Comments on: AOL Seeks to Replicate TMZ’s Success

By: Ling

Ling — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:56:05 +0000

I didn’t know TMZ was part of AOL. It’s a mixed blessing, IMHO. AOL execs seem to have gotten into a habit of handing out ultimatums to the blog owners who came into the fold. There’s been plenty of downsizing and except for the high-profle blogs, the rest are supposedly suffering badly.

By: pink puppy

pink puppy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:43:49 +0000

enjoying your blog

By: Vic

Vic — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:39:23 +0000

TMZ was a runaway hit because way more people care about celebrities acting like idiots than cars, gadgets and videogames combined.

I believe the phrase is “shooting fish in a barrel.”

That said, TMZ runs a pretty tight ship and they do good work.

By: bobbie

bobbie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:06:03 +0000

Alex, no you haven’t - second sentence still reads “TMZ was acquired as part of Jason Calcanis’ Weblogs, Inc. for $25M by AOL/Time Warner in October, 2005″.

By: Alex Patriquin

Alex Patriquin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:29:16 +0000

Web guy,

Thanks for the clarification. We’ve corrected the post.

Alex

By: Web guy

Web guy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:47:47 +0000

TMZ was NOT acquired as part of the Weblogs acquisition. TMZ was started up internally at AOL in a partnership with Warner Brothers.