Layoffs at Yahoo!

[TigerVols]

The Y! Is shutting down a number of BLOGS!

...among the casualties, board fave Will Leitch.

http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/yahoo-shuts-down-its-movie-blog-projector-33275

 

[mediaguy]

As a point of clarification, the exclamation point in the title is in respect to the branding of the Company! and not out of excitement at the sad news.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

As a point of clarification, the exclamation point in the title is in respect to the branding of the Company! and not out of excitement at the sad news.

... TigerVols spokesman mediaguy said.

 

[Moderator1]

I'm told reliably, by someone there, that there is a genuine fear this could get really ugly. Like FanHouse bloodbath ugly. Lord, I hope not. Would not wish that on my worst enemy.

Best to all at Yahoo! Let's hope it isn't TOO bad.

 

[Versatile]

And now I understand why Mark Pesavento and Gerry Ahern jumped to USA Today.

 

[gravehunter]

Shortly after Yahoo fired Bartz (CEO) the company kept telling its employees that everything was ok and to treat everything "business as usual". Shortly after that, I got laid off.
Sinking ship? All the business insiders seem to say yes. Yahoo keeps saying no.

 

[steveu]

Jeff Goldblum's "Run.... as fast as you can" line comes to mind whenever a company says all is well these days.

 

[Cigar56]

I'm hearing Demand Studios may try to buy Yahoo! AOL is the other rumors. Yahoo's problem is that it's no longer cool. It's not Google, Facebook or Twitter. Bad place to be.

 

[podunk press]

I don't think Demand Studios buying Yahoo would be a positive development for anybody.

 

[gravehunter]

The "financial experts" are saying that Yahoo's tentacles should be chopped up and sold separately instead of as one big glob of a company. Yahoo owns enough smaller companies to allow that to happen....provided the Yahoo gurus decided to go in that direction.

 

[SF_Express]

I don't think Demand Studios buying Yahoo would be a positive development for anybody.

If that's the direction Demand takes, then all of those freelancers who work for Demand (me included, recent slowdown not withstanding) would probably not be happy, I'm thinking.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

There is some amazing talent there. I'm guessing most would be snatched up in a matter of weeks, but there is still some amazing FanHouse talent that hasn't found work yet.

 

[Mark2010]

Shortly after Yahoo fired Bartz (CEO) the company kept telling its employees that everything was ok and to treat everything "business as usual". Shortly after that, I got laid off.
Sinking ship? All the business insiders seem to say yes. Yahoo keeps saying no.

Seems to be about the norm everywhere. No one wants to induce panic, no matter how rapidly the ship is taking on water. Seems there are no real safety spots anymore, but I would suspect blogger is about as vulnerable as it gets.

 

[yawho?]

Remember the Grantland story on The National from a few months back? Some day, someone will put together just as fascinating a piece on the rise and fall of Yahoo! Sports.

Make no mistake, the decline is under way, even if it isn't yet readily apparent. Jimmy Pitaro and Dave Morgan assembled a sports car, but the keys ended up in the hands of the equivalent of drunken hillbillies who are careening toward a brick wall.

The people now running the show are the same brain surgeons who oversaw Myspace during the precise time it rapidly descended from the hottest social networking site on the planet to complete irrelevance. That tells you everything you need to know.

 

[Mark2010]

There is some amazing talent there. I'm guessing most would be snatched up in a matter of weeks, but there is still some amazing FanHouse talent that hasn't found work yet.

It's not about talent. The suits long since stopped caring about that. It's all about fast and cheap.

 

[Stitch]

There is some amazing talent there. I'm guessing most would be snatched up in a matter of weeks, but there is still some amazing FanHouse talent that hasn't found work yet.

It's not about talent. The suits long since stopped caring about that. It's all about fast and cheap.

No matter how good the talent is, ad revenue can't pay for a full-time writer/blogger cranking out a story or two a day.

 

[93Devil]

I go to Grantland on my Driod because it is easy to read and clean. I do not go to Yahoo or ESPN or CNNSi or Foxsports or CBSSports because they are all busy mismashes of links.

Design a clean looking site, and people will come. I do not want 50 links on my screen, and I do not want flash ads.

Good luck to all, and I am sure someday someone will figure how to make something look on a phone or Ipad other than Bill Simmons. And I just clicked Grantland on my Driod and saw a flash ad for Lexus. Sigh.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Almost every writer at Yahoo is making big, big money. Most left amazing gigs to go there.

 

[Joe Williams]

Almost every writer at Yahoo is making big, big money. Most left amazing gigs to go there.

You forgot a couple of "big's" there for some.

Wonder if they could get by on just "big" somewhere else.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Almost every writer at Yahoo is making big, big money. Most left amazing gigs to go there.

You forgot a couple of "big's" there for some.

Wonder if they could get by on just "big" somewhere else.

I'm guessing there are a few there who are hoping they didn't burn that ESPN bridge.