Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) was a division of
Comcast
Comcast Corporation, formerly known as Comcast Holdings,Before the AT&T Broadband, AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation, not th ...
focusing on
digital media
In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ...
. CIM was created in 2005 and originally led by President,
Amy Banse,
and Executive Vice President, Sam Schwartz.
Comcast Interactive Media products included: www.comcast.net (portal), fancast.com,
Fandango
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,
thePlatform
thePlatform was a Seattle, Washington based online video publishing company that was acquired by Comcast in 2006. The company worked with digital media companies to manage and publish video and audio. It was absorbed into the newly formed Comca ...
, and StreamSage.
On May 15, 2008, Comcast Interactive Media acquired social-networking site
Plaxo for between $150 and $170 million, which was subsequently shut down on December 31, 2017.
On August 5, 2008, Comcast Interactive Media acquired newsletter service site
DailyCandy for a rumored $125 million.
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External links
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Online mass media companies of the United States
2005 establishments in Pennsylvania
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