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Before Rebranding As Mode Media, Glam Raised An Additional $15M
Online publisher and ad company Glam Media announced several major initiatives today — for one thing, it’s now called Mode Media. For another, it’s launching a new video business, with…
Glam Media Plans To Expand Its Audience Beyond Women, So It’s Looking For A New Name
As company names go, Glam Media is pretty memorable — but the name is about to change, according to co-founder and CEO Samir Arora. Back when the founders of the…
Glam Media Raises Another $25M As It Prepares To Go Public
Digital media company Glam Media has raised $25 million in new funding, according to an industry source. (The company declined to comment.) My source said this is a “top up…
With Its ‘Foodie Top 100 Restaurants’ Guide, Glam Media Is Releasing Its First Print Book
Glam Media has built a company around digital advertising and publishing, but today it announced that it’s getting into the print business, with the release of a book version of…
Glam Media Cooks Up Newest Content Vertical With Foodie.com
Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is debuting its newest branded vertical—Foodie.com. As its name indicates, Glam’s newest vertical is aimed at covering…
Glam Media Launches Rich Media Ad Creation Platform, GlamSplash
Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is launching a new rich media ad creation platform for advertisers, called GlamSplash. According to Glam, the…
Glam Media Takes On Apple’s iAd With New Brand-Focused Mobile Ad Platform
Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is taking on Apple’s iAd today with the launch of GlamMobile, a mobile ad platform that aims…
How This Year's Tech IPOs Are Doing, And Who's Next
Bubble or not, 2011 may go down as the year of the tech IPO. Not since the last bubble have we seen so many technology companies clamoring to go public.…
Glam Media Furthers International Presence With South Korean Vertical
Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is continuing to expand its international presence with the launch of Glam Media South Korea. The women-focused…
Glam Media To Launch Third Content Vertical, Health And Wellness Channel Bliss.com
Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is revealing its third branded content channel today: health-focused Bliss. Bliss, which will be a content hub…
Glam Signals Its Social Aspirations With A Key Hire
Glam Media is one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, with a total reach of 90 million people a month in the U.S. Over the past…
Glam Tries To Automate Premium Online Ad Packaging And Battle Infinite Inventory
The big problem in online advertising is that there is basically infinite inventory. Ads are bought on ad networks and exchanges where one site is hardly differentiated form another. Larger…
Glam Media Continues Hiring Spree; Scores Talent From Yahoo, Google, Conde Nast
Glam Media, a top-ranked women’s media network, is announcing a number of new hires today for its technology, brand sales, engineering, and product teams. Chris Murphy joins Glam as the…
Fantastisch! Glam Media Adds German Men's Property Fantastic Zero To Its Wardrobe
Glam Media is flexing its M&A muscle overseas. Today, it is acquiring German men’s Web property Fantastic Zero from the digital division of German media giant Holtzbrinck and European marketing…
Glam Media Launches BrashSports As It Homes In On Male Audience
Glam Media, the top-ranked women’s media network, is honing in on another target: men. This morning the company is launching BrashSports, a new content channel that encompasses a network of…
Glam Swings For The Fences With Glam Adapt, An Ad-Serving Platform Built For Brands
As big brands move more of their ad budgets online, what they want most is not just to capture clicks, but to capture the attention and mindshare of consumers. The…
What's Next In Online Advertising? Find Out At Disrupt.
Now that Apple has rolled out its very own mobile app advertising program, iAd –hey, better name than iPad, at least –and Verizon is making a rival tablet, the advertising…
Getting Ready For An IPO, Glam Media Names Former Microsoft Heavyweight Bruce Jaffe CFO
Glam Media is aboutto announce that it has a new CFO, Bruce Jaffe. This signals that Glam is perhaps getting ready for an IPO, as Jaffe has a lot of…
Glam Media opens London Int. headquarters, talks up global expansion
[UK/US] Fresh on the heels of $50m of new investment, Glam Media is forging ahead with its global expansion, opening a new International headquarters in London. The vertical media and…
Glam Media Brings iPad-Friendly Publishing Platform GlamMobile To The U.S.
Glam Media, the distributed media network, is rolling out its mobile publishing platform GlamMobile to the U.S. today. The GlamMobile Publisher Platform for iPad and Mobile Devices gives advertisers the…
The Ten Biggest Advertising Publishers On The Web
Last year, Yahoo still dominated display advertising on the Web in terms of sheer number of ad impressions on its properties, but social networking sites MySpace and Facebook came on…
The Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010
It’s been a long drought for IPOs, but venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs are hopeful that 2010 will be the year they rain down on the Valley once gain. Earlier…
Pile 'em high – Glam One rolls out two new verticals, warns Glam Media off its turf
[France] Paris-based Glam One, not to be confused with US company Glam Media, has rolled out two new verticals. GlamZic.com and GlamSport.com will target “independent professionals” in the worlds of…
Ad.ly Brings Sponsored Tweets From Celebrities
As Twitter continues to mull over how to make money, startups are looking to capitalize on the advertising potential of the microblogging platform. Media network Glam Media is going to…
Confirmed: Glam Media Shares (Some) Details On Twitter Ad Network Plans
Yesterday we posted about Glam Media contacting Twitter app developers concerning an upcoming ‘Twitter-powered ad network’, and requested more information from CEO Samir Arora as the e-mail we were forwarded…
Glam Media Looking To Aggregate, Monetize Twitter Applications
Glam Media, a distributed media network comprised of both its own properties and a publisher network of hundreds of lifestyle websites and blogs, is looking to build an advertising network…
Tinker Becomes A More Powerful Twitter Trends Discovery Engine
Tinker, the recently launched microblogging topic tracker from Glam Media, will be rolling out several new features to upgrade its service. Tinker, which we covered in depth during its launch…
Glam Media Lands A $10 Million Round, Its Fifth in 5 Years
Distributed media network Glam Media has raised $10 million more, this time specifically for its Japanese and German operations, reports PaidContent. The fifth round of funding in as many years…
Tinker Goes Live And Offers Micro-Payments To Micro-Bloggers
Micro-blogging is getting micro-payments. Tinker, the micro-blogging topic tracker from Glam Media which we covered in depth last night, is now live. The service tracks specific topics on both Twitter…
Shoring Up The Online Advertising Biz
The online advertising business is in for a rough patch, especially for display advertising. The signs are everywhere. Yahoo, the biggest publisher of display ads on the Web, reported a…