David Kaplan
Sep 29, 2010 4:32 PM
Since last October, the number of comments on Huffington Post stories have more than doubled to 3.5 million, making commenting the “main attraction” on the online aggregator, said CEO Eric Hippeau, opening the company’s Advertising Week gathering. He also claimed that the site’s main attraction to advertisers are the “social…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jun 17, 2010 1:28 PM
The Huffington Post’s acquisition of Adaptive Semantics isn’t an “open sesame” for a buying spree. “We’ll be opportunistic,” HuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau told paidContent, stressing that the company isn’t shopping. “We’re not looking but if there are things that are important to us, as demonstrated with Adaptive Semantics,” HuffPo would…
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David Kaplan
Feb 4, 2010 12:35 PM
Attempting to get some debate going from his panel at the Media Dealmakers Summit, Slate Group Chairman and editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg actually had the best anecdote on the subject. After the panelists, Politico co-founder/EIC John Harris, Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau and Bloomberg Chief Content Officer Norm Pearlstine, agreed that…
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Alex Ferreyra
Oct 22, 2009 4:46 PM
The Robert Thomson quote machine was in full force during the obligatory Web 2.0 Summit look at the future of journalism. Federated Media’s John Battelle moderated the often chippy session featuring WSJ top editor Robert Thomson; Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau; New York Times digital head Martin Nisenholtz; and designated…
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Staci D. Kramer
Oct 19, 2009 6:30 PM
The news spread quickly, aided by PR and the characteristic web glee anytime an online property appears to be leaving old media in the dust: the September numbers for *comScore* and Nielsen showed Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post beating WashingtonPost.com in unique visitors for the first time. Coincidentally, just…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jun 15, 2009 8:50 PM
One way to get some almost uninterrupted time with peripatetic Arianna Huffington: talk to her while she’s on jury duty, waiting to be picked. (I say almost because she has two cell phones and whichever one she’s not on is likely to ring.) We spoke Monday afternoon as news was…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jun 15, 2009 2:17 PM
The Huffington Post, which has achieved great popularity but is still looking for the profit to match, is getting its second CEO in as many years, paidContent has learned. Betsy Morgan, who joined the high-profile media startup in late 2007, is being replaced by Eric Hippeau (pictured, right), a managing…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jan 29, 2008 9:28 AM
After a brief presentation from VC Tim Draper titled “Why I am Bullish on Investing in Media” (the usual reasons: disruption, the end of media monopolies, the continued shift online), at AlwaysOn OnMedia, a panel of VCs including Draper, Eric Hippeau (Fenwick & West), Jonathan Miller (Velocity), Drew Lipsher (Greycroft)…
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