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@ pC2011: Denton: The Internet Is A Mass Medium, Not A Niche One

Mar 3, 2011 1:58 PM

In a very amiable dialogue about the nature of “internet success,” Gawker founder Nick Denton told Reuters’ finance blogger Felix Salmon that revenues were expected to be flat this year. Though Salmon floated a number (“It’s about $2 million a month, right?”) Denton wouldn’t budge on amounts (“He’s been trying…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Media & Publishing, Online News, Events, ContentNext Events, paidContent 2011, felix salmon, gawker, nick denton

Gawker’s Denton: Twitter’s Audience ‘Too Elite’; Blogs Look Ludicrous

Sep 27, 2010 11:32 AM

In general, online media needs to turn itself into TV, said Gawker Media head Nick Denton, identified in this week’s New York magazine as the “demon blogger of Fleet Street,” in a Q&A with AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka at the IAB’s Mixx 2010 conference. “It means a screen which is less…

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Posted In: Marketing, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, Events, Companies, Apple, iPhone, mixx, nick denton

State Of Gadget Media: Gawker’s ‘Lost’ iPhone Story: Denton Would Do It Again

Apr 21, 2010 4:13 PM

The big device news this week was Gizmodo’s post about the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) engineer who lost a prototype for the next generation iPhone. Naturally, that was the lead topic kicking off paidContent parent ContentNext’s State of Gadget Media conference held at Edelman’s SoHo offices, as MediaMemo‘s Peter Kafka put…

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Posted In: Gadgets, Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Events, ContentNext Events, State of Gadget Media, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, gizmodo, nick denton

Gawker Media Claims 35 Percent Gain in Ad Revs; Pageview Bonuses Join ‘Paycheck Journalism’

Jul 9, 2009 7:21 PM

For most online media companies, trying to maintain flat advertising revenues is still a struggle. Not for Gawker Media, if publisher Nick Denton is to be believed when he tells NiemanLab’s Zachary M. Seward that the company’s ad revenues are up 35 percent in the first half of the year.…

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Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, News Sharing, gawker, jezebel, nick denton

Gawker Media Breezes Through February; Other Smaller Sites Faring Well, Too

Mar 2, 2009 6:20 PM

When Gawker Media founder Nick Denton talks about plummeting display-ad revenues—as he has often recently—lots of people listen for clues about the market. So when Denton reports that his network of blogs is doing better than expected in both revenues and traffic during a month has traditionally been miserable for…

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Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, Money, gawker, nick denton

Denton Gives Up On Defamer Sale; Folds Brand Into Gawker

Feb 22, 2009 6:43 PM

Nick Denton continues to consolidate Gawker Media brands under the Gawker.com roof, this time folding in formerly for-sale Defamer.com. In a post Sunday afternoon, Denton explained: “In December, Gawker Media sold Consumerist to the Consumer Association, publisher of Consumer Reports. At the same time we announced we’d had a bid…

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Posted In: Social Media, Nanopublishing, gawker, nick denton

Consumers Union To Buy Gawker’s Consumerist.com

Dec 30, 2008 6:40 PM

Consumers Union is buying Consumerist.com from Gawker Media, according to the New York Times—meshing the non-profit publisher’s interest in expanding its reach to a younger online crowd with Nick Denton’s latest blog diet. (The Times, the average age of a print Consumer Reports sub is 60 and ConsumerReports.com is 50,…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Nanopublishing, consumer union, consumerist.com, gawker, nick denton

Where’s The Ad Market Headed Next Year? Nick Denton’s Dire Prediction

Nov 12, 2008 11:03 AM

Gawker Media head Nick Denton specializes in shock effect. His latest pronouncement? Ad spending will drop 30 percent to 30 percent next year. [Denton emailed me and clarified: “publishers should plan on up to 40% decline during the cycle. (Not all next year necessarily.)] Denton made the comments at a…

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Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, nick denton

Gawker Media Lays Off 19 Ahead Of Coming Storm—But Keeps Hiring

Oct 3, 2008 1:16 PM

Gawker Media’s Nick Denton is taking a defensive crouch ahead of the gathering economic storm. In a memo to staff (first posted by SAI), Denton announced that the blog network would lay off 19 people at certain blogs that have proven difficult to commercialize, including ValleyWag, Consumerist and Fleshbot. At…

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Posted In: Jobs & Layoffs, Media & Publishing, gawker, layoffs, nick denton

Denton Slims Down Gawker Media: Gridskipper, Idolator, Wonkette Leave The Fold

Apr 14, 2008 9:44 AM

Blog network Gawker Media is playing gin again, laying down three sites, while picking up none. In an internal email, via SAI, Gawker chief Nick Denton announced that music blog Idolator would be sold to Buzznet (which recently bought music blog Stereogum), travel blog Gridskipper would go to Lockhart Steele’s…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Nanopublishing, buzznet, curbed, gawker, gridskipper, idolator, ken layne, nick denton, wonkette

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