Yext Raises $25 Million For ‘Pay Per Action’ Business Listings
Online business directory service Yext has raised $25 million in a second round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners. Existing i… Read more »
Online business directory service Yext has raised $25 million in a second round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners. Existing i… Read more »
Too early to call a retreat from print? Even as the NYTCo’s print advertising and circulation revenue continue to plummet, the paper plans t… Read more »
One of the fastest-growing audience sectors right now is the unemployed. So Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) has taken Workthing, the free-to-use r… Read more »
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Type the name of a local restaurant into the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search box, and one of three options are most likely to show up above the f… Read more »
Judy Sims was most recently vice president of digital media for the Toronto Star Media Group.
What will metro media markets look like in fi… Read more »
More consolidation in the out-of-home digital ad space … TargetCast Networks (TCN) has acquired Ripple TV, a retail digital ad network bas… Read more »
Local and mobile marketing firm AgendiZe has raised $1.3 million in funding from French investment firm Entrepreneur Venture. The Montreal-b… Read more »
AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong is looking for ways to trim the company’s costs and today, he started with two top execs: COO Kim Partoll… Read more »
Can Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Local duplicate some of the success of Yahoo Answers but on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis? Yahoo Local is roll… Read more »
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I live in the Bay Area, a place that has been, in the past 20 or so years, woefully underserved by what those in the quality news business c… Read more »
The Bakersfield Californian has been something of a pioneer in spinning out community web sites from its main newspaper site. But now, as pr… Read more »
Fwix, a hyperlocal newswire launching with sites for 72 cites on Monday, has raised an undisclosed first round from BlueRun Ventures. The Sa… Read more »
Locally-focused marketing technology startup Balihoo has raised $7 million in a third round of funding. New investor OpenView Venture Partne… Read more »
Like it or not, hyperlocal is one of the buzzphrases in online news these days, and the site of the moment is EveryBlock.com. Founded two ye… Read more »
Canadian local search site Canpages is acquiring GigPark, a social media directory that relies on friends sharing and recommending informati… Read more »
Craigslist is growing. The online classifieds site has added 140 new cities to its roster, bulking up its coverage by 25 percent, per the NY… Read more »
Expect your tweets to get a little more revealing — and potentially creepy, if you think about it — because Twitter is making it easier fo… Read more »
In-store video network Danoo has relaunched as Reach Media Group (RMG), an out-of-home digital media network that targets consumers at retai… Read more »
First, EveryBlock gets sold and now another heavily talked about hyperlocal startup has its own bit of news to announce. AOL-owned Patch is… Read more »
One question in the wake of MSNBC Interactive’s purchase of EveryBlock is how MSNBC.com will integrate EveryBlock’s hyperlocal news feeds. I… Read more »
MSNBC Interactive is making a hyperlocal push, with the purchase of EveryBlock, which offers updates culled from public records — like 911… Read more »
GreenLink Networks, an interactive marketing firm that helps local TV stations create (and monetize) online communities, has raised over $3.… Read more »
Yell has appointed former Betfair chief technology officer Rorie Devine as its own CTO, responsible for the consumer- and client-facing tech… Read more »
The imminent demise of newspapers has been greatly exaggerated, says Peter Conti, an SVP at local media analyst Borrell Associates. Despite… Read more »
The weddings industry tends to remain fairly strong in a recession. As such, weddings and related lifestyle media company The Knot didn’t do… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) executives continued to highlight the importance of their digital plans during the Q2 earnings call. Deals with Clearw… Read more »
Although their plight hasn’t gotten as much attention as that of local newspapers, local broadcasters have also been hurting lately as small… Read more »
Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) execs began the call by offering their rationale for spinning off the Madison Square Garden segment into an independ… Read more »
The NYTimes.com has opened up a self-serve ad system for businesses who want to advertise on its hyperlocal sites. The Local, which consists… Read more »
AT&T’s 5,000-strong sales force will begin to sell Yahoo’s display inventory in local ad markets starting later this summer, under a new par… Read more »
Local online ad and lead generation firm Yodle has added two new execs: Michael Gordon, former managing director of Merrill Lynch’s media an… Read more »
For years it’s pointed consumers to local handymen, builders and businesses but now Yell.com is to start hosting thousands of videos showing… Read more »
Efforts to integrate the various companies of Platform-A (NYSE: TWX) over the past year haven’t gone far enough, AOL global ad chief Jeff Le… Read more »
Geo-contextual ad network Lat49 has raised about $1.3 million in a first round of funding led by PenderFund Capital Management. Existing inv… Read more »
– From Zippo Lighter to Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em: Moderati, which created the popular Zippo Lighter app on the iPhone, is launching a new app ca… Read more »
Social nets are going local, says Borrell Associates in a blog post, which has found that community sites get about 20 percent of their ad r… Read more »
Oodle continues to chip away at Craigslist’s domination of the online classifieds market by partnering with much larger sites like *AOL* and… Read more »
OK! Magazine has brokered a strategic partnership with entertainment-centric online media company Buzz Media — and the first fruit of the d… Read more »
Aside from classified advertising, retail advertising is one of the pillars of newspaper advertising. But as Alan Mutter points out, citing… Read more »
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