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Southern Pines, NC (PRWEB) August 18, 2011

Visitation spending to the Pinehurst/Southern Pines/Aberdeen Area increased 9.4% in 2010 according to a report released this week by the NC Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Developments Director Lynn Minges. The growth marked a reversal from two consecutive years of anemic performance as a direct result of the 2008 recession. Total visitor spending in the county for the year was $ 342 million, with employment in the sector topping 4,730 residents.

Without a doubt people are exercising their right to travel again, albeit with a dose of restraint in terms of frequency, and length of travel, states Caleb Miles, President of the Convention & Visitors Bureau representing Moore County, which is branded as the Home of American Golf

Birmingham, AL (PRWEB) 17 November 2011

al.com, Alabamas largest website with 2.8 million unique monthly visitors *, has launched a free iPad app in real-time local news, sports, entertainment, business, and opinion articles, photos and classifiedspowered of Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and Press-Register. App al.com IPAD is available in the iTunes App Store.

iPad app joins a growing number of mobile products, including al.coms Mobile, iPhone and Android applications, as well as High School al.coms app that has a high school game results and stats from across the state.

content on the app and other mobile platforms, including news from local communities across Alabama, high school and college sports, weather, entertainment coverage of TV, movies, music and local arts scene and a photo gallery, and obituaries. There are also listings of jobs, cars and houses for sale and rent.

iPad app is unique in its presentation and includes bold, photo-driven home screen that automatically organizes the top stories in an attractive, dynamic look. Articles automatically adjust to portrait or landscape orientation. Article pages have a clean look, with adjustable text size and function of storing and sharing through Facebook, Twitter and iMessage.

“Press-Register, Birmingham News and Huntsville Times al.com have worked with to build a mobile deals to serve people in their area,” said Ricky Mathews, president of Advance Alabama / Mississippi and publisher of the Press-Register. “We are committed to offering news and advertising formats – print and digital -. To meet the needs of our customers

2014, 69% of the mobile advertising market will be dominated by small local companies, according to BIA / Kelsey, said Cindy Martin, President / CEO of al.com. al.com offers local businesses the opportunity to reach customers on their way through a package of mobile advertising products. In September, al.com reported more than 600,000 unique visitors per month ** for mobile version al.com and that number continues to grow. We are also able to serve clients thousands of other places ads through our network of alliances and targeted messages that geography, demography and behavior.

Download iPad al.com app from the App Store here.

on al.com

al.com, a subsidiary of Advance Digital, a leading local website for news and information through the Alabama contains the latest Alabama news, business, sports, travel, weather, traffic, shopping and entertainment information. In addition, al.com is a comprehensive business directory listings, as well as local classified ads for jobs, houses, apartment rentals and autos. al.com is powered by Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and Press-Register.

The Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and the (Mobile) Press-Register

purchased in the 1950s and 1960s to the pre Publications, Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and the (Mobile) Press-Register newspaper collected, edited, printed and delivered to date news and advertising in print only. Today, the Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and the (Mobile) Press-Register, the dominant multimedia company in its markets, making state-of-the-art facilities which house over 1,000 employees that produce and deliver news, information and advertising on media platforms that are read more than a million adults every week, or 67% of adults in three markets. These figures are evidence of the public reporting of quality and diversity of the topics of our award-winning news team, giving our advertisers access to a wide audience across all age, education and income groups. No other medium reaches more local consumers with an input from the Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and the (Mobile) Press-Register.

About Digital Advance

Advance Digital, based in Jersey City, NJ, provides information and digital connectivity solutions for local consumers and businesses. The company operates 11 media properties across the U.S. that are the number one local news, information and community hubs in the markets they serve. Web sites are al.com, cleveland.com, gulflive.com, NJ.com, NOLA.com, OregonLive.com, SILive.com, syracuse.com, MassLive.com, PennLive.com and lehighvalleylive.com.

About Verve Wireless

Verve monetizes local mobile media. Our solutions help local media companies put their mobile inventory and enable advertisers to reach valuable, premium audience where they live, work and play. More than 1000 local publishers use the Verve platform to manage its mobile advertising business and help to make their sales teams more effective. In addition, we bring incremental revenue to our publishers through our relationships with national advertisers, who value the Verve network of high quality local media, including mobile offices recognized brands of local media, as well as newer digital only local and hyper-local publishers. It is completely safe, editorially-driven, high quality and transparent environment with a leading targeting, creative and reporting capabilities. Only Verve put together such a large national footprint of high quality local media. Verve is located in San Diego, CA and Washington DC. For more information, visit http://www.vervewireless.com.

* comScore Media Metrix, May 2010

** SiteCatalyst Omniture, October 2011

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