Sharon Hill | November 01, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Sharon Hill What’s the state of The Newspaper Consortium now that Monster bought HotJobs from Yahoo? And what impact will Yahoo EVP Hilary Schneider’s pending...
Steve Shipside | November 01, 2010 | Real Estate
U.K. property portal Zoopla.co.uk has joined forces with the HomeAway network to beef up its offering with a new holiday rentals section featuring over 200,000...
Sharon Hill | November 01, 2010 | Automotive
Talk about making lemonade from lemons! TrueCar.com, after losing out to AutoTrader.com in its bid to purchase Kelley Blue Book, has just put itself front and...
Sharon Hill | November 01, 2010 | Real Estate
Former CEO of Realtor.com and Prudential Real Estate Steve Ozonian has taken on the role of RealEstate.com CEO, after two years on the company's board of...
Sharon Hill | October 28, 2010 | Automotive
Cars.com, in contrast to competitor AutoTrader.com, is focused not on acquisitions but on creating its own new products and features, according to Cars.com...
Sharon Hill | October 27, 2010 | Real Estate
Apartments.com just launched live chat services powered by ContactAtOnce, citing Forrester Research's findings that 45 percent of consumers want to talk to a live...
Sharon Hill | October 26, 2010 | Automotive
Online incentive and e-commerce listing tool vendor HookLogic has just announced the results of a collaboration with marketing and lead generation vendor Polk, to...
Sharon Hill | October 26, 2010 | Automotive
Cox Enterprises, through its subsidiary AutoTrader.com is about to become an even-greater online automotive force to be reckoned with, with AutoTrader.com's...
Sharon Hill | October 25, 2010 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Social media + mobile = home sales and powerful marketing. That's the conclusion of Tony Floyd, SVP marketing for Prudential Georgia Realty of Atlanta, after his...
Sharon Hill | October 25, 2010 | Real Estate
It's the second month in a row that Yahoo Real Estate beat out Realtor.com for number one traffic spot on the Hitwise monthly category traffic list, though not by...
Sharon Hill | October 23, 2010 | Real Estate
If you're a classified publisher willing to share your property listings with a real estate pure play site in return for some revenue share and MLS access, you...
Sharon Hill | October 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
2010 would seem to be the year for mobile advertising, with EMarketer projecting a 79 percent year over year increase in mobile ad spend by year end. After that...
Sharon Hill | October 22, 2010 | Automotive
According to the latest J.D. Power and Associates report on U.S. vehicle sales, October is turning out to be a strong month. While the industry isn't out of the...
Steve Shipside | October 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
French directories portal PagesJaunes has bought 100 percent of job site Embauche.com for the modest sum of €410,000. The move is not seen as a strategic departure...
Sharon Hill | October 21, 2010 | Real Estate
Online and mobile-enabled brokerage Sawbuck Realty recently launched its Houston, Texas real estate search and services, bringing the Sawbuck database to well over...
Sharon Hill | October 20, 2010 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
While award-winning Houston Association of Realtors' RealtorMatch languishes in offline limbo, privately-owned competitor NeighborCity might well decide to offer...
Sharon Hill | October 20, 2010 | Marketplaces
Yahoo's Q310 earnings call was full of discussion on advancements with the Microsoft search alliance, Twitter social integration, acquisition of Dapper's display...
Sharon Hill | October 20, 2010 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
The McClatchy Company, in its Q310 earnings release, reported the most classified revenue progress in employment advertising - the only vertical that saw a...
Sharon Hill | October 19, 2010 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
I didn't think I'd ever find a more entertaining real estate blog than Zillow, until I discovered Curbed.com. The content is so fascinating that I read both New...
aimgroup | October 19, 2010 | Marketplaces
Village Voice Media, with its Backpage.com classifieds site, is the new leader in prostitution advertising now that Craigslist has eliminated its erotic services...
Sharon Hill | October 19, 2010 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
During the third quarter of 2010 print advertising revenue at The New York Times Company decreased 5.8 percent from the prior year, while digital ad dollars went...
Cristina Costa | October 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
The German media company Axel Springer AG has created a new management post for the company´s strategic digital business. Robert Bosch will be the new managing...
Cristina Costa | October 19, 2010 | Real Estate
One CEO is not enough: The leading German online property portal Immonet.de has announced the appointment of a new second CEO... Christian Maar is the new chief...
Sharon Hill | October 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today's rather mealymouthed announcement by Village Voice Media's Backpage.com that it's "being proactive in protecting advertisers, users and minors" from...
Mark Whittaker | October 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
DoApp, which develops news applications for mobile and tablet devices, has added The St. Paul Pioneer Press and Vikings Now as clients. DoApp's Mobile Local News...
Sharon Hill | October 18, 2010 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Penske Automotive Group just launched PenskeCars.com, the online vehicle marketplace of 173 Penske dealers and auto service providers in the U.S... Because all...
Sharon Hill | October 15, 2010 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
Digital revenue at Gannett Co, Inc. climbed 10 percent YOY as of this past quarter, while TV ad revenues jumped 26 percent. Even classifieds improved, with...
Sharon Hill | October 15, 2010 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Cox Media Group, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises (which also owns AutoTrader.com,) just launched a new homegrown daily deals / online coupons portal called...
Sharon Hill | October 15, 2010 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
At last, there's some well-studied proof that all that work you've been putting into social media just might pay off with increased ad dollars, driven by increased...
Steve Shipside | October 15, 2010 | Recruitment, Marketplaces
Trinity Mirror has bought out partner Newsquest to establish total control of the Fish4 network of car, job, careers and property portals. Fish4 started life as a...
