Exciting News About Ning + Mode Media

Today, I’m excited to announce some great news for Ning and our customers. We’ve signed an agreement to be acquired by Mode Media (formerly Glam Media).

Mode Media (formerly Glam Media) pioneered connecting the world’s top brand advertisers with targeted vertical audiences online. Mode has a reach of 84 million unique monthly visitors in the U.S. and 200 million visitors globally. They have more than 2,500 publishers organized across multiple vertical categories including: Glam.com for women, Glam Entertainment for adults, Brash.com for men and Bliss.com for health and wellness seekers.  

We will continue to provide you with the most powerful platform to create, grow, and manage passionate online communities. Ning will continue as a separate division within Mode Media. No immediate changes to the team, the product, or the business are planned as a result of this, and we’ll continue on our path of releasing new innovative features to make your Ning sites more successful.

  Some of our Ning communities are already part of the Mode Media network, and we’ll share updates to the roadmap and information on how to apply to join the Mode Network in the coming weeks.

Want to know more about Glam Media and details about this acquisition?

Glam CEO Samir Arora: No Plans To Force Ning Advertising Rev Share

Glam Media acquires site builder Ning

Marc Andreesen's blog

NOTE: Post Edited on 4/29/14 to reflect Glam Media's name change to Mode Media.

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Mochajewl March 13, 2012 at 9:51am

I am currently running Google Ads and would like to know if it's easy to get approval for Glam Ads? In the initial sign-up for Glam Ads, I read that the network must have 100,000 page views per day, which I don't believe we have. Please provide any info. Thanks.
- soaringeagle > Mochajewl March 13, 2012 at 10:21am
  
  oh and it took me months to get the damn signup form to work had to try several diferent browsers finaly got it to work and get rejected..pretty disappointing
  - Mochajewl > soaringeagle March 13, 2012 at 10:35am
    
    Well, if you got rejected, I probably don't stand a chance! Thanks! :-)
- soaringeagle > Mochajewl March 13, 2012 at 10:19am
  
  i just got rejected myself
  
  so yea its not that easy and u do need alot of traffic
Gina Krupsky December 30, 2011 at 6:27pm

Will we be able to run both Glam ads and Google ads or are you required to choose only one?
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  - Gina Krupsky December 30, 2011 at 8:46pm
    
    Thanks Eric. I appreciate the quick response. I will see if I can find the TOS for both Glam and Google adsense so I understand the rules better. Happy new year!
soaringeagle November 16, 2011 at 3:59pm

ok so its been almost 2 months since this happened when can we start running glam ads? the xmass seasons coming this is the time to make and spend alot more $ so we should be taking advantage of this now..

can we get an estimate on how soon we can begin gaining from this news?
Alex George October 5, 2011 at 5:28pm

Truth be told, nobody knows what is going to happen now that Ning was acquired for 20% of its valuation. Glam may decide to keep Ning's current business model or it may not. If you care about your brand and content ownership you should be concerned.
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  - Janettee McCrary October 6, 2011 at 12:01am
    
    You removed something from that second quote, which has some suspicious wording...
    
    But Arora says Glam has no plans to change that: “We will let you do whatever you’re doing with Ning.” Instead, Glam will offer Ning subscribers additional advertising opportunities. Glam currently has two versions. As Arora describes it, Glam 1.0 pays independent publishers a straight rev share, while Glam 2.0 gives Glam ownership for all the content and pays publishers “lifetime” residual rights in the form of rev shares. He also plans to stick with the pay-only model that Ning switched to last year. “My intention is it’s working, leave it alone.”
Joe Fulton October 3, 2011 at 7:36pm

Is there a possibility of Glam offering site design services to Ning customers?

One has to look at potential upsides for us, too.

Anyone at Ning have any thoughts on this as well as other positives for NC's?

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