Aug 11, 2009 10:15 AM
We’ve been doing our channel checks for some time on the fates of two iconic brands in the men’s magazine industry. One is more troubled than the other, and both, in the end, will have a different owner, sooner rather than later. Both Playboy and Maxim have gone through inordinate…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Best Buy, Cablevision, Comcast, Disney, ABC, Microsoft, MSN, NBC Universal, CNBC, Playboy, maxim
Apr 2, 2009 6:00 PM
We asked a month ago whether the collapse of men’s mag Arena was the first of many closures in that sector this year, and that’s exactly what it now looks like: Dennis Publishing will shut the UK edition of its Maxim magazine in May and take the brand online-only after…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Countries, Europe, dennis, maxim
Nov 21, 2008 10:26 PM
Alpha Media, the Quadrangle-owned media company that is holding for Maxim Magazine and Blender, may be turned over to the creditors, reports WSJ, another bad sign for the media investment fund by Steve Rattner. Last week came the news that Quadrangle was closing down its media hedge fund. Things have…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, alpha media, maxim, quadrangle
Nov 13, 2007 8:26 AM
At Monaco Media Forum this weekend, I did a short video interview with Doug Warshaw, the very-newly appointed Chief Digital Officer of the Alpha Media Group, the new Quadrangle-owned company that has Maxim, Stuff and Blender magazines as part of its portfolio. He was previously the co-founder of Motionbox, the…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, alpha media, doug warshaw, maxim
Nov 8, 2007 12:18 PM
—Maxim Digital: Alpha Media Group, which now owns Maxim after its sale by Dennis earlier this year to Quadrangle Capital Partners, has appointed Douglas Warshaw, Co-Founder of Motionbox to Chief Digital Officer, Maxim Digital. Warshaw will oversee content and technology for Maxim Digital. Concurrent with that, Todd Anderman, President, Maxim…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, CNET, doug warshaw, maxim
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