Earnings Archives


Local.com Earnings: Q4 Up, 2011 Down

Local.com announced earnings today for Q4 and 2011. The company said that Q4 exceeded prior guidance. I don’t know what the financial analyst estimates were so I can’t say if it was a “beat.” The fourth quarter was profitable (up 22% from Q3 and 64% YoY) but 2011 as a whole ended slightly down from [...]

YPG: Online Now 29% of Total Revenues

Canada’s Yellow Media’s shares have been pounded by investors over the course of the past year. Part of the reason for that is the continued, significant role that print directory revenues play in the company’s earnings. There’s considerable doubt among fund managers about the outlook for print. That often extends to usage research. When data [...]

Groupon’s Earnings: $506M (Q4), $1.6B (2011)

A few minutes ago Groupon put out its first earnings release (Q4 and FY 2011) as a public company. Here are the distilled highlights: In Q4 2011:  Revenue was $506.5 million vs. $172.2 million in Q4 2010 Gross billings (total amount of deals sold) was $1.25 billion in Q4 vs. $415.3 million a year earlier Income was $15.0 million [...]

AT&T 2011 Directory Revenues: $3.3 Billion

Earlier this morning AT&T reported Q4 2011 results. I’ve written about the wireless results a bit on Internet2Go. However I always look at the spreadsheet to see how the company’s local advertising solutions are doing. The company’s directory revenues for Q4 appear to be $781 million, down from $926 million a year ago. Total revenue [...]

A Quick Look at the Reach Local Numbers

ReachLocal posted Q3 earnings earlier this afternoon. The company reported $98.6 million in revenue vs. $77.1 million a year ago and $92.7 million in Q2 2011. Reach local has three revenue segments: direct local revenue, national and international. The strongest growth came from “direct local revenue,” which grew from $57.2 million in Q3 2010 to [...]

ReachLocal Generates $92MM from 18,700 Advertisers in Q2

ReachLocal quarterly results were just released. Revenues are diversifying and the strongest growth is international: I’m not going to listen to the call. Will be interesting to learn about progress of ReachCast, Bizzy and any churn numbers (if reported).

NYT Digital Subs Better than Anticipated

Paid digital subscribers at the New York Times “have surpassed 100,000” in the three weeks since the launch of its paywall: Digital subscription packages on NYTimes.com and across other digital platforms have been well received, and approximately three weeks after the global launch, paid digital subscribers have surpassed 100,000. So soon after the launch, the [...]

Attend Borrell Local Benchmarking Webinar for Free — Contact Me

Borrell Associates is hosting a webinar today to delve into and explain the findings of its recent Local Media Benchmarking report. It costs $45 to non-Borrell clients. Gordon Borrell has kindly offered the first 12 readers of this blog who contact me a free pass. If you’re interested, let me know quickly. The webinar begins [...]

AT&T and YPG Most Successful Local Online Media Companies: Borrell

Borrell has released its 9th annual revenue benchmarking report comparing numerous players and market segments in local media. The report is called “Benchmarking Local Online Media: 2010 Survey.” Chock full o’ data, it looks at “online revenues from nearly 4,600 local media websites in the U.S. and Canada and offers insights into the money made [...]

Groupon Decline Real, LivingSocial Catches Up: Report

Yipit promised a “doozy” of a post this morning and it delivered. According to the deals aggregator, Groupon is seeing declining revenues — for real: We were all surprised to see Groupon’s US revenue decline 30% in February, but apparently that’s just the beginning . . . We ran some numbers from our database, and [...]