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Local Onliner

Jul 19
2010

Yahoo’s Lem Lloyd on Gannett/Yahoo Deal

Gannett’s local newspapers and TV stations will begin selling Yahoo inventory, considerably boosting the size of Yahoo’s local sales efforts. The deal, which involves 81 newspaper organizations and seven of its 23 TV stations– is similar to the efforts of Yahoo’s 800 member Newspaper Consortium. But Gannett, notably, is staying separate from the Consortium. In …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Newspapers, Sales Channels, TV/Radio, Yahoo

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Jun 15
2010

Gannett Broadcasting Goes Hyperlocal via DataSphere

DataSphere, which creates hyperlocal blogs and sells advertising packages to small businesses on behalf of local broadcasters, will now do the same for Gannett Broadcasting, The deal initially covers ten of Gannett Broadcasting’s 19 markets, including Atlanta, Washington D.C., Tampa, Buffalo, Sacramento, Grand Rapids, Little Rock, Portland, ME and Macon, GA. Gannett is keeping the …continue reading »

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May 24
2010

Yahoo Adds Valassis to Local Reseller Network

Yahoo is seeking to extend direct marketing budgets online via a new deal with DM giant Valassis, which claims 15,000 advertisers and reaches 114 million shoppers. The new effort adds another dimension to Yahoo’s local reachout, which currently focuses on newspapers and Yellow Pages. The Valassis relationship has the potential to bring its broadcaster and …continue reading »

Categories: Sales Channels, TV/Radio, Yahoo

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Apr 15
2010

‘Garage Sales Tracker’ Teams with Community Paper Sites

There was a time when it looked like eBay would replace garage sales – or the Goodwill box. But putting things up for sale was probably too much work. In fact, garage sale postings in 2009 were up 80 percent on Craigslist last year. Craigslist, Oodle and PennySaver have been among the leaders in online …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Google, TV/Radio

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Feb 10
2010

Fisher TV, DataSphere Team for 1,000 Hyperlocal Advertisers

DataSphere, a hyperlocal enabler and sales agent for local media companies, says that northwest TV and radio giant Fisher Communications has now sold more than 1,000 hyperlocal advertisers using Datasphere’s neighborhood -specific content and sales system. The system is now in more than 43 neighborhoods served by Fisher TV stations in Seattle, 40 neighborhoods in …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Sales Channels, TV/Radio

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Jan 21
2010

Outsell: Digital News More Cannibalistic Than Complementary

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 …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Newspapers, Research, Technology, TV/Radio

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Jan 6
2010

PBS Survey: Schools Rapidly Adopting Online Media

Schools aren’t always appreciated as the linchpin for new media adoption. But Apple successfully focused on the education market to gain a foothold. So did AOL. In our view, an understanding of new media adoption by schools is critical to getting the big picture. That’s why we watch the annual PBS survey of schools and …continue reading »

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