When it comes to the profit potential of blogs, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, calls himself a skeptic. It's a surprisingly pessimistic perspective coming from the Brit who has launched a
network of 13 theme blogs -- including Fleshbot (porn), Gawker and Defamer (gossip), Gizmodo (gadgets) and Wonkette (politics). His most popular properties (Defamer, Gizmodo and Gawker) report between
4 million and 6 million visits per month and millions more pageviews, he and his top talent have been featured in articles in the ink-and-pulp press (Wired, The New York Times Magazine) and Denton
rarely misses an opportunity to trumpet ads on his sites for blue-chip companies like Absolut, Audi, Sony, Nike, Viacom, Disney and Condé Nast.
Read the whole story at Wired, September 22, 2005 »
