Brian Blum | January 30, 2020 | Marketplaces, Intel
I have been following and writing about scams on Craigslist and social media for many years, but I’ve never been at the center of one ... until now. It started...
AIM Group | June 01, 2018 | Intel
• Classified apps are capital-intensive, requiring hundreds of millions in investment to succeed • Most major marketplace apps view verticalization as the primary...
Peter M. Zollman | August 27, 2017 | Automotive, People on the Move
In his spare time, when he wasn’t writing for us or one of his other clients, Brian Blum, our Jerusalem-based analyst for all things classifieds in the U.S.,...
Brian Blum | May 18, 2017 | Recruitment
We’ve heard reports since March of 2016 that Google was working on its own job board, but it’s been unclear exactly what that meant. When Google Hire came...
Brian Blum | May 15, 2017 | Recruitment
The following appeared in Classified Intelligence Report 18.08, distributed to AIM Group clients on April 27. For information on becoming an AIM Group / CIR...
Peter M. Zollman | March 29, 2017 | Automotive
No surprise here: CarGurus, the surprising Boston-based site that’s taken the traffic lead among U.S. auto advertising companies, is apparently planning an initial...
Brian Blum | July 08, 2016 | Recruitment
The following report was distributed recently in Classified Intelligence Report to AIM Group clients. It is presented here on an “open to all” basis....
Brian Blum | June 15, 2012 | Real Estate
By Brian Blum Following up on this week’s announcement that the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) and the MLS Domains Association (MDA) in the U.S. were...
Brian Blum | March 28, 2012 | Recruitment
By Brian Blum Here’s a trend that seems outright outrageous to us: asking for a job applicant’s social-media passwords. It’s been in the news for the...
Brian Blum | January 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation confirms what most parents already know: that our kids are literally tethered to the Internet or other means of...
Brian Blum | January 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
With the much rumored and insanely anticipated Apple iSlate, due to be announced later this month, being referred to as a potential “game changer,” as...
Brian Blum | December 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
Publishers often need to add images to articles that appear on their Web sites. Unless the publisher has a specific photo taken from the location of the story,...
Brian Blum | December 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Interactive video has been one of my passions since I worked as a “multimedia producer” in the early 1990s creating CD-ROM titles in edutainment and...
Brian Blum | December 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ve written before about how I believe the physical nature of books will change…much sooner than most of us can imagine. Within 10 years, 20 years...
Brian Blum | November 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Outbrain is a company I like a lot. It has a seemingly simple product that provides some very useful functionality: content rating and recommendations for blogs....
Brian Blum | November 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
When the web first started becoming paramount in how people consumed news, there was a lot written about the dangers of information “narrowcasting” and...
Brian Blum | October 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ve always felt that I’ve been an under-performer when it comes to updating my blog. Unlike some of my more prolific colleagues, I’m in...
Brian Blum | October 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
We all feel like we’re addicted to e-mail sometimes. Now along comes someone to tell us why. New York Times reporter Matt Richtel, interviewed on the NPR...
Brian Blum | October 01, 2009 | Uncategorized
I was listening to an old episode of one of my favorite NPR shows and podcasts, Radio Lab. The topic was how we choose and it featured a fascinating and highly...
Brian Blum | August 06, 2009 | Real Estate
By Brian Blum You'll either love it or hate it. But once you're there, it's undeniably difficult to stop. Such is the addictive draw of BlockShopper, a new real...
AIM Group | June 11, 2009 | Real Estate
By Brian Blum The company is still not profitable, but traffic is up, there’s loads of money in the bank, and Spencer Rascoff of Zillow is feeling fine. That’s the...
AIM Group | June 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
First it was Craigslist introducing a real life monitoring on posted messages to its new Adult category. Now it’s Twitter’s turn. The micro-blogging...
AIM Group | February 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Brian Blum Backed by an $837,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, two execs from The Bakersfield Californian are baking up a new software...
Brian Blum | August 01, 2008 | Automotive
by Brian Blum Franchised American automotive dealers spent more than $7.86 billion on advertising in 2007 according to the latest report from the National...
