To Angelenos, there can be no more horrifying news than the launch of yet another tour-bus franchise targeting celebrity hotspots to further clutter their already over-trafficked streets. But to media mavens, TMZ’s decision to enter this business is just pure brilliance.

Nearly 2.3 million people tuned in to TMZ.com’s live stream of Lindsay Lohan’s day in court on Tuesday, July 6, in which Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel sentenced the troubled starlet to 90 days in jail and 90 days at an in-patient rehab program. That’s by far the…

Celebrity gossip site TMZ has quietly unveiled a gentler fashion-oriented offshoot called Too Fab. Although TMZ maintains high traffic—February uniques were up 6 percent to 14 million, per comScore (NSDQ: SCOR)—and gained new credibility by breaking the news of Michael Jackson’s death last year, many advertisers remain uncomfortable with the…

As we have been reporting for a while, celeb powerhouse site TMZ will now be part of Time Warner, after operating as a JV between AOL and Warner Bros-owned Telepictures for a while. First TMZ took ad sales away from AOL earlier this summer, and now as part of AOL…

Last week we reported that TMZ had stopped its ad sales arrangement with its JV owner AOL, and raised some questions about AOL’s stake in the celeb site following the portal’s spin-off from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX). Staci asked AOL CEO Tim Armstrong about it in her long interview with…

Sixteen cities in 10 countries, from Baltimore to Bangalore, Denver to Dublin. Twenty-six Town Hall and All Hands meetings. Seventy-one product reviews. Fifty-one partner/customer meetings. The numbers charting Tim Armstrong’s 100-day immersion course as the latest chairman and CEO of AOL (NYSE: TWX) sound impressive but what do they add…

TMZ, the in-news online celeb site that is part owned by Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings AOL and Telepictures, brought its ad sales in house this month, paidContent has learned and confirmed from the companies. Till now, the online ad sales of the JV site was done by AOL, but…

This week’s Reliable Sources on CNN was a particularly spirited one, as it continues to discuss more and more issues with connection to online/digital media. This one touches on three topics: whether media is over-covering MJ story (surprisingly all three guests, including our increasingly ubiquitous friend Sharon Waxman, disagree with…

Updated: Being as vicious as possible has been the claim to fame for gossip blogs like TMZ and dlisted.com—but some sites showed their gentler sides today when it came to coverage of Michael Jackson’s death. One exception was Perez Hilton, whose initial coverage of Jackson’s hospitalization was as mean-spirited as…

One of the founding senior executives is leaving TMZ, the celebrity site owned by Time Warner: Alan Citron, the longtime GM of TMZ, is leaving to join pop-culture focused social media firm Buzznet as the head of what it calls “Special Projects”. In this newly created position, Citron will advise…

At our EconCeleb spotlight Q&A with Harvey Levin, managing editor, TMZ.com and host & executive producer, TMZ, he and interviewer Charlie Koones, former president and publisher of Variety, talked about Levin’s own philosophy for the show. Levin also clarified where he draws the line between what he will report on…

As managing editor of TMZ.com, Harvey Levin can be a celeb’s best friend or worst nightmare—not that he’s trying to be either. That’s coming through loud and clear in our second keynote Q&A of the afternoon here at EconCeleb. Interviewer Charlie Koones, former president and publisher of Variety and former…

We are doing a very exciting conference on July 23rd in Los Angeles, called EconCeleb, which will explore the business of celebrity and entertainment content online (and on mobile). It will be held at Roosevelt Hotel in the heart of Hollywood, and as our half-day conferences go, will be in…

Oh-so-hot TMZ.com, a JV by AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Telepictures, had to create a brand from scratch. Ditto for Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) still-in-beta OMG—though both had the plus of being part of a major portal, a traffic boost almost beyond value.  Then there’s the New York Post‘s “Page Six”—thisclose to…

Two years after the launch of successful gossip site TMZ.com, Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) hopes its latest entry in a crowded field can follow suit: MomLogic.com, a combo online destination and cross-platform ad network “for thinking moms who don’t have time to think” and the advertisers who want to…