News & Press Releases
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12.09.2011 DataSphere Named Top 10 Best Places to Work in the Valley (Phoenix Business Journal) The DataSphere Phoenix office has been in operations for less than a year and has already been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in the Valley for 2011. Read More |
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11.10.2011 Datasphere’s Cowan on How TV Stations Are Going Hyperlocal Online (Street Fight) Local TV stations are going hyperlocal in a big way. While some of their initial efforts were heavy on car crashes and pet stories, the accelerating trend is toward higher-quality, more comprehensive community coverage. We asked Gary Cowan, senior vice president of products and marketing at Seattle-based Datasphere — which provides turnkey Web services to client stations — to talk about the trend and its significance. Read More |
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11.07.2011 Seattle's Fisher Communications sees big jump in online ad sales (TechFlash) At Fisher Communications, TV ad revenue is still king, but the Seattle broadcasting company is drawing a bigger portion of is revenue from its online neighborhood news sites in Seattle, Portland and other cities. Read More |
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10.25.2011 DataSphere at StreetFight Summit 2011 (Forbes.com) Gary Cowan, SVP of products and marketing, discusses daily deals at Streetfight Summit 2011... Read More |
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10.13.2011 Datasphere: New Focus on SMB ‘Adjacencies’ like Coupons, Events (Local Onliner) We’ve long known that coupons provide real traction for SMB advertising. Nothing beats a customer walking through the door with a coupon in hand. Read More |
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08.17.2011 Datasphere's Cowan: Hitting the Hyperlocal 'Sweet Spot' (Street Fight) Hyperlocal blog platform Datasphere Technologies has been growing at a rapid clip over the past year. Last fall the company raised $10 million in a third round of funding, and it has added partnerships with Gannett and others. Read More |
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06.06.2011 Building a Winning Culture in a High Growth Environment (SiliconIndia) Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks, sums up the value of good company culture in a nice quote: “Our philosophy is that if you love your work, and you love coming to work, then the work will be exceptional." Read More |
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05.05.2011 Gannett Tests Hyperlocal Model In Tampa (NetNewsCheck.com) In a market with fierce competition from a myriad of newspaper and television sites vying to be No. 1, Gannett chooses the sunny Tampa-St. Petersburg market as the online proving ground for its bold experiment in hyperlocal news sites... Read More |
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04.18.2011 Growth spurt continues at DataSphere; hyperlocal blog platform to hire 220 in Ariz. (GeekWire) DataSphere Technologies may specialize in hyperlocal advertising. But the Bellevue company is undergoing what can only be described as … hypergrowth. The company, which raised $10 million from OVP Venture Partners, Fisher Communications, Ignition Partners and others last fall, said today that it plans to open a new facility in Tempe, Arizona with room for as many as 220 sales professionals... Read More |
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03.08.2011 Fisher internet ad sales grew in 2010, still tiny part of revenue (TechFlash) Fisher Communications Inc.'s internet revenue grew 105 percent -- to $3.5 million -- in 2010, as the Seattle media company made a big push with its neighborhood blogs in Seattle and other markets. Read More |
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02.24.2011 Reinventing Local With A Multiplatform Focus (TVNewsCheck.com) Randa Minkarah, Fisher Communications’ SVP of revenue and business development, explains how her company’s TV stations are working to sell multiple platforms to local advertisers. Read More |
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01.31.2011 Gannett’s Dubow: Doubling Down On Local And Mobile (paidContent.org) Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow began the company’s largely positive Q4 earnings results by highlighting the local digital moves on the hyperlocal and marketing fronts and offered a lot of credit to its partners in display for newspapers and TV (Yahoo) and hyperlocal (DataSphere)... Read More |
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12.15.2010 Tech-Heavy Area Leads Way Into Local Space (NetNewsCheck.com) Here in Microsoft country, it should perhaps come as no surprise that media companies are trying innovative ways to coax revenue from the Web... Read More |
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09.09.2010 The hyperlocal news effort that’s bigger than Patch (Lost Remote) You’ve heard about Patch, but what about Datasphere, the company that’s launched more hyperlocal news sites in more communities than AOL? Today it announced it landed another $10 million in funding (for a total of $26.5 million) as it continues to expand with partnerships with TV stations owned by Gannett, Fisher, Raycom and LocalTV. Read More |
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09.09.2010 DataSphere raises $10M from OVP and others, plans to hire 150 (TechFlash) DataSphere Technologies has landed another $10 million in venture capital funding, money that the fast-growing Bellevue startup will use to continue building out its platform for hyperlocal news and advertising. The funding round -- which follows a $10.8 million round earlier this year -- was provided by new investor OVP Venture Partners. Existing investors such as Ignition Partners and Fisher Communications also participated. Read More |