Glam Media has just acquired Ning, the build-your-own-social-network startup co-founded by Netscape creator Marc Andreessen. Glam is best known for building Web properties and an ad network targeting women, and it says it now reaches more than 200 million monthly users. Last month, it announced plans to move aggressively into the mobile market. Now, CEO Samir Arora said the company is making a similar social push while taking advantage of Ning's existing products and audience. "We made a decision that instead of building our own social platform, we looked at Ning, and after we did our due diligence, we said, "Would you be interested in going after this together?'" Arora said. Together, Ning and Glam say they can reach more than 240 million users. Publishers in the Glam network will have have access to Ning's social networking tools, while Glam will start running its brand ads along existing Ning properties. Arguing that LinkedIn created "Jobs 2.0" and Zynga offers "Games 2.0", Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal said the combined company will be the first one tackling "Social for Content 2.0." At one time, Ning was one of the biggest names the social networking landscape, thanks to Andreessen's cachet (he also founded Opsware, sits on the board of directors at Facebook, and runs the prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz) and funding that valued the company at $750 million. Since then, its luster has faded somewhat, after a 2009 restructuring that saw the elimination of... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Welcome to the another edition of Ad Age Sports Media Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast/cable/streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. The Undoing Project One day soon, when we’re living in some... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-15 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Northstar Travel Group is on a buying spree. The Secaucus, N.J.-based, private equity-backed B2B media company mainly serving the travel and hospitality space has acquired travAlliancemedia, Buying Business Travel Media and CAT Media in a trio of separate deals announced Monday and... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-10-08 16:33:05 UTC ]
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Twenty years ago, the news publishing world looked a lot different than it does today. Newspapers were still the main Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-10-07 07:00:48 UTC ]
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The shakeup continues at SourceMedia. Chief content officer David Longobardi is out after 11 years in the role and 15 with the company as it prepares to reveal a series of new additions to its executive team, Folio: has learned. The lone holdover on a five-person C-suite that has now entirely... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-08-22 18:08:05 UTC ]
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John Francisconi, the general manager of Bank Square Books in Mystic, Conn., is finishing up a three-week residency at Otherwise Bookshop in Rome and reflects on the experience for PW. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Jamie Fiocco, owner and general manager of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, N.C., is prepared to expand the focus of the American Booksellers Association as its new president. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to the latest edition of Marketer's Brief, a quick take on marketing news, moves and trends from Ad Age's reporters and editors. Send tips/suggestions to [email protected]. Internet of things, meet the baby’s bottom: Parents too busy looking at their smartphones to pay attention to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-24 20:54:06 UTC ]
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LiveRamp has agreed to acquire Boston-based Data Plus Math for $150 million, a move the company says will allow marketers to measure TV ad effectiveness across linear and advanced TV. LiveRamp provides brands the ability to match their first-party data to platforms such as Pinterest, for... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-24 15:34:50 UTC ]
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The addition of new online features and photo book packages, along with advertising on Facebook and Google, have helped Hawaii-based tech startup JamBios grow the number of memberships on its memory-sharing social media site. When PBN last checked in with JamBios in 2018, the company had just... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-06-01 00:43:17 UTC ]
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Roger McNamee was a mentor Mark Zuckerberg and an early investor in Facebook. Now he has written a book about the "Facebook catastrophe." Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2019-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former New York Times editor skewers everyone in her new book, but ‘there isn’t one business model that’s going to save journalism’, she saysMerchants of Truth, the new book by the former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, is a deep dive into multiple crises that have bedeviled... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Facebook CEO is trying to clear up some misperceptions about the social network’s business model as data regulation looms on the horizon. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal late Thursday to explain his company’s business model and address some... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Net turnover for the European publishing industry was roughly flat last year at €22.2bn (2016: £22.3bn) despite a "significant increase" in the number of new titles issued at 610,000, according to data from the Federation of European Publishers (FEP). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nick Bell, Snapchat's media matchmaker, is leaving the company, a departure that will be felt throughout the publishing world that worked closely with the executive. Bell was one of the early members of Snapchat's team of rising stars, joining the company five years ago when it needed to develop... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Endeavor Business Media has acquired Vendome Group's Healthcare Informatics brand, the Nashville-based b2b firm announced Friday. The deal—which includes the brand's website as well as 13 annual Health IT Summits throughout the U.S.—marks Endeavor's second acquisition since absorbing SouthComm... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charles Womack III, president of Womack Newspapers, Inc. (WNI) announced today that the North Carolina-based alt-weekly publication, Creative Loafing Charlotte—which was acquired by WNI in 2014 from SouthComm Inc.—has been sold to his son C. Alex Womack IV, president of Womack Digital LLC, for... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Economist Group is nearing a deal to sell CQ Roll Call to SaaS firm FiscalNote in exchange for an 18 percent stake in the company, according to an announcement released Wednesday. Expected to be finalized later this year, the proposed deal would see the London-based publisher become the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_127651" align="alignright" width="300"] An exclusive first look at Coastal Living's 208 Idea House in Habersham, SC[/caption] Showcase houses aren't a new concept for shelter magazines. Generally viewed as a natural—and expected—extension of a brand, it’s not atypical at... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anderson Cooper is bringing a version of his CNN show to Facebook, joining Shepard Smith of Fox News as the two main media stars tapped to join the social network's fledgling news platform.On Wednesday, Facebook announced an initial lineup of seven news programs produced by networks and digital... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A change Facebook made to its branded-content guidelines has scrambled several publishers' distribution strategies. The post Facebook’s new branded-content guidelines will force some publishers to abandon a business model appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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