ReveNews
Encyclopedia
ReveNews is an online publication founded in December 1998 by independent digital media firm GMD Studios and the original team of Brian Clark, J.D. Ashcraft and Wayne Porter. ReveNews publishes articles focused on Internet-related industries such as online marketing, Search Engine Optimization Marketing
, affiliate marketing
, retail (e-commerce), analytics
, spyware
, blogging, online revenue-sharing approaches, advertising network
s, security issues, and the legal landscape. Along with the founders it featured regular contributions from such authors like Joel Comm
.
ReveNews is an Ad Age
Power 150 news blog.
Since its foundation ReveNews has changed publishers and owners several times. Jim Kukral took over as Managing Editor and Publisher in June 2005 through March 2007. Sam Harrelson was Managing Editor and Publisher from March 2007 to March 2008 after ReveNews and CostPerNews were acquired by incuBeta, a joint venture between Vinny Lingham, Wayne Porter, and Sam Harrelson. In 2008, Vinny Lingham bought the company from Wayne Porter and Sam Harrelson, taking over as ReveNews's Publisher from March 2008 until November 2009. Vinny Lingham spent time looking for a buyer and entered into brief talks with Jeremy Schoemaker
to purchase the publication.
In May 2008, Angel Djambazov became the Managing Editor of ReveNews after spending a brief stint as Editor-in-Chief and later became Publisher and Owner in November 2009. In January 2010, Missy Ward, co-founder of Affiliate Summit
joined the team as co-publisher of ReveNews.
ReveNews has received numerous mentions from peer sites like ZDnet
and Cnet
as well as mainstream media mentions including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. It also received Marketing Sherpa's Reader's Pick Best Blog Awards for 2006. ReveNews managing editors Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson also won the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award for Best Blogger in 2007 and 2008. ReveNews has an iTunes application.
Search engine optimization
Search engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid search results...
, affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's own marketing efforts...
, retail (e-commerce), analytics
Analytics
Analytics is the application of computer technology, operational research, and statistics to solve problems in business and industry. Analytics is carried out within an information system: while, in the past, statistics and mathematics could be studied without computers and software, analytics has...
, spyware
Spyware
Spyware is a type of malware that can be installed on computers, and which collects small pieces of information about users without their knowledge. The presence of spyware is typically hidden from the user, and can be difficult to detect. Typically, spyware is secretly installed on the user's...
, blogging, online revenue-sharing approaches, advertising network
Advertising network
An online advertising network or ad network is a company that connects advertisers to web sites that want to host advertisements. The key function of an ad network is aggregation of ad space supply from publishers and matching it with advertiser demand...
s, security issues, and the legal landscape. Along with the founders it featured regular contributions from such authors like Joel Comm
Joel Comm
Joel Comm is an American author and Internet marketer. In 2006, he published The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You about Making Money with Adsense, which were New York Times and Business Week bestsellers...
.
ReveNews is an Ad Age
Advertising Age
Advertising Age is a magazine, delivering news, analysis and data on marketing and media. The magazine was started as a broadsheet newspaper in Chicago in 1930...
Power 150 news blog.
Since its foundation ReveNews has changed publishers and owners several times. Jim Kukral took over as Managing Editor and Publisher in June 2005 through March 2007. Sam Harrelson was Managing Editor and Publisher from March 2007 to March 2008 after ReveNews and CostPerNews were acquired by incuBeta, a joint venture between Vinny Lingham, Wayne Porter, and Sam Harrelson. In 2008, Vinny Lingham bought the company from Wayne Porter and Sam Harrelson, taking over as ReveNews's Publisher from March 2008 until November 2009. Vinny Lingham spent time looking for a buyer and entered into brief talks with Jeremy Schoemaker
Jeremy Schoemaker
Jeremy "ShoeMoney" Schoemaker is a web entrepreneur, founder of ShoeMoney Media, and co-founder of the AuctionAds service.In March 2007, Schoemaker and his business partner David Dellanave launched AuctionAds, an eBay affiliate marketing service that serves eBay auction ads on contextually...
to purchase the publication.
In May 2008, Angel Djambazov became the Managing Editor of ReveNews after spending a brief stint as Editor-in-Chief and later became Publisher and Owner in November 2009. In January 2010, Missy Ward, co-founder of Affiliate Summit
Affiliate Summit
The Affiliate Summit conference was founded by Affiliate marketing industry veterans Shawn Collins , and Missy Ward and focuses on the affiliate marketing professional community...
joined the team as co-publisher of ReveNews.
ReveNews has received numerous mentions from peer sites like ZDnet
ZDNet
ZDNet is a business technology news website published by CBS Interactive, along with TechRepublic and SmartPlanet. The brand was founded on April 1, 1991 as a general interest technology portal from Ziff Davis and evolved into an enterprise IT-focused online publication owned by CNET...
and Cnet
CNET
CNET is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition...
as well as mainstream media mentions including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. It also received Marketing Sherpa's Reader's Pick Best Blog Awards for 2006. ReveNews managing editors Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson also won the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award for Best Blogger in 2007 and 2008. ReveNews has an iTunes application.
External links
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneporter
- http://www.samharrelson.com/2007/08/30/new-revenews/
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/gmdclark
- http://www.revenews.com/about-revenews/
- http://www.jimkukral.com/i-just-resigned-from-revenews/
- http://www.missyward.com/about/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Summit
- http://adage.com/power150/index?start=50&sort=total&order=desc&kwd=
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Age
- http://www.revenews.com/vinnylingham/new-revenewscom-editor-in-chief/