A&E Television To Acquire Lifetime

Aug. 27, 2009 - 10:03 PM EDT Aug. 27, 2009 - 10:03 PM EDT

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A complicated deal in the works for months between Disney (NYSE: DIS), Hearst and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is finally done: A&E Television N… Read more »

Polyvore Raises $5.6 Million For User-Generated Fashion Site

By Joseph Tartakoff

Aug. 19, 2009 - 2:30 AM EDT Aug. 19, 2009 - 2:30 AM EDT

Polyvore — which bills itself as the “web’s largest user-generated fashion magazine” — has raised $5.6 million in a second round of fundin… Read more »

Industry Moves: Rodale’s Head Murphy Resigns; Maria Rodale To Move Into CEO Role

By David Kaplan

Jul. 30, 2009 - 11:16 PM EDT Jul. 30, 2009 - 11:16 PM EDT

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A lot of turmoil in the magazine business these days… After nine years as CEO and president of health/lifestyle mag publisher Rodale, Stev… Read more »

Can ‘Good Blogging Seal Of Approval’ Help Mommy Bloggers Avoid The Regulators?

By David Kaplan

Jul. 27, 2009 - 11:00 PM EDT Jul. 27, 2009 - 11:00 PM EDT

Women’s sites have been among the most successful areas of content on the web, and mommy bloggers have anchored that growth. But mommy blogg… Read more »

NatMags Dropping GetLippy In Favour Of Company.co.uk Launch

By Robert Andrews

Jul. 23, 2009 - 3:09 PM EDT Jul. 23, 2009 - 3:09 PM EDT

In the latest switch in its flip-flopping web strategy, Hearst’s National Magazine Company is ditching the GetLippy.com brand, replacing it… Read more »

Meredith Acquires Stake In Mobile Marketing Firm The Hyperfactory

By David Kaplan

Jul. 21, 2009 - 7:02 PM EDT Jul. 21, 2009 - 7:02 PM EDT

Women’s mag publisher Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) has taken a 19.9 percent stake in mobile marketing firm The Hyperfactory. Terms of the deal… Read more »

Mobile Content Bits: Dopplr, ShopStyle.co.uk, FT.com iPhone Apps

By Robert Andrews

Jul. 16, 2009 - 6:04 PM EDT Jul. 16, 2009 - 6:04 PM EDT

A rash of new iPhone apps…

– Dopplr: The business travel social net has taken its Social Atlas to the iPhone, price free, putting it up… Read more »

Elle.com Goes Shopping With Rue La La

By David Kaplan

Jul. 7, 2009 - 1:05 AM EDT Jul. 7, 2009 - 1:05 AM EDT

E-commerce is starting to become the favorite alternative revenue stream for magazine websites, as online ad grows slows to a crawl. And so,… Read more »

Fashion Site StyleCaster Raises $4 Million In First Round

By Joseph Tartakoff

Jul. 2, 2009 - 10:00 PM EDT Jul. 2, 2009 - 10:00 PM EDT

StyleCaster has raised $4 million in a first round led by billionaire Quicken Loans owner Dan Gilbert. The site — which offers personalized… Read more »

Why Women’s Sites Are Attracting Advertisers Even In A Downturn

By Tameka Kee

Jul. 1, 2009 - 8:22 PM EDT Jul. 1, 2009 - 8:22 PM EDT

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Most digital-ad-spending forecasts for the rest of 2009 (and beyond) are predicting little-to-no growth this year. But that data may not tel… Read more »

Industry Moves: DailyCandy GM Levene Departs, Hearst’s Ellard To Take Her Place

By David Kaplan

Jun. 29, 2009 - 6:50 PM EDT Jun. 29, 2009 - 6:50 PM EDT

DailyCandy COO and GM Catherine Levene is leaving the Comcast-owned fashion and entertainment e-newsletter next month, becoming the second t… Read more »

@ Microsoft Digital: Moore: Plans For More Partners, Content For Women And Parents

By David Kaplan

Apr. 24, 2009 - 12:25 AM EDT Apr. 24, 2009 - 12:25 AM EDT

The centerpiece of the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Digital Showcase was Wonderwall, MSN’s entertainment channel which was launched in February. T… Read more »

Wenda Harris Millard Steps Down as MSLO’s Media Head and Co-CEO; Heading To MediaLink As President

By David Kaplan

Apr. 21, 2009 - 4:46 PM EDT Apr. 21, 2009 - 4:46 PM EDT

Wenda Harris Millard is stepping down from her post as president of Media and Co-CEO at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), in what… Read more »

Glam Raises $10 Million Fifth Round For German, Japan Expansions

By David Kaplan

Apr. 6, 2009 - 3:29 PM EDT Apr. 6, 2009 - 3:29 PM EDT

Glam Media has raised a $10 million fifth round from investors related to its Japanese and German units, paidContent has learned. The Japane… Read more »

Women-Focused LimeLife Acquires Tapatap For Community Features

By Tricia Duryee

Mar. 24, 2009 - 4:31 AM EDT Mar. 24, 2009 - 4:31 AM EDT

LimeLife has acquired San Mateo, Calif.-based Tapatap, and will integrate the company’s core technologies, including user-generated contests… Read more »

Tapatap Shuts Down; Women-Focused LimeLife Acquires Technology For Community Features

By Tricia Duryee

Mar. 24, 2009 - 4:11 AM EDT Mar. 24, 2009 - 4:11 AM EDT

LimeLife has acquired San Mateo, Calif.-based Tapatap, and will integrate the company’s core technologies, including user-generated contests… Read more »

Hachette Retools Women's Mag Division, Hopes To Jolt Digital Side

By Tameka Kee

Mar. 3, 2009 - 3:29 AM EDT Mar. 3, 2009 - 3:29 AM EDT

It’s trendy for companies these days to talk about breaking down silos to allow for more nimble execution. But some media companies are also… Read more »

Broadband Content Bits: Digital Media Execs Launch 'Obsessed'; Alloy's Teen.com

By Tameka Kee

Feb. 28, 2009 - 3:37 AM EDT Feb. 28, 2009 - 3:37 AM EDT

– Duo hopes women get Obsessed with new show: Another day, another online video series … though this one is aimed at a demo that doesn’t… Read more »

Industry Moves: Peggy White Joins Slate Group As Publisher Of Women's Spinoff Double X

By Staci D. Kramer

Feb. 27, 2009 - 5:52 AM EDT Feb. 27, 2009 - 5:52 AM EDT

paidContent has learned that Peggy White, the former GM of *Yahoo* Finance and BusinessWeek, is joining The Slate Group as publisher of its… Read more »

Men Are From iPlayer, Women Are From Google: Research

By Robert Andrews

Feb. 10, 2009 - 3:37 PM EDT Feb. 10, 2009 - 3:37 PM EDT

The UK internet’s already rather balanced gender composition will edge even closer to 50/50 toward 2013, a new eMarketer report says. But th… Read more »

Earnings: Meredith Q4 Profits Sank 64.5 Percent

By David Kaplan

Jan. 22, 2009 - 7:46 PM EDT Jan. 22, 2009 - 7:46 PM EDT

Women’s magazine publisher Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corp had a rough quarter as profits tanked 64.5 percent year-over-year to $12.5 million ($0.… Read more »

Meredith Realigns Web Properties Into Women’s Online Network

By David Kaplan

Jan. 21, 2009 - 8:45 PM EDT Jan. 21, 2009 - 8:45 PM EDT

About two months after taking a minority stake in Real Girls Media Network, Meredith (NYSE: MDP) is using the site as one of the main legs o… Read more »

Industry Moves: IPC Media Appoints Fiona Dent MD Of Womens’ Division IPC Connect

By Patrick Smith

Jan. 13, 2009 - 5:11 PM EDT Jan. 13, 2009 - 5:11 PM EDT

IPC Media has appointed Fiona Dent as the new MD of its Women’s Weeklies division IPC Connect, moving her to one of the top jobs in the comp… Read more »

Elemental Interactive Takes Stake In Clutch Magazine

By Tameka Kee

Jan. 12, 2009 - 7:00 PM EDT Jan. 12, 2009 - 7:00 PM EDT

There’s life yet in online publishing … Digital media consultancy Elemental Interactive has made a strategic investment in Clutch, an onli… Read more »

Meredith Slashes 250 Jobs; Will Take $16 Million Charge; Country Home Mag Closed

By David Kaplan

Jan. 9, 2009 - 12:02 AM EDT Jan. 9, 2009 - 12:02 AM EDT

Women’s magazine publisher Meredith (NYSE: MDP) is cutting 250 jobs which will result in a $16 million charge — about $9 million after-tax… Read more »

Industry Moves: IPC Media Names Evelyn Webster As CEO, Sylvia Auton Moves To New York

By Patrick Smith

Dec. 16, 2008 - 5:34 PM EDT Dec. 16, 2008 - 5:34 PM EDT

NME publisher IPC Media has appointed Evelyn Webster, MD of its weekly women’s mag division IPC Connect, as its new CEO. Webster starts the… Read more »

Gaming Roundup: Sales Up (But What About Sony?); Hearst’s Casual Upgrade; Muslim Virtual World

By Tameka Kee

Dec. 13, 2008 - 6:34 AM EDT Dec. 13, 2008 - 6:34 AM EDT

– Games and consoles still moving off the shelves : NPD’s latest numbers show that the gaming industry is thriving in spite of the recessi… Read more »

BlogHer Cuts Payments To Bloggers By 10 Percent

By Staci D. Kramer

Dec. 12, 2008 - 12:59 PM EDT Dec. 12, 2008 - 12:59 PM EDT

The well-funded BlogHer women’s network is cutting the revenue share for its more than 2,500 blogs by 10 percent effective Jan.1. According… Read more »

Print Round-Up: News International; Northcliffe; City AM; CN Group, Newsquest

By Patrick Smith

Dec. 12, 2008 - 12:24 AM EDT Dec. 12, 2008 - 12:24 AM EDT

– News International: Six months after effectively shutting down its magazines division, News International has sold the remnants, essentia… Read more »

High-Profile Women’s Site WowOwow Raises Additional $1.5 Million

By David Kaplan

Dec. 8, 2008 - 6:51 AM EDT Dec. 8, 2008 - 6:51 AM EDT

WowOwow.com, the site launched earlier this year by five female media stars — including 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl, conservative pundit Peggy… Read more »

Shopping Site SheFinds.com Raises $1.3 Million In First Round

By Tameka Kee

Nov. 25, 2008 - 2:04 AM EDT Nov. 25, 2008 - 2:04 AM EDT

White Cat Media, parent company of the Shefinds.com and MomFinds.com shopping blogs, has raised $1.3 million in its first round. Vancouver-b… Read more »

Meredith Takes Stake In Real Girls Media Network

By David Kaplan

Nov. 19, 2008 - 11:40 PM EDT Nov. 19, 2008 - 11:40 PM EDT

At a time when many media companies are retrenching, women’s magazine publisher Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Corp has pulled out its checkbook and t… Read more »

@ EconWomen: Starting A Community And Keeping Up The Conversation

By Amanda Natividad

Oct. 30, 2008 - 8:06 AM EDT Oct. 30, 2008 - 8:06 AM EDT

If you build it, they will come… but what if they don’t come? That was the question Lisa Belkin (above, left), contributing writer, The *N… Read more »

@ EconWomen: Tina Brown Tells Cathie Black She’d ‘Hate To Be In Magazine World’

By Patrick Smith

Oct. 30, 2008 - 3:30 AM EDT Oct. 30, 2008 - 3:30 AM EDT

Cathie Black and Tina Brown famously clashed over the ill-fated Talk magazine, which Brown edited and Black was involved in killing earlie… Read more »

@ EconWomen: Women-Focused Publishers Say Display Has Room To Grow

By Tameka Kee

Oct. 30, 2008 - 2:01 AM EDT Oct. 30, 2008 - 2:01 AM EDT

Plenty of publications, including the WSJand AdAge, are declaring the end is nigh for ad networks, even juggernauts like Glam Media, becaus… Read more »

@ EconWomen: Tina Brown: I’d Hate To Go Back To Print

By Robert Andrews

Oct. 30, 2008 - 12:38 AM EDT Oct. 30, 2008 - 12:38 AM EDT

She may have edited Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, but Tina Brown these days is thanking her lucky stars she quit atoms for bits. T… Read more »

@ EconWomen: Advice To Publishers: ‘Don’t Put All Your Women In One Bucket’

By Robert Andrews

Oct. 30, 2008 - 12:28 AM EDT Oct. 30, 2008 - 12:28 AM EDT

New entrants to the exploding female-centric content market should acknowledge the diversity of female interests if they want to play in the… Read more »

@ EconWomen: MSLO’s Millard: Known Brands Will Win In This Economy

By David Kaplan

Oct. 29, 2008 - 10:39 PM EDT Oct. 29, 2008 - 10:39 PM EDT

“I am so not a Wendy,” Wenda Harris Millard, co-CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), declared, picking up on an audience memb… Read more »

Russia’s WomanJournal Raises

By Robert Andrews

Oct. 22, 2008 - 12:49 PM EDT Oct. 22, 2008 - 12:49 PM EDT

The publisher of WomanJournal.ru, Russia’s leading female site, has raised Read more »

Mobile Content Bits: Perez Hilton; School Of Rock; Playphone-UMG; Tribune; LimeLife; RIM Joystick

By Matt Kapko

Oct. 22, 2008 - 1:14 AM EDT Oct. 22, 2008 - 1:14 AM EDT

– Perez Hilton launches mobile site: The celebrity gossip site that made the Paint application cool again with rudimentary white dots and l… Read more »

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Industry Moves: Rodale’s Head Murphy Resigns; Maria Rodale To Move Into CEO Role

Can ‘Good Blogging Seal Of Approval’ Help Mommy Bloggers Avoid The Regulators?

NatMags Dropping GetLippy In Favour Of Company.co.uk Launch

Meredith Acquires Stake In Mobile Marketing Firm The Hyperfactory

Elle.com Goes Shopping With Rue La La

Fashion Site StyleCaster Raises $4 Million In First Round

Why Women’s Sites Are Attracting Advertisers Even In A Downturn

@ Microsoft Digital: Moore: Plans For More Partners, Content For Women And Parents

Wenda Harris Millard Steps Down as MSLO’s Media Head and Co-CEO; Heading To MediaLink As President

Tapatap Shuts Down; Women-Focused LimeLife Acquires Technology For Community Features

Hachette Retools Women's Mag Division, Hopes To Jolt Digital Side

Broadband Content Bits: Digital Media Execs Launch 'Obsessed'; Alloy's Teen.com

Industry Moves: Peggy White Joins Slate Group As Publisher Of Women's Spinoff Double X

Men Are From iPlayer, Women Are From Google: Research

Earnings: Meredith Q4 Profits Sank 64.5 Percent

Meredith Realigns Web Properties Into Women’s Online Network

Industry Moves: IPC Media Appoints Fiona Dent MD Of Womens’ Division IPC Connect

Elemental Interactive Takes Stake In Clutch Magazine

Meredith Slashes 250 Jobs; Will Take $16 Million Charge; Country Home Mag Closed

Industry Moves: IPC Media Names Evelyn Webster As CEO, Sylvia Auton Moves To New York

Gaming Roundup: Sales Up (But What About Sony?); Hearst’s Casual Upgrade; Muslim Virtual World

Print Round-Up: News International; Northcliffe; City AM; CN Group, Newsquest

@ EconWomen: Tina Brown Tells Cathie Black She’d ‘Hate To Be In Magazine World’

@ EconWomen: Women-Focused Publishers Say Display Has Room To Grow

@ EconWomen: Tina Brown: I’d Hate To Go Back To Print

@ EconWomen: Advice To Publishers: ‘Don’t Put All Your Women In One Bucket’

Russia’s WomanJournal Raises

Mobile Content Bits: Perez Hilton; School Of Rock; Playphone-UMG; Tribune; LimeLife; RIM Joystick

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