Joining Polaris Ventures Partners
August 2, 2009 – 5:28 pm | Comments

I am excited to announce that, starting Monday, I will be joining Polaris Venture Partners and will work out of the Dog Patch Lab on Pier 38. Over the last few years, I have had …

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Project Runway Overtakes PerezHilton.com for Season Premier
August 22, 2009 – 12:25 pm | Comments

In preparation for Lifetime’s season premier of Project Runway, PerezHilton.com ran its standard background ad unit alongside integrated, rich IAB units. The unique part of this campaign, however, was how Perez removed the blog’s standard …

Michael Jackson Drives Perez Hilton to Record 2m Uniques in Day
June 30, 2009 – 7:58 am | Comments
Michael Jackson Drives Perez Hilton to Record 2m Uniques in Day

Michael Jackson’s death was remarkable in several ways – one of which was what it signified for news delivery and discovery. Like millions of others, I first found out through Facebook, Twitter, text messages… all …

Facebook Drives 19% of Huffington Post’s Traffic
May 4, 2009 – 7:48 pm | Comments

When I last covered Perez Hilton, it was when he hit 14,000,000 pageviews in a single day – a remarkable feat considering big brands like Huffington Post had topped out at 7,700,000.
An interesting outcome of …

Perez Hilton Hits 14,000,000 Pageviews Yesterday. Wow.
February 24, 2009 – 2:11 pm | Comments

You might not be interested in celebrity news and gossip…
You might not consider it important or meaningful…
But to the web, it is significant and marks a major move in the Digital Media space.
I’ve written …

Perez Hilton Asks for Facebook “Boycott” Amidst Content Ownership Controversy
February 16, 2009 – 4:55 pm | Comments
Perez Hilton Asks for Facebook “Boycott” Amidst Content Ownership Controversy

The buzz on a slow Monday of tech news is around Facebook and who owns the content uploaded / created by their users.

But lost in this is that Perez Hilton covered it early this …

Star Trek Takes Over ESPN.com… Four Months too Early
January 31, 2009 – 5:21 pm | Comments
Star Trek Takes Over ESPN.com… Four Months too Early

On Super Bowl weekend, ESPN was able to sell its homepage with two massive rich-media Star Trek advertisements… you know, the new iMax move that comes out May 8th, 2009.
On a weekend when ESPN …

Widgetbox Introduces the Blidget Pro
January 24, 2009 – 5:21 pm | Comments
Widgetbox Introduces the Blidget Pro

Widgetbox has released the Blidget Pro product: the next generation of our successful Blidget tool. Also worth noting, it is our first subscription-based service ($3.99 / mo or $29.99 / year).
The Blidget Pro is …

2009 Predictions: More Huffington Posts and Daily Beasts
December 24, 2008 – 6:35 am | Comments
2009 Predictions: More Huffington Posts and Daily Beasts

First there was the Drudge Report.
Now there is the Huffington Post.
… And Politico.
… And The Daily Beast.
And as part of my 20 Digital Media Predictions for 2009 series, I am suggesting that there will …

A New Wave of Skinned & Tethered Rich Media Ad Units
August 3, 2008 – 12:08 pm | Comments

While at SpaceCamp over the last couple days (in gorgeous Santa Monica), there was a lot of discussion around engaging advertising formats and units. Most of the conversation was around advertising on social media and …

Long Tail Analytics with Quantcast, Google Trends & Compete – Who Wins?
June 21, 2008 – 11:28 pm | Comments

Google entered the public web analytics game yesterday by expanding Google Trends beyond search queries and into web traffic. Just a couple years ago, we had two options for web data:
- Comscore provided detailed analytics …

Understanding PerezHilton.com’s Pageviews & Unique Visitors
April 6, 2008 – 10:10 am | Comments

A few weeks agon, I wrote about the trouble with PerezHilton.com as a business.
Since that post, Perez Hilton ‘quantified’ his popular blog with Quantcast and we have more data to look at.
It’s fascinating. Perez …