Tag Archives | Hyperlocal

Four Hyperlocal Trends to Watch in 2013

By on January 3, 2013 in New business models, Trends

2012′s rush to capture the hyperlocal audience has begun to wane as the reality sets in that while the online SMB market is huge and untapped, it remains hard to get those mom and pop outfits to spend money on newfangled marketing methods. Last year’s intense start-up activity has pointed to four trends going into [...]

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Six trends impacting hyperlocal in 2012

By on December 24, 2011 in Hyperlocal, Local advertising, New business models, Social Media, Trends

Here are six trends in 2012 that will impact hyperlocal media and business models. This was originally published at Street Fight last week. 1. Cross platform conversations Livefyre and Disqus show glimpses of how conversations can move from Facebook and Twitter to online media and blog commentary. Local conversations happening on social media, especially Facebook, [...]

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Twylah, Twitter, News and SEO

By on October 17, 2011 in Advertising, Breaking News, Hyperlocal, Marketing, New business models, Social Media, Trends, Web tools

Twylah is a service that aggregates a Twitter feed and compiles the articles they link into a Flipboard like display.   Many reviewers have explained the mechanics of Twylah in far more detail than I can: Robert Scoble: “Twylah lets media brands and celebrities monetize their Twitter stream” Neal Schaffer: “Twitter SEO? Think Twylah“ We’ve [...]

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Five reasons why traditional media advertising revenue is sloping towards zero

By on September 12, 2011 in Advertising, Hyperlocal, Local advertising, Mass Media, New business models, Newspapers, Publishing, Social Media, Trends

Journalists continue to search for a viable business model that supports online hyperlocal publications, but they won’t ever reach the threshold of revenues to maintain operations if they rely solely on traditional advertising fees from local merchants. That doesn’t mean local advertising is also poised to fall off a cliff. On the contrary, BIA/Kelsey states [...]

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Hyperlocal media as a free community service could disrupt advertising models

By on July 7, 2011 in Advertising, Breaking News, Hyperlocal, Local advertising, New business models, Newspapers, Publishing, Social Media, Trends

The classic, and perhaps only business model supporting hyperlocal journalistic efforts like Patch.com and other local media is local advertising. On StreetFightMag.com last week, Ted Mann, Digital Development Director for Gannett NJ, discusses why Gannett’s hyperlocal experiment InJersey.com failed. The main and obvious reason is simply local advertising cannot adequately cover expenses. So… What if [...]

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Groupon for Real Estate

By on March 24, 2011 in Breaking News, Hyperlocal, Local advertising, Real Estate, Social Commerce, Trends

Groupon-like deals can work for real estate, but not as a typical $10 for $20 worth of product purchase. Real estate can’t be sold as a 30% off purchase price item (although they certainly tried variations of this at California real estate investment clubs in 2005). Real estate marketing has generally relied on variations of [...]

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Real time deals will herald in a new consumer mantra: don’t buy early

By on March 19, 2011 in Hyperlocal, Local advertising, Social Commerce, Trends

On Media Transparent last October, I explored the idea of real time deals, which requires consumption of a daily deal within a limited time frame. Merchants with perishable products – seats at a restaurant, theaters, hotel rooms, airlines – want a deals system that quickly and efficiently fills excess inventory, especially at a moment’s notice. [...]

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Five ways to make Local News Technologies better

By on March 14, 2011 in Breaking News, Hyperlocal, Mass Media, New business models, Newspapers, Publishing, Social Media

Local community news has always been hard to produce profitably with scale. Local news is only relevant to those who live within the community, and it makes cost per thousand based advertising models untenable when readership may log in the hundreds. Without a revenue model to hire editors and writers, the cheapest way to source [...]

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The New AOL – How Arianna can reshape AOL’s local initiative

By on February 8, 2011 in Hyperlocal, Mass Media, Newspapers, Social Media

AOL’s acquisition of the Huffington Post firmly entrenches AOL as a journalistic media endeavor eye-to-eye with Gannett, Murdoch and, gasp, the other newspapers. What is strikingly different about Huffington Post is that content is sourced from celebrities – politicians, actors, college professors, locals – and not from the ivory news desks that still embody the [...]

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Can Quora be localized?

By on January 10, 2011 in Hyperlocal, Social Media

Can Quora go mainstream to the masses? Can Quora be used effectively as a local media resource and social network for communities that have local questions? The Problem with Local Topics Topics are the defining feature of Quora that allows users to filter their Q&A stream. To filter local Q&A, users will follow local geographical [...]

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