Earnings Archives
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 [...]
Local Matters CEO Leaves for SuperMedia
Yellow pages industry veteran Matthew J. Stover has left his position as CEO of Local Matters to become CMO of SuperMedia: Currently, Stover is Chief Executive Officer of Local Matters, Inc., which provides online search and advertising products and solutions for leading directory publishers and real estate portals in 16 countries. He joined the Local [...]
Yell Six-Month Revs Down, Online 25% of Total
Yell reported revenue and earnings for the past six months yesterday. Almost all measures were down, which the company attributed to the economic environment and diminished SMB confidence. Yell shares were punished by investors yesterday and were down 20%. The company also reported that online was now 25% of total revenues: Revenue down 8.9% in [...]
DexOne, YPG Announce Q1 Results
Both publishers posted Q1 2010 results today. Revenues and earnings were down in both cases, although YPG fared better. YPG: For the quarter ending March 31, 2010, consolidated net earnings were $121.8 million compared with $132.1 million for the same period in 2009. Income from operations was $166.8 million versus $185.7 million last year. Cash [...]
The FT on Debt and YP Publishers
Thanks to Simon Baptist for pointing me to a piece in the Financial Times, which discusses the debt predicaments of European yellow pages publishers and how that will affect their businesses. I’ll sidestep that vexing issue, which forced then RHD and Idearc into Chapter 11 (both are now out). Here are some interesting bits from [...]
About Greg
Greg Sterling is the founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence (SMI), a consulting and research firm focused on the Internet's influence on offline consumer purchase behavior.
