In the run up to WWDC, we're hearing the standard chorus of rumors about what Apple will unveil. These include iOS7, new OSX, and iRadio. For the latter, Apple just signed Sony Music to round out its licensing deals with…
Yesterday, I had the chance to talk to Zubair Talib, CEO and CoFounder of YaSabe, about the company's efforts to reach the opportune U.S. Hispanic marketplace. The opportunity comes to the tune of 52 million people and $1.2 trillion in…
Wanderful Media will use Goodzer's local retail inventory data to support its recently relaunched Find&Save localized shopping platform. Goodzer's data includes more than 2.5 billion inventory items from more than 500,000 U.S. retail stores. The newspaper consortium-owned Wanderful Media recently…
Verve Mobile this week released its second "State of the Market" report containing the activity seen on its ad network. In this case it focused on the Quick Serve Restaurant (QSR) category -- a leading area of search and user activity…
Making the rounds last week in London's burgeoning digital media community, we met Footfall123, a London-based company offering a loyalty marketing solution with a strong social marketing component. Footfall123 white labels its solution through partners and also works directly with merchants.…
I recently had the chance to sit down with Kendall Fargo, CEO and founder of Rewarder. Some of you may remember Fargo from his days leading StepUp Commerce, and early leader in what is now the growing area of real…
There are rumors swirling this morning that Facebook will acquire Waze. For those unfamiliar, Israeli based Waze is a red hot social navigation app that focuses on traffic conditions among a growing set of features. If the rumor is true, it makes…
Though it's been covered since its release yesterday, we wanted to give a nod to xAd's latest Mobile-Location Insights Report for Q1, and dive into some of it's top findings. The report follows closely behind the Nielsen administered Path to Purchase report…
Dex Media, the newly minted company that was once SuperMedia and Dex One, is counting on a strategy of serving as the "outsourced marketing partner for small-businesses" as they wade into the complex and confusing world of digital media. That…
Last week, we made the prediction that Yelp will buy build or partner to bring Vine-like functionality to its mobile products. This comes in the wake of Yelp's positive Q1 earnings, and moves by Facebook and Foursquare to compete more…
Twitter's Vine is blowing up for its ability to shoot quick and easy videos. Smartphone saturation and wireless broadband also make it an opportune time. And people are getting creative with the 6 second format. The ease of use makes…
Earlier this week, Placed CEO David Shim notified me that the company's "Insights" product would be launching today. As we wrote back in October, this is a key piece of the "big data meets local" trend to provide analytics around…
Companies that are successfully transforming their sales teams to serve a fast changing local and SMB marketplace tend to follow a common set of best practices. These include a focus on customer-driven key performance indicators, a heavy reliance on data…
xAd and Telmetrics today continue their rapid fire series of Path-to-Purchase studies by kicking off the research's second year. After doing a study last year and following up with subsequent category drill downs, they launched a UK version. Those past…
SuperMedia and Dex One completed their merger today, creating Dex Media, a company with annual revenues of approximately $2.6 billion (based on combined 2012 revenues), with about $500 million in digital revenue. The combined company also has 2,700 sales reps…
BIA/Kelsey recently rolled out the first in a series of reports offering very specific cuts of data from our Local Commerce Monitor research. LCM is BIA/Kelsey's long-running study of how U.S. small business advertisers are evolving their use of media…
As promised in our LSA conference coverage last week, here is a deeper dive on Facebook's positioning and possible directions in local. I covered the topic in a bit more depth in my monthly Search Engine Watch column, including more…
After writing about Facebook Director of Small Business Dan Levy's Interview at the Local Search Association Conference yesterday, I've been thinking a lot more about FB's possible directions in mobile and local (more to come on that). For now, one thing…
To cap off the Local Search Association Conference, Facebook Director of Small Business Dan Levy fielded questions from Greg Sterling on the past, present and future of Facebook's SMB marketing activity. In short, FB hasn't actively done much, but lots can…
Solocal Group CEO Jean-Pierre Remy offered directory publishers a vision for print to digital transformation built on a strong focus on building content, vertical segmentation and a relentless focus on execution. Remy was the keynote speaker at the Local Search…