In Classified Intelligence Report

• Compete.com: top-trafficked auction sites
  Daype Classifieds looked at marketplace listing websites offering an auction option and ranked them according to June 2010 unique visitors, change from the prior month, and change from the prior year. Statistics are from Compete.com.  Here are the top 15:
• Tribune promotes digital exec
  CHICAGO — Tribune Interactive has promoted Julie Anderson to senior vice president/content and integration. In her new role, Anderson will oversee two groups: – The representation team, which provides strategic assistance to the company’s business units as they formulate their digital growth plans and implement [...]
• Android app for daily deals via Groupon
  Social online coupon site Groupon has just announced that its IPhone app will now be joined by an app for Android mobile phones. If your Android phone is version 1.6 or later you can buy deals, access and redeem deals you’ve already purchased, view side deals and search for nearby coupons.  Discussion forums and a [...]
• Monster’s Q2: Flat but looking up
  Monster Worldwide appears to be emerging from the recession with increased bookings across Western Europe and China, although North America appears to be a bit more skittish and the U.K. and India can be best described as sluggish. Overall, bookings were up about 19 percent for Q2, compared with the same quarter of 2009. And while [...]
• McClatchy: Reversal of fortune for online recruitment
  The McClatchy Company reported that online recruitment revenue was up 5.2 percent for Q2 — compared with the same quarter of 2009 — the first time that arrow has pointed upward since before the recession began. That equated to about $8 million in online recruitment revenue of almost $15 million total recruitment revenue. Print recruitment was [...]
• Dice Q2 earnings up 33 percent
  Increased recruitment activity at Dice.com and eFinancialCareers.com led to a 33 percent increase in net income during the second quarter for Dice Holdings Inc., the company reported. Along with its earnings, the company also announced the launch of a new product, the Dice Talent Network. Dice Holdings said it earned $3.7 million on revenue of $29.9 million [...]
• MD leaves News International’s Milkround
  Zach Leonard, the managing director of News International’s digital recruitment business Milkround, is leaving the business after four years at the company. He is replaced by Jenni Wollerton who was previously Milkround’s sales director. Wollerton comments that, “We have a number of exciting developments coming up over the next six months, including the redevelopment of our [...]
• SeLoger on a roll with Q2 figures up 12.3 percent
  Leading French property classifieds site SeLoger.com has followed a glowing first quarter with a Q2 turnover figure up 12.3 percent (to €20.2 million) adding up to total growth of 11 percent since the start of the year. The major growth area for the company seems to be provincial agencies, in part because with a some 80 [...]
• Irish online ad market close to €100m
  The latest PriceWaterhouseCoopers/IAB Ireland report into the state of the online advertising market shows that with a total spend of €97.2 million last year online now amounts to over ten percent of the country’s total advertising spend. While the first half of 2009 was proved a tough time, the industry saw a rise in spending of [...]
• A & N Media trades death announcements business for share in iAnnounce
  DMGT’s A & N Media has announced that it is ceding LastingTribute.co.uk deaths notice s site to iAnnounce in return for a minority stake in the company. iAnnounce acquires the Lasting Tribute site and with it access to DMGT’s ThisIs regional network of sites which creates a single market of 3 million local occasions notices to [...]
• PagesJaunes’ shares fall 7.7% on revenue predictions
  Citing an “unfavorable economic climate,” Pages Jaunes’ Director General Jean-Pierre Remy announced that the annual revenues would be “more towards -2 or -3 percent than the -1 or -2 percent” than originally predicted. This prompted a drop in the price of its shares on the Paris Bourse to €8.52  – a fall of 7.7 percent. The group [...]
• Zoopla.co.uk appoints head of new homes
  Chris Browne, previously sales director for SmartNewHomes.com is now head of new homes at U.K. property portal Zoopla.co.uk. “We have one of the largest and fastest growing audiences in the U.K.,” Browne noted. “Online marketing is not only an essential tool for developers but is by far the most efficient source of leads and enquiries and [...]
• EBay shutting down Kijiji in France
  EBay has announced that from Aug. 16 Kijiji.fr will be shut down and its classifieds hosted on the parent site instead. “This is a step in the rationalisation of the brand” explains Nathalie Touzain, Director of Communications for EBay France. “It’s a local strategic decision that only concerns France. In Canada, for example, Kijiji will [...]
• Rightmove’s latest draw is Draw-a-Search
  Where previously users could narrow house hunts by post codes and subscribe to alerts, Rightmove is now allowing users to select their own custom areas of interest just as you would select a section of an image for cropping. According to the company,  more  10,000 search “shapes ” were saved by users for alerts in the [...]
• Fairfax strikes ad deal with APN
  Fairfax Media has struck a deal with rival Australian media house APN that will see the two publishers share advertising revenue. Under the agreement advertisers will be able to bundle their ads in APN’s regional print products and Fairfax’s online brands including Domain, MyCareer and Drive. The deal has particular significance in Australia’s real estate classifieds market [...]