Kin Community Australia has today announced two key hires, as momentum builds for the home-focused content brand and creator community heading into 2017. Highly-experienced digital media executive and video content-led community builder Liz Ferguson has…
Virgin Velocity appoints first CMO Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer programme has appointed its first CMO. Former American Express marketer Dean Chadwick will take on the post and report to Karl Schuster CEO of Velocity.…
Kin Community Australia has made two new appointments to the network, naming Brave Bison’s Liz Ferguson as managing director and The Remarkables’ Sarah Chegwidden as integrated marketing manager. Ferguson joins Kin Community from independent media…
Corus Entertainment and Kin Canada were among the big winners at last night’s 2016 Digi Awards. The award show capped off the two-day 2016 nextMedia conference, and awarded the best in digital content, personalities and…
Fairfax Media’s digital division, Allure Media, and women’s lifestyle publisher Kin Community, will embark on a two-week advertiser and agency roadshow after cementing a joint venture to bring the US operation to Australia. Kin Community…
Kin Community, a multiplatform network focused on young female audiences, announced the appointment of former Penny Chic CEO Shauna Miller as director of original programming. Miller joined Kin earlier this year in the newly created…
Digital lifestyle network Kin Community is going Down Under via a partnership with Sydney-based digital publisher Allure Media. Under the terms of the deal, Allure Media becomes Kin Community’s exclusive media representative in Australia and New Zealand.…
Lifestyle vlogger Kalel, who counts more than 2 million subscribers on her three-year-old YouTube channel, has inked a multi-year partnership with multi-platform network Kin Community, which will henceforth represent media opportunities and brand integrations for…
Fresh from taking part in a $13.5 million funding round for Kin Community, Allure Media is partnering with the California-based video publisher to bring the women’s community and content creator to Australia. The latest round,…
US-based lifestyle network Kin Community is launching its offering to the Australian market through Allure Media, the publishing company for Business Insider Australia. Kin Community Australia will be the local extension of the lifestyle network…
In the eyes of start-up investors, MTV’s “True Life,” HGTV’s “Rehab Addict” and Comedy Central’s “Roast” specials are so yesterday. Today’s hot productions are young, edgier and tend to premiere online. They carry the names “Human,”…
A handful of international investors are joining Kin Community. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based digital media company has raised $13.5 million in new funding in a Series D led by Emil Capital Partners, a consumer-focused investment…
More money is rolling into digital video: Kin Community, a multiplatform network focused on young women, has raised $13.5 million in new funding. The Series D financing round was led by previous investor Emil Capital…
Women’s multi-channel network Kin Community, which represents bold-faced YouTube stars like Rosanna Pansino and Hannah Hart, has reportedly raised $13.5 million in a series D funding round. This brings total cash raised by the five-year-old,…
Kin Community, a web video company that both produces original content and works with a stable of top digital media creators, has raised $13.5 million in series D financing. The company plans to use the…
At an intimate NewFronts event last night, held within the home of Kin Community creator Christiane Lemieux, the lifestyle network announced its renewed commitment to the home space — including decor and DIY — as…
By opening up its video platform to more publishers, Amazon has some YouTube networks and creators seeing dollar signs. The new self-serve program, called Amazon Video Direct, allows video owners to distribute directly on Amazon’s…
Lifestyle network Kin Community announced today that it has signed creators Jenn Im and Stephanie Villa to its burgeoning roster. Im and Villa, whose ClothesEncounters and SoothingSista channels boast 1.6 million and 275,000 subscribers respectively,…
How do the hockey wives handle the pressures of every day life? If Maripier Morin, wife of Utica Comet’s Brandon Prust is asked, she’s likely to refer to the hashtag for her latest Motrin campaign:…
In the world of digital where content fodder seems infinite, women’s lifestyle network Kin Community looks to differentiate itself as a entity with a sharp focus. To that end, the Canadian arm of the LA-based…
Too many claim to represent content creators, which confuses brands If “good fences make good neighbors,” as Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” suggests, then the content creator/social influencer space is a really bad neighborhood. Regretfully,…
Kin Community has already established itself on YouTube thanks to a network that includes some of the video site’s best-known stars. Now, the company that brands itself as “the global leader in women’s lifestyle” has…
If it’s a Thursday, some publisher somewhere is probably organizing a team to make ads for brands. On this Thursday that publisher is digital video network Kin Community. Kin Community has formed Kin Studios, a…
Kin Community is the latest digital video network to open a branded content arm, announcing the launch of Kin Studios this morning. Kin Studios will work with brands–Beiersdorf, P&G, and Wilton have all signed content…
Kin Community Canada and Corus Entertainment are working hard to bring new branded content to online video fans. The two companies have partnered with various Canadian YouTube creators to launch three new campaigns starting on…
Kin Community Canada has signed two Corus Entertainment broadcast talents to be the faces of two new channels in its W Network stars Maripier Morin (Hockey Wives) and Cherryl Torrenueva (Game of Homes) have signed…
Kin Community gets the healthy living award at this year’s NewFronts. Also, the earliest: 7:30 this morning at a SoulCycle in New York City. Kin is the No. 1 lifestyle destination for women on YouTube,…
Kin Community has stepped it up in the past few weeks, from gathering creators to a scenic getaway in Venice Beach, California, to creating the perfect wedding collaboration. A few weeks ago, I had the…
Food blogger Mimi Thorisson, yoga instructor Rachel Brathen and DwellStudio founder Christiane Lemieux will create YouTube channels as part of the Kin network. Lifestyle-focused digital media firm Kin Community has signed three female entrepreneurs who…
LaurDIY, a YouTube channel run by and starring Toronto-based fashion vlogger and DIY guru Lauren Riihimaki, has joined Kin Community, the multi-channel network announced Tuesday. With the channel’s 1.34 million YouTube subscribers and 4.3 million…
MCN acquisitions streaked 2014, and for most startup founders, the “exit” is the best (and often only) focal point. But what if an acquisition is not the only target? That’s exactly what Michael Wayne, CEO…
Kin Community – a leading women’s lifestyle MCN (in fact, they bill themselves as being “the #1 women’s community”), but have you heard of them? Chances are, “no.” But, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t know them.…
Before last month, digital content network KIN hadn’t raised money since 2008 — around the time the U.S. economy imploded. After that, co-founders of the Santa Monica-based startup decided to focus on developing their business…
While a number of YouTube multichannel networks (MCNs) have made lucrative exits recently, Kin Community, an MCN/female-focused lifestyle network, is instead aiming for long-term independent success, CEO and co-founder Michael Wayne explained to me.
TORONTO, Sept. 18, 2014 /CNW/ – Earlier today, it was announced that Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX: CJR.B) has led a Series C round of funding in the Santa Monica-based lifestyle digital media company, KIN.