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Cringely doesn't identify the culprit, but there's probably enough information here that we could do a crowdsourced deduction. We know that it is: - a "promine

Cringely doesn't identify the culprit, but there's probably enough information here that we could do a crowdsourced deduction. We know that it is: - a "prominent web media company" - a major advertiser on the web - private, not public - looking to be acquired - valued in the "low nine figures", so about $100-300M - probably in the USA (since the tip is from an old friend of Cringely--an American--who works in private equity deals)

cantrevealname 14y ago
I'll get us started with a possible short list. This is a merged list of Google searches for "top media companies", "top web advertisers", and similar terms. I eliminated companies like Google and Sony that I know to be public or that are obviously too big to fit the clues. The next step is to prune the list according to revenue estimates that would imply a market value of $100-300M, those that are private, etc. Can anyone find way to do this? Activision Blizzard AdJug Adconion Media Group Adknowledge Advance Publications Aerelink Affect Labs AlwaysOn Anarkik3D Ancestry.com Anthropics Technology Ariel Communications Aroxo Artesian Solutions AudioBoo BView BeatThatQuote.com Broadbean Technology CareerBuilder Celona Technologies Clash Media Classified Ventures Codilink UK Comufy (Chootta) Cox Enterprises CyberSports Datmedia Demand Media Demotix Digital Goldfish Dopplr Electronic Arts Entanet International Eutechnyx Everyclick FriendFinder Networks Frontier Silicon GameStop GetJar Golden Gekko Groupon Handmade Mobile Entertainment Hubdub Huddle Hulu IVCMedia Introversion Software KeyPoint Technologies Light Blue Optics Livebookings Holdings Loc8 Solutions Madgex McClatchy Medio Systems MeetingZone Mendeley Mimecast Mind Candy Mippin MirriAd Mixcloud Mobango Mobile Commerce Mobiqa Monster Worldwide Moo Print Music Glue Mydeo NX Vision Nativ NearGlobal New Concept Gaming OnRelay PacketExchange PharmiWeb Solutions Pixsta Playfish Quick.tv QuinStreet ReachLocal Real Time Content Saffron Digital ScanSafe Scene Systems SeatWave Secerno Sharpcards Shazam Entertainment Skimbit Slicethepie Slingshot Songkick.com SoundCloud Splash Damage Spotify Struq Supajam SuperMedia The Cloud The Hut Tribune Triopsis Truphone Tweetmeme UMU United Online Upad ValueClick Viagogo Vpar We7 WebMD Webjam Wesupply WikiJob Yell Group Zemanta Zynga eHarmony iDesktop.tv iplato Healthcare mydeco.com
ghshephard 14y ago
Add: Sells their own Ads, and invoices advertisers directly. That's going to certainly limit the possibilities as well. "This can only happen for sites that sell their own ads but this particular site was just sending invoices to advertisers"

cantrevealname 14y ago

I'll get us started with a possible short list. This is a merged list of Google searches for "top media companies", "top web advertisers", and similar terms. I eliminated companies like Google and Sony that I know to be public or that are obviously too big to fit the clues. The next step is to prune the list according to revenue estimates that would imply a market value of $100-300M, those that are private, etc. Can anyone find way to do this? Activision Blizzard AdJug Adconion Media Group Adknowledge Advance Publications Aerelink Affect Labs AlwaysOn Anarkik3D Ancestry.com Anthropics Technology Ariel Communications Aroxo Artesian Solutions AudioBoo BView BeatThatQuote.com Broadbean Technology CareerBuilder Celona Technologies Clash Media Classified Ventures Codilink UK Comufy (Chootta) Cox Enterprises CyberSports Datmedia Demand Media Demotix Digital Goldfish Dopplr Electronic Arts Entanet International Eutechnyx Everyclick FriendFinder Networks Frontier Silicon GameStop GetJar Golden Gekko Groupon Handmade Mobile Entertainment Hubdub Huddle Hulu IVCMedia Introversion Software KeyPoint Technologies Light Blue Optics Livebookings Holdings Loc8 Solutions Madgex McClatchy Medio Systems MeetingZone Mendeley Mimecast Mind Candy Mippin MirriAd Mixcloud Mobango Mobile Commerce Mobiqa Monster Worldwide Moo Print Music Glue Mydeo NX Vision Nativ NearGlobal New Concept Gaming OnRelay PacketExchange PharmiWeb Solutions Pixsta Playfish Quick.tv QuinStreet ReachLocal Real Time Content Saffron Digital ScanSafe Scene Systems SeatWave Secerno Sharpcards Shazam Entertainment Skimbit Slicethepie Slingshot Songkick.com SoundCloud Splash Damage Spotify Struq Supajam SuperMedia The Cloud The Hut Tribune Triopsis Truphone Tweetmeme UMU United Online Upad ValueClick Viagogo Vpar We7 WebMD Webjam Wesupply WikiJob Yell Group Zemanta Zynga eHarmony iDesktop.tv iplato Healthcare mydeco.com

ghshephard 14y ago

Add: Sells their own Ads, and invoices advertisers directly. That's going to certainly limit the possibilities as well. "This can only happen for sites that sell their own ads but this particular site was just sending invoices to advertisers"