
INC.: 2016 was a Breakout Year for Vox Media and Its Online Video Strategy
Inc. spotlights Vox Media, a contender for the title in 2016: This year, the company made video a major priority. And Vox Media is killing it. As of late October, it has logged 1.1 billion "watch time" minutes on YouTube–that is, viewers have spent more than one billion minutes watching content across the company's channels.

NIEMAN LAB: Racked redesigned its site with distributed platforms in mind
The Vox Media shopping site is also trying to diversify its audience beyond young women.

AD AGE: Vox Media Partners with StubHub
Most prominently, team pages Vox Media's SB Nation will now have StubHub ticket widgets. On food brand Eater's popular "Heatmaps," ticketed events at nearby venues will be promoted.

THR: Vox Media Welcomes Gavin Purcell, New Head of Video
As Vox Media's head of video, Purcell will lead video strategy for the online publisher's eight brands, including The Verge, SB Nation and Eater.

WSJ: Vox Creative is Launching a Travel Property in Partnership with Chase
Vox Media on Tuesday launched Meridian, a new standalone digital content brand that is fully funded by an advertiser.

WWD: Women’s Media Brands Join Forces to Register Voters
Racked has teamed up with over 50 other magazines and digital media brands with largely female audiences to push for a change in those numbers under a unifying banner: #OurVoteCounts.

NIEMAN LAB: Vox.com hires Andrew Golis as its first general manager
Vox Media created a new position, general manager of Vox.com, and it’s filling it with Andrew Golis, the founder of the now-shuttered startup This and The Atlantic’s former entrepreneur-in-residence.

WSJ: Digital Content Next Announces Online Ad Marketplace
The ad marketplace, or “ad exchange,” will allow marketers to buy ad space across properties owned by 25 media companies, including Vox Media.

FOLIO: Melissa Bell named one of the media industry’s top achievers
The 2016 Folio: 100, a selection of the industry's top achievers represent the next wave of magazine-media talent across the mass-consumer, special interest, city/regional, association, and B2B sectors.
MSNBC: The Verge Update, Innovative tech gadgets expected at IFA
New tech gadgets are expected at Europe’s biggest tech event, IFA 2016, which kicks off on Friday in Berlin. TheVerge.com's Andrew Hawkins reports.
ADWEEK: Vox Media names Jonathan Hunt VP of International
Vox Media wants to expand internationally, and so the company has tapped Jonathan Hunt as vp of international.

NEW YORK TIMES: Vox Media’s Melissa Bell Fills Long-Vacant Publisher’s Job
The company, with a stable of sites including Vox, the Verge, Recode and SB Nation, named Melissa Bell, its vice president for growth, as its publisher.

POYNTER: How do you make real estate visual? Curbed’s Facebook Live team is finding out
Curbed has so far experimented with live videos mainly in New York — a pedicab ride around Central Park, a stroll on the High Line, or the evening of Manhattanhenge.

NIEMAN LAB: At Vox Media’s hackathon, devs focus on the distributed web, brand identity, and user accessibility
“The general question we presented everyone with was: What does it look like to build our brands and do storytelling on all of these new places?”

BLOOMBERG: SB Nation Expands Into Radio Programming With Gow Media Accord
The new SB Nation Radio will create audio programming that will be available at SBNation.com and go out to 500 terrestrial and satellite stations affiliated with Gow.
DIGIDAY: How do publishers wring new value from old content? Vox.com’s Matthew Yglesias explains.
“The main thing is that if we have good stories that become relevant again, we should use them again,” Matthew Yglesias, Vox.com’s executive editor.

MSNBC: Hillary Clinton talks poll numbers with Vox.com
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton discusses the science of low poll number in an interview with Vox.com's Ezra Klein.

ADWEEK: USA and The Verge Team Up for a Weekly Live Digital Mr. Robot Aftershow
The aftershow—the full title is Mr. Robot Digital After Show Hosted By The Verge—will be produced by The Verge and Vox Entertainment, filmed at the company's New York studio and hosted by a trio of Verge staffers: editor in chief Nilay Patel, entertainment editor Emily Yoshida and reporter Russell Brandom, the site's cybersecurity and tech expert.

CNBC: Will Snapchat keep cool factor?
Kwame Opam, The Verge news editor, discusses "what's cool" among teens, and whether old people getting on Snapchat will ruin the app's popularity.

WWD: Racked expands team under new editor
Racked, the fashion site owned by Vox Media, is building out its editorial team under new editor in chief Britt Aboutaleb, who joined in January.

BLOOMBERG: NBCU, Vox Media tell advertisers real viewers will see their web ads
In their first partnership since NBCUniversal invested $200 million in Vox Media last year, the two companies said Monday they’ll jointly sell ads across their TV and digital properties.

AD AGE: NBCU and Vox Media create ‘Concert’
NBC Universal and Vox Media will work together to sell digital ad inventory across their portfolio of brands, the first major collaboration between the two since NBCU made a big investment in Vox last year.

VARIETY: NBCU, Vox Media join to sell upscale consumers to advertisers
NBCUniversal and Vox Media say they are putting together an advertising package that will give potential sponsors access to a higher-quality audience that might offset some of those distractions.

ADWEEK: NBCU and Vox Media team up to sell premium digital advertising
The two companies are teaming up to sell premium advertising across all of their combined digital properties with a new inventory tool called Concert.