FOSTER CITY, Calif., May 15, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — QuinStreet, Inc. QNST +0.63% , the leader in vertical marketing and media online, announced that Greg O’Brien has joined the company as senior vice president of business...
May 15, 2012 3:05 pm / 1 comment
Today the LeadsCouncil announced the first series of winners for their LEADER Awards. I’d like to think that I had a little influence on the idea, but I know full well that the idea was already in the works prior to my rant. Nonetheless,...
January 6, 2011 11:00 pm / 1 comment
Big news out of Foster City, CA yesterday with the announcement that QuinStreet has acquired CarInsurance.com for a sum of $49m. First tipped off by Paid Content and then covered nicely by Jay Weintraub at LeadConfidential. Jay’s article...
November 9, 2010 2:54 pm / no comments
Today LendingTree filed a suit against Adchemy, NexTag, QuinStreet, and Zillow claiming that the companies are infringing on a patent filed by LendingTree in 1998. The patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,385,594 and 6,611,816, both entitled “Method...
September 8, 2010 9:16 pm / no comments
Today, QuinStreet announced their fiscal 4th quarter earnings as well as their fiscal year end earnings. The lead generation leader reported a 31% YOY growth in total revenue and a 76% YOY revenue growth in the financial services vertical.
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August 9, 2010 9:40 pm / 1 comment
It was mentioned on Domain Name Wire that the website and domain name Insurance.com was picked up by QuinStreet a few days ago. This comes a number of months after their recent acquisition of insure.com for $16m. The price of the insurance.com...
July 29, 2010 10:09 pm / 1 comment
5 years ago the major lead gen players were bank rolling the mortgage vertical by leaps and bounds over any other vertical. EDU was making a strong charge, debt was making a showing and insurance has always been a solid money making vertical,...
May 16, 2010 9:27 pm / 2 comments
Quinstreets IPO, with all the industry hype, as fallen slightly from its initial public offering down to $14.59 today.
Many in the finance world have made comments that the IPO market is flat overall and QS could is simply feeling the affects...
February 17, 2010 10:51 pm / 2 comments
Last week I began noticing a number of Google searches to LeadCritic referencing “Quinstreet IPO” and “QuinStreet Public”. In fact I tweeted a comment 2 days ago to this fact. It is always interesting watching the search...
November 19, 2009 5:20 pm / no comments
QuinStreet has been on the website purchasing prowl for a over a year now picking up mortgage, BtoB and now insurance related sites. The most recent acquisition was announced Friday and included the purchase of the domain insure.com and its...
October 11, 2009 9:55 pm / no comments
It was mentioned today on PaidContent.org that QuinStreet is currently in the middle of acquiring the Internet.com division of WebMediaBrands for $18m. This division includes includes InternetNews.com, DevX, Linux Today, obviously Internet.com...
August 9, 2009 9:09 pm / 4 comments
According to Joseph Weisenthal at PaidContent.org:
A small deal in the lead-gen space… Quinstreet, an online marketer, has acquired VendorSeek, a lead-gen firm, we have learned. VendorSeek is a B2B lead-gen service targeting such areas as...
June 2, 2008 8:41 pm / no comments
There has been a little buzz swarming the industry lately about QuinStreets possible acquisitions. It came to my attention a few weeks ago and now has been confirmed by a number of sources that QuinStreet has acquired the mortgage and insurance...
May 11, 2008 9:15 pm / 1 comment
There have been a few additions to the Quinstreet team that are worth mentioning. As I have stated in the past I think it is important for lead buyers to watch the movement of employees in the lead industry, especially the sales reps. The reps...
November 19, 2007 8:20 am / 5 comments
Recently there has been a large amount of buzz and news revolving around FHA products and guidelines. Many brokers are beginning to refocus their business and product mix with FHA products. The HUD continues to expand guidelines to be more flexible...
September 27, 2007 11:58 am / 2 comments