| Website | glammedia.com |
| @glammedia | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 650-244-4000 |
| info@glam.com | |
| Employees | 300 |
| Founded | 9/03 |
| Description | Media and blog network |
| Total | $150M |
| Ning by Glam Media, 9/11 | $150M |
| BBS Media, 3/11 | |
| Fantastic Zero, 9/10 | |
| AdPortal, 7/10 | |
| Sportgenic, 7/10 | |
| AdaptiveAds, 1/09 | |
| Codex Media, 7/08 | |
| Monetise , 6/07 |
| TOTAL | $155M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $155M |
| Series A, 7/04 Information Capital LLC | $1.1M |
| Series B, 7/05 Accel Partners Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Walden Venture Capital | $10M |
| Series C, 12/06 Accel Partners Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Walden Venture Capital Information Capital LLC DAG Ventures | $18.5M |
| Series D, 2/08 Hubert Burda Media GLG Partners Accel Partners Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Walden Venture Capital Information Capital LLC DAG Ventures | $65M |
| Series D, 4/09 Mizuho Venture Capital | $10M |
| Series E, 2/10 Aeris Capital Hubert Burda Media | $50M |
| DEBT TOTAL | $20M |
| Debt, 2/08 Hercules Technology Growth Capital Silicon Valley Bank | $20M |
Glam Media is a vertical media company, comprised of both Glam-owned-and-operated properties (Glam.com, Brash.com, and soon, Bliss.com) and a publisher network of 2000+ lifestyle websites and blogs. Glam Media’s vertical media model aims to enable premium brands to connect with audiences online.
Glam Media is #1 in global reach for women online, with approximately 90 million unique monthly visitors in the US and more than 200 million uniques globally. Glam Media is a comScore Top 10 U.S. Web Property, is a Top 10 AdWeek Display Ad Publisher, and was named most innovative media company in 2010 by Fast Company.
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Added: 1/26/09This video was originally published on Beet.TV
Added: 4/9/09Vator TV: 11/2008
Added: 7/27/09| Website | brash.com |
| Launch Date | October 20, 2008 |
Brash, which launched on October 20, 2008, is Glam Media’s men’s network.
More than 25 content sites have joined the Brash.com Network at launch, including: ArtistDirect; DigitalTrends.com; eCoustics.com; InGameNowSeriousWheels.com; Squidoo and MonstersandCritics.com. Content will also be syndicated from Time.com for national news; Rolling Stone for music news and updates; TheCarConnection.com for car reviews and news, SB Nation for sports coverage and CNET for technology information. Launch advertisers like Unilever’s Axe brand deodorant, H&M and HP. Glam says that the aggregated Comscore user numbers from the original content partners is over 10 million/month.
Brash also includes a video channel (Brash TV) with content pulled from multiple partners, as well as what is sure to be a much discussed Brash 100 List and the Brash Hall of Fame 50 - “The Brash Lists include men across the fields of sports, politics, business and entertainment that are game changers.â€
| Website | tinker.com |
| Launch Date | March 30, 2009 |
Tinker is a events service for Twitter, that allows user to quickly browser through different persistent Twitter searches relevant to various current events.