Comments on: The New b5media Revealed

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By: Steve Adams

Steve Adams — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:06:10 +0000

Very Nice!
Jeremy, “millions of rows of data” I can’t even imagine. Way to go! Wish you the best with the change for b5media.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:03:31 +0000

Aaaand… we’re live :) A bit late, but trying to reconcile millions of rows of data that you’ve just taken from a round hole to a square one can sometimes be challenging ;-)

By: Steve Adams

Steve Adams — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:31:46 +0000

Makes sense to me. What a great plan
@Jeremy Wright – That made me chuckle a bit.
That was the first thing I noticed right away when I went to the site.

It will look much better when it has it’s new theme. (Way to go Brian!)

Steve

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:25:42 +0000

Good thing that’s still the old site then :)

By: Fern

Fern — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:22:28 +0000

Just a heads up, the site isn’t working properly in IE 6. The main content area on the left side isn’t loading.

By: Brian Gardner

Brian Gardner — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:15:58 +0000

Yes, this is great news moving forward for b5media, and I’m very proud to say that the site is built upon my Lifestyle theme. It was a pleasure helping Rachel and Jeremy in the process, and look forward to seeing the finished product once it’s live!

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:41 +0000

Yep, we ran into some technical challenges importing all the content cleanly from 40 blogs. We’ll be up later today now that most of those are solved :)

By: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:46:24 +0000

Steven Finch,
If you look at the post and then at the site, you’ll see that the relaunch isn’t live just yet. In other words, as I’m writing this you’re still seeing THE OLD site, not the relaunched Simplicity.

By: David Krug

David Krug — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:05:56 +0000

I think it is a great move.

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:50:53 +0000

This isnt BRILLIANCE!! This is just basic common sense. B5media has just made a portal in which they can keep the ad revenues for themselves and only pay the bloggers based on their individual blogs.

From the links on Splendicity the blogs are still individual and Splendicity is just a collaboration. In the same way Blogs.com works.

I dont really even understand why this was announced as a big change!!

By: Kathy | Virtual Impax

Kathy | Virtual Impax — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:16:26 +0000

I think this is an act of BRILLIANCE on behalf of b5 media – because while I understand perfectly what you mean when you say, “it is still a bunch of blogs running on WordPress MU, with some of the content being profiled on the front page” – I just got off the phone with an employee of a traditional advertising agency where the discussion was what’s happening with this new thing called “blogs.”

This agency controls the purse strings of the advertising dollars of a dozen or so mid-sized companies. The account rep with whom I was speaking didn’t know what a Tweet was – in other words, the language of social media is NOT mainstream by any means!!!

By streamlining the b5 media blogs into an “easy to swallow pill” for agencies – it becomes easier for agencies to justify the buy – which is really all the agency wants. Now, agencies can say, “We’re buying space on Splendicity which is all about beauty and style and reaches this demographic audience.” The agency doesn’t CARE about the platform – they only care about the demographics and the reach/frequency.

BRAVO b5 Media!!!