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Serbia, Qatar and Kazakhstan

Name the three countries that ZenithOptimedia predicts will be the fastest-growing ad markets by percentage growth from 2006 to 2009. Not even your ad agency friends are likely to get that question right. I have always taken umbrage with any company that…

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Another GOOG-411 Billboard

GOOG-411 billboard sightings are getting to be as common as iPhone sightings (see recent TKG Client Inquiry Brief, Google Starts Advertising 800-GOOG-411). The most recent was found by Danny Sullivan on Lombard Street in San Francisco. But beyond being just…

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Topix Refocuses on Place Bloggers and UGC

Under-served small communities are getting more attention. Companies like TownNews, Grayboxx and Topix have set out to focus on small town and exurban residents, and aggregating those local users for advertisers. As we wrote in April, Topix -- a 25-person company…

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Speaking of the Industry Standard …

To follow up on Peter Krasilovsky's post on former Industry Standard editor Jonathan Weber, The New York Times reports that the defunct bubble era mag will be resurrected. This comes weeks after fellow "new economy" magazine Business 2.0 announced that…

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New West: Tracking, Facilitating Rockies’ Growth

New West Publishing is a different kind of local company -- one that uses Web tools, journalism and themed conferences to track the development of an entire region: The Rockies. Launched by former Industry Standard editor Jonathan Weber -- a…

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Next Big Thing: City Guides in Print

Some things were meant to be in print, and some things were meant to be a Web site. But what does it mean when “Hometown Pasadena” sells 10,000 copies? The self-published book by local writer Colleen Dunn Bates and three…

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Finding the 'Ultimate' Local Ad Model

An interesting panel today at the SMX Local & Mobile conference attempted to find this elusive animal, although Ingenio CMO Marc Barach warned the audience at the onset not to expect the question to be answered because an answer doesn't…

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Belo Splits TV and Newspaper: End of Cross Media?

Belo’s decision to split up its TV and newspaper/Web properties makes sense -- if you are on Wall Street. TV stations and newspapers have different growth dynamics right now, and there are tax implications too. Is Belo writing off the…

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AT&T Uses White Pages to Appease Opt-Out Movement

AT&T has announced an initiative in North Carolina to stop publishing its White Pages directories in Charlotte and Raleigh in favor of Web-based or CD-ROM access to residential listing data. According to a recent article in the Canadian Press: “Clifton…

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AT&T Uses White Pages to Appease Opt-Out Movement

AT&T has announced an initiative in North Carolina to stop publishing its White Pages directories in Charlotte and Raleigh in favor of Web-based or CD-ROM access to residential listing data. According to a recent article in the Canadian Press: “Clifton…

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