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Gawker in TIME’s Best Blogs of 2010
June 28, 2010 – In a shameless act of linkbait, TIME announces the Best Blogs of 2010. Citing recent storybreaking, TIME editors named Gawker as one of five essential blogs and further heralded the title as 'one of the best-reads on the web.' "What was once the snarky playground of New York's media elite has... More »
74% of Brands Buying Sponsored Posts
May 3, 2010 – Awhile back, VP Sales & Marketing Chris Batty wildly predicted that branded content would comprise most of our business: "If we're around in three or four years, the majority of our advertising revenue will be in sponsored posts." Display units everywhere issued a collective sigh of... More »
February 19, 2010 – Gawker.TV's Richard Blakeley on the importance of original content and programming.
Gawker Media Acquires CityFile
February 15, 2010 – More often the subject of buyout speculation ourselves, we turn that on end today by announcing our first ever acquisition. The property is CityFile, a modern social registry or 'who's who' of New York society and media. CityFile's content will be folded into Gawker as a supporting section (like
Dell — Jumpstarted by Gizmodo — Builds a Better Brand
February 11, 2010 – Brand marketers gauge reception of product releases via social media, but they can also leverage these dynamic conversations to guide marketing strategy before a product even drops. More »
Display Ads Up 21% in 2009 Says ComScore
February 9, 2010 – Media properties served 4.3 trillion display ads to US Internet users in the past year, which is an uptick of 21% over 2008. Read more (with requisite grain of salt concerning measurement deficiencies) in ComScore's 2009 US Digital Year in Review (signup req'd). More »
February 4, 2010 – io9 named a Top 30 Science Blog by The Times
February 3, 2010 – Why Engadget turned off comments, and why Gizmodo doesn't have to.
February 3, 2010 – Jezebel's LOST Live Blog Attracts Over 1,000 Comments
AdAge Confirms: We’re Important
December 18, 2009 – The ad trade mag released a quick list of The Decade's Most Important Websites. Blessedly, Gawker is on it. Other sites named are the 'ascendant' behemoths in search, video, ecommerce, and publishing — That's Google, Yahoo, NYT, Drudge, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, Hulu, Facebook, &... More »
The Gawker Decade
December 17, 2009 – Mediaite contextualizes our Adweek award: "How Gawker Media Defined the 2000s."
Gawker Named Adweek’s Blog of the Decade
December 14, 2009 – Um, wow. Adweek has named Gawker the Blog of the Decade. For a company that's less than a decade in existence, this is both curious and awesome. In addition to the accolade, Adweek hails Gawker as 'the epitome of blogging' and 'the template for what a blog should be.' Scans of the mention and our... More »
Giving Away Ad Space for Social Good
October 19, 2009 – Online ad inventory is as controversial as ever. Is it finite or infinite? Does remnant stock exist in a market that operates without physical inventory? More »
Gizmodo Is All Up in That New Windows 7 TV Commercial
October 17, 2009 – We're not sure how a twee child making an animated slideshow works as an operating system commercial. But, who cares?! The spot is adorably compelling and Gizmodo is all over it. More »
Then and Now, Seven Years of Blogging as Business
September 2, 2009 – When Nick Denton launched the proto gadget blog Gizmodo in August 2002, it arrived on scene to a milieu of early web confusion. Until then, blogs were low traffic outlets for personal thought-flinging to be visited by friends and perhaps aggregated by Google whenever the content merited further... More »
AdAge Interviews Our Publisher, Nick Denton
May 20, 2009 – No one can better capture the origins, influence, and trajectory of the Gawker Media network than our founder and publisher, Nick Denton: People — More »
Kotaku Editor In GamePro’s 20 Most Influential
May 6, 2009 – GamePro rounded up its 20 Most Influential People in Gaming and Brian Crecente, Managing Editor of Kotaku, anchors the list. With "investigative grit and a healthy disregard for the rules," Crecente has built Kotaku into a "powerhouse" of video gaming news and culture.
