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Hires: ScanScout, ReachLocal, ShareThis

Written on
September 11th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – The founder and former CEO of About.com, Bill Day, is been named CEO of ScanScout. Most recently, Day was at local online ad shop Marchex. Day replaces Waikit Lau, co-founder of ScanScout and temporary CEO – he will return to his role as president. Alyn Glazerman has been named [...] more...

Hires: Marchex, Bebo, Agency.com, ThisNext

Written on
August 14th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Marchex Inc., a local search and ad shop, has named Sloan Seymour, vice president of Marchex Adhere; Ed O’Keefe, vice president of Performance Marketplaces; Brooks McMahon, vice president of Partner Development and promoted Leigh McMillan to senior vice president, Marketing and Communications. Seymour was previously president and CEO of [...] more...

Marchex Gallops Into Mobile Ad Arena

Written on
April 30th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Marchex has joined the stampede into the mobile advertising arena. The local interactive advertising company and local content publisher has announced it’s entering into agreements with mobile advertising providers AdMob, Ringleader Digital and 4INFO to provide call-based ad services. Marchex’s VoiceStar Subsidiary will deliver call tracking services to all [...] more...

Marchex Inks Deal With Local Sites

Written on
April 22nd 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Local interactive advertising and content publishing company Marchex is adding a handful of new sites to its network of 150,000 through partnerships with Restaurant.com, Urbanspoon.com, Yelp, Priceline, and others. Under the separate agreements, Marchex will ad more than 5 million reviews and ratings to its network, more than doubling [...] more...

Marchex, Cobalt Partner To Deliver Ad Services

Written on
April 2nd 2008
Author
Editor

ADOTAS – Local interactive advertising company Marchex, Inc. today announced today that its VoiceStar subsidiary has signed an agreement with the Cobalt Group to provide call tracking and pay-per-phone-call services to Cobalt’s local auto dealers across North America. Cobalt provides marketing services to more than 40% of the car dealerships in [...] more...

Marchex And Citysearch Help Each Other Out

Written on
February 26th 2008
Author
Editor

ADOTAS - Marchex Inc., a local online advertising company and publisher of local content, and Citysearch announced a strategic partnership today that provides Citysearch with a new distribution channel for both its content and advertisers and provides Marchex with extensive content for its local network. The terms of the agreement [...] more...

Marchex Teams with Idearc Media Corp

Written on
January 28th 2008
Author
Editor

Marchex, Inc. a local online advertising company and leading publisher of local content, and Idearc Media Corp., home to Superpages.com® and publisher of the Verizon® Yellow Pages, today announced a local advertising distribution agreement under which Idearc Media will place its Superpages.com® performance-based advertisers on Marchex’s network of Web sites [...] more...

Marchex Announces Quarterly Dividends

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January 18th 2008
Author
Editor

Local online ad company, Marchex Inc. announced today that the company’s Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend in the amount of $0.02 per share on its common stock and $2.97 per share on its 4.75% convertible exchangeable preferred stock. The dividends will be paid on February 15th of [...] more...

Marchex & Yellow Pages Target The Locals

Written on
October 22nd 2007
Author
Editor

Recently, YELLOWPAGES.COM and Marchex, Inc., a local advertising company and publisher of local content, announced a multi-year agreement in which Marchex will continue to provide its local search marketing services to YELLOWPAGES.COM’s base of local advertisers. The site will continue to use Marchex’s services to fulfill YPclicks! Search Engine Solutions search [...] more...

Marchex Goes Local With New Search Network

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June 27th 2007
Author
Editor

Marchex has merged its catalogue of domains with business listings and reviews from local search firm Open List. This process has been in development for the past year. The company has taken off the ad links from about half of its 200,000 direct navigation domains and replaced them with reviews, local [...] more...