory. The obvious…
SuperMedia has joined the list of directory publishers rolling out complete overhauls of their online Yellow Pages directories. Today, the publisher unveiled a new version of SuperPages.com, which featured more local content, more robust merchant info on search results page,…
In case you didn’t see these, here are links to some of the more important posts from the past week on our Global Yellow Pages blog. Be sure to submit your e-mail address to “Subscribe to Our Blog.” You will…
Eniro has replaced Jesper Karrbrink as CEO of the Swedish directory company with Johan Lindgren, former CEO of Telenor Sweden. Eniro's board is apparently frustrated at the pace of improvement resulting from the new strategy put in place by Karrbrink.…
