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- NBC's Today Show Extends Women Connection With TodayMoms Community Site
- NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is attempting to build on their predominantly female audience by reaching out to younger and connected with the introduction of an online community to The Today Show called TodayMoms. In addition to fostering a conversation about parenting, the morning show’s personalities, including host Meredith Viera...
- External links 2009-10-12
- Industry Moves: Glam Media's Lagani To Head Ad Sales For iVillage
- Two years after arriving at Glam Media from Conde Nast, publishing industry vet Joe Lagani has left the company to join BNC Universal’s iVillage, which is currently in the middle of its latest turnaround. In an e-mailed release, iVillage says that Lagani, who was most recently Glam’s head of...
- External links 2009-09-23
- Glam Achieves Profitability For First Time; Promotes Rotolo To North American Head
- For the first time in its five-year history, female-focused ad network Glam Media has moved into profitability, CEO Samir Arora told paidContent in an interview. Reflecting the company’s ability to buck recessionary pressures and the growth of its U.S. business, the company is promoting Jack Rotolo to president &...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Industry Moves: Former TMZ Bureau Chief Lee Joins Fuller's HollywoodLife.com
- Bonnie Fuller has added some help in putting together and managing a digital newsroom by signing celeb news vet Will Lee as executive editor of HollywoodLife.com. Lee was at TMZ for nearly three years, starting as a producer but spending most of his tenure as New York bureau chief...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Meredith Strikes Rev Share Agreement With VOD Network
- Women’s mag publisher Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) will provide its content to Interactivation’s Mag Rack, a free VOD TV network. The two will share ad and sponsorship revenues from the partnership. In addition to its own videos, Meredith will also handle ad sales and sponsorships for current Mag Rack...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Do We Need Another Celebrity News Site? iVillage Thinks So, But It's 'Just For Women'
- After drumming up attention for its upcoming website overhaul, iVillage wants everyone to know it’s also created a new celebrity news site as part of the revamp. With celeb news one of the few major growth areas for online ad dollars, it’s understandable that iVillage would be tempted to...
- External links 2009-09-08
- The Latest iVillage Revamp: Can NBCU Get It Right This Time?
- Just over two years since its last major revamp, NBC Universal’s iVillage is promising to be more topical, more focused and more user-generated. Although the full redo isn’t being unveiled until this Wednesday, as the NYT reports, the site has been sporting a new logo and lighter, less cluttered...
- External links 2009-09-07
- Condé Nast's Style.com Matches Advertising To E-Commerce
- Right in time for this month’s Fashion Week—and the usual companion traffic spike, Condé Nast’s is unveiling its latest e-commerce play: Shop The Look at Style.com, aka the web home of Vogue. Rachel Wintner, Style.com’s associate publisher, told paidContent the e-commerce service is a direct way to prove its...
- External links 2009-09-02
- Hearst Preps Beauty Site As Advertisers Find New Attractions Online
- Sensing that beauty advertisers are loosening their purse strings when it comes to online advertising, Hearst is readying a site called Real Beauty for launch next month. WSJ puts Hearst’s site launch at the center of a wave of new technology that is bringing a bit of the in-store...
- External links 2009-08-31
- BREAKING: A&E Television To Acquire Lifetime
- A&E Television Networks AETN, the NBCU/Disney/Hearst JV that produces shows like Intervention and runs networks like The History Channel, is acquiring Lifetime Entertainment. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Lifetime will operate as a subsidiary of A&E, with both companies retaining their separate branding.AETN President and CEO Abbe Raven...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Polyvore Raises $5.6 Million For Fashion Site
- Polyvore—which bills itself as the “web’s largest user-generated fashion magazine”—has raised $5.6 million in a second round of funding from new investor Matrix Partners, as well as existing backers Benchmark Capital and Harrison Metal Capital. New cash will be used to fund growth and expand the startup’s engineering and...
- External links 2009-08-18
- MTV Marketing Exec Balsam-Schwaber Departs For iVillage
- Catherine Balsam-Schwaber has left her post as a senior marketing exec at MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) to take on a similar role at NBC Universal’s iVillage. This is the second high-profile departure at MTVN since Nada Stirratt exited as EVP for Digital Advertising last month to join MySpace as...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Like.com Buys Fashion Sharing Site Weardrobe
- Shopping search engine Like.com has purchased Weardrobe, a site that lets visitors posts stylish photos of themselves and then “follow” other members whose fashions they like. Like.com says it is applying its visual search technology to the Weardrobe site so that visitors will be able to easily find and...
- External links 2009-11-18
- LimeLife Raises Another $1 Million
- Women-focused content firm LimeLife—which runs an online site aimed at the 18-34 year-old set, along with a corresponding mobile property—has raised another $1 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. Unclear who provided the new cash, although the filing lists partners at previous backers Monitor Ventures, U.S. Venture...
- External links 2009-11-18
- Five Media Deals I'd Like To See Happen In 2010
- Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.This brutal year in M&A is mercifully winding down. The global credit squeeze, deep recession, and shrinking valuations have kept deals in check. But with the economy rebooting and many big...
- External links 2009-11-11
- MSLO Online Revs Fall 9 Percent As Operating Loss Widens
- The pullback in advertising and consumer purchases has resulted in a dismal quarter for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), as revenues fell 25 percent, while its operating loss widened to $11.7 million from last year’s $3.5 million for the third quarter of 2008. MSLO also struggled online as...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Going Full Gilt: DailyCandy Gets Into Sample-Sale Game
- Like a lot of media companies that rely on advertising revenue these days, DailyCandy is eager to diversify its revenue streams. To that end, the Comcast-owned fashion and lifestyles site and e-newsletter has introduced Swirl, a sample sales site available only to DailyCandy subscribers. With the new site, DailyCandy...
- External links 2009-10-30
- Meredith Profits, Revenues Slip, But Signs Of A Thaw Persist
- As both magazines and local TV continues to struggle on the ad front, Meredith Corp.‘s (NYSE: MDP) profits slipped 1.6 percent while revenues fell nearly 9 percent. But the company did point to signs of a possible thaw, as two of its leading pubs, Better Homes and Gardens and...
- External links 2009-10-29
- The Women's Information Network Gets Funding, New Leadership?But Can It Gain Traction?
- Here’s another online network for women trying to compete with the likes of the iVillages and Yahoo Shines: The Women’s Information Network, or the WIN. The company promises to offer women “bite-sized” editorial, audio and video content, as well as social networking tools. How they’ll grow an audience—currently, traffic...
- External links 2009-09-30
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- Has Twitter (Gasp) Hit a Ceiling?
- According to the metrics service Compete, Twitter's dazzling month-over-month growth rate slowed down dramatically last month -- at least on the web. Compete says that the micro-blogging service grew by a paltry 1.47 percent in May to a total of 19,728,619 unique visitors. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
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