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On the heels of CBS acquiring CNET for $1.8-billion comes another deal involving “old” media and “new” media: according to TechCrunch, the folks over at Conde Nast — the magazine publishing family that owns Vogue, the New Yorker and
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3 months ago
3 months ago
Wired should be able to work pretty well together. In a lot of ways,
Ars is kind of like a magazine anyway -- it just doesn't have a
printed version.
3 months ago
more seriously, this one is bizarre. ars isn't very relevant and conde is limited when it comes to the high tech space. the cbs/cnet deal which you trashed (unfairly, imho) yesterday appears to make for a far more powerful combination.
3 months ago
Nast doesn't have much depth in tech -- and I guess we'll just have to
disagree about CBS and CNET.
3 months ago
3 months ago
Ars, and assuming they get that for every page view is probably
overstating things. That said, however, I looked at TechCrunch and saw
that Ars has about four times as many page views, and I had seen an
estimate somewhere that TC was making about $600,000 a month, so I
thought I was in the right ballpark revenue-wise.
3 months ago
Also agree with Mathew that Ars could be a good fit for Conde -- they're putting together a pretty interesting digital portfolio.
3 months ago
anyway, pass the bong and inhale deeply. and the band played on
3 months ago
Over the past year or two, they've done a really good job on getting onto Slashdot and Google News with their well written articles, which presumably added a lot of value/eyeballs.
I'd imagine that the forums, the root of the community, don't create much ad revenue (and they might lose a lot of their for-pay subs and for-pay premium subbers). But it probably could if they decided to go with annoying in-your-face adverts.
Only time will tell, here's to another good 8.5 years.