Interview: iVillage’s Kahn: From Beauty To Pregnancy, To Mobile And Premium
Since NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) acquired iVillage for $600 million four years ago, the women’s content network has tried a variety of ways to… Read more »
The Knot Creates ‘Yelp For Weddings’ Reviews Channel
photo: Events By Elaine
Having solidified its hyperlocal media efforts, weddings lifestyle site The Knot is hoping to expand those sites with the addition of a dire… Read more »
Glam Taps Ex-MSFT Jaffe As CFO
Former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) VP-corporate development Bruce Jaffe has been hired as Glam Media’s next CFO. Jaffe, who left Microsoft back i… Read more »
Lifetime’s iPad Ad Blitz Promotes ‘Project Runway’ Finale
Although the iPad is the hands of less than half-a-million people, Lifetime is targeting those users with an ad campaign for this week’s sev… Read more »
Reader’s Digest’s New Recipe For Namesake Brand: ‘Pure-Play’ Digital Exec Sharples
Shades of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS). Reader’s Digest Association is promoting a “pure-play’ digital exec to lead across platforms: Allrecip… Read more »
MSN, BermanBraun (And Hachette Too) Follow Up Wonderwall With Lifestyle Site ‘Glo’
Wonderwall, round two? Microsoft’s MSN and BermanBraun are hoping to duplicate the celebrity site’s success with Glo, a new lifestyle site t… Read more »
PeopleJam Founder Matt Edelman Named CEO of Social Shopper ThisNext
Fresh from a new round of funding and a high-profile acquisition, shopping recommendation and related lifestyles site ThisNext has tapped Pe… Read more »
Personal Finance Site For Women LearnVest Gets $4.5 Million
LearnVest, a personal finance site for women, has raised $4.5 million in a first round of funding. LearnVest’s pitch: Women control 80 perce… Read more »
iVillage Plans Larger Health And Wellness Rollout
photo: Corbis / Michael Keller
Since updating its look last fall, iVillage has been tinkering at the edges, adding three new channels around celebrities, food and even ast… Read more »
AOL Unveils New Food Site Run By Former Gourmet, Epicurious Editors
AOL (NYSE: AOL) practically added two new sites a month last year as part of its goal to reach 100 sites under its MediaGlow content group.… Read more »
TMZ Courts Bigger Advertisers With New, Softer-News Website
Celebrity gossip site TMZ has quietly unveiled a gentler fashion-oriented offshoot called Too Fab. Although TMZ maintains high traffic — Fe… Read more »
What Will Yahoo Buy Itself For Its Birthday?
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) celebrated its 15th birthday this week with cupcakes for reporters, a Collective Soul concert for its staff, and several… Read more »
MSLO’s Upfront Puts The Emphasis On Cross-Platform, Consumer Control
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) held its advertising upfront yesterday and unlike the traditional TV upfront events that are get… Read more »
Fashion Content Aggregator Stylesight Completes $10 Million Second Round
Fashion info service Stylesight has raised the second half of its $10 million second round, just two months after securing the first $5 mill… Read more »
Polyvore Names Ex-Google Latin America And Asia-Pacific Chief CEO
A very high-profile hire for fashion site Polyvore. The startup, which lets users mix and match products from any online store and then shar… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Sky/IPC, Wikileaks Returns, Eurosport/Virgin, Digital Radio
– Sky Songs/IPC: The broadcaster will promote its new music download service through IPC Media’s listings magazines. TV & Satellite Week, T… Read more »
Glam Raises $50 Million Mezzanine Round at $750 Million Valuation
Glam Media, the online women and lifestyle media and ad-network company, has raised another big round, this time a mezannine round before it… Read more »
Baby Shop Giggle Buys Pregnancy Site The Cradle
Giggle, a store for new parents, is making a content play with the purchase of pregnancy site The Cradle. Giggle — which offers a selection… Read more »
Condé Nast Vet Sanders Replacing Beckman As Fairchild Fashion CEO
Condé Nast is promoting Gina Sanders (image, left) to CEO and president of the Fairchild Fashion Group (FFG). She succeeds Richard Beckman,… Read more »
Martha Stewart And Yahoo Expand Online Advertorials To Other Platforms
Yahoo is expanding the online ad partnership it struck with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia over the fall to include the domestic diva’s mag… Read more »
MSN And BermanBraun Wonderwall Team With Hachette On Women’s ‘Lifestyle’ Site
MSN and BermanBraun, the team behind the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) portal’s entertainment channel Wonderwall, is working with mag publisher Hac… Read more »
Betawave CEO Matt Freeman Shifts To Vice Chair In Reorg
Matt Freeman (pictured, left) is relinquishing his CEO post at OTCBB-traded kids/mom-focused ad network Betawave to take on the role of vice… Read more »
iVillage Hires MTVN Marketing Exec Balsam-Schwaber
Catherine Balsam-Schwaber has left her post as a senior marketing exec at MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) to take on a similar role at NBC Universa… Read more »
Like.com Buys Fashion Sharing Site Weardrobe
Shopping search engine Like.com has purchased Weardrobe, a site that lets visitors posts stylish photos of themselves and then “follow” othe… Read more »
LimeLife Raises Another $1 Million
Updated: Women-focused content firm LimeLife — which runs an online site aimed at the 18-34 year-old set, along with a corresponding mobile… Read more »
Five Media Deals I’d Like To See Happen In 2010
Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.
This brutal year in M&A… Read more »
MSLO Online Revs Fall 9 Percent As Net Loss Widens; Expectations Rise For Q4
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The pullback in advertising and consumer purchases resulted in a dismal quarter for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), as revenues… Read more »
Going Full Gilt: DailyCandy Gets Into Sample-Sale Game
Like a lot of media companies that rely on advertising revenue these days, DailyCandy is eager to diversify its revenue streams. To that end… Read more »
Meredith Profits, Revenues Slip; Some Signs Of A Thaw
As both magazines and local TV continues to struggle on the ad front, Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corp.’s profits slipped 1.6 percent, while revenu… Read more »
NBC’s Today Show Extends Women Connection With TodayMoms Community Site
NBC (NYSE: GE) is attempting to build on The Today Show’s predominantly female audience by reaching out to the younger and connected set wit… Read more »
The Women’s Information Network Gets Funding, New Leadership — But Can It Gain Traction?
Here’s another online network for women trying to compete with the likes of the iVillages and *Yahoo* Shines: The Women’s Information Networ… Read more »
Industry Moves: Glam Media’s Lagani To Head Ad Sales For iVillage
Updated: Two years after arriving at Glam Media from Conde Nast, publishing industry vet Joe Lagani has left the company to join NBC Univers… Read more »
Glam Achieves Profitability; Promotes Rotolo To North American Head
For the first time in its five-year history, female-focused ad network Glam Media has moved into profitability, CEO Samir Arora told paidCon… Read more »
Industry Moves: Former TMZ Bureau Chief Lee Joins Fuller’s HollywoodLife.com
Bonnie Fuller has added some help in putting together and managing a digital newsroom by signing celeb news vet Will Lee as executive editor… Read more »
Ex Osoyou Director Woodhead Trying Again At Women's Online Content
The markets for content for female content and eco-minded content continue to grow. Now one new little publishing house is targeting both.… Read more »
Meredith To Share Ad Sales Duties For Mag Rack VOD Network
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Do We Need Another Celebrity News Site? iVillage Thinks So, But It's 'Just For Women'
After drumming up attention for its upcoming website overhaul, iVillage wants everyone to know it’s also created a new celebrity news site… Read more »
The Latest iVillage Revamp: Can NBCU Get It Right This Time?
Just over two years since its last major revamp, NBC Universal’s iVillage is promising to be more topical, more focused and more user-genera… Read more »
Condé Nast's Latest E-Commerce Play
In time for this month’s Fashion Week — and the usual companion traffic spike– Condé Nast’s is unveiling its latest e-commerce play: Shop… Read more »
Hearst Preps New Beauty Site; Is There Room For Another Virtual-Makeover Tool?
Hearst is readying a site called Real Beauty for launch next month. The WSJ puts Hearst’s site launch at the center of a wave of new technol… Read more »
