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| languages | English |
| operator | Hearst Corporation |
| editorial staff | Iain Chapman and Chris Butcher |
| user | Forum: 600,000 |
| Registration | No |
| On-line | 1999 (currently online) |
| http://www.digitalspy.com/ | |
Digital Spy is a British website founded in 1999 primarily concerned with new media. The site focuses on news and reviews from the entertainment industry, such as movies, music, television and the show world.
When it was founded, her name was digiNEWS before starting Digital Spy Ltd. in 2001. merged. In September 2016 digitalspy.co.uk had a global Alexa rank of 8681, in Great Britain it is 383rd. According to its own information, Digital Spy has over 120,000,000 websites and an average of 20 million visitors a month. In addition to digitalspy.co.uk there are also smaller sites Digital Spys: digitalspy.com (for the United States ), digitalspy.com.au (for Australia ) and digitalspy.com.nz (for New Zealand ), which however have lower visitor numbers . On April 9, 2008, it was announced that the website had been acquired by Hachette Filipacchi Médias , a subsidiary of Groupe Lagardère . On August 1, 2011, the site was sold into the property of Hearst Magazines UK .
In addition to the articles, a discussion forum has also been operated since March 2000, in which well-known production companies also take notes and provide information. (including Top Up TV, Joost , BSkyB , Goodmans and the CEO of Amstrad Lord Alan Sugar )
history
digiNEWS and ONfaq
In early January 1999, Iain Chapman started the digiNEWS website, which published news, rumors and information about Sky Digital's satellite programs . At the same time Chris Butcher brought a website online with the name ONfaq , on which similar reports and news were offered, but here with a focus on the transmitter ONdigital . Both websites were very successful and popular. A few weeks later, Chapman and Butcher recognized the advantages of merging the two platforms under the new name digiNEWS Network. This took place on February 28, 1999. The respective websites were adjusted and the brand and brand digiNEWS Network appeared on each of these pages.
Expansion and name change
Other platforms joined: Chris Norris' cablenews: uk (with a focus on NTL and TeleWest cable services), Mark Hughes' DVDNews (new DVDs and reviews) and Neil Wilkes' TV: uk (news and gossip from the television landscape). The network grew, but was not sufficiently closely networked and was also hosted on partly private web space. With expert advice, the individual platforms have now been combined under one portal. It was important for the new platform to be easily accessible on the Internet at an easily recognizable address, so the domain ending .com was preferred, but unfortunately the address diginews.com was already taken. However, since the top-level domain .com remained important, the name of the entire website was changed to Digital Spy, for which the .com ending was also used.
Digital spy
The new Digital Spy Forum went online on March 1st, 2000. Initially the forum software UBB was used, but today vBulletin .
The new Digital Spy news portal was opened on May 19, 2001, operated by an adapted CMS called RAMS (Remote Article Management System).
In November 2015, Digital Spy hired the former editor-in-chief of Heat magazine (part of the Bauer Media Group ) Julian Linley. He gave the page a new look and the new website went online immediately.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b (company portrait). Hearst Magazines UK, accessed September 14, 2016 .
- ↑ digitalspy.co.uk at alexa.com
- ↑ digitalspy.com at alexa.com
- ↑ digitalspy.com.au at alexa.com
- ↑ digitalspy.co.nz at alexa.com
- ^ Ciar Byrne: Hachette spies a good match with a digital duo (English) , The Independent. April 28, 2008. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
- ^ Profile of Alan Sugar
- ↑ Mark Sweney: Digital Spy hires ex-Heat editor in battle with BuzzFeed and Mashable . In: the Guardian .
- ↑ Relaunch of the website in 2015