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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 21, 2011 1:50 AM
Why buy Ning? Aside from the obvious aspects—more scale and better stats for a possible IPO, an expanded ad network, subscription revenue—Glam Media Chairman and CEO Samir Arora is into control. Glam, which bills itself as the leading network for women, already had its own ad platform and recently launched…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 20, 2011 7:03 PM
Co-founded by Marc Andreessen, Ning, once among the highest-profile social network startups, gave up on its grandest plans a while ago and did a full reset. Now it will be part of another startup with ambitious plans, Samir Arora’s ad network Glam Media. The combined companies would have 240 million…
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David Kaplan
Aug 17, 2011 9:00 AM
As mobile advertising is looking to end 2011 with $1 billion in spending, lifestyle blog network Glam Media is aiming for a portion of that with its new mobile ad platform, which its positioning as an alternative to closed systems like Apple’s iAds. Glam’s HTML5 rich media mobile ad units…
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David Kaplan
May 18, 2011 8:00 PM
Glam Media has acquired Britain’s BabyWorld community site, a purchase that’s meant to both spur the company’s growth in the “family/parenting” vertical and solidify its presence in the UK. The deal also reflects a growing consolidation within the mom-blogs segment, as advertisers and brands follow female consumers into the space.…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 25, 2011 12:01 AM
Using clicks to measure for digital ad value may be easy but it’s not the best gauge—and it could be hurting. Some reasons, according to comScore’s Linda Abraham: few people click on ads, the number who do is shrinking and 3 percent of users represent 62 percent of clicks.
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David Kaplan
Dec 13, 2010 1:47 PM
Following its moves into men’s content and continued international expansion over the past year, lifestyle blog network Glam Media is starting Glam Social Communities, which is aimed at opening up its services to individuals in addition to online publishers. The company has hired Ryan Stern, VP of publishing at FoodBuzz…
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David Kaplan
Sep 24, 2010 8:00 AM
When it comes to doing acquisitions, blog network Glam Media hasn’t exactly shied away from using the $50 million mezzanine round it raised in February or the $10 million fourth round the year before to promote its international and product expansions. In an interview with paidContent, Glam CEO Samir Arora…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 13, 2010 6:40 PM
The week’s news was dominated by two IPO filings: Skype, which filed for a $100 million IPO, and Demand Media, which did so a week ago and has since faced criticism for not being as profitable as it had claimed to be. What big digital media name will be next?…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 23, 2010 1:40 PM
Female-focused blog network Glam Media is buying ad technology startup AdPortal, in order to boost the GlamAdapt ad serving platform it launched in June.
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David Kaplan
May 3, 2010 4:33 PM
Former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) VP-corporate development Bruce Jaffe has been hired as Glam Media’s next CFO. Jaffe, who left Microsoft back in January ‘08, joined Glam as an adviser to the board almost two years ago. He will replace Glam’s current CFO, Stephen Recht, who will stay on through the…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 15, 2010 2:47 PM
Women’s lifestyle vertical publisher Glam Media has launched its site in France, following last week’s Paris Fashion Week - despite two warnings from a French company that it owns the “Glam” trademark in the country. The French launch is the latest international expansion for Glam, which has launched in Japan,…
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Rafat Ali
Feb 2, 2010 2:52 PM
Glam Media, the online women and lifestyle media and ad-network company, has raised another big round, this time a mezannine round before its logical next move of an IPO in the next year or so. It has received about $50 million in this fifth round, led by Aeris Capital, the…
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Staci D. Kramer
Dec 8, 2009 1:40 PM
Follow us on Twitter for continuous updates @paidContent here. » Bartz: Tiger better than Michael Jackson. Can’t place ads next to funeral. » Yahoo’s Bartz: God bless Tiger. This week we got a huge uplift. News, sports, gossip. Just filtered through the whole place. » Yahoo’s Bartz would like to…
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Rafat Ali
Oct 12, 2009 12:29 PM
Yahoo’s VP and GM of ad platform strategy Josh Jacobs is leaving the company, and joining Glam Media as SVP of Brand Advertising Products & Marketing, marking another ad defection from the online portal giant. In this new position at Glam, he will head brand ad products, including Glam’s owned…
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David Kaplan
Sep 21, 2009 4:30 PM
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 & general…
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David Kaplan
Apr 6, 2009 5:29 AM
Glam Media has raised a $10 million fifth round from investors related to its Japanese and German units, paidContent has learned. The Japanese funding comes from Mizuho Venture Capital. The VC arm of the Japanese bank was joined by ad agencies Dentsu and WPP Group-backed ADK; magazine publishers Shogagukan and…
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David Kaplan
Mar 19, 2009 8:54 PM
John Trimble will leave his post as Glam Media’s EVP of sales after a year-and-a-half at the lifestyle ad network, paidContent has learned. Glam representatives confirmed Trimble’s planned exit, but declined to offer further details. Sources told paidContent that Trimble, who came to Glam after five years at Fox Interactive…
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Tameka Kee
Feb 23, 2009 3:25 PM
ABC didn’t live-stream the Oscars, and the network is trying to keep video clips from last night’s show off YouTube, in favor of its own Oscar.com (per MediaMemo). But Glam Media figured out a way to make money from the buzz. Hosting a Twitter widget is a no-brainer these days,…
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David Kaplan
Jan 29, 2009 12:08 AM
Female-focused ad net Glam Media has acquired online ad optimizer AdaptiveAds. Terms weren’t disclosed. The three-year-old AA is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and has offices in San Francisco and Mumbai, India. In conjunction with the purchase, Glam Media is opening an office in Mumbai and establishing an engineering presence…
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David Kaplan
Dec 19, 2008 12:52 AM
Despite months of evidence of display advertising’s increasing vulnerability, female-focused ad network Glam Media continues to claim it has detected no considerable retreat in revenue. The latest claim comes via an internal company memo obtained by Venturebeat that also happens to include news of a switch to “variable pay.” Instead…
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