Publisher Solutions

The Sun wanted to introduce more local content to their audience, and help to support local businesses in the community.

By working with our partners Scoot.co.uk we were able to implement a fully branded Sun Business Directory on The Sun website, promoting millions of local businesses and adding value to their local communities. Making use of our powerful database and search APIs, we were able to integrate a local business directory complete with local business data and promoting local advertisers.

This in turn added a number of additional pages to The Sun website, thereby acting as a platform for additional advertising inventory. The Sun Business Directory is a popular resource for Sun readers and has hundreds of thousands of visitors each week searching for local services.

The Sun Business Directory

Scoot.co.uk is a popular and well respected business directory, servicing thousands of businesses and helping local people to find, rate and review local services providers all over the UK.

Scoot needed a trusted and accurate source of local business data to be able to make sure they are delivering accurate and up to date local information. Rather than license data directly from traditional list brokers, Scoot looked for a fully integrated solution combined with a fast and accurate local search engine, and by working with our APIs, the Scoot team are able to deliver a consistently high quality user experience combined with excellent quality of data on local businesses.

In addition to this, we have worked with Scoot to bring together a community of similar local business directories and offer the Scoot customers a range of local promotion opportunities via the Scoot sales team.

Scoot.co.uk

The Independent newspaper's readership are a discerning community, and as part of their local content strategy, The Independent wanted to offer a platform for their readers to review and rate local businesses.

Integrating the community review and rating functionality with our partners Scoot.co.uk, we were able to connect the Central Index API with the community feedback technology, and deliver an integrated local business directory complete with powerful community content.

The Independent Business Directory now has great profile on the search engines, and is a reliable source of business recommendations for The Independent's internet users.

The Independent Business Directory

Trinity Mirror is the UK's leading local newspaper publisher, with hundreds of local newspaper titles reaching an audience of millions of daily readers.

With growing demand from their local business customers for online advertising opportunities, Trinity Mirror needed to deliver a fully integrated local business directory solution and work with their local sales centres to add a digital classifieds product into their ratecard.

Working with the Scoot sales team and making use of their cutting edge CRM and Sales Provisioning system, and with our design agency partners Storm ID - a leading software development house, we specced and delivered a fully integrated local business directory and sales platform that calls the Central Index API to provide hyperlocal directory pages for all the Trinity Mirror titles.

The local directory solution is now a core part of the Trinity Mirror digital revenue model, delivering millions in revenue and in its third year of growth.

The Liverpool Echo Business Directory

Many of Ask Jeeves searches include local business requests, and a simple and accurate solution was required to deliver integrated location based business search results, without interrupting the quality and speed of the Ask Jeeves user experience.

Working with the Ask Jeeves team, and partnering with the TouchLocal.com business directory, we were able to produce and implement integrated 'Local Business Search' widgets which are called into use when an Ask Jeeves user is looking for a business in a location. This logic allows a seamless user experience and gives the Ask Jeeves users quick and accurate local business results from a trusted business directory source.

The widgets are powered by our unique API services, and promote the advertisers on TouchLocal.com in a seamless integration with the Ask Jeeves website.

Ask.com

One of the leading local online business directories in the UK, Touch Local owns and operates over 120 hyperlocal business directories in towns and cities across the UK.

TouchLocal.com and the Touch Local town and city websites are now fully integrated into our local directory network, allowing business owners to promote themselves not only on Touch Local but also on other local business directories powered by our software and APIs.

The Touch Local websites are now fully integrated into the Scoot Network, meaning that they all share the same powerful backend database and search APIs, and offer a consistent user experience to local businesses and consumers.

Touch Local

Working with a range of local newspaper and council websites in Ireland, we used our powerful local search technology and business database to deliver local business search that is rapidly growing in popularity and is one of the leading sources of local information in Ireland.

The Yourlocal.ie website allows local business owners to promote themselves for free and with a range of paid for options. In a challenging economic environment YourLocal.ie has offered a powerful local marketing platform to local businesses.

Delivering location specific search in Ireland is a difficult task given the paucity of geographic data, but we applied a unique approach to geo-tagging with data from leading local business data partners in Ireland, and delivered this with cutting edge front end technology that is fully responsive for mobiles, tablets and desktop users.

YourLocal.ie