Linda Karlsson | October 06, 2010 | Uncategorized
Lars Vangen Jordet has been appointed managing director for the new company Schibsted Vekst (Vekst: Norwegian for “growth”). The company’s focus is to find...
Sharon Hill | October 05, 2010 | Automotive
if you’ve ever wanted to meet one on one with your choice of 600 auto dealer decision makers, consider attending the 9th Annual Digital Dealers Conference,...
Sharon Hill | October 05, 2010 | Automotive
Although traditional media struggles to convert to multimedia and lure a younger geographic, there just might be gold in them thar boomer visitors. For, AARP Media...
Steve Shipside | October 05, 2010 | Marketplaces
U.K. online advertising spend rose by 10 per cent in the first half of 2010 reaching nearly £2 billion and seeing online advertising take a record share of 24.3...
Steve Shipside | October 05, 2010 | Marketplaces
An IREP/France advertising survey just released shows that French advertisers spent €4.6 billion between January and June 2010 – a figure up 4.6 percent on...
Sharon Hill | October 04, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Boston Globe has lost its VP of display advertising to digital marketing firm E-Dialog, it was just announced. Peter Ockerbloom is the new EVP sales for...
Sharon Hill | October 04, 2010 | Real Estate
Real estate and rental listing service Zillow, whose recent team up with Yahoo Real Estate unseated Realtor.com’s long-standing online traffic status, is...
Peter M. Zollman | October 01, 2010 | Uncategorized
Hilary Schneider, a long-time friend and colleague dating back to her days at The (Baltimore) Sun — yes, Baltimore wasn’t even in the name of the newspaper...
Steve Shipside | October 01, 2010 | Real Estate
The Digital Property Group has released results showing the effectiveness of its recent advertising campaign on prime-time TV. According to the property group, the...
AIM Group | September 30, 2010 | Real Estate
Global property portal Globrix, has just debuted Google Street View and house-price data for its Irish site, launched there in 2009 by Independent Newspapers...
Sharon Hill | September 30, 2010 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Morris Communication’s Florida Times-Union just announced a team-up with mobile application provider Handmark that marries Jacksonville.com mobile news...
Sharon Hill | September 30, 2010 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
If anyone else says “safe classifieds” I might scream. I just might. It’s a totally ridiculous notion that the owners of the new Safelist.com are...
Peter M. Zollman | September 30, 2010 | Automotive
Just as AutoTrader.com has AutoTraderClassics.com, Cars.com now has a tie-in with a site focusing on classic cars — although AutoTrader owns its own, while...
Steve Shipside | September 30, 2010 | Marketplaces
Yesterday (Sept 29th) Axel Springer made its formal offer for the 87.6 percent of SeLoger that it doesn’t own, pricing the shares at €34 – a price...
Steve Shipside | September 30, 2010 | Marketplaces
As the temperature rises in the French online classifieds market the Figaro media group has just announced a €20 million bid for sole mastery of its classified...
Steve Shipside | September 30, 2010 | Marketplaces
Research company Enders Analysis calculates that the U.K. ad spend on classifieds will reach £850 million by 2014 as part of a growing online advertising market....
Mark Whittaker | September 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
A few mobile notes … EBay set records during the 2009 Christmas shopping season with sales via mobile applications. It seems the iPad application is likely to do...
Sharon Hill | September 29, 2010 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Reynolds and Reynolds Company’s CarLocate.com has added some smart new buyer search features, though we’re not seeing them all as yet. Now consumers...
Sharon Hill | September 29, 2010 | Automotive
With the signing of the Small Business Jobs Act, U.S. President Barack Obama has more than doubled the ceiling on what auto dealers can borrow from the Small...
Steve Shipside | September 29, 2010 | Real Estate
For all the furore over the proposed takeover, SeLoger.com continues to get on with business as usual and has announced the launch of Home-Bubble – a new...
Sharon Hill | September 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
As almost an afterthought, News & Technology Magazine reported the sale of top-of-the-line techno-information provider TechCrunch and its affiliated sites to...
Talal Abu Issa | September 28, 2010 | Automotive
The Middle East markets are fast growing markets with a population of 202,687,005 and with Internet Users of 57,425,046. The Internet advertising business in the...
AIM Group | September 28, 2010 | Recruitment
Management recruiting in the U.S. showed a slight drop in September, falling for the second consecutive month, according to the latest CareerCast.com/JobSerf...
Sharon Hill | September 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you’re a traditional publisher or broadcaster – one of the far too many that are trying to evolve into multimedia but declining to spread that word...
Steve Shipside | September 28, 2010 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Trading in SeLoger’s shares has been suspended on the Paris Bourse as Axel Springer submits its formal offer for the portal. Last week news emerged that...
Sharon Hill | September 27, 2010 | Real Estate
The California Association of Realtors, one of the most active group of agents and brokers in the U.S., is having a Realtor Expo in Anaheim Oct. 5-7. The topics...
Sharon Hill | September 27, 2010 | Automotive
I just finished reading Velocity 2.0, Paint, Pixels & Profitability – the second book by Dale Pollak, founder of VAuto. I heard Pollak speak at the...
Sharon Hill | September 24, 2010 | Real Estate
From the real estate landing page of the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com a home buyer can search more than 5 million listings throughout the country....
Sharon Hill | September 24, 2010 | Automotive
Classified publishers need to know what auto dealers want, what they need, and what they’re talking about. There are several places they can go to do that,...
Mark Whittaker | September 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press have new mobile applications for iPhone, Android and Blackberry, and all three are sponsored by the Southeast Michigan...
