Comments on: Sugar trying to rollup women’s content sites, buys Coutorture

By: Rumor Of More Funding For Twitter, While They Admit Cluelessness » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:11:47 +0000

[...] Despite my frustrations with Twitter, I still think the last situation a fairly safe bet, especially with the recent wave of acquisitions (CBS + CNet, Conde Nast (Wired) + Ars Technica, AOL + Bebo, Sugar + Coutorture and Shopstyle) [...]

By: Injustice! (Again!) » Manolo's Shoe Blog: Shoes, Fashion, Celebrity, and Manolo!

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:16:36 +0000

[...] need only look at such recent developments as the purchase of Coutorture by Sugar Media, and the amount of capital raised by Glam.com to know that the the economic potential of the [...]

By: buzz

buzz — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:57:44 +0000

There’s so much in the news at the moment about female-oriented sites! Why would an ad network aimed at women not work when they are such an important online demographic?

By: VentureBeat » NBC Universal grabbing at women, buys Oxygen Media for $925M

VentureBeat » NBC Universal grabbing at women, buys Oxygen Media for $925M — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:12:27 +0000

[...] NBC is also a backer of Sugar, a female-oriented content site, which yesterday said it acquired a fashion blog network Coutortore. [...]

By: at Next Media Update

at Next Media Update — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:57:02 +0000

[...] Sugar Trying to Rollup Women’s Content Sites, Buys Coutorture VENTUREBEAT Sugar the San Francisco site for women’s content, will announce tonight it has acquired Coutorture, a network of about 230 websites and blogs. It’s Sugar’s second purchase in two weeks and helps boost its traffic at a time when there are questions about it. Comscore showed Sugar’s traffic has remained at slightly more than 1 million unique users, though Sugar says its traffic is still at 5 million. Sugar recently gave up on an idea to create an ad network for women, saying there was no value in it. Source> [...]

By: ms sugar

ms sugar — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:18:45 +0000

wow, they’re acquiring all of the lower-trafficked sites now such as she finds, herfablife.com etc.