Mediabistro Announces Launch of SocialTimes Pro Research Covering Facebook, Virtual Goods and Social Gaming Business Strategies
August 25 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Mediabistro.com (a division of WebMediaBrands Inc.) (Nasdaq:
WEBM) today announced the launch of SocialTimes Pro, a subscription
service that offers research reports covering Facebook, virtual
goods, and social gaming. In-depth reports from analysts Wagner
James Au and Tameka Kee will be available beginning September
2010.
“Mediabistro is now one of the top organizations covering social
media, including blogs AllFacebook and SocialTimes as well as trade
shows in the social games, virtual goods, digital privacy, and
social marketing spaces,” stated Alan M. Meckler, Chairman and CEO
of WebMediaBrands Inc. ”Adding a research component to our social
media coverage is a natural extension for us.”
Mediabistro is the only research organization offering in-depth
monthly coverage of social media. Additionally, to foster
community among users, SocialTimes Pro subscriptions include free
entry to Mediabistro social media events in cities around the
world.
Wagner James Au covers virtual worlds and goods for SocialTimes
and his blog New world Notes. He is a former contributing editor at
GigaOm, author of The Making of Second Life, and was most recently
the head writer for City of Eternals, a next-gen social MMO. Tameka
Kee is a former reporter for paidContent, where she covered the
business of digital entertainment and gaming, and broke news on
companies including Electronic Arts, Playfish, Netflix, and
Facebook.
For more information about SocialTimes Pro, visit
www.socialtimespro.com.
About WebMediaBrands Inc.
WebMediaBrands Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM, www.webmediabrands.com) is an
Internet media company that provides content, education, trade
shows and online job board services to media and business
professionals. The Company’s online business includes: (i)
mediabistro.com, a leading blog network providing content, career
and educational resources about major media markets and industry
verticals including new media, TV news, advertising, public
relations, publishing, design, mobile and the semantic web; (ii)
Socialtimes.com and Allfacebook.com, providing industry leading
content about the latest developments in social media, social
networks and social gaming; (iii) other leading content websites
including AgencySpy, PRNewser, eBookNewser, BrandsoftheWorld,
GalleyCat and TVNewser; and (iv) e-commerce websites including
FreelanceConnect.com and StockLogos.com. The Company’s LearnNetwork
features online and in-person courses, panels, certificate programs
and educational video subscription libraries for media and business
professionals and presents evening panels on topics including
social media, journalism, advertising design, publishing, Web
content, video and more. WebMediaBrands’s trade shows include Think
Mobile, Smartphone Games Summit, Social Gaming Summit, Virtual
Goods Summit, eBook Summit, Semantic Web Summit, Freemium Summit,
Social Developer Summit, Mediabistro Circus and Mediabistro Career
Circus. The Company’s mediabistro.com business also includes an
industry-leading job board for media and business professionals
focusing on job categories such as social media, online/new media,
publishing, public relations/marketing, advertising, sales, design,
television and more.
All current WebMediaBrands press releases can be found online at
www.webmediabrands.com/corporate/press.html
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