Thank you!

The discussion here regarding RH and Glam speaks to Glam’s ability to monetize the health vertical. We already know they can, based on their success in introducing and rolling out vertical businesses.

Finally, the issue of valuation. i think we all know, Michael, that the “value” of a digital business is subject to many variables and whether its a billion or not, Glam offers marketers and advertisers a major women’s footprint. And, this footprint (and revenues, business model etc) are scaling nicely.

Samir has built a first class team … but, lets be REAL CLEAR…if the opportunity wasnt being seized by Glam, 320+ blue chip advertisers, worldwide wouldnt have signed up.

So, best of luck to Glam and Rev Health. Both are important businesses and more importantly, great opportunities for marketers to connect with consumers in this very fragemented media world that exists today.

When iVillage needed profit, they went out and bought two profitable health companies – healthology and healthcentersonline and a year later sold to NBC for $600 million. Both those companies have effectively been disolved into an updated ivillage total health.

The value of Glam and its leadership should be determined by the market. So far the company has been very successful raising money, attracting quality network partners and delivering world class advertisers to it’s publishers. By most reasonable and rationale accounts, a very successful business.

Regarding Arabian, I must say from first hand experience, Arabian would not make such ridiculous and untrue comments as I worked side by side with him at NetObjects and know Arabian to be a stand up guy. He has the utmost respect for Samir to this day, enjoyed working for him and would do it again if the opportunity arose. Whoever used Arabian’s name to spread lies is obviously a coward and a very SMALL person of NO CHARACTER. That’s not personal, just an observation.

In dealing with Samir both personally and professionally for over 11 years, I can say he has high ethical standards, is extremely loyal to his employees and is a very successful Entrepreneur in his own right. His record with his companies and his employees speaks for itself.

on the topic of glam media’s leader, most of us that have “worked for samir” would do it again – and many have. he has the utmost respect for his employees and is always focused on doing HIS job which is to continue to define the path for making glam as strong and successful as possible for the employees, our publishers, our advertisers and our investors. He does this everyday with 100% integrity and a passion that inspires those around him. i have always been proud to be associated with him.

Regarding our publishers, they have the support of our account management team, our community director, our editors, our technical team and our sales team. We are continuing to build tools to make their lives easier and to continue to increase their success as a partner of ours. If some are unhappy, we usually hear about it right away and do what we can to resolve issues quickly. Our team tries to meet with those that reach out as often as we can via phone, in face-to-face meetings and at gatherings we with have to support them. we hear from many of them that our commitment and relationship with them is refreshing, that they love to know that when they call we will pick up the phone.

I hope we can get back to discussing business models and comparing different new media companies against each other – keeping away from the personal digs that serve no one. Thanks.

From what I have read — the trust in Glam and their CEO Samir Arora comes from the fact that they are direct and do not lie or play games with publishers. There is no way people would speak out so strongly if they were not being really really taken care off transparently.

Am I the only one reading these comments and sensing that many “men” are angry that a women focused company is doing well and publishers seem to be happy enough to speak out?

Sounds like Glam is doing OK- and that makes people nervous and upset — they raised 100M, their publishers seem to love them and are making money, they are filling a real need that no one else is, their team is happy working for Glam and Samir, and they are killing NBC in the market.

This rumor has to start from Steve Case or his company — from the comments Revolution is in trouble, not Glam. Sounds too much like the AOL story — we have a revenue reporting problem, so lets lie and hide it by merging with Time Warner. Me thinks who has got to gain from this rumor like this, my gut says Revolution not Glam.

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Says who?…some of us are quite happy. It is all about the traffic and quality of your site. The higher the traffic and quality the higher the revenue. As simple as that. I belong to several of the blogger user groups in Fashion and Beauty and I am not sure your depiction of us being unhappy is accurate.
There will always be something to b*&tch about with any network but overall I think Glam is the best for small to medium bloggers like us. Better than Blogher for sure

oh and a checking your spelling before sending is a good thing.

Y’see, we get all these women blogging, get ‘em talking about clothes and celebrity gossip, and then they’ll start talkin’ about breast implants and dieting, y’see, and then we got ‘em!

100 million wired, free-spending,digital consumer-babes,in a coveted demographic, all itchin’ to buy that new pair of shoes, vacation cruise, facial mask or tummy tuck!

However, like you, I think Glam’s focus on its publisher model makes sense — and Revolution Health could have benefited from it. Glam seems to have very strong publisher relationships and display advertisers, something that is harder and harder for to find.