EADP - Member news

Agendize and DudaMobile work together to help businesses convert their websites into mobile sites

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:31:32 +0200

Agendize and DudaMobile are pleased to announce a technology integration to seamlessly enrich mobile user experience by enabling them to instantly book an appointment with local merchants directly from a mobile website. Agendize Services, Inc., a leading provider of engagement tools that help online advertisers convert traffic into conversations with their clients, has partnered with DudaMobile, a pioneer in mobile website technology, offering a highly scalable platform to quickly and cost-effectively create tailored mobile websites based on existing Internet websites.

Eniro announces Johan Lindgren as new CEO and reviews financial targets

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:22:38 +0200

Eniro’s Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Johan Lindgren to the position of CEO. Johan Lindgren has extensive experience from various CEO and CFO positions and change processes within the media and telecoms sectors. In connection with the appointment, Eniro will conduct a review of the financial targets and an updated outlook statement for 2011 will be presented with the Q3 report, 2010.

weblocal.ca selects Agendize's online scheduling solution to help advertisers generate more business

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:53:40 +0200

Agendize Services, Inc., a leading provider of engagement tools that help online advertisers convert traffic into more conversations and more business was recently selected by weblocal.ca, a leading local search portal owned by one of Canada's largest publishers, to offer an easy and convenient way for businesses to generate more leads 24/7. This upcoming technology integration will enrich user experience by enabling them to instantly book an appointment with local merchants directly from weblocal.ca as well as from merchants' websites.

Yellow Pages £5,000 online video challenge

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:25:05 +0200

Yell is throwing down a £5,000 challenge in the hunt for the best amateur videos of "amazing things" that can be done with its Yellow Pages directories. The fun contest is being run to mark the directory's historic revamp into a new handy-sized format that will fit through letterboxes. It is the most significant change to the UK Yellow Pages directory since it was first published more than 40 years ago. 

Mattias Wedar appointed new President of Eniro Denmark

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:33:26 +0200

On August 20, 2010, Mattias Wedar will assume the position of new President of Eniro Denmark. For the past two years, he has held the position as Chief Information Officer, in addition to being a driving force in several of the development projects that influence the Eniro Group. Meanwhile, Einar Storsul will be appointed as the new Chief Information Officer. Einar has worked at Eniro since 2001, most recently as CTO for Eniro Norway.

Yell’s online advertisers set to benefit from extensive reach of Facebook

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:43:10 +0200

Yell is to give a strong boost to small businesses in the UK through enabling targeted advertising on Facebook as part of its netReach product. Small businesses advertising with Yell online, and which subscribe to netReach, will benefit from extended reach for their current Yell.com advertising across the Facebook platform. The move is part of Yell's overall strategy of being the best provider of marketing solutions for SMEs in the UK. 

Yell derives 25% of revenue online

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:48:30 +0200

The Economist writes that economic uncertainty and faltering confidence of small and medium sized enterprises continued to depress revenues at British directory publisher Yell. Reporting a 10.6 per cent drop in first-quarter organic revenues, the directories publisher said it did not expect any significant improvement in either the second or third quarters of the year.

Caller Lookup Application adaffix launches in Belgium

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:13:38 +0200

The award winning mobile application adaffix (www.adaffix.com) announces its launch in Belgium today. adaffix enriches the call experience by adding relevant content to calls in real-time. The innovative application automatically displays the caller name if the caller is not in the user’s contacts list. It also instantly suggests businesses nearby if the user cannot reach a business on the phone. adaffix accesses the necessary data to deliver such information through a real-time search in international directory databases.

89.24.24 Pronto PagineGialle announces partnership with Vivaticket

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:08:39 +0200

Seat Pagine Gialle announced a partnership with Vivaticket, a company specialised in managing ticketing and pre-sales for quality cultural and entertainment events. Thanks to the agreement with Vivaticket, the 89.24.24 Pronto PagineGialle telephone service is expanding its offer to users, who will be able to purchase tickets for all the events managed by Vivaticket simply by making a call to the Seat PG service and making the purchase following a step-by-step guide by a Personal Assistant. A personal credit card can be conveniently used to pay for the service.

Telnic Hires Former Yell.com Head of Marketing Ian Bowen-Morris as Chief Marketing Officer

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:44:28 +0200

Telnic Limited (http://telnic.tel), the Registry Operator for the communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), announced that it has hired former Yell.com Head of Marketing Ian Bowen-Morris as Chief Marketing Officer. "We're delighted that Ian has joined Telnic at the stage when the benefits and services that a .tel can deliver to individual professionals and small businesses are really coming into their own," said Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO at Telnic Limited. "Ian's experience of and participation in the directory services industry will help Telnic strengthen its relationship with this important emerging channel."

Yell’s move to activity-based working will save £1.5million a year

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:16:07 +0200

Yell is introducing an activity-based working model to support the daily operations of its 700 strong UK team of on-the-road consultants. The move will see Yell end use of its 18 satellite sales offices throughout the UK and instead use Regus’ network of 140 strong UK business centres. The net annual saving to Yell is about £1.5 million.   The innovation reflects the changing work styles of Yell’s regional field sales teams, resulting in their less regular need for office premises to work from. Driven in part by continual developments in technology over the last 12 to 18 months, Yell’s sales teams have increasingly been undertaking many traditional office based activities online, on-the-move, with the office network mainly used for team meetings.   

Caller Lookup Application adaffix crosses the Big Pond

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:57:11 +0200

The award-winning mobile application adaffix (www.adaffix.com <http://www.adaffix.com <http://www.adaffix.com/> > ) announced its launch in the US market. adaffix enriches the call experience by adding relevant content to calls in real-time. The innovative application instantly suggests businesses nearby if the user cannot reach a business on the phone. It also automatically displays the caller name if the caller is not in the user’s contacts list. adaffix accesses the necessary data to deliver such information through a real-time search in cooperation with Yellowbook (www.yellowbook.com) in the US.

Delivery of new handy-sized UK Yellow Pages directories through letterboxes gets underway

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:51:47 +0200

Delivery of a new look, handy-sized Yellow Pages directory that fits through letterboxes is now underway with the unveiling of the most significant revamp of the UK directory in more than forty years since they were first produced. Households and businesses on the Isle of Wight and in central London are the first in the UK to receive the new “compact” directory which replaces the traditional A4 format.  

SEAT Pagine Gialle and Sky TV announce strategic partnership. First step: Series B football championship

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:34:46 +0200

SEAT PG and Sky Italia have announced a strategic agreement aimed at making the communications capabilities of national television advertising available to small and medium-sized Italian companies, and exploiting the potential of SKY’s football programming as an extremely effective tool for local advertising. The deal will allow SMEs to advertise during Serie B football matches in Italy in the season 2010/2011.

Eniro divests its shares in Suomi24 Oy

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:59:47 +0200

Eniro has signed an agreement to divest its holding in Suomi24 Oy (S24) to Aller Media Oy and receives a total consideration of EUR 5.6m. Suomi24 is Finland’s largest social media, and has been a joint venture between Eniro Finland AB and Aller Media Oy since May 2008.