TBD is pleased to be working with GrowthSpur to help bloggers in the TBD Community Network develop a new model for local new and advertising.
Our friends at GrowthSpur announced their partnerships with TBD and Journal Register Co. on their blog today. The post describes well how we will be working:
GrowthSpur’s role will be to help the TBD network bloggers with ad sales, by providing them tools and training and assembling them into a local network in which they can sell each others’ ads. The first of the TBD bloggers are already on the GrowthSpur ad server and out selling ads to businesses in their communities. It’s been awesome meeting and working with dozens of cool, passionate bloggers in the D.C. area … We can’t wait to see it launch in the next few weeks. We think TBD is going to be a model for the future of modern metro news sites, and we’re honored to be able to help the bloggers make some money for their efforts.
We share the excitement. As we described in this blog earlier in the week, our relationship with GrowthSpur is a critical part of the TBD Community Network strategy.
GrowthSpur CEO Mark Potts has been a pioneer of digital journalism and a leading voice for innovation in the news business. We are pleased to be on the same team.