Comments on: Update: HuffPo Finishing On $20M Round, Oak and Others; $110 Million Valuation Ballpark

By: Garmin 1250

Garmin 1250 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:34:37 +0000

Wow! I think its the huge amount of content piled up there

By: Brian T

Brian T — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:00:39 +0000

If Arianna is going to start paying bloggers to provide content for the HuffPo blog, please put my name down on the list of interested parties. A blog entry there should be worth at least a thousand dollars, wouldn't you say?

By: Jeremy Gutsche

Jeremy Gutsche — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:16:22 +0000

Great article. In the past, sites like Tree Hugger, Ars Technica, Weblogs Inc and others have been purchased providing us with general insight that big media companies are (were?) willing to pay something close to $0.5 – $2 per monthly page view. If we assume a conservative number of $0.5, we would end up with a mid-2008 valuation of at least $75 million, so the $110 million here does not seem out of the ballpark.

I dive more deeply into the valuation here:
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/how-much-is-huffington-post-worth

By: Fred Fosnacht

Fred Fosnacht — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:57:06 +0000

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By: Karol

Karol — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:49:47 +0000

"If HPost couldn’t breakeven during the height of the election cycle and couldn’t throw off big cash, why would it reach profitability during an off-election year with declining ad revenues." Because you see this as an investment, and are not shackled by left wing idealism. People who invest in the HP are of the mindset the same of a religion person who passionately feels the need to give to a cause to "save the world". If you read how ignorant the idealistic-liberal comments are after a HP story, you will easily, easily understand where the money comes from. For example I tried to educate some ignorant HP commenters about what the central bank is, how inflation and lose credit markets work. They were insulted that Bush is not the cause of the economic crisis and, disappointed at losing the argument, they immediately turned to ad homoinem attacks. I would have expected a "thanks you for educating me", but there is not accounting for "open minded" people, even when Bill Clinton (Admitted to bad economic policy during his term on Johnny Carson) and Obama agrees with me(talk about decades of bad policy in his presidential win speech). The point is it take a seriously mental person to ignore reality and facts because they *feel* their way through problems and this is a small percentage of the US that buys into the type of seriously misleading stories on the HP. Airhead America for example is a loser for the same reasons, their stories are left wing hate. This is why Al Franken is desperately fighting for his senate seat as AA owes him back wages…..this is also the reason why the more left a journalist/outlet is the more they think journalism should get its revenues through taxes like in Blighty. The notoriously liberal BBC would have went out of business years ago if it had to function without tax payer support for its left leaning agenda.

By: Cynthia Typaldos

Cynthia Typaldos — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:33:58 +0000

Does anyone know what their biz model is? Thanks for any insights.

By: jb

jb — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:51:11 +0000

I guess it bubble 2.0. While HuffPo may or may not be overvalued, remember that the Times has over a billion in debt, and has junk bond ratings, so that influences it's valuation as only $750 mil market cap. Plus, its primary industry, newspapers are heading down and is saddled with all that expensive infrastructure, retiree benefits, etc. So the comparison between HuffPo and Times is just a revenue to revenue one.

By: Analyst

Analyst — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:35:43 +0000

The valuation makes no sense.

Do you realize that for $110 million you can buy 100% of the outstanding stock of Lee, MediaGeneral and A.H.Belo?

By: Wilmington Jenning Billingswor

Wilmington Jenning Billingswor — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:18:27 +0000

What's funny is that the NY Times, America's most storied news brand, with 100 years+ of chronicling the world, with $3 billion in revenues, is worth $750 million. These venture investors don't know what they are doing. The HPost community is probably valuable, but communities are very tough to monetize yielding appallingly low CPMs. Now with over $35-40 million in liquidation preferences, I don't see it. If HPost couldn't breakeven during the height of the election cycle and couldn't throw off big cash, why would it reach profitability during an off-election year with declining ad revenues. If you can't do it in good times, you definitely can't do it in bad times.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:24:57 +0000

So, is she going to start paying her bloggers now?