Glam Media - Fashion Company Profile
Glam Media was a first-generation web hub for fashion publishing - begun in late 2002 to group fashion blogs and indie publishers into one network around Glam.com, later renamed Glam Mode Media and Mode Media, which shut down abruptly on September 15, 2016. Its record is kept here as history.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Closed - Mode Media (formerly Glam Media and Glam Mode Media, originally Project Y) abruptly shut down its operations on September 15, 2016
- Type
- Was a digital lifestyle media company and advertising network
- Began
- Late 2002, with a small team dedicated to fashion
- Record
- Built around Glam.com, grouping fashion blogs and indie publishers into one network with embedded e-commerce
Company Profile
This page is therefore a historical profile, with no shop box and no official-site button: the network model, the web-hub idea and the July 2007 news trail are summarised below and kept in full on the history page.
The Glam.com experience was designed to feel like a favourite magazine brought to the web: editorial content, the hottest fashion blogs, and an interactive layer of quizzes, polls, e-commerce, video and user-generated content. The founding question recorded in the filing is a genuinely early piece of internet thinking. Glam Media began in late 2002 with a small team dedicated to fashion, asking why the web had a few large portals while some of the most compelling content lived on indie publishers' sites, blogs and user-generated pages. Their answer was a method to group content from fashion blogs and websites across the net into one central location.
Glam Media History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Glam Media History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What happened to Glam Media?
Glam Mode Media, formerly Project Y and Glam Media, abruptly shut down its operations on 15 September 2016 as Mode Media, in the historical record - this page is historical reference.
What was Glam.com?
A women's fashion and entertainment network combining fashion and celebrity editorial with embedded e-commerce, quizzes, polls, video and user-generated content, in the historical record.
When did Glam Media begin?
In late 2002, with a small team dedicated to fashion and to grouping indie fashion blogs and websites into one central location, in the historical record.
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