Nick Denton: Gawker revenues up 45 per cent in first half of 2009
July 28th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Advertising, Editors' pick, Social media and blogging
The plunge has already been pretty terrifying for a range of companies from Yahoo and IAC to the newspapers,” writes Gawker founder Nick Denton, referring to his previous prediction that media companies should prepare for a 40 per cent downturn in advertising revenue over the economic cycle.
“But I was wrong in one respect: a few premium internet brands, Gawker’s among them, have withstood the advertising apocalypse.”
Tags: advertising apocalypse, advertising revenue, Gawker, IAC, internet brands, media, Nick Denton, Yahoo
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