Anheuser-Busch InBev has quietly moved into the digital publishing business with a series of investments in websites that cover beer culture and the rising craft beer industry. But the slow move by the nation's largest brewer into the editorial business is raising conflict-of-interest questions and causing blowback in the boisterous craft beer community.The complaints began coming last week when it was disclosed that AB InBev took a minority stake in RateBeer, a site that publishes consumer-driven beer ratings and stories on beer culture. The investment, by the brewer's incubator and venture capital unit ZX Ventures, took place in October but only drew notice last week after after it was discovered by another craft beer beer news site, Good Beer Hunting.ZX Ventures also funds a beer culture magazine called October that was introduced in January by Pitchfork, the music site owned by Conde Nast. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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The digital media company Conde Nast laid off a number of its top executives, along with key events, social media, and editorial staff, in a targeted round of cuts Thursday evening, according to interviews with four current and former staff. A representative for the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-12-05 23:23:59 UTC ]
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It seems that The New Yorker Festival may be picket-free this year. The magazine's union and management at Conde Nast reached a new tentative three-year agreement, the company's human resources department told staffers Monday. (THR) Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-10-15 11:54:00 UTC ]
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More than three years ago, The New Yorker's unionized employees authorized and threatened a strike during a contentious first contract negotiation that culminated with scores of protestors descending on the Greenwich Village home of Conde Nast executive Anna Wintour days... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-10-04 11:54:00 UTC ]
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Publisher frustration is mounting at AI search startup Perplexity, which is backed by Jeff Bezos and other tech titans, for circumventing attempts to block its crawlers from accessing and serving up media content, potentially cutting publishers out of billions in ad... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-06-21 17:04:46 UTC ]
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Conde Nast chief revenue officer Pamela Drucker Mann announced her departure from the media company this morning, according to an internal memo shared by the company. Mann, who joined Conde Nast as the sales director for beauty at Jane magazine in 2005, has served as the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-05-14 17:00:24 UTC ]
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Digital media company Conde Nast unveiled a slate of new video programming at its NewFront presentation at Highline Stages in New York this morning, emphasizing its expanded efforts in the world of sports, news and live events. The company, which houses more than a dozen... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-04-30 18:00:00 UTC ]
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The former Disney executive Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles, the former Hearst content chief, are being given a minority stake in the digital tabloid. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-04-15 13:00:12 UTC ]
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This afternoon, ADWEEK CEO Will Lee announced the appointment of Conde Nast veteran Mike Beyman as chief of staff/head of strategy and business operations, a new role at the brand. In a memo, Lee also shared a number of promotions across the newsroom as well as the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-03-27 21:00:35 UTC ]
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Nineteen years after its debut, Reddit is now a publicly traded company. It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange as RDDT for the first time on Thursday, with mascot Snoo on hand to ring the opening bell. The company aimed to sell 15.3 million shares at $34 a pop to raise around $519.4... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-03-21 14:44:55 UTC ]
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Adweek, the leading source of news, insights and intelligence for the marketing and advertising industry, today announced it has hired former Vice President and General Manager of People, Zoe Ruderman as Chief Content Officer and Drew Schutte, former executive at Conde Nast titles The New... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2023-11-30 19:30:00 UTC ]
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New podcast Stiffed investigates the forgotten story of Viva, a progressive magazine for women that featured Anna Wintour on staffBack in the mid-aughts, right before the internet made Play-Doh spaghetti of the magazine industry, Jennifer Romolini was an editor at Lucky, a Conde Nast property... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-04-03 18:24:51 UTC ]
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Twitter’s ad business is reeling, with its daily revenue reportedly falling by 40 percent from a year ago. According to The Information, over 500 of the company’s top advertisers have paused spending on the platform since Elon Musk’s October takeover. Despite that, Twitter is still attracting... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2023-01-18 18:54:25 UTC ]
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Former Conde Nast space gets another sublet, and Black Spruce closes on a Midtown East apartment building Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2022-09-30 17:10:40 UTC ]
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Recently, Cathy Merrill, the chief executive of The Washingtonian, published an op-ed on “the risks of not returning to work in the office” as the pandemic abates. If employees aren’t around to participate in “extras” (birthday parties, answering questions in person), she argued, “management has... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-05-21 12:00:25 UTC ]
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With a new Black editor in chief and ambitious promises to do better, a little corner of the Conde Nast universe is taking racial and cultural injustice one recipe at a time Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2020-12-24 18:32:00 UTC ]
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As part of the deal, Verizon is acquiring a minority stake in BuzzFeed, which will use the telecom giant’s ad platform to reach more customers. Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2020-11-19 19:16:51 UTC ]
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Tremor International is to buy video advertising platform Unruly from News Corp, with the international publishing giant set to take a minority stake as part of the transaction. The deal will see News Corp take a 6.91% stake in Tremor, with the ad-tech company to receive the exclusive rights to... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-01-06 14:18:42 UTC ]
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Conde Nast has greenlit a half-dozen series for IGTV designed to anchor ad programs that will sew many different Facebook ad products together at once. The post How Conde Nast plans to make money from Instagram TV appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-11-18 05:01:31 UTC ]
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Sometimes an ad gets just a little too truthful for its own good. By the time this 1972 full-pager for Benson & Hedges 100’s ran in Life magazine, smoking was widely understood to be associated with a range of serious diseases. So, sure, let’s equate using our product to jumping out of a... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-30 09:00:00 UTC ]
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