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'Glamour' Ventures Further Into Branded Content

Three years after launching its groundbreaking short-film series, Conde Nast's Glamour is introducing Glamour.TV, a new outlet for Web video. The platform serves Glamour content in bite-sized video clips, customized to key advertisers.

Dockers, for example, sponsors a show that interviews celebrity mothers. Revlon backs "Beauty Wars," a competition among makeup artists from around the world. Estee Lauder and Burberry co-sponsor a fashion and entertainment news show.

Glamour's Bill Wackermann says the model is reminiscent of the TV-sponsorship model of the 1950s, "when advertisers were in the business of promoting their own shows and having more creative control of the process."

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