Zillow is set to provide its four million users, Z-estimate 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 part, will share with Zillow their Open House listings, their own “for sale” […]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
The Shift to Verticals: Zornosa Joins Cobalt’s Dealix
November 9, 2007 – 9:19 pm
The brain drain to Verticals continues. The latest executive to cross over is Anna Zornosa, who is joining Dealix as EVP and GM. Dealix is Cobalt’s provider of sales leads to auto dealers.
Zornosa most recently ran Yahoo! personals and was previously CMO for Hilary Schneider at Knight Ridder Digital. Before that, she was a top […]
MerchantCircle Gets IAC Money, 250,000 ‘Members’
November 7, 2007 – 7:13 pm
MerchantCircle is claiming a registered base of 250,000 small businesses. That’s a lot – a penetration of 4.8% of the 12 million U.S. businesses that advertise. It has also announced $10 million of new funding, adding the likes of IAC and Square 1 Bank to prior investors, who include Rustic Canyon Partners, […]
Now Moving to Facebook: Happyhours.com (and other locals)
November 7, 2007 – 2:16 am
Perhaps we have moved from a culture where small local publishers have gone from their own website to a blog to having a space on Facebook. That’s what Steve Gilberg at Happy Hours.com has done. Steve, the most knowledgeable person alive about the spirits business and local bar culture – and actually, a […]
Quigo, a Google Substitute, Being Sold to AOL
November 5, 2007 – 6:56 pm
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 services, including Advertising.com and Tacoda.
Quigo, an Isreali/New York company launched in 2000, was rumored […]
Gannett’s Metromix Investment: ‘Under $10 Million’
November 2, 2007 – 6:04 pm
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 21-24 year old market that doesn’t typically use newspapers–online or off. The JV plans to cover the top 30-35 markets within a year, including invasions of cities where neither media company […]
Former AOLers Look at TV Station Websites
November 1, 2007 – 6:50 pm
What keeps a TV station working with a Web enabler after they’ve earned enough money to do it themselves? That’s a question for all the leading Web enablers — WorldNow, Internet Broadcasting Systems and Broadcast Interactive Media. All three companies have pretty much responded the same way: feed in national advertisers, leverage portal […]