July 19, 2006

Gawker-Yahoo Experiment Ends

Michael Arrington

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The Gawker-Yahoo content distribution deal, which allowed Yahoo to post Gawker content on its site, has been terminated. Our original post on the deal, announced in November 2005, is here. Gawker founder Nick Denton’s post on the termination is here.

Nick suggests that the partnership just sort of petered out. But he also says that Nick Douglas’s regular attacks at Valleywag (a Gawker blog) on Lloyd Braun, head of Yahoo Media, didn’t help matters much. I imagine he might be right.

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dave - July 19th, 2006 at 12:19 pm PDT

ouch, that hurts - when feelings get hurt and cloud management’s objectives…yahoo might be well served by a less myopic view of the world and the influence of critics…even at elgoog it’s easier than ever to find people critical of elgoog management and strategies…

Paul Montgomery - July 19th, 2006 at 12:44 pm PDT

Seems to be a trend. I wouldn’t be so quick to blame Nick, but since he’s so quick to blame others, why the hell not?

Michael Locker MD - July 19th, 2006 at 12:49 pm PDT

Interesting development.

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Darren McLaughlin - July 19th, 2006 at 1:21 pm PDT

A case of “biting the hand that feeds”.

JJ - July 19th, 2006 at 3:13 pm PDT

Valleywag is great fun…

Aidan Henry - July 19th, 2006 at 3:32 pm PDT

I’m surprised Yahoo isn’t the one who called off this deal. It seems as though they were taking the butt-end of most of the jokes.

Then again, they were able to provide ‘high quality’ Gawker content to their audience. Blah… Seems like egos prevail yet again in the blogger world.