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Busted Coverage Is Yardbarker.com’s Exclusive Super Bowl Media Partner

Written by Joe on April 2, 2012 — 10 Comments

Four days of access to Radio Row at Super Bowl XLVI. Exclusive access to the GQ Super Bowl Party. Red carpet access to the Maxim Super Bowl Party. With the help of our partners at Yardbarker.com, the crew at BustedCoverage.com was able to give readers an exclusive look at this year’s Super Bowl festivities from an 18-to-35 perspective not available from major media outlets. For example, our Erin Andrews video from the GQ party has received nearly 25,000 views in 4 weeks, making it the most important pop culture video from the XLVI party circuit.

As part of our access at the GQ & Maxim parties, the lovely Ashley Salazar was granted interviews with celebrites/athletes headlined by LL Cool J, Jeff Gordon, Jim Irsay, Hines Ward, Terrell Owens, Andy Roddick, Kyle Busch, David Arquette & Takeo Spikes.

Joe Kinsey is editor-in-chief and founder of BustedCoverage.com. An Ohio native, Joe spends his day watching The View, listening to ESPN and playing fetch with his goldendoodle, Lily, while writing about the crazy side of sports.

COED Magazine and CollegeCandy Host a Titanic-Sized Giveaway

Written by Stephen Gebhardt on March 2, 2012 — 7 Comments

This past month we teamed up with Paramount Films to help promote their upcoming release of Titanic 3D. The goal of the promotion was to give away a pair of tickets to an exclusive Valentine’s Day screenings at 50 markets across the country. COEDmagazine.com and CollegeCandy.com were the only places in America to get tickets to this once in a lifetime event. We partnered with several major entertainment websites to push the promotion to their audiences and our marketing team promoted heavily across Twitter and Facebook. In the end we received 10,570 submissions, 246,841 total impressions on Twitter, the story
was covered on three national radio stations and a whopping 17,812,000 total Facebook impressions.

Stephen Gebhardt is the Director of Marketing for Coed Media Group. He believes there’s no photo too ridiculous for a caption contest.

Posted in Marketing | Tagged coed magazine, CollegeCandy, giveaways, twitter

Love CMG? Follow us on Twitter!

Written by Alex on February 15, 2012 — 2 Comments

We’ve been having so much fun updating this blog that we were all like, let’s get real modern and take it to Twitter. Yep, that’s right. We’ve made a Twitter account just for COED Media Group. Not only does it cover the latest and greatest from our three phenomenal properties, but it also covers any and all breaking new media news that you need to know to stay in the loop. Start following us today by clicking right here!

Amanda Stoneall is the Marketing Manager for COED Media Group. She believes that cheese and wine are the essentials of life.

Posted in Marketing | Tagged cmg twitter, Coed_mediagroup, twitter

CollegeCandy Redecorates with PBdorm

Written by Alex on January 27, 2012 — 3 Comments

Years and years ago, way before iPads and parents being allowed on Facebook, I was a college freshman. And I was also obsessed with PBdorm. It was like their catalog was reading the “dream dorm” list I had in my head and I basically ended up ordering everything I saw.

So you can imagine my excitement when PBdorm said they would like to team up with us to do an exclusive dorm makeover giveaway this semester. They sent a ton of awesome organizational products to our writer Anjli so she could show all the CC readers the best way to utilize it in their dorm rooms. Then, after we had those awesome videos in our hands, we gave one lucky reader everything that Anjli showed us in her redecoration tutorial. It was pretty awesome.

Check out the videos here and here. Oh, and try not to be too jealous of the winner.

Jenni is the executive director at CMG. She started her career at CMG when she wrote a series for CollegeCandy about how scared she was to graduate college.

Posted in Blog | Tagged CollegeCandy, collegecandy giveaway, pbdorm, pbdorm giveaway

Did You Know CMG is on Linkedin?

Written by Alex on January 10, 2012 — 5 Comments

There are a million ways to stay connected on the interwebs. Here at CMG headquarters we’re determined to be utilizing as many of those connections as possible. That’s why we’ve created a LinkedIn company page where you can follow all our major hires, our company growth and everything else that gets you pumped up about our company.

Check it out right here and don’t forget to click follow.

Jenni is the executive director at CMG. She started her career at CMG when she wrote a series for CollegeCandy about how scared she was to graduate college.

Posted in Blog | Tagged cmg, coed media group, linkedin

Busted Coverage Hires Matt The Screencapper

Written by Joe on December 27, 2011 — 7 Comments

Been waiting for nose-picking, blurry eyed, middle-finger flipping, crazy sign holding fans from sporting events? Busted Coverage, noticing a trend towards fans wanting more and more crazy, has hired Matt The Screencapper (@ParadigmShift35) to guide readers through the muddied waters of off-beat screencaps. Our goal with the position is to give readers more weekend sports coverage and more of what has made Busted Coverage a destination sports blog and utilize our growing Twitter & Facebook following. Matt’s main objectives over the next six weeks will consist of the college bowl season and the NFL playoffs.

Unique visitor numbers for BC have risen from 1mm per month in December 2010 to 2mm in November 2011 with pageviews in the 12mm to 13mm range.

Posted in Busted Coverage | Tagged busted coverage, screencapper

CollegeCandy is on Pinterest!

Written by Amanda on December 20, 2011 — 8 Comments

Here at CollegeCandy, we’re all about staying ahead of the social media trends. Earlier this year we joined the tumblr community, and now we’re on Pinterest! Pinterest is a virtual corkboard, where you “pin” different photos, stories, articles, videos, etc. and share it with your followers. Pinterest is what would happen if tumblr, Facebook, and reddit had a child together. Pinterest will function as an abbreviated source for all things CollegeCandy. We already have an active following, and have started collecting pins to our favorite topics, from fashion to holidays, and a special “board” just for CollegeCandy features! As of this month, Pinterest is an invite-only social media site, but with it’s growing popularity, CollegeCandy can become the ultimate trendsetter of Pinterest!

Amanda Stoneall is the Marketing Manager for COED Media Group. She believe that cheese and wine are the essentials of life.

Posted in Blog, CollegeCandy | Tagged CollegeCandy, pinterest

Annual COED Feature Does Amazingly Well…Even For COED

Written by Stephen Gebhardt on December 9, 2011 — 8 Comments

Our annual December feature, 30 Most Anticipated Movies of 2011 went live this week and already blew out all our possible traffic hopes and dreams. This is the third annual installment of the list that counts down the movies everyone will be talking about in the coming year and already it has 300,000 Stumbles. In past years the list has been picked up by plenty of cool sources including Huffington Post and Perez Hilton and we recommend you read it before everyone you know starts talking about it. Check it out right here!

Stephen Gebhardt is the Director of Marketing for Coed Media Group. He believes there’s no photo too ridiculous for a caption contest.

Posted in COED | Tagged 2012, COED, coed magazine, most anticipated movies

29 Sex Tips from 29 Sexperts Gets 1,000,000+ Pageviews

Written by Alex on December 1, 2011 — 11 Comments

College is a learning experience. From learning how to do complex physics equations to learning how to manage your time to learning how to have good sex. And while colleges are more than happy to help students learn more about their academics pursuits and the best ways to to manage their time, they generally tend to lack a little in the sex education department. Sorry health center…those free condoms just don’t cut it.

That’s why we reached out to the country’s leading sexperts to get their sex tips exclusively for our readers. Not only did we snag some big names (hello Dr. Ruth) but we also had a hit on our hands. It’s been on the site for almost a month now and the clicks just don’t stop coming. In fact, I just checked our stats and we’re at 1,029,767 total views. Pretty cool.

Want to know what else is pretty cool? The actual article…I know, I know, it’s a lot more interesting than our stats.

Jenni is the executive director at CMG. She started her career at CMG when she wrote a series for CollegeCandy about how scared she was to graduate college.

Posted in CollegeCandy | Tagged collegecandy feature, sex tips, sexperts

5-Day Wrestling Week Feature A Huge Hit For Busted Coverage

Written by Joe on November 22, 2011 — 5 Comments

Wrestling wasn’t exactly a focus at Busted Coverage before our mid-November, five-day feature on America’s favorite scripted pastime. Nearly 600,000 pageviews over those five days proved that our weekly feature engaged readers in a way that had not happened on BC in the site’s 4+ year existence.

Our goal was to cover five areas of the sport (heels, Divas, masked assassins, managers & microphone maniacs). Robert The Intern, a wrestling fanatic took on editorial duties and produced a week that has provided Busted with a database Bible on the sport.

Links from Fox Sports and Bleacher Report brought new eyeballs that we believe will continue to return for the BC experience.

Posted in Busted Coverage | Tagged Busted Coverage Wrestling Week, WWE