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 »
The New Print Battle: NYT Is Planning A Chicago Edition As Well
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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 »
Trinity Mirror Wonders If Jobseekers Will Pay For Premium Service
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 »
Google’s New Place Pages: More Time Spent On Maps, And Maybe, More Revenue
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 »
The Newspaper Reinvention Kit: 4 Easy Steps To Becoming A New News Organization
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 »
TargetCast Buys Out-of-Home Digital Network Ripple TV
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 »
AgendiZe Raises $1.3 Million For Local, Mobile Marketing Services
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 Tosses Out COO Partoll, Search And Local Head Kannapel
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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 »
Yahoo Rolls Out Local Discussion Boards Across Yahoo Local
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 »
Meredith To Share Ad Sales Duties For Mag Rack VOD Network
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Welcome To Publishing Waterloo, NYT and WSJ
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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 »
Updated: Bakersfield Paper May Shutter Community Sites; Execs Offer Differing Views
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 »
Local Newswire Fwix Raises First Round
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 »
Local Marketing Tech Firm Balihoo Raises $7 Million Third Round
Locally-focused marketing technology startup Balihoo has raised $7 million in a third round of funding. New investor OpenView Venture Partne… Read more »
The Problems With EveryBlock
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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 Searcher Canpages To Acquire GigPark
Canadian local search site Canpages is acquiring GigPark, a social media directory that relies on friends sharing and recommending informati… Read more »
Local Newspapers And Sites Watch Out, Craigslist Adds 140 New Cities
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 »
Twitter To Add Location Data — A Precursor To Geotargeted Ads?
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 »
Danoo Rebrands As Reach Media Group To Push Out-of-Home Video Ads
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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 »
AOL-Owned Patch Launches Two New Local Sites, Names Publisher
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 »
Interview: MSNBC.com Likely Will Add EveryBlock Feeds To Its Local Section In 'Next Few Months'
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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.com Buys Hyperlocal Startup EveryBlock
MSNBC Interactive is making a hyperlocal push, with the purchase of EveryBlock, which offers updates culled from public records — like 911… Read more »
Local Online Marketer GreenLink Networks Raises $3.5 Million
GreenLink Networks, an interactive marketing firm that helps local TV stations create (and monetize) online communities, has raised over $3.… Read more »
Industry Moves: Former Betfair Exec Rorie Devine Appointed Yell CTO
Yell has appointed former Betfair chief technology officer Rorie Devine as its own CTO, responsible for the consumer- and client-facing tech… Read more »
Borrell: Some Newspapers Will See Modest Rebound In 2010
The imminent demise of newspapers has been greatly exaggerated, says Peter Conti, an SVP at local media analyst Borrell Associates. Despite… Read more »
Earnings: Investment Income Sends The Knot's Profits Down; Local Lifts Ad Revs
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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 »
Earnings Call: Comcast’s Roberts: Canoe Ventures Revenues Expected By 2010
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) executives continued to highlight the importance of their digital plans during the Q2 earnings call. Deals with Clearw… Read more »
YouTube Jumps Into The Local News Business–What It Means For Broadcasters
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 »
Earnings Call: Cablevision: ‘Spinning Off MSG Gives Us Both Flexibility’; Local Ads’ Green Shoots
Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) execs began the call by offering their rationale for spinning off the Madison Square Garden segment into an independ… Read more »
NYTimes.com Introduces Self-Serve Ads For Hyperlocal Sites
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 To Sell Yahoo Display Ads; More Competiton For Yahoo’s Newspaper Partners?
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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 »
Industry Moves: Yodle Bulks Up With Yahoo, Merrill Lynch Vets
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 »
Yell.com Adding How-To Clips From VideoJug
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 »
Interview: AOL’s Levick Looks To Tear Down Ad Unit Silos
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 »
Online Map Advertising Network Lat49 Raises $1.3 Million
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 »
Mobile Content Bits: Romplr iTunes App; Loc-Aid In Canada; Quattro Stats; Two BlackBerry Apps
photo: Moderati
– 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 »
Borrell: Social Nets Slowly Start To Capture Local Ad Spend
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 + Twitter = Another Jab At Craigslist
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 Relaunches Website As JV With Buzz Media
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OK! Magazine has brokered a strategic partnership with entertainment-centric online media company Buzz Media — and the first fruit of the d… Read more »
As Macy’s Stores Went Away, So Did Its Newspaper Ads
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Aside from classified advertising, retail advertising is one of the pillars of newspaper advertising. But as Alan Mutter points out, citing… Read more »
