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Sep 16
2008

DMS ’08 Keynote: AT&T Advertising and Publishing Head Frank Jules

AT&T Advertising and Publishing President Frank Jules, who has held the top slot for a year, said at Kelsey’s Directional Media Strategies conference in Atlanta that his business is “changing dramatically,” and laid out a prescription for Yellow Pages growth. The prescription is heavily dependent on success of AT&T Publishing’s efforts on the Internet, which …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, HyperLocal, Misc, Mobile, Video, Yellow Pages

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Aug 12
2008

Freedom Interactive’s Mathieu Leaves for YuMe Video Network

Freedom Interactive President Michael Mathieu is leaving to be CEO of YuMe Networks, which is sort of positioned as the “DoubleClick of Video.” YuMe is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, CA and backed to the tune of $16 million by Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, BV Capital and DAG Ventures. Jayant Kadambi, who …continue reading »

Categories: Newspapers, Sales Channels, Video

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Aug 4
2008

25 Ways to Use Video in Real Estate (and other Verticals)

Scripps Network Digital’s new real estate site, FrontDoor.com, has developed an impressive list of ways that real estate pros can use video. Presenting at Inman’s Real Estate Connect conference last week in San Francisco, VP Kelly Rourke said that video is critical for real estate. “People are used to experiencing 360 degree information,” notes Rourke. …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, TV/Radio, Verticals

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May 30
2008

Curley on HyperLocal, The WaPo, and the Vegas Venture

Some industry bloggers like to throw “Google” in the title to get some attention. For me, it is “Hyperlocal.” And somewhere in the middle of any discussion of hyperlocal is Rob Curley. The hyperlocal maestro has taken his Web 2.0 experimentations (videos, maps, databases, photo galleries, blogs, citizen journalism, pictures of local girls) in rapid …continue reading »

Categories: Mobile, TV/Radio, Video, Yellow Pages

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May 16
2008

ICMA Brussels: Shopper Pubs Focusing on Reverse Publishing, Verticals, Mobile

Shopper publications attending the International Classified Media Association meeting in Brussels this week – the vast majority from outside the U.S. – are showing resilience against the challenges of the Internet, and looking at new models to sustain their existing businesses. I was presenting a keynote on the transition to Marketplaces. Shoppers, of course, are …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Conferences, Mobile, Newspapers, Verticals

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Apr 24
2008

KP-Backed SpotMixer Enters Fray for SMB Video

The market to produce, distribute and/or enhance small business videos has intensified in recent months, as TurnHere, Denver Multimedia, DMC, SpotRunner, Mixpo, BuzzSpot, EzyShow and Spotzer and others have competed (often via 3rd party Yellow Pages and city guides) to land accounts. Now comes Redwood City, CA-based SpotMixer, which has raised $8 million from Kleiner …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Video, Yellow Pages

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Jan 25
2008

Pittman Eyes TV Stations as ‘Newspapers Online’

Former AOL President and MTV founder Bob Pittman has lately focused on investments as head of the Pilot Group (he is a pilot). In an interview with broadband consultant Will Richmond’s VideoNuze on the eve of the NATPE show in Las Vegas, Pittman says he is bullish on small market TV stations – and their …continue reading »

Categories: TV/Radio

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