Marketplaces 2010 takes place just 7 weeks from now in San Diego (March 22-24). We are putting the finishing touches on the program, and have added MANY exciting new speakers in just the past few weeks.
The event is totally dedicated to the higher value/conversion/engagement ethos of vertical media. For sure, this isn’t one size fits [...]
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All-Star Lineup at Marketplaces 2010, March 22-24, San Diego
February 4, 2010 – 4:34 am
Citysearch’s Herratti: Focus on the Distributed Model
February 2, 2010 – 6:13 am
Citysearch rolled out its CityGrid publisher network this week. The network moves Citysearch away from an exclusive focus on its individual sites (“Citysearch.com,” “Insiderpages.com,” “UrbanSpoon”). Instead, it works on a distributed basis with partners (i.e. “SuperPages”) to marry local content and advertising.
“My vision is (that it will become) the leading content and ad network [...]
Elevation Buys into Yelp
January 28, 2010 – 1:38 am
Bono and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman
As widely reported last week, Yelp has confirmed that it will receive a $25 million investment from Elevation Partners, which is widely known for the involvement of U2 frontman Bono among its seven partners. Elevation, which manages $1.9 billion, will also seek to increase its total investment to $100 [...]
Outsell: Digital News More Cannibalistic Than Complementary
January 21, 2010 – 2:07 am
Digital media is more cannibalistic than complementary, and seriously eating into the demand for traditional news sources such as newspapers, TV and news magazines, according to the third annual survey of news users done by Outsell, Inc.
The survey findings, based on almost 3,000 consumers and fully detailed in Outsell’s “News Users 2009” report, written by [...]
Inman NYC: Google and Trulia?
January 15, 2010 – 11:28 pm
Rumors have been flying that Google is poised to buy Trulia, “the real estate search engine” that competes with, among others, Zillow (which just said it is aiming to IPO in 2011).
But according to reports by attendees, no information was forthcoming at Inman’s 2010 Real Estate Connect conference in NYC, where Google Director of Local [...]
‘Call Rank’? CallSpark Leverages Smart Phone Features for Mobile Directories
January 12, 2010 – 6:49 pm
As we enter the smartphone generation, directory listings may only be a starting point for consumer information needs. In terms of revenue opportunities, they may only be scratching the surface.
CallSpark, which calls itself the “call experience company,” seeks to take it up several notches via deep Web integration of directory listings, Web [...]
ReachLocal’s S1 Filing Provides New Details About Company
December 28, 2009 – 10:33 pm
ReachLocal’s S1 filing to raise $100 million includes valuable details about the company. With grosses of $146.7 million for the first nine months of 2009, and operations in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia, the local search and display reseller has become one of the biggest bets in local.
According to the S1, ReachLocal, which [...]
