Comments on: UGO Acquired By Hearst, Should Be Announced Today

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Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:51:20 +0000

[...] acquisition deal is structured as an asset purchase between UGO Entertainment, which itself was acquired by Hearst Corp back in July 2007 for a reported $100 million plus, and the Ziff Davis Games Group who owned the [...]

By: UGO Entertainment Buys 1UP Gaming Network; EMG Bites Dust

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By: TechCrunch: Hearst Acquires Kaboodle for $30+ million at Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:44:09 +0000

[...] is the second recent acquisition announcement for Hearst Interactive Media – UGO for around $100 million last month, and tonight they are announcing the acquisition of Kaboodle, a social shopping service [...]

By: NexGen Technology Blog » Hearst Acquires Kaboodle for $30+ million

NexGen Technology Blog » Hearst Acquires Kaboodle for $30+ million — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:46:55 +0000

By: Hearst Acquires Kaboodle for $30+ million

Hearst Acquires Kaboodle for $30+ million — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:20:48 +0000

By: UGO Acquired By Hearst : Blog & WordPress

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:27:07 +0000

eh, Cavenger’s got better stuff than this (http://www.cavenger.com)

By: marc - godandweb20.com

marc - godandweb20.com — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:04:54 +0000

thanks veritas

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:38:25 +0000

“Mike – any guesses as to why the low multiples on this acquisition? This is much, much lower than most of the other recent acquisitions we’ve seen.”

They have multiple years of revenue to show, surefire way to kill your valuation

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:41:07 +0000

Ryan, I assume they’ll be getting all the other websites in their network?

By: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:36:40 +0000

No way in hell they’re taking $30 mill in revenue. They have like a 4k Alexa. Someone got played….

By: veritas

veritas — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:33:16 +0000

Marc: Obviously not. YouTube, Flickr, Delicious, 95% of other “web 2.0″ companies don’t have any profits and still sell for millions.

My guess: some combination of profits, users, market and importance determine the price. YouTube for example was important to Google, had the users and basically cornered the user video market.

By: marc - godandweb20.com

marc - godandweb20.com — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:17:22 +0000

mike,
does there is a global rule for an acquisition? (profit)*2? *3? *4 ? *10? ….

By: patricia

patricia — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:56:35 +0000

Interesting. It’s very interesting to see a tradtional publisher make a move like this. Finally. I think they all should have been making these kind of acquisitions a year and a half ago. I have thought this sector of media has tanked on online initiatives so far. It’s good to see somebody finally make a move.

Ugo looks cool – what a boys site, though, for sure. I wonder what Hearst is going to do with it.

By: James

James — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:22:00 +0000

Take a look at UGO.com and MTV.com side by side. They use the exact same structure. They even use the exact same nav-bar. The thing I’m trying to figure out is who copied who?

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:35:37 +0000

Mike – any guesses as to why the low multiples on this acquisition? This is much, much lower than most of the other recent acquisitions we’ve seen.

By: Firefox Fan

Firefox Fan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:23:54 +0000

i think that 1/3 growth in one year is quite enough. (was 20k, now almost 30k).

marc – it’s $30m in revenue, not in profit

By: marc - godandweb20.com

marc - godandweb20.com — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:55:29 +0000

mike ,

it isn’t a lot $100M if they make $30M/year, isn’t it ?

By: startupmix.com

startupmix.com — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:11:55 +0000

How someone can use site like ugo.com is? Full of heavy graphics and videos from the beginning…

By: What's Hot Today.com

What's Hot Today.com — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:43:30 +0000

Ditto, still in all a remarkable achievement.

By: Search*Engines WEB

Search*Engines WEB — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:40:47 +0000

1997 makes them a survivor of the Web 1.0 era – a real achievement for a
new-media company.

One can not help but wonder WHAT they could have become had they been fully developed and expanded.

They had an enormous head start over today’s popular Web 2.0 media destinations – just imagine what a giant they could have grown into during the past 10 years