A new look at the Classified Advertising Industry
June 29, 2010 | admin | Classifieds | No Comments
New York City is considering new legislation that would make it illegal to sublet a residence for less than 30 days. The new law seems to be in response to the popularity of sites like Craigslist, AirBnB, Homeaway and others that allow residences to arrange short terms sublets. The city is ci
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June 28, 2010 | admin | Directory, Search Advertising | No Comments
Dex One, one of the leading distributors of business directories in 28 US states has reached a distribution agreement with Jingle Networks. Jingle Networks provides a free 411 service in the US through 1-800-FREE411. When a user call's 1-800-FREE411 they listen to a 12 second ad that target tow
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June 27, 2010 | admin | Classifieds | No Comments
Daily American, out of Somerset Country, announced this week that they will be doing to a wider classified column display with a slightly larger font size. The move is intended to make the classified section more readable and easier to use. Demographics are showing an older demographic are t
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Ozfreeonline.com has recently announced that they are the largest free classified site in Australia. No source for this claim was referenced but interesting to see the free classified model moving down under. The site is well design and its very easy to navigate between the different classified
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Superpages.com announced its release of added user functionality to their site. Superpages users can now update business profiles, add photos and participate in business specific blogs. The added UGC elements will go far in differentiating Superpages against the many existing local online director
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Livedeal ( formerly Yellowpages ) has announced that Livedeal.com and Yellowpages.com have consolidated on to a single technology platform. While this probably means nothing to most consumers since the experience on both Livedeal.com and Yellowpages.com is essentially the same. The big impact w
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If you are in the classified business or even a constant mover, and you have not checked out Zillow yet, I suggest you do. Although the real estate site is almost two years old, Zillow noise really began to peak just this year and I suspect we will hear much more from them, given their recent RE/
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Jobrate is a new employment portal that while still in beta, totes its dynamic search as its competitive edge. Unlike traditional job portals that are driven heavily on static job seeker input to show results, Jobrate shows potential job matches with every key word typed. As the Jobrate site
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Verizon Corporation, provider of personal and business directories in Virginia has settled a long standing accuracy dispute with the State Corporation Commission. The case focused on over 3000 error claims and could result in Verizon paying $2M in penalties to those effected. Yellowpages and oth
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Skype is probably best known as the alternative communication platform that provides low-cost long distance from almost any computer on the planet. When Skype was bought by Ebay in 2005 the plan for Skype in the Ebay empire was anything but clear. In the last 2 years Skype has continued to impro
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Metro France is reporting a new partnership with AnnouncesJaunes.fr to provide housing listings into the Metro print publications. The housing listings will be featured in a new section with a combination of editorial and classified listings. The new section will feature 50 classified listings
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Media corp is reporting, through its ChannelNewsAsia, that Mocca.com is now the most popular classified site in Singapore. The site received 7 million page views and 13,000 listings last month. This is a growth of over 700% in the last 2 months and Hitwise is reporting that Mocca.com receives a th
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In the last year we've seen a steady increase of both Radio and TV companies developing classified business off of their websites. The cost of setting up a classified site are so low now that its very practical to setup the site directly, or create a partnership to provide content. Even if the
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While not your typically Classified site but MLS.ca or the Multiple Listing Service cannot be ignored. The MLS.ca site ...
FreeAdLists.com has launched a free classified service worldwide. All classified ads are free and can be placed by geog...
In addition to providing a classified republishing system, Edgeio, has announced that they will provide a paid content d...
