Gawker-Yahoo Experiment Ends

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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

The Gawker-Yahoo content distribution deal, which allowed Yahoo to post Gawker content on its site, has been terminated. Our original post on the deal, announced in November 2005, is here. Gawker founder Nick Denton’s post on the termination is here.

Nick suggests that the partnership just sort of petered out. But he also says that Nick Douglas’s regular attacks at Valleywag (a Gawker blog) on Lloyd Braun, head of Yahoo Media, didn’t help matters much. I imagine he might be right.

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