Dazed Digital
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In November 2006 Dazed Group launched a new web based strand of the magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 titled DazedDigital.com, which delivers fashion
Fashion
Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...

, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

, music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 and art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 news and special online events.

In 2010 Dazed Group confirmed its digital leading position of the magazine. Dazed is number one in its category with 205,000+ followers on Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 and 108,000+ Likes on Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

.

Dazed Digital relaunched on the 7th of September 2010 under the project title "Dazed Digital REACTIVATE". With a countdown
Countdown
A countdown is a sequence of counting backward to indicate the seconds, days, or other time units remaining before an event occurs or a deadline expires. Typical events for which a countdown is used include the launch of a rocket or spacecraft, the detonation of a bomb, the start of a race, and the...

 in the days prior to the relaunch, the new site did not go live until there were 10,000 simultaneous viewers; this target was reached in 22 minutes. The new site launched as first UK online publisher using an HTML5 site with an intuitive and faster loading interface
Interface
-Academic journals:* Interface: a journal for and about social movements* Interfaces * Journal of the Royal Society Interface* The Technology Interface Journal-Science:* Biointerface* Interface , boundary surface...

.

In 2011, Dazed Digital hosted its first ever online 'real time' talk with Michael Stipe
Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe is an American singer and lyricist. He was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.Stipe is noted and occasionally parodied for the "mumbling" style of his early career as well as his social and political activism. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual image; often...

 following the premiere of an exclusive video for R.E.M.
R.E.M.
R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...

's 15th album 'Collapse Into Now'. Fans from around the world were able to pose questions directly using a Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

 plugin.

Dazed TV

Soft launch
Soft launch
Soft launch can be used in regards to either the method for launching a missile or the release of a product or service.- Missile launch :Soft launching is the method of launching a missile in such a way that the rocket motor ignites outside of the launch tube; the missile is ejected non-explosively...

ed in September 2010 DazedTV.com is Dazed new destination for video only content.
With the launch of 'Dazed TV on Boxee', short films and exclusive music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s curated by Dazed can now be streamed on a computer but also on a TV set.

In February 2011, Dazed launches its first ever show, 'DAZED TV PARTY' premiered on Dazedtv.com. Hosted by Stuart Hammond, and created by Dazed co-founder Jefferson Hack
Jefferson Hack
Jefferson Winston Hack is a journalist and magazine editor. He co-founded Dazed & Confused with photographer Rankin in 1991. Hack has been a contributor to The Daily Telegraph on men’s style and has guest-edited The Independent...

 and music editor Tim Noakes, DAZED TV PARTY is an ongoing audiovisual experiment produced in association with Warp Films
Warp Films
Warp is one of the foremost and most respected creative independent companies, now composed of Warp Records, Warp Films and Warp Music Videos & Commercials. It is based in London, England and Sheffield, with a further office now in Melbourne, Australia...

. Paying homage to the lo fi public broadcasting aesthetic of Glenn O'Brien
Glenn O'Brien
Glenn O'Brien is primarily a writer, largely on the subjects of art, music and fashion. He's featured as "The Style Guy" at GQ magazine, and has published a book with that title....

’s cult 1970s TV Party, the first episode features new interviews and exclusive performances from Florence Welch
Florence Welch
Florence Leontine Mary Welch is an English singer-songwriter, best known worldwide as the lead singer of Florence and the Machine...

, Jake Chapman, Alice Dellal
Alice Dellal
Alice Dellal is a British model. She is associated with Next Model Management. Daughter of Brazilian model mother, Andrea, and her father, Guy Dellal, Alice is an heiress to a property tycoon, grandfather 'Black' Jack Dellal...

, Dominic Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a contemporary art curator, critic and historian of art. He is currently Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London...

, Factory Floor
Factory Floor
Factory Floor are a London-based band formed in 2005 that have been described as 'post-industrial', using live drums, synthesizers and noise.-History:...

, Dave I.D., Marques Toliver and Theo Adams
Theo Adams
Theo Adams , previously referred to as The-O, is a performance artist and director of the contemporary theatrical performance art group Theo Adams Company.-Personal life:...

. Turner Prize
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...

 nominated artist Mark Titchner
Mark Titchner
Mark Titchner is an English artist and a nominee for the 2006 Turner Prize. He lives and works in London.-Biography and career:Mark Titchner was born in Luton. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, in 1995....

 has created a series of bespoke graphic idents for the show, and the studio set was built and designed by renowned art director Gary Card.
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