HOLLYWOODLIFE.COM UNVEILS NEW CELEBRITY & STYLE DESTINATION WHERE READERS ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE DIGITAL CONVERSATION

New York, NY (November 17, 2009) - Bonnie Fuller and Jay Penske, Founder and CEO of MMC, are proud to announce the November 17th launch of HollywoodLife.com, a vibrant new female-focused online destination that provides celebrity and entertainment news alongside an interactive conversation about lifestyle, health, fashion, and beauty, for women 18-35 years. The launch marks the successful culmination of Ms. Fuller's transition into her role as a leading innovator in the digital world of celebrity and entertainment publishing. HollywoodLife.com's new approach has already attracted Old Navy, Sony Pictures, People's Choice and WE tv among leading advertisers looking to engage their female audience in a fresh and unique online environment. The site has already entered into partnerships with like-minded online destinations. One of its first partnerships is with iVillage, which will enable the distribution of Hollywoodlife.com’s content across the iVillage network,   READ MORE »

Former CNN Reporter Joins HollywoodLife.com

Bonnie Fuller Continues to Grow Editorial Staff, Hires Chloe Melas

Chloe is an Atlanta native and Auburn University graduate. She moved to New York City to pursue a career in journalism. After an internship at The Colbert Report, Chloe has spent the past year working at CNN in the breaking news division, assisting with content production and writing stories for CNN.com. She now looks forward to her new adventure, pursuing a true passion as an entertainment reporter for Hollywood Life.

Former Conde Nast's Editor Joins HollywoodLife.com

Bonnie Fuller Continues to Grow Editorial Staff, Hires Marta Topran as Beauty Editor

Marta Topran comes from the beauty department at Conde Nast’s recently shuttered Cookie magazine. A Boston College graduate and longtime cosmetics junkie, she is very excited to be focusing her editorial lens on the celebrity world for HollywoodLife.com

Former NY Daily News Columnist Joins HollywoodLife.com

Bonnie Fuller Continues to Grow Editorial Staff, Hires Laura Schreffler as West Coast Bureau Chief - Los Angeles Office

Laura Schreffler has explored NYC nightlife as a columnist for the NY Daily News, freelanced for People Magazine in London and now takes on sunny LA as the West Coast Bureau Chief of Hollywoodlife.com. She's obsessed with American Idol, all things vampire (Robert Pattinson and Alexander Skaarsgaard in particular) and the Kings of Leon. Her fashion icon is Ashley Olsen -- and not just because she's a size 0.

Hollywood Life's 6th annual Hollywood Style Awards

Sunday marked Hollywood Life's 6th annual Hollywood Style Awards at the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. See a complete list of the event's winners and presenters below and head to the Style Awards page for more pics, video, and buzz from the star studded fete!

• Hayden Panettiere, Young Hollywood Style Icon, presented by Zachary Quinto

• Brody Jenner, Young Men's Hollywood Style Icon, presented by Lauren Conrad

• Kim Kardashian, Style Siren, presented by Robin Antin of the Pussycat Dolls

• Selena Gomez, Style Ingenue, presented by "Wizards of Waverly Place" co-star Jennifer Stone

• Kelly Osbourne, Style Original, presented by Kim Kardashian
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Nikki Finke Named a Top 10 Entertainment Game Changer by Huffington Post

HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world. With your help, we've picked 10 people who are changing the game in Entertainment. We honor and salute them.

Now it's up to you to pick the Ultimate Entertainment Game Changer. Click through the slideshow below, get the lowdown on why we chose them, then VOTE. We'll reveal the Ultimate 10 in November.

Current Status: Commanding Hollywood's attention

Changing The Game By: Starting a website, Deadline Hollywood Daily, that’s become THE go-to source for the entertainment industry. Tripling her traffic during the writers' strike. Breaking more show business news than any other reporter. Finke has Hollywood executives hitting refresh 20 times a day to find out if they are the next to be fired. Operati   READ MORE »

Former New York Post ‘Page Six’ Reporter Joins HollywoodLife.com

Bonnie Fuller Continues to Grow Editorial Staff, Hires Corynne Steindler as Senior Reporter

September 24, 2009 – New York City – HollywoodLife.com, a soon-to-be re-launched celebrity and style Web site, owned by Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), announced today the appointment of Corynne Steindler as senior reporter. Currently, HollywoodLife.com is in the process of growing its editorial team under the direction of President and Editor-in-Chief Bonnie Fuller.

“We are privileged to welcome such a seasoned reporter to HollywoodLife.com,” says Fuller. “With terrific experience breaking celebrity news, Corynne’s addition is a significant advantage to our strong and growing editorial team.”

Prior to joining HollywoodLife.com, Steindler was a reporter at the New York Post’s leading gossip column ‘Page Six,’ covering and breaking major stories on prominent celebrities, politicians and corporate executives. She also worked a   READ MORE »

Former New York Bureau Chief of TMZ Joins HollywoodLife.com

HollywoodLife.com President and Editor-in-Chief Bonnie Fuller Appoints Will Lee as Executive Editor

September 17, 2009 – New York City – HollywoodLife.com, a soon-to-be relaunched online entertainment and celebrity Web site, owned by Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), announced today the appointment of Will Lee as executive editor. The appointment was made by HollywoodLife.com’s President and Editor-in-Chief Bonnie Fuller.

“Will comes to us with a vast background in reporting, management and new media,” says Bonnie Fuller, president and editor-in-chief, HollywoodLife.com. “During his career he has been responsible for breaking major celebrity news and will bring this level of reporting to HollywoodLife.com.”

Prior to joining HollywoodLife.com, Lee was the New York bureau chief of TMZ and helped grow the media outlet both online and on television. With more than a decade of experience, Lee is a leading editor and writer in celebrity and entertainment news and has written a variety of features, news s   READ MORE »

Digital Media Takes Centre Stage with Jay Penske, CEO of MMC

Jay Penske is a busy man. As founder of Mail.com Media Corporation (a leading digital media and technology company that taps into the United States and inter¬national markets), co-founder and co¬chairman of Oncars.com (known for its top-of-the-line automotive content) and co-owner of Indy Car racing team Luczo Dragon Racing, Mr Penske is without a doubt the quintessential go-getter and modern day digital industrialist.

Born in New York, he later graduated from the prestigious Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Finance and Management of Information Systems. He currently sits on the board of the University of Pennsylvania Jay Penske Library as well as Wharton Entrepreneurial School. He recently sat down with Swiss Style’s Chairman, John Béguin, to discuss the future of digital media and what that means for the consumer expectations of digital media conglomerates such as Mail.com Media Corporation.

Jay Penske, MMC's Chairman and CEO has been invited to participate in the 2009 World Economic Forum in Dalian, China.

Reviving economic growth remains the priority for policy-makers and business leaders in 2009. While government stimulus programmes are critical in the near term, entrepreneurship, innovation and technology will drive a transformational recovery for the long term.

This recovery will be directed by a new generation of leaders – the New Champions – and the World Economic Forum is bringing them together at the “Summer Davos”. In addition, China will be a significant driver in bringing the world economy out of its present recession and into recovery. The Meeting in Dalian, People’s Republic of China, will bring together over 1,300 industry, government and thought leaders to debate and define the course needed to relaunch growth, and Jay Penske, MMC’s Chairman and CEO has been invited to participate in this meeting.

The programme has been developed in close collaboration with World Economic Forum Partners and Members and leading experts   READ MORE »

Renowned Editor Bonnie Fuller to Become President of HollywoodLife.com

Media executive and magazine innovator Bonnie Fuller has accepted a position to lead HollywoodLife.com, announced Jay Penske, CEO of Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), which owns the online celebrity/entertainment site. The new position represents an important step both for Fuller, who has been instrumental in reshaping the magazine industry for more than two decades, and for Hollywood Life. Penske described this hire as “an extraordinary opportunity,” adding: “Partnering with Bonnie allows us to chart a new course for Hollywood Life—to create an exciting and innovative online destination for women.”

As President and editor in chief of Hollywood Life, Ms Fuller will grow the brand, transforming the site into a vibrant, interactive digital destination for entertainment news and style-minded women, ages 18-35. Fuller has been widely credited with sparking the current pop-culture celebrity mania, after transforming Us Weekly into the first celebrity   READ MORE »

Mark Lisanti, the original Defamer, Joins Movieline.com, Hollywood's Buzziest Entertainment Web Site

Movieline.com expands its roster of top quality writers, deepening its relationship with followers of the site’s unique coverage of entertainment and pop culture.

Hollywood, California (July 6, 2009) — Mark Lisanti, one of the most widely read and universally respected observers of the goings on in the back lots and front offices of the entertainment industry, has signed up with Movieline as the site's new Editor at Large — joining editors Seth Abramovitch, Kyle Buchanan and S.T. VanAirsdale.

Lisanti started Defamer in 2004 as an anonymous Hollywood insider, regularly scooping the mainstream with his wry take on the industry's breaking news. Along the way, he coined countless showbiz concepts and colloquialisms — "baby-eating agents," "fauxteurs," and the "CAA Death Star," to name just a couple. In 2005, he was featured in Esquire's "Best and Brightest" list. By 2006, he was on the LA Times' Power 100 list and in Los Angeles magazine's year-end list of "influentials". After leaving Defamer in early 2008, he freelanced for many outlets, including covering the Oscars this year for VanityFair.com. He's also been at wo   READ MORE »

Mail.com Media Corporation Acquires DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com, Signs Multi-year Agreement With Award-winning Entertainment Business Journalist, Nikki Finke

MMC To Distribute Nikki Finke's Content Exclusively Across Its Digital Media Platform

June 23, 2009 (LOS ANGELES) — Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), the digital media company that owns and operates the Mail.com portal and email service as well as a growing portfolio of lifestyle brands, including HollywoodLife.com, MovieLine.com and OnCars.com, announced today its acquisition of the Internet's highly respected website for original content about the infotainment industry DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com. MMC also begins a long-term, multi-year partnership with former Newsweek and Los Angeles Times and New York Magazine writer/reporter Nikki Finke, the founder and writer of Deadline Hollywood Daily and one of the foremost entertainment business journalists in the world.

Deadline Hollywood Daily is Nikki Finke's uniquely candid, informed and authoritative source for breaking news in the entertainment industry. She started DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com with the purpose of creating a 24/7 Internet version of her must-r   READ MORE »

Movieline Re-Launches as Hollywoods Premiere Entertainment Web Site

The vitality and immediacy of a Hollywood blog coupled with extensive coverage of entertainment and pop culture

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- MOVIELINE, the acclaimed movie and entertainment magazine, announced today it has re-launched at Movieline.com as the premier entertainment site with the vitality and immediacy of a Hollywood blog coupled with extensive coverage of entertainment and pop culture. The fresh and irreverent site features all original content from the witty minds of a veteran editorial team bringing the cheeky new concept to life.

With their signature wry and informed wit, editors Seth Abramovitch, Kyle Buchanan and S.T. VanAirsdale, formerly of Defamer, have combined forces to launch Movieline.com. The site boasts daily and weekly features ranging from movie and television reviews and insider interviews to current and up-and-coming talent breaking stories.

"We've built our site to attract readers seeking the latest news about the entertainment industry, and to keep them with our humorous, modish perspectives," said Abramovitch.

Movieline Announces Web Portal, High-Profile New Hires

Popular magazine to relaunch as website with three Defamer alums

Thursday, February 26, 2009, Hollywood, CA — Movieline, the acclaimed arts and entertainment magazine, announced today that it will be relaunching its prestigious brand as a web portal covering all things Hollywood. In addition, Mail.com Media Corporation, Movieline LLC's parent company announced that it is hiring three full-time staff members from the entertainment industry website Defamer: Seth Abramovitch, S.T. VanAirsdale, and Kyle Buchanan.

"We're excited to be bringing back the iconic voice of Movieline," said MMC Chairman and CEO Jay Penske. "We're confident that Seth, S.T. and Kyle will take it to the next level with their original content, up-to-the-minute blogs, reviews and high-profile interviews."

"Movieline was completely ahead of its time--an irreverent and intelligent Hollywood must-read," said Abramovitch. "It had a big influence on Defamer, and the idea of reviving it for a new generation of savvy industry ins   READ MORE »

OnCars.com Video Car Review Site Passes 500,000 Unique Monthly Visitors in December, Comscore Reports

New site bucks downturn in automotive media to attract fast-growing, age-desirable, gender-balanced audience with above-average HHI

ALISO VIEJO, CA (PR NEWSWIRE) January 26, 2009 &mdash OnCars.com, a flourishing car review site featuring videos, car photo galleries and news, closed out 2008 with 540,000 unique monthly visitors in December according to comScore. This news comes following the January 7 announcement that the OnCars content brand attracted more than one million online video views in the month of December. OnCars.com's strong growth is bucking an overall negative automotive media trend that saw most other automotive sites record significant declines in 2008 visitor traffic due to fall-out from the global economic crisis.

OnCars.com features independent professionally-produced car review videos, written car reviews, an extensive car photo gallery and automotive news. OnCars.com was launched on May 19, 2008, by media veterans Jay Penske, Paul Pfanner and Bill Sparks with the promise to engage consumers with in-depth broadcast-quality automotive video reviews that convey the emotional propositi   READ MORE »

Mail.com Media Corporation Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company

Finalists include elite executives and venture capital leaders from around the world

Los Angeles — Mail.com Media Corporation, today announced that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100 Companies. Winning and finalist companies from the previous three years were eligible for this outstanding award. Out of 1,800 successful and highly eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to drill-down the best companies first to 200 finalists, then to the top 100 winners of this global award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration. The announcement of the winners was made at the Red Herring 100 Global taking place in San Diego from January 14-16, 2009. Present among the finalists were elite executives and venture capital leaders from aroun   READ MORE »

OnCars Video Car Reviews Hit One Million Monthly Online Views in December 2008

Steve Rousseau and Jeff Zwart join the OnCars team in 2009

Aliso Viejo, CA (PR NEWSWIRE) January 7, 2009 — Barely more than seven months since launch, the OnCars content brand closed out 2008 with more than one million online video views in the month of December. This capped a year of dramatic traffic growth for OnCars.com at a time when most other automotive sites recorded significant declines. OnCars.com features independently produced video car reviews, written car reviews, car photo galleries and automotive news.

At launch on May 19, 2008, OnCars founders Jay Penske, Paul Pfanner and Bill Sparks promised to engage consumers with in-depth broadcast-quality automotive video reviews that convey the emotional proposition found in every car. The formula seems to be working: OnCars.com served 801,404 video streams in December with 70% played through to completion. In addition to on-site video plays, 250,068 OnCars car review videos were viewed in December on the YouTube.com and Streetfire.net OnCars' channels, bringing th   READ MORE »

OnCars.com is Now Live, Delivering Broadcast-Quality, Original Automotive Videos and Content

Jay Penske names OnCars.com's premier content partner for new 'Autos' section

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – (Tuesday, June 24, 2008) -- OnCars.com, which launched on May 19, provides original broadcast-quality automotive video through its dedicated website. OnCars’ debut is well timed to coincide with the industry-recognized need for high-quality online video that delivers emotionally engaging entertainment.

“OnCars.com was created by and for people who love cars, appreciate design and crave technology” stated Paul Pfanner,founder, President and CEO of the new automotive channel. Each week, OnCars.com will premier an original multi-episode review of a “buzz-worthy” new car. “This is the cornerstone of our commitment to post a new and original automotive video everyweekday,” he continued.