{"id":2935,"date":"2016-04-19T06:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/verizon-and-hearst-miss-memo-on-doomed-digital-media-buy-complex-media\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T06:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T22:21:20","slug":"verizon-and-hearst-miss-memo-on-doomed-digital-media-buy-complex-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/verizon-and-hearst-miss-memo-on-doomed-digital-media-buy-complex-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon and Hearst miss memo on doomed digital media, buy Complex Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a week of bad news, digital media scores a win.<\/p>\n

Verizon and Hearst have joined forces to buy Complex Media, a digital operation founded in 2002 by designer Marc Ecko that focused\u00a0on content primarily for the young male.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Verizon and Hearst will have an even 50\/50 split of Complex. Rich Antoniello, CEO and co-founder, will stay on to lead Complex.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we look at Complex and how well they\u2019ve built audiences by championing the digital convergence of cultures for well over a decade, it pairs well with our strategic vision and current shifts in content consumption,” said\u00a0Brian Angiolet, Verizon\u2019s senior vice president of consumer product and marketing, in a press release.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After a week of bad news, digital media scores a win. Verizon and Hearst have joined forces to buy Complex Media, a digital operation founded in 2002 by designer Marc Ecko that focused\u00a0on content primarily for the young male.\u00a0 Verizon … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,2188,2187,2189,2190],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business","tag-complex-media","tag-digital-media","tag-hearst","tag-verizon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}