Zvents, a local events network, announced the addition of Paul Levine, the former General Manager of Yahoo Local (and current VP Marketing at Adbrite) to their board of directors this morning.
Zvents first launched in 2005 and has raised just over $7 million in venture capital. The site gathers events from around the web (and directly from partners) and suggests activities based on what you want to do (concert, theater, etc.) and when you want to do it. It also powers the recently launched Yellow Pages iPhone App.
Before Levine started his current position at Adbrite, he was in charge of the Yahoo Local product that included services such as yellow pages, local search, and maps and grew to 20 million monthly visitors.
Zvents has been in quiet mode for the last year or so, but they’ve been growing and recently surpassed competitor eventful by some measures.
More news should be coming from the company shortly.
welcome paul !! zvents is a very good website, I use it everyday in nyc, very useful
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Looks like the Yahoo fall out is proving a benefit to start-ups as many predicted. Looks like a great addition to the Zvents team.
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I love that they whitelabel zvents for other websites (like boston.com) and enable smaller sites to have targetted event features (for $, of course). Very handy
The user profiles leave much to be desired
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Other business directories that are cloning yellowpages.com have done a much better job integrating social networking than these guys. The event aspect does little to help. Eventbrite and others do it way better.
Also, don’t think that just because you cloned yellowbook or yellowpages.com that you will get pricey customers.
I have know employees at yellowpages, and they have a VAST sales teams that carpet area codes with sales spam, and they also have large receivables teams. And they do this across the entire country.
Without people to nag every dick, tom and harry on the phone and by email, you have no chance by starting a directory.
You would need at least 2M startup.
More great irony is the fact that Paul led the acquisition of upcoming.org at Yahoo Local. I guess what he really wanted to buy was Zvents.
Talk about putting a fork in Yahoo and twisting it.
His old Yahoo Local team must love the fact that he is advising Zvents how to compete against them now.
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I was with a Yahoo exec just last night on the move. Is the company really in trouble or are people just moving on….
Congratulation Paul, good job!
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Paul is a joke. He interviewed for over a year everywhere and nobody would extend an offer.
Zevnts surpassed Eventful only by buying paid traffic through Adsense and other PPC engines. They run really low end CPM advertising because it’s all they can get. It’s a long slow bleed for them until they finally go belly up. They don’t have the traffic, traction or CPM rates to succeed. Just waiting for them to burn through the rest of their VC cash until they have to shut down shop. Eventful is on the same path by the way. There is no money in the niche. Investors would be well advised to liquidate these experiments and salvage what capital is left for more promising projects.
wow marc. Sounds like you know the inside scoop on both companies. Where do you get your info?
Levine with Obrien, their marketing, should be unstoppable; both search media, ex-yahoo, advertising. comparison to eventful seems likes apples and oranges – zvents traffic can’t be accurate, they like to point out that they run the globe which is much larger and I wouldn’t think they are buying the traffic: seo is exceptional. website needs work though, poor user experience, I don’t use it – can Levine help with that? Yahoo Local is… well…
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