Comments on: Glam Media Lands A $10 Million Round, Its Fifth in 5 Years

By: SocialWebGuide » Glam Media Goes Mobile

SocialWebGuide » Glam Media Goes Mobile — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:05:38 +0000

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By: Glam Media Goes Mobile | Wilsonbroadcast

Glam Media Goes Mobile | Wilsonbroadcast — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:50:50 +0000

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By: MixMaster1980 » Blog Archive » Glam Media Goes Mobile

MixMaster1980 » Blog Archive » Glam Media Goes Mobile — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:29:25 +0000

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By: Glam Media Goes Mobile

Glam Media Goes Mobile — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:43:21 +0000

[...] do you do when you’re sitting on a nearly endless torrent of finely-focused content and a few million bucks in venture capital? You go [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:49:11 +0000

The only metric that matters is how fast a company can grow an idea to have a large reach, huge revenue, and profitable. Startups know this, Twitter is best with no revenue, like Youtube was, as all of its value is from growing reach right now. Once it starts revenue, most of its value will shift from reach to revenue and sustainable growth. Cleverly, Glam built the reach on a network model, and is now using venture capital to grow revenue. If it reaches critical mass — it is a very valuable company given the self destruction of Yahoo/AOL and Google failing in display. Last downturn created DoubleClick, Google and MySpace, there have to be new disrupter’s this downturn too.

By: Cris Austria

Cris Austria — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:18:44 +0000

$10,000,000 to come out with web apps like tinker and online publications like Brash. Get out of here! I would love to pitch to that VC! I wonder when VC’s will get tired of losing all this money on web startups. Thats the TC story I’m waiting for.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:47:03 +0000

Again, why do they need 10 million in funding if they are making a good amount of money?

By: Bilbo Chattins

Bilbo Chattins — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:52:02 +0000

lol Goldie Wilson – I like the sound of that!

Man – all this funding – whoa! What a triumph!

pfft – the real triumph is making something from nothing. Who cares how much money some fundmonkeys give you? Wanna really impress? Build that same silly company on 100k. Sorry – but all these infusion posts are dumb.

By: Goldie Wilson

Goldie Wilson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:07:59 +0000

Meh. What’s $10,000,000 down the toilet?

By: Ameeda Chowdhury

Ameeda Chowdhury — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:35:29 +0000

Jason,
“it self-reported its Q4 to have been ’surprisingly strong’.”
“It was also the ninth largest publisher of display ads, serving up an estimated 2.1 billion ad impressions per month.”

I’m guessing if they are getting that many impressions on site with a highly targeted audience , they are making a good amount of money. Another assumption is that Glam finds it easier to place effective ads when the content is also editorially produced and not the usual UGC from most social sites.

By: JillK

JillK — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:16:57 +0000

They saw a big opportunity and have went for it, doesn’t sound cool to go after the women market, but that’s where the ad $$$’s are. Saw on Colbert that it is not cool to have a business model like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter I guess. Wait to be acquired and then is Google’s problem- still losing $500 Million on YouTube. Glam has earned the respect of the industry as a company that knows how to get ad revenue.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:13:14 +0000

Your ugly trademark infringing site will be dead much sooner.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:01:54 +0000

Deadpool within 18 months.

By: man

man — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:43:34 +0000

There is always a sucker around the world that is willing to buy into Silicon Valley BS. Japanese for example, are very good at that.

Glam is at the center of the advertising crash, their content is one of the least favored by advertisers as it centered around amateur and semi-pro blogs. The ad rates for these has been nearing Zero and the bloggers themselves, understand they cannot live from their blog and turn their attention elsewhere.

Yes, Glam is big but not big enough, they will find a merger opportunity with other loosing companies, like Yahoo, but I cannot see them making good on the investments.

What I don’t understand why their executive list and stuff is so large, some weeks ago they said they will lower the wage to some of the employees, what they should do is say thanks and goodbye to 50% of the execs and stuff so they could save and build on what they have until the economy is improving.

By: Glam raises mo money « Raja Jasti’s Blog - Renaissance Thinking

Glam raises mo money « Raja Jasti’s Blog - Renaissance Thinking — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:35:59 +0000

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By: jim

jim — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:15:19 +0000

Wow, how is Glam able to raise money in the middle of the market downturn where most companies are facing major layoffs or flat shutting down? While AOL & Yahoo struggle, they seem to be investing in growth and new projects like Tinker as you noted. Good to hear some good news for a change.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:37:14 +0000

125 million BUYS a lot of growth… the question is can they provide a return on this investment once this inflow of cash stops and their growth slows down.

Jon
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By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:28:45 +0000

who will buy them?

By: Celebrity News Aggregator

Celebrity News Aggregator — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:23:50 +0000

If you can raise that kind of funding, for that kind of product in this shitty market… then hat´s off to them.

By: Ashish Sinha

Ashish Sinha — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:22:02 +0000

Maybe not..this is the time to build one’s strength..they recently acquired few vertical ad networks.

By: man

man — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:51:30 +0000

money down the drain…

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:38:20 +0000

Ameeda, how exactly are they making money if they require funding after five years?

By: Ameeda Chowdhury

Ameeda Chowdhury — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:11:43 +0000

Congrats to Glam on the funding and, more significantly, their growth. It’s noteworthy that they are able to make money off of display advertising, and internationally no less. Do you think sites like Facebook, with fast-growing international user-bases, can learn a better way to monetize from Glam?