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Category Archives: FindnSave
Take Two! The Find&Save Experience Just Got More Personal & Social
This week we unveiled our new Find&Save® local discovery shopping platform at the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) mediaXchange Conference in Orlando. This represents the culmination of many months of GSD or Get Sh*t Done. The Wanderful Media team consistently … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged advertising, digital, Discovery shopping, Find n Save, find&save, mediaXchange, mobile, naa, newspaper ads, Retail, shopping, Wanderful Media
Wheels up! Wanderful Media is headed to Orlando
I am looking forward to speaking with Dave Thomsen (EVP of Product & Design) at the NAA mediaXchange this Monday, April 15 in Orlando. Our session, “The Reinvention of Local Discovery Shopping,” will be our formal introduction of the completely … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged advertising, Brick and mortar, find&save, findnsave, local sales, newspaper ads, retail stores, shopping, Wanderful Media
Why Brick & Mortar Retailers Will Live Forever
I contributed this article in SiliconANGLE to address discussions that have been circulating around the future of traditional retail. In a recent Pando Daily interview, Marc Andreessen predicted the death of traditional retail, and is quoted as saying, “Retail guys … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged Apple Store, Brick and mortar, Discovery shopping, E-commerce, Marc Andreessen, Online Shopping, Retail, Retailers, shopping
Pinterest – Pinning Down Its Value For Retail | MediaPost
This is a great piece I wrote with Ron Adams, VP of National Sales at Wanderful Media. The Wanderful team is focused on connecting local retailers with consumers, and we see a huge opportunity for retailers to capitalize on areas … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Discovery shopping, Online advertising, Online Shopping, Pinterest, Retail, Retailers, shopping, Startups, Wanderful Media
Retail is not dying… just transforming.
By Seema Sud and Ben T. Smith, IV VHS was going to be the cinema killer in the late ‘70s; and yet, 30 “DVR, Blue ray and big screen TV” years later, cinema is more popular than ever and the … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Discovery shopping, mobile, newspapers, Online advertising, Online Shopping, Retail, Retailers, shopping, Startups, technology, Wanderful Media
Coming in 2013: Greater Retail Industry Shifts
It’s been an incredible year for the retail and e-commerce industries, especially when it comes to local discovery shopping. 2012 was marked by new company introductions, market consolidation, growing social media influence and evolved retail tactics to drive consumers from … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Groupon, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged advertising, amazon, ecommerce, Find n Save, mobile, newspapers, Online advertising, shopping, tablet, video, Wanderful Media
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Billions in Local Ad Dollars Surge to Online — But Just a Trickle to News | Street Fight
Tom Grubisich wrote a great piece on the failure of local news sites to capture the boom in revenue happening in local online. He made a great point on the news market not capturing this local revenue. ”The issue that no one … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, FindnSave, Groupon, MerchantCircle, Newspapers, Silicon Valley
Tagged local, Newspaper, Online newspaper, Patch, Patch Media, venture capitalists
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The newsonomics of Amazon vs. Main Street » Nieman Journalism Lab
A great piece on the importance of retail advertsing to the newspaper business and the indirect fight between Amazon and the papers happening now. “Classifieds has decimated by interactive databases. National has migrated strongly digital. Retail, which made up of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, FindnSave, GSD, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged advertising, Ben T Smith IV, Find n Save, marketing, Newspaper, newspapers, Publishers, Startups, Wanderful Media
Newspapers’ Next Move In Expanding The Reach Of Digital Ads | Fast Company
From a piece in Fast Company about our efforts to recreate a dominant Shopping business with the newspaper and media industry. We are just getting started but with over 225 newspapers now live and hundreds more committed, when we relaunch … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, FindnSave, Newspapers, Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged Gannett Digital, Newspaper, silicon valley, The McClatchy Company, Washington Post
Building a Shopping Solution
I have been involved in ShopCo Holdings just about two months now as the Chief Executive Officer. I figured it is about time I start sharing a bit about it. ShopCo Holdings is a company backed by 12 large US Media companies … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, FindnSave, GSD, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged A. H. Belo, Ben T Smith IV, business, Find n Save, GSD, investment, Lee Enterprises, local, McClatchy Company, MediaNews Group, Startups, Wanderful Media, web entreprenuer
