PlanetOut Acquires 'Advocate' and 'Out' Magazines
Filed in archive Dating Sites by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
MARKETING VOX -- Nov 11 -- The nation's two largest gay-oriented media companies will combine when PlanetOut acquires LPI Media for $24 million in cash. LPI publishes the Advocate and Outmagazines and two others with a combined circulation
of 8.2million. The deal will offer advertisers "the massive online
reach that PlanetOut can deliver with the amazing content and editorial
that LPI Media can deliver," said Lowell Selvin, PlanetOut's CEO.
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Mark Brooks:
Online dating sites are looking for ways to keep user interest. Good
quality content is a good strategy. It's worked well for Planetout and Community Connect. Friendfinder utilizes user submitted content for its magazines. Users then bubble up the best content by voting for it.
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