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Quick Hits: The End of Tax-Free Internet Sales?

Written on
April 12th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

After Easter recess, Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) is planning to introduce the Main Street Fairness Act (groan), which would open up all Internet sales to state sales taxes. At Cnet, Declan McCullagh explains why the logistics of such a move would be frightening. Pay-per-call specialist Marchex has laid down $62.5 million [...] more...

Google Throws AdWords Hat Into Call-Tracking Ring

Written on
November 4th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – In Spring when Brent Turner, executive vice president of call advertising products for Marchex, told me a revolution was brewing the pay-for-call world, I was a bit skeptical, but since then I’ve covered so many companies with various products in this realm that I’m fully on board: pay-for-call [...] more...

Marchex Mines Calls for Analytics

Written on
September 3rd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I met Brent Turner, executive vice president of call advertising products with Marchex, at ad:tech San Francisco back in April, and his enthusiasm regarding pay-for-call advertising was downright infectious. It seemed every time he said the words “pay for call” his eyes lit up and his excited smile [...] more...

Pay-for-Call: Dawning of a New Pay-for-Performance Age

Written on
July 20th 2010
Author
Brent Turner

ADOTAS – They came out of nowhere. They saw an opportunity, and before anyone realized what was happening, they were enormous. Pay-for-performance businesses absolutely exploded during the first 10 years of online display media by using a simple, three-step formula. First, by pricing media on cost-per-conversion basis, companies assumed advertiser risk [...] more...

Anatomy of Pay-For-Call

Written on
June 7th 2010
Author
Brent Turner

ADOTAS – Ready to find out why some advertisers have moved up to 25% of their search budget into pay-for-call? Looking for an alternative to search per-click bidding and online lead generation? Advertising veterans often say that if you’re not spending at least 15% of your marketing budget testing new channels, [...] more...

Marchex Harnesses the Power of the Call

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May 13th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – So I’m walking along, minding my own business, when suddenly my iPhone starts making a weird sound — kinda like a marimba. It’s not the sound for a text message, Facebook update or a new email, so I’m a little frightened. After I slink it out of my [...] more...

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...

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
Sarah Novotny

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...



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