Industry Moves: Hearst; WebCollage; AccentHealth; Magnetic
— Hearst Newspapers: Lincoln Millstein has been promoted to EVP and deputy group head of Hearst Newspapers, from SVP of digital media. His…
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— Hearst Newspapers: Lincoln Millstein has been promoted to EVP and deputy group head of Hearst Newspapers, from SVP of digital media. His…
Here is a roundup of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
— Univision Radio: Eva…
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has hired ad sales veteran Joe Lagani to the newly-created post of chief revenue officer as the…
Lost amid the dozens of executives who played musical chairs Wednesday over at NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) was a subtle but significant shift t…
» Why did Fareed Zakaria, who was on the short list to succeed Jon Meacham as Newsweek editor, jump ship to Time magazine? He wan…
Ex-Nickelodeon exec Mike Skagerlind is leaving his post as VP, head of content at Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) to take the job of SVP/GM of iV…
iVillage’s general manager Rebecca Miskin will relocate from New York to London this May after completing relaunches on the network.
Miskin…
iVillage is looking to expand its advertising role to include sites not specifically aligned with parent NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). The femal…
Deborah Fine, the former head of NBC Universal’s iVillage, is taking on the CEO role at Direct Brands, the operator of Book of the Month clu…
NBCU’s iVillage plans to retool the content across its three sites, and has tapped former In Style founding editor Angela Matusik as its chi…
NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal’s women’s network is extending UK GM Rebecca Miskin’s role to be GM of the whole iVillage Network, after she hel…
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) finally has filled the top post at iVillage … Jodi Kahn has resigned as president of global digital media for Rea…
Supreme Court Stays Out of TiVo vs. Dish; high court won’t consider an appeal of the $74 million judgment against the satellite…
NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) strategy to link its women’s sites together in a content and ad network seems to be paying off, traffic- wise at…
This didn’t take long but it was longer than I expected … Deborah Fine quietly has shifted roles inside the Universal Television Group, st…
A bit of disturbance in the ad network force … Sugar Inc. is taking its ad sales back in house after a year in a rev-share agreement that…
BlogHer, the womens ad network, blogging community site and conference organizer, has raised a $5 million second round lead by the Peacock E…
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has finally launched Women@NBCU, its long-anticipated virtual female-targeted content and ad network. Also as expec…
This time next week Beth Comstock will be reporting to work as SVP and CMO of GE, not president of integrated media for NBC Universal (NYSE:…
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is rolling up a batch of changes into one post-Beth Comstock announcement:
Digital: As we reported earlier, the d…
paidContent.org has confirmed that iVillage is closing Healthology.com and laying off 18 employees — nine now, nine in May. That brings the…
iVillage’s feeble attempts at cross-synergies into TV via NBCU have been nipped again: The retooled iVillage Live, which was canceled last y…
While we were watching for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) layoffs, iVillage cut roughly 4 percent of its staff — 13 jobs out of about 300. Those laid o…
The setting: the bustling NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center, a multi-million-dollar production complete with…
Some more details on NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) planned $925 million acquisition of Oxygen Media from an interview this afternoon with Jeff…
iVillage’s retooling is almost complete, and NBCU (NYSE: GE) sincerely believes it will work this time, from the failed but now redone and s…
NewSite/NewCo is on schedule for a September launch — and on target as part of NBCU’s digital strategy, according to NBCU (NYSE: GE) CEO Je…
Update: The official version is out. Deborah Fine, president, iVillage Properties, talks about what Sugar adds: “young, trendsetting women w…
iVillage: NBCU’s iVillage has hired Michael Gutkowski as COO; the COO slot has been empty since Ezra Kucharz left for Oberon Media in April.…
We’ve confirmed that Ezra Kucharz is leaving as COO of iVillage; he moved over to iVillage from SVP-digital innovation at NBC Universal last…
What to make of an NY Post story Wednesday taking potshots at NBCU’s Beth Comstock (complete with tabloid headline “Comstock’s Load”)? Here’…
A host of moves from NBCU’s iVillage, described as “key appointments” to Deborah Fine’s leadership team:
— Gregg Zegras is promoted to SVP-…
As it happens, I was looking at some iVillage metrics when a negative AdAge article about the site’s performance post-NBCU acquisition poppe…
Part of NBC Universal’s digital investment is going into a digital campus at the Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey where CNBC is produced. By the…
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iVillage has done some trimming of its brand portfolio now that it is settled under NBCU: it has sold off its Public Affairs Group, includin…
While some people focus on how many people actually have a Second Life, media and tech companies continue to populate the virtual world. Som…
NBC Universal has been busy churning out digital announcements that cover all the bases …
— DotComedy goes live: NBCU’s entry in the cr…
NBCU iVillage: Ezra Kucharz has moved from his position as SVP of digital innovation at NBC Universal to become COO at iVillage. Kucharz was…
Finding meaningful financial data about online in most media earnings is hard enough but it’s like looking for the missing smallest nesting…
Peter Naylor, who was SVP-sales for iVillage, takes a big step forward to SVP-NBCU Digital Media Sales; he’ll oversee all digital media sale…
It is done… iVillage stockholders have approved a $600 million takeover bid from NBC Universal. The merger was approved by 74% of the shar…
iVillage, which is in the process of being acquired by NBC Universal, reported its last earnings as an independent public company: in Q1, it…
iVillage has called for a shareholder meeting on May 12, and has filed a detailed SEC document about its acquisition with NBC, including the…
Some more details on the iVillage acquisition by NBC Universal, and IVIL’s deal with Hearst and how it will change, in iVillage’s 10-K annua…
Continuing coverage of the NBC-iVillage deal: NBC already has a Web presence through its interest in MSNBC.com, which it co-owns with Micros…
I wrote about this a little yesterday but it’s worth another look. NBC Universal is buying a “top women’s online community” and “one of the…
Updated, read below: Largest IVIL shareholder Hearst Communications, whichs owns about 25 percent of the outstanding shares, is on board wit…
To start with, read our dedicated iVillage page..it has all iVillage related news for the last three years…and then some relevant links ov…
Some quick notes from the press call with NBCU Chairman and CEO Bob Wright, Beth Comstock, president, NBCU Digital Media and Market Developm…
Updated: Leading online women’s site iVillage has been on the market for a while and it finally found the right fit — at a price that’s a c…
Going through the iVillage conference call transcript (on Internet Stock Blog), this seemed kinda interesting: it plans to relaunch Women.co…
It is all a game: everyone knows it, and games it their way. And us journos are the chess pieces in that game. Lest you think I have gone of…
Work in progress. 4Q05 net income for iVillage Inc. more than tripled over the previous year to $8.8 million, or 12 cents a share, from $2.4…
iVillage, the women-focused portal which has been the subject of a sale speculation, reported its Q3 earnings today: its revenues totaled $2…
The FT is reporting that iVillage has hired investment banker JP Morgan Chase to scope a sale for up to $700 million. Of course, News Corp.…
iVillage has tied up with Yahoo Search Marketing (fka Overture) to deploy sponsored search and other search solutions on the iVillage networ…
iVillage, the woman-focused portal company, reported a Q2 net loss of $0.3 million, compared to net income of $0.1 million in the year-ago q…
iVillage, which missed the earnings number this quarter, has an interesting (and probably dumb) reason for doing so: “One of the biggest cha…
iVillage reported overall 1Q05 revenues or $17.3 million, up 11 percent compared with $15.5 milliin in 1Q04. On its own, iVillage.com was r…
iVillage’s Q3 results were sweet, but came with a downer…it swung to a profit, but reported that Wal-Mart decided not to continue a collab…
For iVillage, Q2 revenues were $16.5 million, a 25% increase when compared to revenues of $13.2 million for the same period one year ago. It…
iVillage expects to raise net proceeds of $58.4 million from an offering of its common stock. The company said 11 million shares were being…
iVillage is commencing a public offering of 9.5 million shares of its common stock.
Online women’s network iVillage has filed with the SEC to occasionally sell up to $125 million in common stock… the shelf registration sta…
(via Boing-Boing): iVillage, the women-focused portal, will launch a massively multiplayer role-playing online game, called Paradise Island,…
Motley Fool thinks iVillage is set to roar, based on its Q4 results released yesterday…”Naturally, iVillage isn’t there yet. It’s just get…
Q4 revenues for the wonmen’s portal iVillage came in at $15.9 million, a 16% increase from $13.7 million in the year-ago quarter. Net income…
IVillage, citing “strong momentum” in Internet advertising, reiterated its forecast for sequential revenue growth in the fourth quarter.
IVi…
iVillage has reported Q3 revenues of $13.6 million, down from $14.63 in the year-ago quarter. Net losses almost doubled to $9.3 million, fro…
iVillage, the womna’s portal, has signed a distribution deal with MSN… Under the agreement, MSN will present select iVillage content on it…
iVillage has been moved back to Nasdaq national market…
iVillage, which yesterday announced the acquisition of gURL.com, has reported lower Q2 revenues of $13.2 million, compared to $16.1 in the y…
Seems like iVillage wants to move down the age scale: iVillage has acquired gURL.com teen site from Primedia, for an undisclosed amount.
iVi…
iVillage co-founder and editor in chief Nancy Evans has resigned, effective immediately, after eight years at the company. No reason was giv…
iVillage expects to achieve EBITDA profitability during the fourth quarter. It expected Q2 revenue to fall within the high-end of its earlie…
iVillage has completed the implementation of eMeta’s content commerce software eRights Suite to commercialize portions of its online content…
iVillage has inked a deal to develop aTV show about dating, tentatively called “iDate,” to be sold to cable stations. International talent a…
iVillage has received notification from the Nasdaq Stock Market that it has regained compliance with the SmallCap market’s $1 closing minimu…
iVillage has announced a partnership with Drugstore.com to launch a “Sex Boutique” storefront. The opening of the sex boutique would coincid…
Women-focused online network IVillage’s first quarter 2003 revenues were $12.6 million, compared to $15.1 million in the year-ago period. It…
Life advice via SMS for iVillage.co.uk users: IVillage.co.uk has teamed up with the life coach Fiona Harrold to offer users a lifestyle coac…
iVillage Q4 Results
iVillage To Be Moved to Nasdaq Small Cap: iVillage’s common stock listing is scheduled to transfer from Nasdaq National Market to the Nasdaq…
iVillage’s Strategy to Diversify Revenues: A detailed interview with CEO and Editor-in-Chief of iVillage. Astrology charts continue to be th…
iVillage’s Tactics to Profit (Someday): A case study on iVillage’s strategy to develop the woman-focused network as a community. Over the la…
iVillage’s Q3 Results: iVillage’s net loss for Q3 narrowed to $5 million, or 9 cents a share, from a loss of $8 million, or 15 cents, a year…
Allied Services Key to iVillage’s Future: A Q&A with iVillage CEO Doug McCormick. IVillage has been moving away from purely ad revenues and…
New ISP on the Block: iVillage: As per earlier plans, iVillage is launching a new dial-up Internet access service called iVillageAccess. “Th…
iVillage’s Subscription Revenues for Q2,02: In iVillage’s 10-Q filed for the second quarter of 2002, the company declared that it expects to…
IVillage Launches Book Series: In an attempt to shore up revenues from sources other than online advertising, iVillage (Nasdaq: IVIL) has la…
IVillage’s Quest for Revenues: This is probably the way to go for multi-interest, demographic-based sites: in order to subsidize its content…