Joe Walsh, the executive who arguably did more than anyone to make the Yellow Pages a competitive industry in the United States, has resigned as CEO of Yellowbook, the U.S. division of U.K.-based Yell Group. Walsh has been with Yellowbook…
Google Mobile Ads senior product manager Surojit Chatterjee just posted details on the Google Mobile Ads blog about a new set of ad formats. They're listed below, but it's worth pointing out that many of them are local in nature.…
I just got finished watching KPCB’s Mary Meeker give her semi-annual data dump at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. As always, it was quite comprehensive and quite good.
And as in the past, much of it focused on mobile connectivity, device sales and the overall marketplace disruption we’re seeing come out of the mobile sector.
“We’re in the middle of one of those once in every 10-20 year shifts,” she said. “Mobile connectivity is at the center of that, and mobile devices just nearly outshipped PCs.”
Being somewhere between a few of my own presentations, I’ll give a few highlights and save the rest for later. Indeed, these slides will be a key part of lots of presentations you’ll see in the coming months.
Below are a selection of the mobile slides (only about 10 of the 70 total slides she showed). Most of them are after the break, to save room. And the entire presentation is available on Scribd.
Yesterday, we alluded to some of the developer partnerships eBay announced for its new X.commerce platform. They were paraded out in greater detail following John Donahoe's keynote, representing the first big functionality injections to the platform. As background, X.commerce is…
I'm at eBay's X.commerce developer conference where CEO John Donahoe kicked things off by introducing what X.commerce is and what it hopes to become. Just like eBay opened up PayPal last year for third-party developers to integrate payments into their…
For the next few days I'll be at eBay's X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco, where we'll see lots of announcements that bring together its platform. X.commerce is meant to give retailers of all sizes better tools to conduct…
BIA/Kelsey will offer a view into two of our key forecasts at the upcoming ILM Asia conference, Oct. 25-26 at The Regent Singapore. The first will be the freshly updated global Yellow Pages forecast, which will be summarized in…
In an ongoing effort to provide more multimedia here, we're unearthing and packaging up lots of past conference video. This is also a good exercise as we gear up for our flagship ILM West conference coming up in December. Below…
I recently got a question from a colleague. The answer relates closely to the "Mobile Starting Line" panel we had at the recent DMS conference, and other market happenings. See the thread below. As blogs are increasingly becoming a place…
EMarketer is out with its latest mobile forecast revision, projecting U.S. mobile ad revenues to grow from $743 million last year to $4.4 billion in 2015. This is right in line with the forecast we released in February, especially in…
Following our earlier coverage of today's Apple announcements, you can watch Apple's promo video for the iPhone4S and iOS5 by clicking below.
ILM Asia has added two exciting speakers to its lineup. Adrian Tan, COO of Groupon Singapore, will join our special Deals Forum on day 2 of ILM Asia. Meanwhile, Michelle Sherwood, exec VP of strategic marketing at the Australian directory giant Sensis,…
Today Apple held its first major product unveiling of the post-Jobs era. As guessed by many, it introduced not an iPhone 5, but an iPhone 4.5 of sorts. It's the 4S, similar to Apple's jump from the iPhone 3G to…
Today we posted a detailed agenda for ILM Asia 2011, which takes place Oct. 25-26 at the Regent Singapore. The event will include a heavy focus on many of the key elements driving the transition from traditional to digital marketing for SMBs…
I'm on vacation but this is a quick and interesting enough tidbit: On shopkick's first birthday this week, it launched a video that highlights lots of milestones. It's mostly promotional but also informative about what the company has been up…
Jonathan Marchbank, the CEO of Dealised, an Australia-based leader in providing social commerce and deals software, will address a special forum on the deals space at ILM Asia, Oct. 25-26, in Singapore. Marchbank will speak on Oct. 26 during a…
Thanks to all who attended and participated in a successful DMS conference in sunny Denver. They keep getting better. All the coverage is below and grouped together here. Speakers: You can also view and pull down any pics from our…
Today as DMS ’11 wrapped up, Mike Centorani, VP of sales training at MatchCraft, and Paul Plant, founder and principal, Radicle Consulting, dissected the art of local advertiser acquisition. Riffing on the title of the session, Plant said he prefers…
Nir Lempert, CEO of Israel-based Golden Pages, discussed his company's transformation from print to a vertically focused media player. The key to transforming, Lempert said, has been about empowering consumers. And thus the advertisers and revenues have followed. In 2004…
During today's social media forum at DMS ’11 a session on "social CRM" highlighted the products and insights of VendAsta CEO Brendan King and JoinHere CEO Justin Sanger. The artist formerly known as reputation management is taking many forms as…