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.
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…
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?
Interesting development.
Michael Locker MD
A case of “biting the hand that feeds”.
Valleywag is great fun…
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.
Forget synergies and mutual respect.
Eh. Whatever. I think it was just a ploy to get free press in the first place.