Reports

Industry News - Wednesday, June 18

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Flickr Founders Leave Yahoo!
Mark Cuban: Hulu revenues will surpass YouTube’s in 2009
Don’t Automatically Dismiss The Content Network!
Yahoo says mobile search service reaches 600 million  
Gunning for Google in Search 
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Flickr Founders Leave Yahoo!
by Brian Caulfield
Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are the latest high-profile employees to leave Yahoo!. The husband-and-wife team is heading for the […]

Weekly Wrap Up - Industry News, 30 May 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

 Winning the Local Search Battle
Yahoo!’s Frazier Miller to Keynote SMX Local & Mobile
Buses To Use Mobile Technology To Become Road Sensors
Vertical Networks: So Close But Yet So Far
Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google

Google Opens Google App Engine
Razor Selects Where 2 Get It’s Buy Online/Buy Offline Product Locator
Impact of Local […]

Weekly Wrap Up - 9 May 2008

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Industry News:
WebVisible Software Platform Named 2008 Internet Product of the Year  by AeA
Targeted Advertising For Web Printouts: The ‘PrinterStitial’
Marchex Rises After Co. Beats Analysts’ 1Q Expectations
Google Gets Closer to a Mobile Future
Microsoft to Show New Search Tech This Month
Facebook Nabs Another Google Exec
Idearc Announces First Quarter 2008 Results
Microsoft Should Sideline Search, Focus on Strengths
Yellowbook Launches […]

Weekly Wrap Up - 25 April 2008

Friday, April 25th, 2008

LocalPoint News:
Is Video Going to Break the Internet? by Teri Foley
Marchex Local Content Partnerships by Ryan Fritzky
Industry News:
Top Four Portals’ Ad Revenues to Weather Rough Economy in ‘08
3 Factors that Limit Ad Networks
Improve your brand’s reputation with search
U.S. Interactive Classified and Vertical Advertising Revenues to Reach US$14.7 Billion by 2012, According to The Kelsey […]

Weekly Wrap Up - 11 April 2008

Friday, April 11th, 2008

LocalPoint News:
Geo-Targeting Primer - Part 3 - Systems by Cameron Ferroni
Locally Focused Web Site Tips for Connecting With Your Customers: Part One by Nick Berliner
Industry News:
All hell breaks loose at Microhoo
Conversation with the YPA’s Neg Norton
SubmitNet, Inc. Announced Geo Targeting as an Additional Service to Their Search Engine Marketing Platform
Study: 80-Percent Of Searches Are Informational, […]

Weekly Wrap Up - 21 March 2008

Friday, March 21st, 2008

LocalPoint News:
SES - 2008 Retrospect by Jen Longtin
Session Review: Local Search: Are Partnerships the Key to Success? - by Libby Waldo
See What People Are Saying About Marchex’s Local Report -
by Ryan Fritzky
SES NYC 2008 - by Libby Waldo
Geo-Targeting Primer - Part I - Users - by Cameron Ferroni
Hot Off The Press: 2008 Perspectives on Local Online Advertising and Content […]

See What People Are Saying About Marchex’s Local Report

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Instead of me telling you how informative and action packed this report is (disclaimer: i’m kinda biased), check out what other people are saying around the Web:
Mike Boland/The Kelsey Group-  Local on Local: A New Report from Marchex
Greg Sterling - Marchex Offers a New White Paper on Local
Search Engine Watch - Marchex Shows How to Cash in on Local […]

Hot Off The Press: 2008 Perspectives on Local Online Advertising and Content

Monday, March 17th, 2008

 
Grab your reading glasses, kick your feet up on the desk, and enjoy another dose of local search industry facts, trends, and marketing tactics.
Through our discussions with customers and partners, we have discovered that Local has many different meanings. To that end, we attempt to transcend the semantic barrier and provide insight into key trends […]

Reading too much into it?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

While speaking last week with a group of sales representatives who call on local advertisers, I was asked about the recent news that fewer people are clicking on paid search engine ads. The February 25th report in question was from ComScore and it was picked up by various news sources. The report related specifically to […]

Hot off the Press - Our Inside Take on Local

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

To help kick off the dialogue with a bang, today we released an industry report we call “Unlocking the Potential of the Local Internet”. In it we wanted to shelve the rhetoric and hyperbole and be thoughtful about both the real opportunities and the tough challenges of tapping the local market, from both sides of […]