Glam reheats Foodie.com with new features & prepares to take on the print world

April 1, 2013 4:43 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Last year saw Glam Media plunge into a new Food-focused vertical Foodie.com, which is now one of the most popular sites in the genre. Now, the company is rolling out a brand new version of the site that puts a focus on user-based recipe submissions, expert reviews, and even print media.

Glam Media may have filed a secret IPO under the JOBS Act, report says

February 26, 2013 3:33 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Digital publishing startup Glam Media has reportedly filed documents for an initial public offering, one outlet claims.

Glam Media is now bigger than fading web portal AOL (scoop)

July 11, 2012 3:42 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

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It may have taken a while, but the age of web portal dominance is finally starting to show visible signs of erosion.

For the first time, media and advertising startup Glam Media now has a higher global audience reach than …

Glam Media cooks up new Foodie.com social site

February 9, 2012 5:42 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

After months of silence, Glam Media finally revealed its plans for the company’s next big site launch, Foodie.

VentureBeat broke the news that Glam purchased the Foodie.com domain for $100,000 back in June 2011. At the time, we theorized that …

StyleCaster to challenge Condé Nast with ‘Style as a Service’ ads (exclusive)

December 21, 2011 7:16 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Fashion-focused media company StyleCaster will launch a proprietary ad platform in mid-January that will challenge Condé Nast, Glam Media and third-party ad networks, the company revealed today.

The new ad platform, dubbed Style as a Service, is a joint venture …

Glam Media may be checking out banks for a 2012 IPO

December 15, 2011 1:42 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Female-focused media and advertising company Glam Media may soon file to go public.

If so, it will join the ranks of Internet companies hitting the trading floor, such as Jive, Zynga and (earlier this year) LinkedIn.

According to Bloomberg‘s sources, …

Glam Media launches new GlamSplash advertising platform

November 18, 2011 2:04 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Glam Media is launching a new video ad platform called GlamSplash that aims to mimic the effectiveness of 30-second TV spot advertisements, the company announced today.

We’ve got a video that we recently shot in VentureBeat’s headquarters with Glam co-founder …

Dylan’s Desk: How the Internet is dividing publishers into two camps

November 16, 2011 8:30 AM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Glam Media founder Samir Arora thinks he knows the future of media.

The secret, he is betting, is brand advertising displayed against high-quality, premium content.

That stands in stark contrast to the advertising model that’s worked best for the past …

Glam Media hires new CFO, honing its edge for a likely IPO

September 27, 2011 1:46 PM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Glam Media announced today that it has hired 16-year Apple veteran Jeanne Seeley as its new chief financial officer and executive vice president, a move that likely positions the company for a public offering. Seeley starts work today.

Samir Arora, …

Glam Media goes mobile: launches ad platform, mobile site builder

August 17, 2011 5:00 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Mobile is the next big step for Glam Media, a female-focused media and advertising company. Glam today is launching its GlamMobile advertising platform and GlamEnable, a platform that lets publishers create websites and apps optimized to run on mobile devices.…

Week in review: Lulzsec and Anonymous trade blows

June 18, 2011 10:07 AM Anthony Ha
Anthony Ha

Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days:

Hit the deck: LulzSec and Anonymous start trading blows — Hacker group LulzSec has begun publicly attacking hacker …

Exclusive: Why did Glam Media spend over $100K on Foodie.com?

June 15, 2011 2:17 PM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

The female-focused media and advertising company Glam Media has purchased Foodie.com, potentially as the first step towards launching a new food vertical, VentureBeat has learned.

According to a source, Glam Media CEO Samir Arora purchased the Foodie.com domain last week …