HOLLYWOOD, CA -- August 5, 2010 -- BUZZMEDIA, the Web’s fastest growing entertainment publisher, today announced that they will be celebrating Lollapalooza 2010 with a private event in Chicago, featuring festival headliners, The Temper Trap. On the heels of a string of numerous performances to sold-out crowds at festivals such as Bonnaroo and Coachella, the critically acclaimed Melbourne band will play an intimate show exclusively for BUZZMEDIA’s clients and friends tonight, Thursday, August 5, the night before Lollapalooza officially kicks off. “Lollapalooza week felt like the perfect opportunity to reach out to the Chicago marketplace,” said Doug Rohrer, BUZZMEDIA’s Chief Revenue Officer. “BUZZMEDIA is all about pushing the best music forward and we're thrilled to have festival headliner The Temper Trap join us for a private show. Chicago is a key market for any publisher and we wanted to show our sincere appreciation for the partnership extended to BUZZMEDIA by this community.” The mus...
HOLLYWOOD, CA -- July 21, 2010 -- BUZZMEDIA, the Web’s fastest growing entertainment publisher, today announced an exclusive, multi-year integrated marketing and advertising partnership with Oh No They Didn’t! (ONTD!), the #1 community-driven celebrity site. ONTD! users submit hundreds of stories a day, which are filtered and curated by the ONTD! editorial staff to produce what has been called “gossip on steroids.” Minute-to-minute updates are discussed and shared by millions of ONTD! fans. ONTD!’s 2.6 million mostly-female monthly users participate in the hottest topics of the day, creating and sharing stories across ONTD! and other social networks, resulting in an unrivaled level of user engagement. With more than 8 page views per visit, ONTD! has regularly won the Best Gossip Blog Award at Weblog Awards, beating out sites like TMZ and Perez Hilton and been profiled in O, the Oprah Magazine and Life & Style. The partnership with BUZZMEDIA will enable ONTD! to further develop its reach and th...
Hollywood, CA -- June 29, 2010 -- BUZZMEDIA, the web’s fastest growing entertainment publisher, today announced the addition of two leading celebrity journalists to its editorial team: Mike Hess and Gillian Sheldon. The two will spearhead a celebrity project to be unveiled in fall 2010. Their teams will be based in Los Angeles and New York. They will report to Mike Porath, BUZZMEDIA’s SVP of Programming. “Mike and Gillian are two all-stars in their field, so it’s tremendously exciting to have them onboard for this ambitious new venture,” Porath said. “We are working on an offering that we believe will significantly extend the company’s leadership position in the entertainment category, and to do this, you need terrifically talented editors.” BUZZMEDIA publishes some of the top pop culture brands on the web, including Celebuzz, Just Jared, TheSuperficial, What Would Tyler Durden Do, Socialite Life and GoFugYourself. Mike Hess most recently served as managing editor of PopEater, AOL...
HOLLYWOOD, CA—JUNE 25, 2010 -- It’s Kim Kardashian’s world wide web. We just live in it. Kardashian’s official web site, KimKardashian.com, is ranked first among all talent sites in the latest findings from comScore Media Metrix. The site, located at http://kimkardashian.celebuzz.com, is published by BUZZMEDIA. Since its launch in 2008, Kardashian’s site has seen tremendous month over month growth solidifying its #1 status with 24 million page views and more than 1.5 million unique users monthly. Kardashian will be recognized with the “Digital Supernova Award” on Friday, June 25 at an event co-hosted by Sony Ericsson and BUZZMEDIA in Los Angeles. “Kim was among the first celebrities to embrace blogging and direct communication with fans on the Internet through a dedicated destination, when she launched her site with BUZZMEDIA in 2008,” said Tyler Goldman, CEO of BUZZMEDIA. “She truly is a digital trailblazer and it’s no surprise that the numbers reflect her consistent innovatio...
HOLLYWOOD, CA -- May 31, 2010 -- BUZZMEDIA (www.buzz-media.com), the Web’s fastest growing entertainment publisher, today announced the addition of six established and influential music sites, including PureVolume, PopMatters, Gorilla vs. Bear, The Hype Machine, Concrete Loop and RCRD LBL. Each of these web properties are market leaders in their respective areas of music coverage, and together connect with over five million fans every month. Complementing BUZZMEDIA’s current music properties like Stereogum, Buzznet, Idolator and Absolute Punk, the addition of these publications further cement BUZZMEDIA’s Music Division as the largest independent publisher of music content on the Web, as measured by comScore Media Metrix (April 2010). “All of these web publications are widely recognized by millions of fans as leading music authorities and fit into BUZZMEDIA’s mission of being the leading publisher of pop culture content on the web,” said Tyler Goldman, BUZZMEDIA’s CEO. “Marketers ...
HOLLYWOOD, CA — May 21, 2010 — Buzznet.com, a community of pop culture addicts, music lovers and trendsetters who come together to share and check out thousands of creative photos, videos and blogs, has joined the 3rd annual Bamboozle Roadshow as the Official Media Partner and sponsor. Buzznet will be on the road with the 26 city tour every step of the way beginning today, Friday, May 21 when it kicks off in Columbus, MD to create and deliver the most extensive and comprehensive coverage of the tour to date. As part of Buzznet’s initiative to bring music fans around the world the most in-depth content from their favorite Bamboozle Roadshow bands, the site has launched the official Bamboozle Roadshow Community, a dedicated online destination for all that's happening on the tour. The Community will be the hub of activity for the tour with minute-by-minute updates both from the Buzznet editorial staff, as well as members who can share all their own media with other fans in the community. Buzznet wi...
HOLLYWOOD, CA—May 3, 2010—BUZZMEDIA (www.buzz-media.com), the Web’s fastest growing entertainment publisher, today announced four senior-level additions to its growing Advertising team: Aisling McDonagh joins the company as Senior Sales Director, Todd Dufour comes onboard as Head of Influencer Marketing & Talent Relations and Judith Heimowitz and Mary Michael Marlo both join as Directors of Integrated Marketing. McDonagh and Heimowitz are based out of BUZZMEDIA’s New York offices and Dufour and Marlo are located at the company’s Los Angeles’ headquarters. In the role of Senior Sales Director, Aisling McDonagh will help expand business in the health and beauty categories and further drive sales across BUZZMEDIA’s 40+ pop culture Web properties. Aisling joins with more than 11 years sales experience and will report to Doug Rohrer, BUZZMEDIA’s Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to BUZZMEDIA Aisling was most recently Eastern Online Sales Director for Prevention Magazine at Rodale, managing intera...
HOLLYWOOD, CA - April 21, 2010 - BUZZMEDIA, the largest publisher of pop culture sites on the Internet, today announced two senior-level additions to the editorial team: Mike Porath joins the company as Senior Vice President of Programming and Alex Blagg joins as Executive Editor of Celebuzz, both positions based in Los Angeles. In the newly created position of SVP of Programming, Mike Porath will be responsible for overseeing all editorial for BUZZMEDIA’s 40+ sites and will help implement editorial best practices and cross-site coordination, reporting to Alan Citron, President of BUZZMEDIA. This includes SEO, quality control and managing cross promotion of content acrossBUZZMEDIA’s portfolio of pop culture sites. Mike joins BUZZMEDIA from AOL News, where he was Editor-in-Chief, managing content across all AOL News sites, totaling 30M monthly unique visitors, as well as building and overseeing an editorial team of 30 journalists. Prior to joining AOL four years ago, Mike worked in print, online a...
HOLLYWOOD, CA, February 4, 2010 - BUZZMEDIA, the largest publisher of pop culture sites on the Internet, today announced that two new senior-level sales executives have been hired: Christopher Sanders joins the company as Vice President of Ad Sales in the San Francisco office and Judah Wiedre joins as Senior Director of Sales based in Los Angeles. Chris Sanders joins BUZZMEDIA from About.com, where he served as Vice President, Western U.S., leading a team driving sales and client solutions across the region. With nearly two decades of digital and technology sales and marketing experience at companies including AOL, Philips and SONY, Chris will lead the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest sales teams and serve as a senior sales management leader, reporting to Doug Rohrer, BUZZMEDIA’s Chief Revenue Officer. Judah Wiedre was previously Senior Director of Sales, West at Heavy.com, where he was responsible for designing and executing integrated marketing programs combining online, offline and mobile components ...
HOLLYWOOD, CA, November 10, 2009 – BUZZMEDIA, the largest publisher of pop culture sites on the Internet, today announced the addition of Chris George to the company as Senior Vice President of Integrated Marketing & Operations. George joins from MySpace, where he served as VP, Integrated Marketing and oversaw the development of integrated partnerships for leading brand advertisers. In his new role, George will manage all aspects of revenue and sales solutions for BUZZMEDIA, including the continued development and execution of the company’s industry-leading branded social programming campaigns across its top entertainment properties, which include Buzznet, Celebuzz, TheSuperficial, Stereogum, WWTDD, Absolute Punk and Just Jared, among many others. “Chris brings an extraordinary track record of developing cutting edge ad products and creative sponsorships for leading brands, which will prove invaluable to BUZZMEDIA and our marketing partners,” said Doug Rohrer, CRO, BUZZMEDIA. “Our advertis...