Postmortem on PMA 08: Photography as a Search Vertical
I recently attended the Photo Marketers Association annual convention in Las Vegas. The PMA has been around since 1924 and has extended its reach to address an international mix of…
TurnHere Gets Funding
In what amounts to yet another vote of confidence for local merchant video producer TurnHere, the company has announced a $7.5 million cash infusion from Venrock and Hearst Interactive Media.…
ELocal Listing Launches Video Ads
Local search based marketing specialist eLocal Listing today became the latest in a growing wave of companies to offer video advertising to SMBs. As pointed out in last week's post…
Spot Runner Gets Up Close and Personal
Local and national video ad producer Spot Runner announced today that it will acquire video production network GlobeShooter. This will bring the company better scalability and capability to deploy up…
What the Heck Is Web 2.0?; Tech Heavyweights Debate
A few weeks ago, my colleague Michael Taylor sent me a link to a webcast of a panel discussion from last year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. I finally…
TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
In case you missed any posts over the past week, here is a recap. Click below to read each post in full. BT to Pursue Ad-Supported DA Model According to…
Poking Fun at Local Video
There has been lots of talk about local merchant video ads this year, a trend pushed forward in the most meaningful way by Citysearch's May integration of video ads. We've…
TKG Data and Analysis: A Holiday Week Recap
Posting (along with the activity level in the local search world) has been understandably light over the past few days. But a lot happened before that; here is a recap…
Citysearch and Local.com Partner Up
Local.com announced today that it will pull in and display content from Citysearch in its local listings. This will enhance Local.com's own content and bring in more ad revenues from…
Putting Some Numbers on Online Video
WebVideoReport has started to put some numbers on the growing online video space. It joins GigaOm's NewTeeVee in exclusively covering this space, and has put out some interesting articles in…