Interactive One, Radio One's Digital Unit,
Inks Exclusive Multi-Year Advertising Deal With AllHipHop.com, the #1
Site for Urban News
Interactive One + AllHipHop.com means extended reach into sought-after urban demographic online
Interactive One, the digital division of Radio One. (NASDAQ:ROIAK)
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, in partnership with AllHipHop.com (AHH), a provider
of music related urban online content, today announce a five-year multi
million dollar deal to offer advertisers access to African-Americans online. The move aligns two of the most
prominent African-American media organizations, creating the largest
and most scaleable online advertising network targeting the
African-American consumer. The combined traffic of both Interactive One
and AllHipHop.com will give advertisers access to more than 4 million
monthly unique visitors and over 500 million page views.
"We firmly believe that the future for the African-American consumer
and those dedicated to communicating with them is in new media, and as
such, this relationship extends our commitment to being the online
leader in the African-American space," said Alfred Liggins III, CEO of
Radio One, Inc. "Our relationship with AllHipHop.com is another example
of our ability to enable blue chip advertisers to reach
African-Americans online, whether it is across social networks, online
news outlets, or digital content providers. AllHipHop.com is the
leading site for all things relating to hip hop and their editorial
vision and product innovation is a great complement to our sales and
marketing expertise."
Interactive One will be the exclusive sales agent for AllHipHop.com.
The move gives the site access to Interactive One's valuable
relationships with big name advertisers while also extending
Interactive One's online reach, offering advertisers a one-stop media
solution to address the unique values and needs of the African-American
online consumer.
The combined reach of Interactive One and AllHipHop.com will now
give advertisers access to active
African-Americans online who have yielded more than 500 million page
views across their combined properties per month. Interactive One's
existing online brands include Blackplanet.com (the largest social
network targeting African Americans, with over 18 million members),
Giantmag.com, MiGente.com, Newsone.com, TVONE.TV and the websites of 53
urban radio stations across the country.
Both companies have seen tremendous growth in 2008. Interactive One
recently launched Newsone.com in addition to last month's acquisition
of Community Connect Inc., the largest publisher of niche social
networks reaching more than 23 million multicultural social networking
users in the U.S. This, combined with AllHipHop.com's unparalleled
access to the urban trendsetting community, gives advertisers the
opportunity to integrate into the largest digital network that provides
news, information, entertainment, community, tools and services that
uniquely speak to African-Americans.
"We expect that 2008 will continue to be a landmark, thrilling
banner year for AHH Holdings and this deal will act as a mutually
beneficial situation that will allow all parties to delve into new
business arenas," said Chuck Creekmur, co-founder and CEO of
AllHipHop.com. "It pleases us to enter into this deal at such a pivotal
moment for AllHipHop.com, as we celebrate our 10th year anniversary in
'08."
This exciting partnership is the first of many major announcements
that AHH Holdings LLC, parent company to AllHipHop.com, plans to make
in conjunction with their 10th Year Anniversary Program. As the
pioneering leading source of urban news and information on the
Internet, the AllHipHop brand looks to expand into television programs,
concert series, and numerous global branding opportunities and will
continue to be a force in Internet innovation for years to come.
ABOUT ALLHIPHOP.COM For 9 years now, AllHipHop.com has been an
online destination for Hip-Hop news, reviews and industry insights.
Continuing to strive for excellence as a website but also a business
entity, AllHipHop.com won the Rising Star' Award from Black Enterprise,
May 2006, delivering over 150 million audited impressions per month and
growing. AllHipHop.com is the world's most visited Hip-Hop/urban
website and attracts an average of 5 million visitors per month.
AllHipHop.com is the brainchild of "Grouchy" Greg Watkins and Chuck
"Jigsaw" Creekmur. The website was launched in 1998 and has become the
premier Hip-Hop/urban news provider on the web. The site features daily
updates, interviews, reviews and a fast growing community, sharing news
and views of their own. Sources as varied as CNN, The Associated Press,
The O'Reilly Factor, XXL Magazine, VIBE and the New York Daily News all
regularly use AllHipHop.com's pages. Since 1998, the site has also been
an innovator in the mobile field, delivering daily news alerts to over
300,000 music industry taste makers and Hip-Hop lovers' phones and
emails. Watkins registered AllHipHop.com in 1997 and initially used it
as a vehicle to promote artists that were recording for his fledgling
imprint, Oblique Recordings. In late 1997, Charles "Jigsaw" Creekmur
was working on another Internet venture and the two combined forces and
created the first version of AllHipHop.com. Since then, the
independently owned site has grown organically and has grown to rival
several of the top sites on the Internet, including BET.com, MTV.com
and others. Essence Magazine noted AHH as 1 of the 4 top music websites
among YouTube.com and MySpace.com in the June 2007 issue and VIBE
Magazine in its annual Juice issue, ranked AHH as #29 out of the top
100 music industry leaders. AllHipHop.com is the only urban site to
expand its reach outside of the internet.
ABOUT RADIO ONE, INC. (http://www.radio-one.com/)
is one of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies and the
largest radio broadcasting company that primarily targets
African-American and urban listeners. On a pro forma basis, after
closing the sale of our Los Angeles station, Radio One will own and/or
operate 53 radio stations located in 16 urban markets in the United
States. Additionally, Radio One owns Magazine One, Inc. (d/b/a Giant
Magazine) (http://www.giantmag.com/), interests in TV One, LLC (http://www.tvoneonline.com/), a cable/satellite network programming primarily to African-Americans, Reach Media, Inc. (http://www.blackamericaweb.com/),
owner of the Tom Joyner Morning Show and other businesses associated
with Tom Joyner, and Community Connect Inc., an on-line
social-networking company, which operates a number of branded websites,
including BlackPlanet, MiGente, and Asian Avenue.