Solocal CEO Offers View on Transformation
I am personally looking forward to Solocal CEO Jean-Pierre Remy's presentation later this month at the Local Search Association's annual conference in Las Vegas. Solocal, which recently changed its name…
LIL 2013: Enhanced Campaigns: Google Speaks
Today at BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local Conference, Google Channel Sales Bus Dev lead Kesh Patel uncovered several aspects of Google's local efforts. Besides his former life as a 7-11 franchisee…
A New Yellow Pages for NY Local Service Pages
Ambassador Media Group LLC (Ambassador Publications) company produced yellow pages directories for the Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Nassau, Queens, Staten Island and southern Westchester County markets up until April. Picking up…
Deeper Mobile Calls to Action: A Conversation with YP
Today at IAB's Mobile Marketplace Conference in NYC, I had the chance to catch up with YP's David Kurtz about a new ad unit the company announced. Kurtz has been…
Yodle Introduces Integrated Mobile Marketing for SMBs
This week, Yodle announced the integration of mobile-optimized websites, mobile ad bidding and distribution to its product suite. The mobile solution has already rolled out to more than 30,000 existing…
Yellow Medya Turkey Partners With TomTom
Yellow Medya, Turkey's Yellow Pages publisher, announced a new partnership agreement today with TomTom Places. The Yellow Pages publisher will serve as the business listing and content provider to the…
ILM East: Jay Herratti Outlines Trends That Will Unlock Local
Today at BIA/Kelsey's ILM East conference, outgoing Citygrid Media CEO Jay Herratti gave a retrospective view of the past five years of local media -- what has worked and what…
U.K.’s Thomson Local Gets New CEO
Thomsonlocal.com, the U.K. local print and online directories company owned by Italy's Seat PG, has changed CEOs. Effective April 1, Elio Schiavo will move over to run Seat's Telegate (directory…
Yellowbook CEO Walsh to Step Down
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.…
New Google Mobile (Local) Ad Formats
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…