please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . may 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message mecklermedia corporation type public traded as otcqx meck industry recruitment event promotion predecessor jupitermedia founded westport connecticut 1994 headquarters darien connecticut new york united states key people alan m. meckler ceo director website mecklermedia.com mecklermedia formerly mediabistro inc. and webmediabrands corporation was a u.s. based corporation . the original webmediabrands was established in 1994 and headquartered in new york . founded by alan m. meckler and tristan louis the company provides business to business b2b services for creative business and information technology professionals including recruitment and event promotion . until 2014 the company also operated a group of websites aimed towards the b2b market particularly blogs covering various aspects of the media industry . in august 2014 mediabistro sold its editorial properties to prometheus global media a subsidiary of guggenheim partners for 8 million . 1 the company announced it would liquidate itself on december 22 2015 2 history edit in 1994 alan meckler then ceo of mecklermedia created mecklerweb as an addendum to his offerings in print virtual reality world cdrom world and internet world and conferences internet world virtual reality world . in 1995 as advertising supported publishing emerged as a viable business model on the web the website was relaunched by tristan louis under the name iworld and began to publish content for the nascent internet industry . as the internet world conference prospered iworld set out on a strategy of acquiring successful websites that were focused on technology content such as webopedia searchenginewatch and webreference . in 1997 the online division was renamed internet.com after acquiring rights to the domain name from the internet company . in 1998 mecklermedia corp. was acquired by penton media and the online assets were spun off into a separate company called internet.com llc . internet.com went public on the nasdaq in the second half of 1999 trading as intm . in 1999 internet.com corp. launched the search engine strategies conference and in 2000 it acquired earthweb and incorporated it into the jupiterweb network . in 2002 the company purchased the jupiter research business from jupiter media metrix and renamed itself from int media to jupitermedia with a new stock ticker symbol jupm . in 2004 the company started acquiring image assets and developed jupiterimages as a separate stock photography division which operated two online image libraries stock.xchng a library of free to use photographs and illustrations and stockxpert a low cost microstock photography site . in 2005 jupitermedia sold searchenginewatch to incisive media . in 2006 jupitermedia sold its jupiterresearch division to mcg capital corporation . in 2007 the company operates as two divisions jupiterimages and jupiter online media . in 2008 jupiterresearch was acquired by forrester research . 3 in october 2008 jupitermedia announced that they would be selling their online images division jupiterimages to the stock photography agency getty images for 96 million in cash . 4 the sale went ahead in february 2009 ; jupiterimages including the sites stock.xchng and stockxpert is now a wholly owned subsidiary of getty . 5 following the sale jupitermedia changed its name to webmediabrands inc. 5 in august 2009 quinstreet inc. acquired the internet.com division of webmediabrands for 18 million . 6 the company later changed its name to mediabistro . on may 29 2014 mediabistro announced that it would sell its publishing assets to prometheus global media a subsidiary of guggenheim partners for 8 million . the remainder of the company including its trade show operations were retained under the name mecklermedia . 7 8 references edit kelly keith 2014 10 16 . iwantmedia site will go dark monday . retrieved 2014 10 21 . mecklermedia to liquidate ; plans to sell assets . 2015 12 25 . retrieved 2016 01 09 . kaplan david 2007 08 31 . forrester buys jupiterresearch for 23 million . new york city forbes . paidcontent.org . retrieved 2009 08 17 . d souza savio 2008 10 23 . jupitermedia to sell online image unit to getty . reuters . retrieved 2009 08 14 . a b jupitermedia announces completion of sale of jupiterimages to getty images and change of jupitermedia name to webmediabrands . getty images . 2009 02 23 . retrieved 2009 08 13 . meckler selling internet.com business to quinstreet for 18m adweek parent prometheus buys mediabistro editorial assets . adweek . retrieved 29 may 2014 . prometheus global media to acquire mediabistro . fishbowlny . retrieved 29 may 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mecklermedia & oldid 735792153 categories companies established in 1994companies based in fairfield county connecticutresearch and analysis firmshidden categories articles needing additional references from may 2009all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 august 2016 at 04 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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