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Barry Diller's Not-So-Exclusive 'Very Short List'
Very Short List has been a favorite bauble of Barry Diller since the IAC chief established it nearly three years ago, after failing to buy Daily Candy. He envisioned VSL as a smart, tidy newsletter. But it looks worrisomely distended. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Nick Denton: From Kurt Andersen: Hi, Nick. In addition to being un true, the suggestion in the Gawker item that "the [VSL]... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Did A Friend Swindle Daily Candy's Founder?
No one will shed tears for Dany Levy. The Daily Candy founder made close to $25 million, by our calculations, on the sale of her email shopping newsletter to Comcast. But former AOL honcho Bob Pittman's Pilot Group took the lion's share of the $125 million windfall, after paying Levy and her family investors just $3.5 million for the privilege five years ago. Pittman's incredible return on investment has helped rehabilitate his tarnished image. But, despite her cheery public pronouncements, Levy must lose some sleep wondering whether she could have driven a harder bargain in the dark post-dot-com days of 2003. Perhaps, one tipster wonders, her thoughts turn to Andy Russell, Pittman's junior partner at Pilot Group, and the "close family friend of Dany since childhood" who is said to have advised her on the $3.5 million valuation. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by GORDONGARTRELLE: Exxon has $125m lying under its sofa cushions in Dallas. Pittman is a loser to crow about this lame deal. more » | Other threads
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Dany Levy Is Richer Than You Think
Daily Candy, the email newsletter for women who like to buy things, was improbably successful. Former journalist Dany Levy founded it in 2000; it quickly became profitable, and she sold a controlling stake in the business to the private investment firm Pilot Group in 2003 for $3.5 million. Pilot Group sold the newsletter to Comcast last week for (an unbelievable) $125 million. But Levy, we hear, retained about a 20% interest in Daily Candy—which would mean that she walked away from the sale with $25 million. That would make her the undisputed internet cash queen of New York media. Take that, Laurel Touby! More » -
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The Rehabilitation Of Bob Pittman
It is one of the wonders of America, that business celebrities like junk-bond salesman Michael Milken can be disgraced and then redeemed, often within the span of a decade. Tarnished former media mogul and social climber, Bob Pittman, has secured the first big payday of his new career as an internet investor: his Daily Candy, the email newsletter for women who buy handbags, has sold to cable giant Comcast for $125m, according to Silicon Alley Insider. That's more than had been rumored, and way more than Pittman in 2003 paid for his stake: $3.5m. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by garbanzo314: Interesting, this new Gawker editorial philosophy: stories of substances occasionally interrupting snippets of snark. Nice change, Nick. more » | Other threads
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Daily Candy To Comcast For $75 Million?
We heard last week that Daily Candy, the email newsletter for lady shopaholics, was about to be sold. Now digital PR man Adam Isserlis is floating the name of the rumored acquirer: Comcast, one of the two consumer-unfriendliest companies in America! The rumored price is $75 million, a bit below the $100 million+ controlling shareholder and former AOL second-in-command Bob Pittman has been seeking since 2006. But that's still not bad for an email list. The question is: Why Comcast? What the hell is a cable company doing buying a content play? Shouldn't the very presence of Bob Pittman, spectre of the darkest days of the failed AOL-Time Warner merger, remind Comcast of how ill-advised this sort of vertical empire building can be? Meh, Comast is on a roll and doesn't want to hear it. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by sharpeiboy: Funded by their outrageously priced services. I smell a monthly service fee increase creeping up again. Thanks,... more » | Other threads
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Who's Buying Daily Candy?
Daily Candy, the email newsletter for women addicted to expensive handbags, has been on sale for more than two years. But word is that the highly profitable internet property—founded by Dany Levy but now controlled by former MTV and AOL boss Bob Pittman—is finally about to find a buyer. Details, anyone?
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By Nick DentonComment by raincoaster: @Rumpelstilskin: We are all lost here. Revel in the cognitive dissonance; it's cheaper than drugs and booze. more » | Other threads
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Bob Pittman Will Buy You Now
Taking up an austere few thousand square feet on Madison Avenue are the offices of the Pilot Group, a shadowy private investment firm run by Robert Pittman, the poor sap who took the fall for the AOL/Time-Warner merger. Of course, they're not really shadowy, just secretive and private and investy, and Bob Pittman is anything but poor. The Pilot Group specializes in "control positions" (i.e. they like to top) on emerging new media and Internet companies. Most famously, the P-Group purchased a controlling stake in girly e-newsletter Daily Candy for $3.5 million in 2003, then put DC on the block earlier this year for $100 million. That sale ultimately didn't happen, as really — $100 million for an email list? Even so, Pittman and Pilot still managed to score an undisclosed minority investment to placate those other stakeholders who wanted their Bubble 2.0 money right now. Comes the rumor that Pilot has inscrutably made a deal for music blog Stereogum. (Perhaps this will console Stereogum's Scott Lapatine after last night's altercation with Jared Leto.) No doubt, you're asking yourself — hey, I have a blog, how can I get Robert Pittman to cover me in bags of filthy lucre? Know your quarry, after the jump.
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By Chris MohneyComment by Mediamania: "Pittman's history within Time-Warner lay primarily with MTV..." Hey jerkballs, get your facts straight. While Pittman was a... more » | Other threads
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Remainders: It doesn't help that the ads sell something called "iLoad"
- New York-based e-mail startup Daily Candy gets a sweet deal: an investment valuing the company at $130 mil, which lets the company take down its "For Sale" sign and get back to the important business of making urban women feel inadequately shoed. [Gawker, link being fixed]
- So some big-city bloggers had a party for Six Apart's new Vox blogging service, right? And some guys sat in a hot tub on the roof? And probably someone called this the bubble? Hon, it's not a bubble until what's in the hot tub can get you drunk. Anyway, click through for topless shots of Gawker Media managing editor Lockhart Steele. [Teen Drama]
- Damn it, Gawker's stealing all the tech news today. As our catty sister notes, the New York Times is proud to name-drop Dodgeball.com founder Dennis Crowley, the man responsible for every New Yorker and San Franciscan constantly updating their friends on how drunk they're about to get. [Gawker]
- Pictured: The Times also uses a photo illustration to remind everyone of those wild days of free drink coasters for all. [NYT]
- Mooching off the "Get a Mac" commercials: You can make a clever parody or a creepy knock-off ad. (Please make the parody.) [iLoad]
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Daily Candy Off the Block, Finds Minority Crackhead Investor
Well look who's got themselves a new sugar daddy: the pretty ladies at Daily Candy have found themselves a minority investor valuing the company at $130 million. Back in February, Daily Candy's controlling investor Bob Pittman put the trendy email service on the auction block with a minimum bid of $100 million — but the ballsy number was enough to scare off the New York Times Co., News Corp., and Hearst. Instead, the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is no longer for sale, the ladies having decided to whore themselves to just one minority investment, the money from which shall go towards maintaining their well-stocked closets. More »
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DailyCandy Is Testing You
Today, rather than tell you pretty ladies how to be even prettier, DailyCandy has a reader survey. Just be careful: answer incorrectly, and you may be blackballed from Intermix — or their mailing list. More » -
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Team Party Crash: Daily Candy's Book Party
Daily Candy editor-at-large Dannielle Romano grabs hold of DC founder Dany Levy. We fear we have pictures of Dannielle displaying similar enthusiasm for us. More »
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DailyCandy: Wait, do I work for them?
The only thing more old-school than a dot-com (okay, except a BBS, grandpa) is an at-dot-com — an e-mail newsletter like DailyCandy. The Manhattan-based shopping guide snagged a feature story in New York Magazine, and every detail seemed eerily familiar. More » -
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Media Bubble: Who Cares About Rate Base, So Long as Your Shirt Is Tucked In?
• Details missed its rate base on eight of 10 issues in 2005. Fun. [Ad Age] More » -
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Daily Candy: Because You're Fat and You Know It
Daily Candy was just on the Today Show to promote their new book, Daily Candy A-Z (on sale tomorrow), which features chapters like "L is for Luxury" and "P is for Party." In honor of their literary achievement, they've really pulled out the stops in today's edition of their email newsletter: More » -
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The new New York bubble
Silicon Alley's feature coverage in this week's NYT Styles section (because it's too fun for the tech section) shows that the Alley is just like the Valley again — with all the requisite bubble signs: More » -
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Battle of the Alpha Male Email Newsletters
We couldn't help but notice that yesterday's edition of the UrbanDaddy newsletter (think Daily Candy for cocks) is frighteningly similar to today's edition of the Thrillist newsletter (again, Daily Candy for cocks). Both reviewed the Meatpacking District's latest addition, Pre:Post, which caters to patrons with drinks and meals both before and after their club crawls. A brief comparison of the two reviews' bullet points: More » -
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Like Candy From a Pittman
You've spent hours on the therapist's couch trying to move on, but you just can't forget that horrible day in second grade. It was lunchtime, and everyone reached into their backpacks to get out their food, and everyone — everyone — somehow knew to have that cute new Corey Haim lunchbox. Except you. You just had a plain brown bag. And you'd never felt so left out in your life. More » -
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Daily Candy: Where No Fashionista Has Gone Before
The pretty, sparkly ladies at Daily Candy are always ahead of the curve, recommending the best in overpriced food and fashion in places you've never heard of. One can only assume that similar sense of trendy adventure led the Daily Candy girls to recommend CAP USA sportswear in today's newsletter, where you can bling-up your Chucks or get some custom-designed Jordans with that adorable Dooney & Burke logo. More » -
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NYT Reporter Also Loves Container Store
For whatever reason, we actually read today's DailyCandy email, in which the virtues of professional organizer Stacey Platt so wonderfully applauded that, upon reading, we were left stupidly wondering how we ever could have lived without paying someone to alphabetize our DVDs for us. So we went to Platt's website, the tastefully Zen Breathing Space, moseyed around, and came across the following testimonial: More » -
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DailyCandy Takes the Horror to Print
Super-cute email newsletter DailyCandy knows no boundaries in the pursuit of pretty clothes and precious tchotchkes, so few were surprised when those pretty ladies went and got a book deal. We've not seen much on the book-to-be, however, so stumbling upon the publisher's page for Daily Candy A to Z has felt like a slap in the unstylish face. More » -
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Translating Thrillist
Yesterday, we lamented the existence of Thrillist, an email newsletter catering to Golden Tee-playing Murray Hill boys and their love of drinking and humping. In particular, we're frustrated by the lack of a comparable newsletter for ladies and/or Gays (save for the overly-precious Daily Candy), and we suggested that we might start translating Thrillist for our own means. Today's edition, in which Thrillist men can learn about a rip-cord applicator condom — donned with such speed that you'd have to be a fucking girl to lose your erection in the process — is exactly the sort of thing that could be easily and effectively marketed to the opposite sex: More » -
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Thrillist Makes Things So Unfair
We're reluctant to admit it, but we've been following online newsletter Thrillist more closely than anyone without a closet full of striped button-downs ever should. And yet? We're completely transfixed by its evil, fratty brilliance. It manages, four times every week, to find a different way of promoting the finest in testosteroniffic pursuits: heavy drinking and getting ass. We may not agree with it, but we're certainly impressed. You try finding 208 different ways of telling a dude to make sure he gets his date drunk. More » -
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Remainders: Christian Slater Cannot, in Fact, Fly
• Christian Slater, forced to give up his New York hobby of ass-groping, heads to West Hollywood, where he supplements his diet of misbehavior by falling off of Paris Hilton's roof. [People] More » -
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Daily Candy Leaves No Flowery Diction Behind
Daily Candy goes on a purple prose extravaganza in today s e-letter, Leafy Keen, which plugs a company that adorns household objects with the imprints of real leaves.The apple may not fall far from the tree. But what about the leaf? Different story entirely. Tossed by the winds of chance, wrangled by the rakes of fate, the delicate foliage of autumn cannot know its destiny. With any luck, however, it will get immortalized on a pillow, tablecloth, or stationery by Inleaf Designs...
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Reader Email: But Only Late at Night and Coked Up Edition
Today's Daily Candy installment flacks for a giant game of water-gun Assassin, sure to be popular in Williamsburg and almost nowhere else, that's coming to the city next week. This raises many good questions, but the one a Candy reader emails to ask is: More » -
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DailyCandy Spring Survey: Like Rush But Subtle
What they don't tell you: By choosing the first option, you're automatically blacklisted from the DailyCandy email servers. But that's what you get for being poor and ugly, Debbie. More » -
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From Style To Semitism
What's Dani Levy's next step after bringing the best and coolest stuff to Manhattan's stylish ladies? Healing the historical rift between Germans and Jews after the former tried to, like, anihilate the latter, of course. More » -
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How Not To Send Anonymous Emails, Courtesy Of Daily Candy
You know we love Daily Candy, the email newsletter that points us in the direction of the finest sample sales and all the sparkly things this city has to offer. But they're not just pretty—they're professional, too! Just yesterday, Daily Candy editor-at-large Dannielle Romano wrote to Manhattan Users Guide to notify MUG of an error in their newsletter: More » -
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In case of hangover
Journalists and media people should fully appreciate today's Daily Candy contribution to the overall health and welfare of Manhattanites: a list of preventative hangover measures. [Ed. note—I promised I'd stop making "drunken hack" jokes if it got old...Oh, who are we kidding? It never does.] Things to take before you go drinking: vitamin B complex, milk thistle, and anti-oxidents. Aaron Bailey adds: two codeine "imported" from Canada upon returning home. More » -
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Cad
Daily Candy discusses Rick Marin's book, Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor. which they note hits stores today. (Actually, it's been in the Union Square B&N for a couple of weeks.) Marin's take on bachelorhood: "No guy wants to be alone. We want to be with other women. Then when we're out with other women we want to be alone. That was the problem." More » -
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Ladies who launder
For $1.50 a pound, Ladies Who Launder will pick up your laundry, custom clean it per your requests, and deliver it the same day gift packaged in leopard print tissue paper. More » -
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Jack the Perfect Tailor
Daily Candy finds a tailor capable of creating impeccable designer look-alikes. More »
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