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Rentals.com Revenue Down 2.8% for Q1 2008

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Rentals.com revenue was down 2.8% for Q1 of 2008 compared to Q1 of 2007. For Primedia, rentals.com parent company, EBITA (Earnings Before Taxes Interest Depreciation and Amortization) was down 9.4% for the 1st quarter of 2008 compared to the first quarter of 2007 Fiscal 2008 ...

Rentals.com Giving Away Ads - BOGO

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Rentals.com is offering another BOGO offer in certain areas. Similar to the one here. Below is an email they are sending out: I am pleased to offer a one-time B.O.G.O (Buy One Get One) FREE offer to you.  For all ads you purchase today (April 28th, 2008) until Wednesday (April 30th, 2008) ...

Rentals.com Layoffs

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Word is that Rentals.com is laying some people off. The Rental Blog at Rentvine goes into more detail on who they are.

Rentals.com, grew revenue by 7.8% in 4th Quarter

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

From RentVine: Rentals.com, grew revenue by 7.8% in the fourth quarter compared to the fourth quarter 2006. This growth rate reflects revenue of the entire Rentals.com network of websites on a pro forma basis as if all operations included in 2007 were owned in 2006. The thing about quarter growth compared to ...

RentVine - 100 Xs faster than Rentals.com

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

RentVine.com released their site on a new dedicated server which has improved user experience and has made load time 3 times faster. Dave Dugdale the owner of RentVine says "RentVine loads in milliseconds where Rentals.com takes seconds - 8 seconds in my last test!" Improving a sites speed will dramatically improve ...

Rentals.com and the BOGO Offer

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Rentals.com is giving away free ads to select customers in the phoenix area until the end of February. They are calling it the BOGO offer (Buy-One-Get-One Free). Here is the email that was sent to us: For each ad that you place between now and the end of February, you will receive ...

Jamie Clymer Named President of Rentals.com

Friday, January 25th, 2008

PRIMEDIA Inc. (NYSE: PRM), the parent company of Consumer Source Inc, announced that Jamie Clymer has been named president of its Rentals.com division. Prior to joining Rentals.com, Clymer was at Dominion Enterprises, where he was the Vice President and General Manager of Homes.com and AgentAdvantage.

Primedia (PRM) Shares Sees 38.82% Decrease for 2007

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Primedia (PRM) the media company who owns rental sites like rentals.com and rentalhouses.com saw a 38.82% decrease in their share price YTD. Primedia's Market Cap is currently $275.56 Million with over 44.13 Million shares outstanding. Primedia shares are currently trading at $6.22.

Rentals.com Not in NARPM Magazine

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Is Rentals.com cutting back its marketing spend with NARPM? Rentals.com has consistently advertised full page ads in the Residential Resource, NARPMs monthly magazine. The January 2008 Issue does not have Rentals.com or RentalHouses.com in any of the pages. Where did they go?

Primedia (PRM) Q3 Loss of $38.1 million

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Primedia (PRM), the owner of rentals.com, rentalhouses.com, apartmentguide, and apartmentguide.com which represented 77% of the 3rd quarter advertising revenue, released their Q3 2007 earnings report. Primedia's loss from continuing operations for the third quarter was $38.1 million or $0.86 per share, compared to $37.0 million or $0.84 per share in the ...

Online Acquisitions Often Lead to A Decline In Traffic

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

ApartmentRating's unique visitors has dropped 14% since the acquisition by Internet Brands in July of 2007 according to tracking site Compete.com. In the last 2 months, unique visitors has dropped by approximately 100,000 unique visitors a month. In January of 2006, Primedia, (PRM) purchased RentClicks.com for 12.6 Million cash and ...

Rentals.com to offer Seminars to Real Estate Brokerages

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Rentals.com, a site owned by primedia (PRM), will be offering real estate brokerages seminars on how to become a property manager. There are many more real estate agents getting into property management even though they don't want to. They have to because of necessity.