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Corning Incorporated is a company that works with specialty glass and ceramics. continue reading...
Not only do women make less on the workforce, but now according to the latest Consumer Report, women are also being charged more for the products that they use compared to the ones for men. continue reading...
When we launched WatchMojo.com in January 2006, I went out of my way not to target men, what with my non-compete from AskMen being in effect until 2007. But invariably, over time, there are only so many women’s topics you can cover, so we now have quite a lot of content targeting men.
Not surprisingly, we ended up arming Glam with a lot of their video content on Brash.com, the men’s site they launched today. This move is just the latest site we provide premium video content to. continue reading...
Say it ain’t so Hef! Apparently, Playboy is having some trouble.
Tycoon Hugh Hefner has been advised to cut back on staff at his multi-million dollar glamour empire as it struggles to cope during the global economic turmoil. continue reading...
One of the main objections WatchMojo.com’s strategy used to it the fact that we create content across many categories (auto, health, travel, video games, etc.). It’s was a fair criticism; but it’s proven to be moot.
I don’t need to take 1,000 words to explain why. The marketplace has validated that strategy. continue reading...
Mania TV adds $5M to their $17M in funding, bringing the total to $22M. Ripe TV remains “king of the hill” funding-wise with $32M… followed by Heavy.com’s $25M but I am not sure if they really fall in video creators anymore…
These amounts are just a “tad” more than the money we’ve invested in WatchMojo.com, of course. I reiterate that you are better off not being funded up the wazoo until you know what your business model will look like and it actually pans out. I’m not alone in thinking that, take it from a pro like Fred Wilson: the following is the most accurate thing I’ve ever read about why VC-backed firms fail (our commentary here and here). continue reading...
A couple of months ago, Felix Publishing unloaded Maxim, Stuff and Blender for some $250M to Quadrangle. The company’s fundamentals were eroding as print advertisers fled online, pursuing readers. Men don’t read magazines, I learned pretty quickly once I entered the media business. I hate to say it, but apart from the odd flight or think tank reading material, magazines are so out amongst men.
Anyway, when I competed against Maxim in the early 2000s as a member of the executive of an online lad mag, I thought it was a matter of time before Felix Dennis made us an offer we could not refuse. For whatever reason, he never called. Neither did his bankers. Over time the fundamentals of print got too shaky, and their corresponding online business was not developed enough, so they sold, instead. While Felix had hoped his assets would fetch $750M, they got but a third of that, $250M or so, in a sale that was handled by Allen & Co. continue reading...
Much of the discussion pertaining to TV content seems to focus on piracy and copyright. This begs the question, even if media companies could be in control of their content online, will they really want it out there? Let’s see.
Just a couple of months ago, I ran some numbers based on revenue growth forecasts for a) global advertising, b) TV advertising and c) online advertising and asked whether or not Online Ads Would Surpass TV Advertising by 2021? continue reading...
As readers of this blog know, from 2000-05 I worked in the men’s space…
Anyway, today I came across a couple of interesting, albeit ironic stories: continue reading...
