Archive for category: Content

Huffington Post Logo Contest Sparks Design Controversy

Huffington Post Logo Contest Sparks Design Controversy

The Huffington Post’s business model has been good for some, and not so good for others- which makes it a controversial topic when compensation for content contributions is discussed. There’s no question as to whether the model benefits some- Arianna […]

Huffington Post UK Slow To Gain Traction, Faces Tough Regional Competition

Huffington Post UK Slow To Gain Traction, Faces Tough Regional Competition

I was reading an interesting post today by the Guardian’s Peter Preston in which he performed a quick tally of comments per article on HuffPost UK’s top 10 blogs. Peter found that three weeks ago the sites stories were receiving just […]

HuffPost LatinoVoices Launches, Provides “American Bicultural Experience”

HuffPost LatinoVoices Launches, Provides “American Bicultural Experience”

AOL Huffington Post Media Group on Thursday announced the launch of HuffPost LatinoVoices, an online community that celebrates and investigates bicultural Hispanic American culture. The new site offering is headed by senior editor Gabriel Lerner, a former News Editor for La […]

Nichenet Announces The Launch of New Media News Site Medacity

Nichenet Announces The Launch of New Media News Site Medacity

MELBOURNE, Australia, August 12, 2011 – Web content development company Nichenet Pty Ltd today announced the launch of its latest online property Medacity (medacity.com.) The new site focuses on the latest news from the new media sector, covering big content […]

AOL to Buy Back $250M in Stock After Selloff

AOL to Buy Back $250M in Stock After Selloff

After shares of AOL stock lost more than a third of their value this week, the company announced a plan to buy back $250 million in AOL stocks in order to protect the stock’s price. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong confirmed […]

Maura Egan Leaves Huffpost After Five Months

Maura Egan Leaves Huffpost After Five Months

Huffington Post deputy entertainment, culture and lifestyle editor Maura Egan is leaving The Huffington Post after serving in the position just shy of five months. WWD reported that Egan wrote in an email simply that “I’d like to leave it […]

Demand Media Moves Into Latin Market, Acquires Argentina-Based Emerging Cast

Demand Media Moves Into Latin Market, Acquires Argentina-Based Emerging Cast

It’s been a busy week for premiere content farm Demand Media, as the company has renewed its advertising deal with Google for a period of three years and acquired both RSS Graffiti and IndieClick to serve up ads to more than […]

Demand Media Signs Three-Year Global Advertising Deal With Google

Demand Media Signs Three-Year Global Advertising Deal With Google

Despite Google Panda taking a huge chunk out of their traffic, Demand Media on Tuesday announced the renewal of their global advertising initiative with the search giant. Under terms of the three year agreement Google will monetize Demand Media’s properties […]

Demand Media Responds To Google Panda Issue, Focuses On Socially-Drive Products

Demand Media Responds To Google Panda Issue, Focuses On Socially-Drive Products

The Google Panda algorithm which was launched to combat what the company calls “Content Farms” was successful in killing traffic for various big content providers including Hubpages, Suite101 and most notably properties owned by Demand Media (Ehow, Livestrong, Cracked, etc.) […]

Demand Media Acquires RSS Graffiti, IndieClick

Demand Media Acquires RSS Graffiti, IndieClick

Demand Media has been busy in the acquisitions space today with two new additions to its lineup: RSS Graffiti and IndieClick. RSS Graffiti is a Los Angeles-based developer of social media products, with its main product being a free Facebook […]

AOL Revenues Buoyed By Increased Advertising Revenues, Investors Not Impressed

AOL Revenues Buoyed By Increased Advertising Revenues, Investors Not Impressed

For the first time in three years AOL on Tuesday posted an increase in global advertising revenue during the company’s earnings call. The newly reorganized media publisher posted a net loss of $11.8 million for the quarter, compared to a […]

Newsweek Bought Their Traffic Ahead Of ‘The Daily Beast’ Merger

Newsweek Bought Their Traffic Ahead Of ‘The Daily Beast’ Merger

Last week it was reported that while The Daily Beast was seeing upticks in their own website traffic, recently acquired company Newsweek is down 24 percent in the past year and now it turns out that those numbers could have been […]

HubPages Tries Subdomains To Recover From Google Panda

HubPages Tries Subdomains To Recover From Google Panda

Content community HubPages is transitioning its users to subdomains in an attempt to recover traffic following the roll out of Google Panda earlier this year. Like many big content players, HubPages took a hit from Google’s search changes, with a […]

Yahoo Launches New Web Player: I Don’t Get It

Yahoo Launches New Web Player: I Don’t Get It

Yahoo has launched Yahoo WebPlayer beta, billed as a “new way to add video and audio to your site.” The player allows users to include video and audio content on their sites through a new pop up interface that is […]