Glam Media

Glam.com v2.0 and Glam Evolution

Conference
DEMOfall 07
Market Segment
Consumer Software and Services
Funding Details
Glam Media is backed by blue-chip venture-capital firms leading the new media wave, including Accel Partners (Facebook, BrightCove); DAG Ventures (Friendster, Plaxo); Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Skype: eBay, Technorati); Walden Venture Capital and Information Capital (Tickle/eMode: Monster, NetObjects).
Competitors
NBC iVillage, AOL Women, SugarPublishing
Product Description
Glam 2.0 is the next generation of Glam Media’s flagship owned and operated site Glam.com, giving users direct search or browse access across Glam Media’s Network. Glam Evolution is Glam Media’s suite of proprietary ad serving technologies, providing relevant brand ads in the right context to the right user. Glam Evolution leverages explicit and implicit user behavior, Website characteristics and advertiser positioning and goals to achieve a superior level of brand engagement online.
Market Opportunity
The target market is premium-brand display advertisers targeting women. In “The User Revolution” by Piper Jaffray, global online advertising is expected to reach $81 billion by 2011, representing a 21% CAGR from 2006. Research estimates online brand advertising growth will exceed online search advertising growth over the same period.
DEMO Says
Glam Media set the bar for a high-production Web magazine when it launched at DEMO nearly two years ago. Today, Glam Media sets the new standard for next-generation media property, blending carefully curated content with a smart distribution strategy, wrapped in the right mix of technology to support new advertising and media models.
Contact
Lane Buschel
lane.buschel@morris-king.com
Company Address
8000 Marino Blvd., Suite 130
Brisbane, CA 94005
Primary Phone
650-244-4000
URL
www.glammedia.com
Corporate Officers
Samir Arora, Chairman & CEO Raj Narayan, Senior Director of Engineering/Architect Fernando Ruarte, CTO Ernie Cicogna, CFO

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