Local.com
Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading online local media company, today
announced that the company has been named to PAGE Cooperative’s
Preferred Supplier list. The company also announced an updated user
interface for its private label business directory, Local Connect.
PAGE Cooperative is a member-owned cooperative buying association, which
represents approximately 1,700 news publications throughout the U.S.
Local.com can now offer its leading local business directory and local
business advertising solutions for regional media publishers directly to
PAGE members as a preferred vendor.
"We are excited to have Local.com join the PAGE Cooperative team,” said
Steve Schroeder, general manager and director of technical services for
PAGE. "It’s clear to the PAGE Supplier Committee that Local.com’s
comprehensive solutions for regional media publishers far exceed other
offerings and provide significant value to our membership.”
Local.com also launched an updated user interface for its private label
business directory, which incorporates new features including:
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A more user-friendly home page design
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Customizable templates and a scrollable business listing carousel
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Enhanced maps and search engine optimized elements on the search
results and profile pages, including category icons
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Business profile pages with at-a-glance "business cards” featuring key
business information and social sharing tools
"We are pleased to deliver our powerful portfolio of private label local
online advertising and business directory solutions to PAGE members. We
believe our products will increase traffic to their web properties,
monetize this traffic more effectively and provide innovative new rich
media ad capabilities to PAGE advertisers in their local markets,” said
Rick Szatkowski, Local.com senior vice president and general manager,
owned & operated/network properties. "We have already deployed our
updated business directory across approximately 1,500 private label
partners nationwide, and we’re encouraged by early results, which
indicate increased user engagement.”
Local.com’s leading regional media publisher network powers
approximately 1,500 regional media sites serving over 8,000 premium
advertisers throughout the U.S.
About Local.com®
Local.com
Corporation (NASDAQ:LOCM), a leading online local media company, enables
brick-and-mortar businesses to connect with online customers using a
variety of digital marketing products. The company reaches more than 20
million consumers each month on the flagship Local.com website,
approximately 1,500 regional media sites and more than 100,000
geo-category websites. The company distributes daily deals to hundreds
of thousands of email subscribers in 14 markets via Spreebird, rich
media ads via Rovion.com, and real-time product inventory information
from more than 60,000 retailers nationwide via Krillion.com. To
advertise, or for more information, visit: http://www.local.com/.
About PAGE Cooperative
In operation since 1984, PAGE Cooperative has an extensive nationwide
membership with members in all 50 states, including more than 600 daily
newspapers and over 1,100 non-daily publishing facilities. This
represents almost three-quarters of the privately owned daily newspapers
in the United States.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties concerning Local.com Corporation’s expected
financial performance, as well as Local.com’s strategic and operational
plans. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted,
and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future
performance. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among
others, our advertising partners paying less RPC and revenues to us for
our search results, our ability to adapt our business following the
shifts in our monetization partners, our ability to monetize the
Local.com domain, including at a profit, our ability to retain a
monetization partner for the Local.com domain and other web properties
under our management that allows us to operate profitably, our ability
to develop, market and operate our local-search technologies, our
ability to market the Local.com domain as a destination for consumers
seeking local-search results, our ability to grow our business by
enhancing our local-search services, including through businesses we
acquire, the future performance of our OCTANE360 business, the
integration and future performance of our social buying business, our
Krillion business and our Rovion business, as well as any other
businesses we may acquire, including our newly acquired Screamin Daily
Deals business, our ability to successfully expand our Spreebird
business into new markets, including through acquisitions, such as the
Screamin Daily Deals acquisition, the possibility that the information
and estimates used to predict anticipated revenues and expenses
associated with the businesses we acquire are not accurate, difficulties
executing integration strategies or achieving planned synergies, the
possibility that integration costs and go-forward costs associated with
the businesses we acquire will be higher than anticipated, our ability
to successfully expand our sales channels for new and existing products
and services, our ability to increase the number of businesses that
purchase our advertising products, our ability to expand our advertiser
and distribution networks, our ability to integrate and effectively
utilize our acquisitions' technologies, our ability to develop our
products and sales, marketing, finance and administrative functions and
successfully integrate our expanded infrastructure, as well as our
dependence on major advertisers, competitive factors and pricing
pressures, changes in legal and regulatory requirements, and general
economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements reflect our current
views with respect to future events and are subject to these and other
risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results
of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent written and
oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on
our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this paragraph.
Unless otherwise stated, all site traffic and usage statistics are from
third-party service providers engaged by the company.
Our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K/A, subsequent Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-Q/A, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K
and Form 8-K/A, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings
discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important risk factors that
could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business,
results of operations and financial condition. The forward-looking
statements in this release speak only as of the date they are made. We
undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking
statement for any reason.
