Robert Andrews
Nov 19, 2008 12:20 PM
Ashley Norris, the journalist who tried to make a British variant of US blog publisher Gawker with his Shiny Media publishing company, is having another go. Norris has become CEO of Anorak Publishing, a new content company formed on the back of irreverent news site Anorak but which now plans…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 4, 2008 4:20 AM
“They think it’s all over…” It will be soon - football blog Who Ate All The Pies is being shut down or offered for sale, the latest change at UK blog publishing flag bearer Shiny Media. Editor Ollie Irish: “In its current form, as published by Shiny Media, Pies is…
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Dianne See Morrison
Aug 22, 2008 9:32 AM
Can UK blogs ever score the multi-million pound exits that some of their American counterparts have? Ten days after former Shiny Media co-founder Ashley Norris left the blog network to strike out with a new online video company, he wrote an interesting piece on TechCrunch UK detailing why he…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 11, 2007 9:03 AM
- Blinkx: Online video search engine Blinkx, based in London and San Francisco, has attached a widget to its AdHoc contextual ad platform that will pay users who embed video clips into their blogs or webpages. Blinkx is instructing interested users to copy the embed code of their video from…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 19, 2007 6:55 AM
- Shiny Ads: So that’s what the .tv domains were for? UK blog publishing house Shiny Media is to begin a range of web video channels with pre-roll video advertising. Shiny’s blogs have long used YouTube for embedded web video, notably for girl gadget blog Shiny Shiny’s product reviews. But…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 5, 2007 11:30 AM
British blog publishing house Shiny Media is crossing the Atlantic, aiming to launch up to 10 US sites in the next few months. Jointly founded in 2004 by technology journalist Ashley Norris, the Shiny stable has grown to some 42 blogs and a claimed 3.5 million monthly visitors on such…
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