Interview with Smokey Fontaine of Interactive One

In this episode of the Black Web 2.0 Show, we discuss content, the business of content, and entrepreneurship with Interactive One’s Chief Content Officer Smokey Fontaine. Smokey Fontaine has been a staple in the magazine industry for years, holding positions with such magazine giants (no pun intended) such as Vibe Magazine, The Source Magazine, and [...]

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The BlackPlanet Universe

Just last week we wrote about OnOne’s short life span and its entering the deadpool (theoretically).  Well, this week Interactive One has made distinct changes to further integrate the bevy of sites they recently launched into their recently acquired BlackPlanet.com.  You will notice that NewsOne, The Urban Daily, Hello Beautiful, and Giant are all now [...]

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OnOne Enters the Deadpool

Interactive One’s first foray into social networking, OnOne will be entering the dead pool on October 1st.  The death of OnOne is just a little house cleaning in preparation to unify the current OnOne users with Interactive One’s most recent acquisition, Black Planet. According to an email sent by the OnOne administrators, the “new and [...]

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BET launches 106 & Park Connect

Today BET will launch 106 & Park Connect in conjunction with 106 & Park’s 2,000th episode, the festivities which include special guests will occur sometime tonight around 6pm when the show airs.  The site is actually live right now and you can check it out for yourself at 106andPark.com.  The social network was built using [...]

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BlackPlanet.com is focused man…

On focus groups that is.  If you’re a member of BlackPlanet.com who actually reads their emails and doesn’t have them directed straight to your Spam box you may have gotten an email from them yesterday soliciting your participation in a focus group.  If you didn’t get the email, or just don’t read them, you may [...]

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Gorilla Nation Broadens Its African-American Reach

Online advertising rep firm Gorilla Nation recently signed four leading African-American Web properties to its GNMulticultural Vertical giving its advertisers access to 16 million unique visitors per month. The four sites added include, BlackPeopleMeet.com, BlackChristianPeopleMeet.com, BlackWebPortal.com, and Rap-Up.com. “The addition of these new AA properties now brings our GNMulticultural vertical to an estimated 13 million [...]

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Interactive One is not your average start-up

Smokey Fontaine, Chief Content Officer at Interactive One, describes the company as a “super start-up” in a quick interview with MarketWatch.  Thanks to Theo for the heads-up on this:

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Black Web 2.0 Show: Interview with Chuck Creekmur and Greg Watkins Founders of Allhiphop.com [Audio]

In Episode # 7 of the Black Web 2.0 Show we speak with Chuck Creekmur and Greg Watkins founders of Allhiphop.com. Coined as the “CNN of Hip Hop News”, Allhiphop (AHH) is the number one source for all things Hip Hop. With an average of 5 million visitors and over 100 million impressions monthly, AHH [...]

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Radio One’s spending spree

These days it seems like it is hard to get away from all the talk about Radio One’s interactive play. This weekend was no exception, while visiting family in the DC area I opened the Business section of Monday’s Washington Post and what do you know! Another story about Radio One, this [...]

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Did Allhiphop.com Get the Short End?

We recently reported that Allhiphop.com signed a 5 year multi-million dollar exclusive ad deal with Radio One’s Interactive One. On the surface the ad deal looked like a win win for both companies. AHH, gets rid of the burden of searching for ad inventory by teaming up with Radio One’s well connected urban radio ad [...]

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