Openings & New Hires at Patch, Groupon, Flickr, Search Influence and More
Every two weeks, Search Influence’s Kelly Benish — who knows practically everyone in hyperlocal — covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. In this week’s edition, new hires at Square and Groupon, and job openings at Street Fight, AOL, Yahoo, BuzzTown, Yext, and the Weather Channel…
Street Fight Daily: Patch Layoffs Coming, ‘Pay-Per-Gaze’ Advertising
Patch Layoffs Coming Today (AllThingsD)… Journatic Made ‘Very Poor Decisions’ About Content, Say Aggrego Founders (Poynter)… Is Millennial Stuck in the ‘Middle Seat’ Even with JumpTap? (i2G)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Partners With Verifone, Smartphones Take Market Share
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Groupon Goes Beyond The Dongle, Links Up With Verifone, Ingenico Terminals For Breadcrumb Mobile Payments (TechCrunch)… Smartphones Outsell Feature Phones Globally for First Time (Mashable)… No, Craigslist Is Not Responsible For The Death Of Newspapers (GigaOm)…
Street Fight Daily: AOL’s Armstrong Fires Patch Director, Twitter Goes ‘Offline’
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… AOL’s Armstrong Fires Patch Creative Director During Conference Call (Screenwerk)… Mobile Ads Favor Coexistence, Not Disruption (Financial Times)…
Street Fight Daily: Patch To Close 400 Sites, eBay Launches Retail CRM
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… AOL Won’t Deny The Rumor That Patch’s CEO Is Out After Just Two Months On The Job (Business Insider)… eBay Launches Salesforce-like Platform For Merchants (TheNextWeb)… Google Directs ‘Relevant Ads’ to Maps (CNet)…
‘Understanding the Reader’ and the Bottom Line: Do They Connect?
Google’s beta testing of aggregated community news for its recently launched smartphone app Now (“the right information at just the right time”) got some big “hmmm” headlines last week. But is this Google experiment bringing any fear and trembling to community news and information sites?
Street Fight Daily: Amazon May Expand Deliveries, In-Store Tech Heats Up
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Amazon Is Going To Start Delivering Groceries To New York City In 2014, Says Analyst (Business Insider)… In-Store Tech Is So Hot Right Now: Sephora Acquires Fragrance Software Startup Scentsa (AllThingsD)… Smartphone Owners Turn to Local TV News Apps (eMarketer)…
AOL’s Armstrong: 1/3 of Patch Sites Currently Have ‘Viable Business Model’
On an earnings call Wednesday, AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong said that the remaining 600 or so sites are split between properties that are on their way to viability, and sites that will likely not reach profitability by the end of the year. The news comes as AOL works to bring the closely-watched hyperlocal media network to run-rate profitability by the end of 2013, a commitment that Armstrong says the company still plans to meet…
Street Fight Daily: Top Patch Exec Resigns, Mobile Payments At Starbucks Increase
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Top Executive At AOL’s Local News Business, Patch, Resigns (BuzzFeed)… Mobile Payment At U.S. Starbucks Locations Crosses 10% (TechCrunch)… I’m Still Waiting for My Phone to Become My Wallet (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: Patch Editors Concerned, Apple Patents Waze Alternative
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Patch Editor:’From What I See On The Ground, We Are On Our Last Legs’ (Romenesko)… Apple Details Waze-like Crowd-sourced Route Ratings For Real-Time Traffic Alerts in Maps (9to5 Mac)… Location Tracking App Glympse Links With Evernote To Let Users Archive Their Trails (TechCrunch)… Location Tracking App Glympse Links With Evernote To Let Users Archive Their Trails (TechCrunch)…
There’s a ‘Metropolitan Revolution,’ but Where’s Hyperlocal?
Community news sites don’t always have to invest in major staffing and other resources to enhance their editorial. In three recent cases, public and nonprofit agencies and other bodies supplied virtually all the information that would generate engagement-producing stories – the kind advertisers are supposed to like. All it would take is labor-efficient curating and copying and pasting…
Street Fight Daily: Patch Launches Native Ads, Foursquare Looks to International Growth
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Leela de Kretser Is Leaving DNAinfo (Observer)… AOL’s Patch Creates Fictional Publication for Disney Movie Planes (AdWeek)… Foursquare Tunes Into International Growth, Inks Live Music Check-In Deal With Deezer To Promote Paid Subs (TechCrunch)…
VIDEO: Making the Economics of Hyperlocal Publishing Work
The once-bright prospects for hyperlocal publishing have dimmed somewhat in recent months, leaving some of the most promising ventures shuttered, bankrupt, or scrambling to save face. During a conversation on stage at Street Fight Summit West in San Francisco earlier this month, Chris Tolles, chief executive of hyperlocal news aggregator Topix, and Sacramento Press co-founder and AdGlue CEO Ben Ilfeld discussed the future of Patch and the long-term sustainability of hyperlocal media at scale…
Openings & New Hires at Square, Patch, LocalVox, Facebook and More
Every two weeks, Search Influence’s Kelly Benish — who knows practically everyone in hyperlocal — covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. Moves this edition include the closing of LivingSocial’s office in Seattle, a and exiting CTO at AOL’s Patch, and job openings at Yelp, Appstack, Google, and more.
Street Fight Daily: Gannett Buys Belo, Patch Traffic Flat
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Patch has Proved To Be a $200 Million Money-Suck for AOL and Its Traffic Hasn’t Grown In a Year.(Business Insider)… Why Google Bought Waze (Prioleau Advisor)… ComScore: 4 Billion Local Searches in May (Screenwerk)…
Street Fight Daily: Patch Sees Social Growth, Consumers Warm to Mobile Wallets
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… 29% of Consumers Would Choose a Smartphone Over a Wallet When Going Out (MobileCommerceDaily)… Growing Consumer Interest for In-Store Delivery of Mobile Coupons, Says Study (i2G)…
Street Fight Daily: Seamless GrubHub Merge, Wanderful Media Raises $9M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… GrubHub, Seamless, and the Importance of the Purchase (Bloomberg Businessweek)… Newspaper Companies Invest Another $9M In Local Deal Startup Wanderful Media (TechCrunch)… What Patch Employees Were Told During the Friday Evening Conference Call (Romenesko)…
7 Key Lessons From AOL’s Struggles With Patch
Why did a well-heeled usurper to newspapers find itself imploding last week? Ultimately, Patch could still reinvent itself — but if it does not there are plenty of lessons to be learned and applied to all of us working to produce the next model of local journalism. Here are seven…