Babble.com
Online magazine and blog network for parents
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::summary Online magazine and blog network for parents ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox website"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Babble.com |
| logo | Babble.com_logo.svg |
| logo_size | 150 |
| logocaption | Logo |
| company_type | Subsidiary |
| type | Blog |
| founder | {{plainlist |
| foundation | |
| dissolved | |
| location_city | Burbank, California |
| location_country | United States |
| area_served | Worldwide |
| key_people | {{plainlist |
| products | Microblogging |
| parent | Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media |
| (The Walt Disney Company) | |
| advertising | Native |
| registration | Optional |
| url | |
| launch_date | |
| current_status | Defunct (2018) |
| :: |
::callout[type=note] the defunct online magazine ::
| name = Babble.com | logo = Babble.com_logo.svg | logo_size = 150 | logocaption = Logo | screenshot = | caption = | company_type = Subsidiary | type = Blog | founder = {{plainlist|
- Rufus Griscom
- Alisa Volkman | foundation = | dissolved = | location_city = Burbank, California | location_country = United States | area_served = Worldwide | key_people = {{plainlist|
- Shalom Auslander
- Samantha Bee
- Thomas Beller
- Claire Diaz Ortiz
- Jenny Lawson
- Joel Stein
- Heather Spohr
- Ali Wentworth | products = Microblogging | revenue = | num_employees = | parent = Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media (The Walt Disney Company) | advertising = Native | registration = Optional | alexa = | url = | launch_date = | current_status = Defunct (2018)
In early 2019, it was announced that Babble had been shut down.
History
Babble was launched in December 2006 by co-founders Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman. After one year, the site grew to half a million readers per month. Babble Media became an independent company in 2009, and was acquired by Disney Interactive Media Group in 2011.
Reception
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) shortlisted Babble for its 2008 "General Excellence Online" award, writing that the "magazine skillfully combines in-depth reporting, thoughtful journalism, a dazzling variety of blog voices and visually arresting, interactive digital features. The result is a smart, hip and endlessly entertaining website that has revolutionized the parenting field."
Time magazine listed Babble.com as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2010, while Forbes named Babble as one of the Top 100 Websites for Women.
Babble advertising and sponsorship policies came under fire in 2010 and 2011 after several parenting authors and bloggers noted their breastfeeding guide was sponsored by Similac maker Mead Johnson.
References
References
- Pamela Paul. (December 10, 2006). "Healthy Babies Need Irony". [[The New York Times]].
- (January 7, 2019). "Disney quietly shut down Babble, the parenting blog it once acquired for $40M". TechCrunch.
- "An Update on Babble". Babble.
- "About Us". Babble.com.
- Jenna Wortham. (January 30, 2009). "Sexy Nerve.Com Kicks Parenting Site Out of the Nest". The New York Times.
- Evelyn M. Rusli. (November 14, 2011). "Disney Acquires Parent Blogging Network". The New York Times.
- Shayon, Sheila. (November 15, 2011). "Babble On: Disney Acquires Babble.com, its Blogging Parents and Critics".
- "The American Society of Magazine Editors Announces 43rd Annual National Magazine Award Finalists". American Society of Magazine Editors.
- (August 25, 2010). "50 Best Web Sites 2010".
- (June 23, 2011). "Best Web Sites for Women - Blogs". [[Forbes]].
- (September 2010). "Similac and Babble team up to dupe breastfeeding moms".
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