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Glam Media Snags A Google Exec To Head Up Corporate Development

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:30:03 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Glam Media has hired Michael Adair, most recently Google’s head of North American sales finance, as their new VP Corporate Development and Finance. Prior to Google Adair was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and he has an MBA from Harvard. He’ll be responsible for making investments and acquisitions on behalf of Glam.
Glam, a women-focused […]

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Technorati Launches Blog Ad Network, Technorati Media

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based very early growth metrics. Other startups, like Six Apart, have launched their own blog advertising networks as well.
As we predicted, Technorati now joins them with the launch of […]

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GlamMedia Launches GlamTV, Offering Indie and Mainstream an Internet Platform

Thu, 29 May 2008 06:30:04 +0000

Source:Mashable!
Female-oriented lifestyle and fashion network Glam Media is announcing today their video effort’s official launch. GlamTV is to be a video distribution as well as advertising platform set to be incorporated throughout the network of all the 500+ member blogs and content destinations.
The content set to be displayed on GlamTV isn’t just another batch of […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “GlamMedia Launches GlamTV, Offering Indie and Mainstream an Internet Platform”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/28/glamtv/” });

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StyleFeeder Joins Glam, Partners With Shopping.com

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:35:20 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
This is it. Yahoo’s final week to negotiate with Microsoft, or find a better bid, before the proxy battle begins. The company has until Saturday to respond to Microsoft’s offer. A lot can still happen before then.
Yahoo announces earnings tomorrow, and the conference call should be a lively one. […]Source:TechCrunch
Rearden Commerce won’t confirm this one way or the other, but we’ve heard from numerous sources that the Silicon Valley company raised $100 million last week. Existing invesotrs Oak Investment Partners, Foundation Capital and American Express all participated, as well as new investor Chase Capital.
We first wrote about Rearden Commerce a year ago with a […]Source:TechCrunch
Personal shopping engine StyleFeeder has joined the Glam Media Network and partnered with Shopping.com for comparison pricing.
The deal is a big win for Glam’s advertising network, with StyleFeeder bringing an additional 1.5 million page views (comScore) to Glam but more importantly over 1 million Facebook users (StyleFeeder claims to be the biggest shopping application on […]

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Rumor: Federated Media Takes $50 Million On A $200 Million Valuation

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:36:51 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Amidst all the hubbub over the MySpace Music announcement is a much bigger story about the fate of the three year old Fox Interactive Media, the division of News Corp. that controls MySpace, IGN, Scout Media, Photobucket, Fox Sports, AmericanIdol.com and other properties.
FIM, under CEO Peter Levinsohn, will miss their revenue target of $1 billion […]Source:TechCrunch
San Francisco video/chat startup Seesmic has acquired Twhirl, a popular application created by Marco Kaiser that allows users to access the Twitter service directly from their desktop. The deal will be announced on Friday morning, but the acquisition price is not being disclosed.
Twhirl is considered among the better third party Twitter applications. ReadWriteWeb, for example, […]Source:TechCrunch
Federated Media (FM) has rumored to have raised $50 million from Oak Hill Capital Partners on a $200 million valuation, according to VentureBeat. Total funding for Federated Media to-date would be $57.4 million.
So what would Federated Media do with $50 million: Invest in sites. From a March interview:
Battelle: Well, I can’t say specifically what we […]

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Yahoo Shines A Light On Women 25 To 54

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Yahoo has launched Shine, a new content portal aimed at women aged 25 to 54.
At its core, Shine is a large blog with magazine style layout. Content is broken up into various subcategories with the front page highlighting the newest content from across the site. Topic areas include parenting, sex and love, healthy living, food, […]

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Glam Makes Big Cuts In Publisher Payments - “Up To 80% Drop In Revenue”

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:30:07 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Advertising network Glam is putting an end to at least some of its guaranteed payments to publishers, just a month after raising an $85 million round of financing.
Scott Swanson, Glam’s GM and Vice President, told publishers in an email (full text below) that “house ads” that were served for unsold inventory were being discontinued as […]

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Glam Media’s Acquisition of StyleMob Revealed

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:58:35 +0000

Source:Mashable!
Female-oriented lifestyle and fashion network Glam Media has confirmed its acquisition of street fashion online community Stylemob, according to Paid Content. Reportedly, Glam made the acquisition some time earlier this year, for an undisclosed amount, with Stylemob’s co-founder Adam Souzis being appointed as Glam Labs’ executive director. See our initial coverage of Stylemob […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Glam Media’s Acquisition of StyleMob Revealed”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/03/27/glam-media-acquires-stylemob/” });

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Federated Media’s Battelle Slams Rival, Hints At Investing In Publishers

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Two thing jumped out at me when I read a CNET interview with John Battelle of Federated Media this morning - his direct criticism of competitor Glam Media as a “flavor of the month,” and his suggestion that he may take equity stakes in his publishers.
Full disclosure - Federated Media is our ad selling […]

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More Misplaced Glam Exhuberance

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:30:05 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
Ad network Glam got a glowing review from Jeff Jarvis today. And he’s not the only person out there that likes them - word is they closed the big round of financing they’ve been trying to raise, at a $450 million valuation.
I mentioned that they were raising money in an August post. In that […]

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