Comments on: Why Guardian Media Bought paidContent for $30M http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Michael Arrington’s Road To Millions: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-287971 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:28:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-287971 [...] turned into GigaOM, the company. Rafat took his love of media and content and started PaidContent, which was acquired by The Guardian. Michael took his doggedness and heart-on-sleeve passion for all things startup-related and turned [...]

]]> By: Talking Biz News » Bloomberg got a bargain http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206809 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:43:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206809 [...] and of itself is a viable business, and at $15 million is a major bargain. Consider that last year, Guardian Media bought PaidContent for $30 million, and that site has a monthly audience of maybe 250,000. Yeah, OK, PaidContent has other businesses, [...]

]]> By: The Coming Fight for Audience Attention http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206808 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:08:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206808 [...] Guardian Media Group purchases Paid Content for $30 million. [...]

]]> By: Updated: UK’s largest indie blog network Shiny Media goes into administration | Newsjacker http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206807 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:13:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206807 [...] from London for a year in 2004/5 but always aiming at the large US market, which resulted in its acquisition by The [...]

]]> By: UK’s largest indie blog network Shiny Media goes into administration http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206806 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:33:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206806 [...] from London for a year in 2004/5 but always aiming at the large US market, which resulted in its acquisition by The [...]

]]> By: Open Professional « OUseful.Info, the blog… http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206805 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:44:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206805 [...] institution, to take up the slack and provide quality comment, analysis to the media (think: paidContent for the quality papers’ analysis sections, powered by academe redefined (i.e. Academe [...]

]]> By: GMG appoints Gibbons as non-exec director « BusinessMedia.co.uk http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206804 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:26:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206804 [...] Why Guardian Media Bought paidContent for $30M [...]

]]> By: Zoomf Blog - UK Property Blog » Blog Archive » Blogging is worth it! Just ask PaidContent. http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206803 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:04:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206803 [...] highlights yet another big newspaper hedging its future on where media consumption is headed. As Om Malik points out, Guardian is hoping to “use a disruptive strategy that involves using technology to build a [...]

]]> By: Greg http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206802 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:36:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206802 I just wonder what was the valuation model? PaidCOntent publishes so much about M&A and VC deals in the industry — maybe it is time to disclose some details about the PaidContent/Guardian deal. $30 million seems a lot!

]]> By: Madhavan http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206801 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:04:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206801 Om-I really admire your post for all the reasons mentioned above. To that I may add that both you and Rafat have been pathbreakers, changing something and chronicling that very change yourself rather well. I would like to call this “living the disruption”…some close to Mahatma Gandhi’s saying: “Be the change you want to see!”
I wish you both good luck. I am also reminded me of a saying by Infosys chairman Narayana Murthy: “It is like changing the tyres of an aircraft midflight!”
Some of the insights you offer in the post and by recollection need some more fleshing out for a larger evangelisation..but surely that gives us all something to do?:)

]]> By: Rafat http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206800 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:04:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206800 Hey Om
Thanks for your nice words…and everyone’s well wishes here. Sorry I couldn’t jump in here earlier, with all the whirlwind yesterday. Someone even told me a new iPhone launched yesterday…i missed that one :)

The standards Om and his team has helped define are worth all the value they will get, I have no doubt. Om’s own journey, especially in the last year, is inspiring.

Om, you better take me to the best damn Indian restaurant next time I am in SF….I will pay :)

]]> By: PaidContent y The Guardian: los medios clásicos y la red » El Blog de Enrique Dans http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206799 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:49:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206799 [...] que tenía tantas sinergias y posibilidades, que era demasiado buena para dejarla pasar. Además, como bien comenta Om Malik, posibilidades de desarrollo de nuevos medios especializados, con formatos de tipo 2.0, para la [...]

]]> By: Guardian buys PaidContent = Smart » mathewingram.com/work | http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206798 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:08:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206798 [...] the trade-press and professional services division of Guardian Media. My friend Om Malik has some worthwhile thoughts on the deal as well. function fbs_click() [...]

]]> By: RD http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206797 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:50:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206797 It is surprising the UK based GMG paid $30 mill for a site which has most of it’s visitors are from US. According to Alexa traffic details United States counts for 76.1% of hits, India with 4.3 % and UK with only 3.9 %.

]]> By: Kamla Bhatt Blog » Diaspora Entrepreneur Interviews Ideas Internet and Telecom Merger & Acquisition Podcast Technology Web 2.0 » Congrats to Rafat Ali & NextContent Team http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-206796 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:40:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-206796 [...] Om Malik has a really nice post congratulating Rafat and his team. I am guessing that ContentNext’s acquisition is the talk of many Silicon Valley bloggers and not the launch of Apple’s new iPhone. [...]

]]> By: Kamla Bhatt Blog » Diaspora Entrepreneur Interviews Ideas Internet and Telecom Merger & Acquisition Podcast Technology Web 2.0 » Congrats to Rafat Ali & NextContent Team http://gigaom.com/2008/07/11/guardian-buys-paidcontent-for-30-millio/#comment-210799 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:40:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14123#comment-210799 [...] Om Malik has a really nice post congratulating Rafat and his team. I am guessing that ContentNext’s acquisition is the talk of many Silicon Valley bloggers and not the launch of Apple’s new iPhone. [...]

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