Pras Joins Revver’s Lineup of Video Bloggers; Launches Platinum Brand

Revver just brought new talent to its site, with the Pras Michel video blog. (See the announcement here.) Of course he isn’t the first urban celebrity to vlog, it’s just that most of them do it as a channel on YouTube, like Diddy. Then most of them don’t have their own site where they cross [...]

GlobalGrind to Launch Hip-Hop Network with Glam

There’s been big news for Glam Media lately:

It acquired Monetise Ltd, an online media sales company based in the UK.
It formed a partnership with Brightcove to boost video content for Glam’s network.
Expanded to include video distribution across its network of sites, in partnership with Sony BMG, E! Online, Lifetime Networks, and TV Guide Broadband.
And it’s [...]

Maybe 50 Cent Gets Social Media After All

Back in April, on RushmoreDrive, I wrote What Does 50 Cent Know About Social Media?. I didn’t have the space to do a real analysis of the efforts there, but there are other sites that have dug in a little deeper, such as ReadWriteWeb and even the Tech Observer blog over at Portfolio in 50 [...]

Remember Urban Box Office?

Before Radio One’s OnOne, before GlobalGrind, there was Urban Box Office. The hopes for it were right up there with BlackVoices, BlackPlanet, and BET.com. But it was supposed to be even bigger. It was like a network of sites of everything urban. But what happened?
It looks like John Threat is directing a movie that answers [...]

MySpace Latino > MiGente

It looks like MySpace is stepping on to CCI’s turf. For those who don’t know about CCI, it’s Community Connect, the parent company behind ethnic community sites like BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, and AsianAvenue.com, as well as a GLBT site and faith-based site. MS’s parent, News Corp., must be smelling all that immigrant money. (J/K) But [...]