Watch it live: Kutcher vs. CNN race to a million Twitter followers
You can’t get more meta than a site that micro-blogs trends in micro-blogging. But we’re through the looking glass anyway, so here goes: Tinker.com, part of the distinguished Glam Media Network, is live streaming the Twitter race to a million followers between Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk)… Continue Reading
Women’s ad network Glam raises $10M more, beefs up in Japan
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Glam Media, the very fast-growing content and advertising network built largely around women’s content, has just raised another $10 million, largely to help fuel its growth in Japan.
Glam is now valued at just over a half billion dollars, we’re hearing from a source close to… Continue Reading
Tinker: sanitized Twitter for advertisers, money-maker for micro-bloggers
Popular microblogging services like Twitter, Facebook and Friendfeed will let you find and follow friends, celebrities, and anyone else who interests you. But Glam Media wants to let you follow events, too. It’s just launched Tinker.com, a micro-blogging platform that collects real-time conversations from Twitter… Continue Reading
Glam edits Oscars Twitter feed and makes money
Women’s publisher and advertising network Glam is seeking to make money by editing streams from Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook’s status updates.
Take tonight’s Oscars event, for example. Glam has launched a widget on its home page that lets users tweet their thoughts about the Oscars. But… Continue Reading
Glam buys AdaptiveAds to improve targeting for display ads
Glam Media, a fast-growing advertising and publishing network for women, has acquired a Silicon Valley start-ups AdaptiveAds for an undisclosed price to help it better target ads.
Glam is one of the more controversial companies in Silicon Valley right now. It has witnessed rocketing growth over… Continue Reading
Ad network Glam sees record 4th quarter, puts entire workforce on “variable” pay
Glam Media, one of the newfangled content and advertising networks assumed by many industry observers to be vulnerable to financial meltdown, says it still hasn’t seen any marked decline in online display advertising. Yet, to be cautious, it is slashing salaries by moving to a… Continue Reading
Meredith gives Real Girls a shot in the arm
Social networking for women got a boost yesterday as media conglomerate Meredith Corp. acquired an undisclosed minority stake in Real Girls Media Network. The San Francisco-based network encompasses about 30 sites and portals for women — notably, DivineCaroline, a largely user-generated advice page.
In addition to… Continue Reading
Glam launches GlamApps, a sort of Facebook for advertisers
Glam Media, a company targeting content and ads mainly at women, is letting advertisers launch full-fledged widgets and applications on the Glam site.
Just like Facebook lets developers create applications that run freely on its site, Glam is doing the same for advertisers. The main difference… Continue Reading
Glam slows payments to publishers in its ad network
Glam, a women’s site publisher and ad network, is becoming more like most other ad networks out there. It will further delay payments that it owes to partner publishers, starting this month.
Publishers typically have to wait awhile for ad payments, whether in old media formats… Continue Reading
Glam launches Brash, a content and ad network for men
Updated: The site has launched.
Glam Media, a content and ad network focused mostly on woman, is apparently about to launch a network focused on men called Brash.com, something we’d expected after reporting on early rumors last month.
The site has a message saying “coming soon” (see… Continue Reading
Glam launches luxury site — just in time for the Depression
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Glam Media, the fast-growing content and ad network focused on women, has launched Glam Luxury — featuring things like high-end fashion, premium travel and fine living. It will target luxury advertisers, including Swarovski.
What great timing! A luxury site? Right when the economy is falling off… Continue Reading
Roundup: Buffet invests, M&As and IPOs sink, Mac laptops rise and more
Here’s the latest action:
In Buffet we trust — Billionaire Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathway group is investing $3 billion in General Electric. Why the investment? GE is the “symbol of American business to the world,” Buffet told VCCircle. That’s the spirit in a troubled economy — or… Continue Reading
Glam launches German site, after acquiring luxury media company, Codex
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Glam, the content and advertising network focused on women, is launching a German site called Glam Deutschland, after acquiring a large German content network called Codex Media.
Techcrunch reported on the Codex deal, after getting a tip about it today. We’ve confirmed the Codex deal with… Continue Reading
Glam lays off seven percent of its employees, prepares to launch “Men”
Updated with more details about Glam’s channel for men, which has been called “CodeBlue” internally — see image below left
Glam, the women-focused online ad network, is laying off 14 out of 200 employees, mostly in sales, reports by Valleywag and Silicon Alley Insider indicated today.
The… Continue Reading
Roundup: BlackBerry gets love, Lehman selling stakes to raise capital and more
Here’s the latest action:
BlackBerry gets some love — In the past few days the device, which is still the most popular smartphone in the U.S., has gotten improved Google Mobile applications, a special MySpace Mobile version and TiVo controls. All good steps, but the device is… Continue Reading
Women-focused media site Glam launches developer network
What does a Facebook just for women look like?
Well, if you look closely enough, women-focused media site Glam is is taking on more appearances of that — only without the user profile part.
Indeed, taking a leaf from the success of Facebook, Glam has just unveiled… Continue Reading
Break Media, video ad network for dudes, gets big brands on low-budget content, grows fast
When I encounter a grainy video of two apparently intoxicated women battling it out on the subway, the last thing I expect to appear is an ad from a major brand. But lo and behold, at Break.com, the flagship site of the video ad network,… Continue Reading
Glam buys U.K. ad company, surpasses Facebook in “reach”
Glam Media, the company that continues to pursue a wild land-grab strategy of buying up woman-focused media properties so that it can run advertising beside the content, has just made its most significant acquisition to date.
Glam said it has acquired Monetise Limited, a U.K. company… Continue Reading
Glam offers new video ad network, gets acquisition offer for $1.3B
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Glam, the fast-growing online advertiser and publisher for women, is announcing a new video offering that may make it easier to monetize videos on the Web.
Beginning tomorrow, Glam is letting publishers on its network — which reaches 64 million people — to run videos produced… Continue Reading
A roundup of scenery from the Web 2.0 Expo: an annotated photo gallery
I spent four days this week at the Web 2.0 Expo at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco. Here is a summary of the scene, including photos and my impressions of the show.
I attended the RockYou/Clearspring/Mixercast reception on Tuesday night at Bong Su,… Continue Reading