HOLLYWOOD, CA, July 30 , 2008 — Celebuzz.com, the newest destination and first social media website dedicated to all things celebrity, today announced a partnership with prominent celebrity and style expert Kim Kardashian, making her official blog KimKardashian.com part of the Celebuzz family. Celebuzz brings passionate fans the most robust, diverse and all-encompassing celebrity experience online by combining the voices and media of a first class editorial team, with that of the web's leading celebrity bloggers, photo agencies, pop culture experts, users, and as of today - celebrities themselves. Kardashian's site, which is personally updated daily by the socialite-turned-popular-TV star, has quickly become one of the fastest growing and most visited celebrity blogs on the Web. According to June's comScore report, Kardashian's official blog is currently one of the highest rated celebrity blogs, attracting more than 222,000 unique users a month, putting her site ahead of other several other prominent and...
HOLLYWOOD, CA, June 19, 2008 — Buzznet, the Web's leading social media community for music, today announced the launch their new All Access '08 Blog, a dedicated online destination for all that's happening at Van's Warped Tour '08, as seen through the eyes of the bands and the fans. The tour kicks-off tomorrow, June 20 in Pomona, CA. As part of Buzznet's initiative to offer the most extensive and in-depth coverage of this summer's hottest tour, more than 25 bands performing on Van's Warped Tour will be blogging on Buzznet and sharing exclusive behind-the-scenes videos and photos shot from the road all summer long. Buzznet has outfitted more than 15 of the bands with special Buzznet phones that will allow them to post content to the All Access '08 Blog in "real-time" to give their fans an inside look at what they're up to as it happens. Bands that will be posting directly to Buzznet include: A Cursive Memory Beat Union Jeffree Star The Human Abstract Alesana Bring Me the Horizon Katy Perry The ...
LOS ANGELES, CA, June 2, 2008 — The "2008 MTV Movie Awards" may be over, but there's one guy for whom the party is just starting -- Norm Spantz, the Buzznet.com member who was honored with the MTV Movie Award for the best UGC movie spoof for his movie satire entitled Juno: Teen Pregnancy Redux http://www.buzznet.com/groups/mtvmovieawards. The award was given out during the live pre-show last night at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA. Norm, along with his co-producer and cameraman, Armen Aghaeian, jumped at the challenge to create an original movie short parody for the "2008 MTV Movie Spoof Contest" through Buzznet, the web's leading social music community, http://www.Buzznet.com . The Buzznet community voted Norm's entry, a Juno parody, as the best by a landslide. His video moved on to the final round on www.movieawards.mtv.com where fans voted for his Juno parody the winner from seven finalists, one from each of the participating sites, including Buzznet, Photobucket, MySpace, Daily Motion,...
HOLLYWOOD, CA, May 5, 2008 — Buzznet, (www.buzznet.com), the Web's leading social media community for music, today announced the addition of Absolute Punk (www.AbsolutePunk.net). Founded in 2000, Absolute Punk is the premier destination for alternative music, industry news, reviews, interviews and community, and has become the top source of information for devoted music fans. "The addition of Absolute Punk to our site helps us to deliver on our promise of making Buzznet the go to destination for all different kinds of fans across all genres of music," said Scott Boyd, General Manager. "Buzznet is committed to delivering the most robust, diverse and all-encompassing music experience online. Absolute Punk's loyal community and high quality editorial and social news database will only help to make the Buzznet music experience that much better for the fans." With an incredibly active community of more than 500,000 music fans, Absolute Punk provides one of the largest alternative music zines on the Web. Th...
HOLLYWOOD, CA, April 17, 2008 — Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, has made an equity investment in Buzznet (www.buzznet.com), one of the Web's fastest growing social media networks. The announcement was made today by Doug Morris, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UMG, and Tyler Goldman, Chief Executive Officer of Buzznet. This partnership marks one of the first times a music company will be directly involved in developing editorial programming for a social media site, with both companies sharing in the revenue. Music and videos from the world's most extensive digital catalog of chart-topping artists will be uniquely interwoven into Buzznet's daily editorial, as well as thousands of blog posts allowing for users to comment, share and draw on the content to create their own personal experience. In addition, artists will lend their voices as guest bloggers on the site and will deliver exclusive news to their fans that will not be found anywhere else on the web. Buzznet...
HOLLYWOOD, CA/NEW YORK, NY, April 14, 2008 — Buzznet (http://www.buzznet.com), the web's leading social media company today announced that it has acquired Idolator (http://www.idolator.com) from Gawker Media. Launched by Gawker Media in 2006 as a blog written by music fans for music fans, Idolator is now the web's second most popular music blog, providing insightful commentary on all aspects of music, including highly regarded music reviews and recommendations. Through the acquisition of Idolator, Buzznet will be adding one of the most respected and innovative voices to its music community, continuing its mission to not only have the web's largest music community, but also the most robust. Idolator will continue to maintain its own editorial direction under the guide of founding editor Maura Johnston. The deal will enable Idolator to deliver expanded offerings that will bring its readers even more of the daily music news, content and offerings they love. "Our core focus remains on building the Buzznet mus...
HOLLYWOOD, CA/NEW YORK, NY, April 3, 2008 — Buzznet, the leading social music community (www.buzznet.com) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the acclaimed music blog Stereogum (www.stereogum.com). Already the top destination for pop-punk and alternative rock fans and artists, the deal complements Buzznet's further expansion into additional music genres and represents its ongoing commitment to deliver the best music commentary and an unparalleled social music experience. "Stereogum is the most respected voice on the web covering music and is well regarded by consumers, artists and advertisers," said Scott Boyd, Buzznet's General Manager. "This acquisition is a perfect fit for us and a natural next step in our strategy as we expand our music coverage. Our understanding of the music experience fans want has made our communities the most popular on the web, and we are excited to add such an influential voice to the Buzznet family." "We have great respect for the ways in which Buzznet...
HOLLYWOOD, CA, September 25, 2007 — Buzznet (www.buzznet.com), the Web's fastest growing social media network that lets users create authentic communities around music and pop culture content, announced today that it has expanded its advertising sales team with three key additions from MySpace, Time Inc. and Warner Bros. to help further Buzznet's leadership in social media with advertising and sponsorship programs targeted at reaching the highly sought after youth demographic. Jennifer Balch, Andrea Greifenberger and Dina Bloch join the company's ad sales team led by former RealAge and Yahoo! executive John Glascott and will be responsible for driving advertising, creating unique brand and sponsorship programs and developing the overall revenue strategy. Jennifer Balch comes to Buzznet from MySpace where she was one of the company's first hires and instrumental in its rapid growth, successfully selling million dollar marketing programs and creating its most lucrative ad product — the MySpace Adverti...