AAN News

Online Job Ads Fall on Monsternew

Tech News World  |  08-22-2005  9:21 am  |  Industry News

Help-Wanted Online Ads Dip in Julynew

Editor & Publisher  |  08-17-2005  5:28 pm  |  Industry News

Real Estate Market Begins to Coolnew

The Big Picture  |  08-12-2005  11:47 am  |  Industry News

New AAN CAN iContest Announced

The classified rep who sells the most new ads into the AAN CAN network between now and September 30, 2005 wins an Apple G4 iBook, a U2 Special Edition iPod, plus 200 FREE downloads from the iTunes store. The winner will also get some iLove from her sales manager, who will receive the same prize package. For more information, call Tiffany Kildale at (202) 289-8484.
08-11-2005  2:17 pm  |  Industry News

Wheeling and Dealing for Classified Adsnew

Editor & Publisher  |  08-11-2005  4:08 pm  |  Industry News

Another Alt-Weekly Movie Sighting

This just in from Gambit Weekly editor Michael Tisserand: "Gambit Weekly's classified section appears in a pivotal scene in the new movie The Skeleton Key. Early on, as Kate Hudson rides a streetcar, she peruses our employment ads and answers one that leads her to the swamp where all sorts of hyper-Hollywoodized hoodoo hijinks start to happen. By the way, Gambit A & E editor/film critic David Lee Simmons says it's no Angel Heart."
08-10-2005  6:15 pm  |  Industry News

Can Alt-Weeklies Beat Craigslist?new

Ted Rall asks that question after attending the AAN Convention and finding "(m)eeting rooms at the Westin ... jammed with editors and publishers anxiously hatching plans to defend themselves from (Craig Newmark)". His conclusion? "The current standard formula for alternative weeklies -- youth-oriented pop culture plus local news features -- appears inadequate to meet the formidable challenge of vanishing classifieds." Rall (that's his illustration above) says alt-weeklies can survive by "banding together" to sell national ads, providing alternative coverage of national and international news, and charging a newsstand fee.
Associated Press via Yahoo! News  |  08-10-2005  3:42 pm  |  Industry News

Google to Acquire Meetroductionnew

Search Engine Watch  |  08-09-2005  10:11 am  |  Industry News

New National Classiifed Ad Site Launchesnew

Inman News (sub. req.)  |  08-09-2005  10:07 am  |  Industry News

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