101 posts tagged Federated Media

I’ve been invited by The Conversation Marketing Summit to speak at the upcoming New York conference on June 10, 2008 about the topic, “Can Agencies Change.” I am going to be thinking through this topic with my colleagues here at the agency and hopefully will have some insightful commentary to share.

Putting a value on private companies is hard enough for insiders and venture capitalists who have full access to the company’s financial statements. When outsiders try to do it, even well-informed ones, it is nothing more than a guessing game. But it is nonetheless perhaps one of Silicon Valley’s favorite parlor activities.

Federated Media Publishers, a Sausalito-based company that publishes more than 125 blogs, Web sites and networking applications, received $50 million in venture capital from Oak Investment Partners of Palo Alto. The three-year-old company became profitable in the third quarter of 2007.

There was a story about david and goliath in web 2.0 term. Aint no talking about dirty game,or fraud in web usability.Battle between O’Reilly and Webguild. Is not about right or wrong. Moral of the story.When Company build community in open source, they should not cut off support.They should be full support.Cause open source is not free,but without support we’re nothing.

I’ve been virtually non-existant in the blogosphere recently… you may have noticed the volumes of postings decreasing on the blog. I’ve been focusing on building out the digital media organization at work, going to the gym (Printing House in Soho), spending time with my wife, and golfing (Myrtle Beach, Augusta, Doral, etc).

Six apart is launching an advertising network for blogs and will begin offering professional services (design, implementation, development, optimization) after acquiring New York based creative agency Apperceptive, reports TechCrunch.

Six Apart Expands to Include Ad Network and More Six Apart, the blogging cipher interact behindhand Movable Type, Typepad and more, has defined to impart into the playing mettlesome by accomplishment Apperceptive, a fictive dominance based in New York.

Federated Media (FM) recently received $50 million in a C round of funding, after turning down a $100M buyout offer. In 2007, FM sold $22 million worth of ads across its network, up from $4 million in 2006. While it does have plenty of cash-on-hand right now, FM does not plan to purchase any of its blog publishers.

 In a period full with launch of new ad networks and deals about such Federated Media has raised a huge amount of money - $50 million in a C round led by Oak Investment Partners and Omidyar Network as a returning investor from their first round.

Federated Media Publishing, founded by John Battelle, is one of the top ad networks for blogs has just received a $50 million investment from Oak Investment Partners. This is pretty interesting news. Rumors had it that the company turning down a $100 million buyout offer and some have estimated it has a value of around $200 million.