Local Online Ad Biz Needs Scale

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NEW YORK Consumers and advertisers face the same challenge when trying to navigate local content on the Web: an intensifying level of fragmentation. Media companies that can aggregate large-scale local audiences will ultimately be the ones that score with users and advertisers.

That’s the general assessment of a new report issued yesterday by Marchex, a company that specializes in both local online advertising and local content. The report, “Unlocking the Potential of the Local Internet,” found that local online media is still in its infancy, and as a result is very much untapped by advertising.

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