Comments on: Dezeen’s best month ever

By: tom de vrieze

tom de vrieze — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:30:44 +0000

mark of federated media, who ? who ? who ??
here in belgium they would say about him : ‘wat een zagevent’,
i think his is just jealous, i believe the webstats of dezeen,
it could make sense because i notice a lot of my design collegues/environment are frequently visiting dezeen.

keep up the good work, marcus

By: (The Real) Federated Media

(The Real) Federated Media — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:59:25 +0000

Marcus & the Dezeen readers,

Earlier in this string, there is a rather negative post from someone purporting to be a representative of Federated Media. Despite our best efforts to track down this mystery poster, we have been unsuccessful. The post did not, as far we can tell, originate from our company, and we certainly would not condone it if it did. This is certainly not the way FM operates.

FM loves and supports independent authors, be it in our network or outside of it – it’s why we exist and what every single person in our company is fired up about. We applaud your work on the site, Marcus, and thank Jodi for alerting us to the post and giving us a chance to respond.

Kim Kochaver
Director of Marketing
Federated Media

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:06:32 +0000

Hey Marcus, keep up the blogging! And do continue to let us know how Dezeen’s traffic progresses. Someone out there is just trying to be a wet blanket.

Anyway, for those strong words ‘cheat without any ethics’, I guess you can consider giving your lawyer a call right away.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:02:04 +0000

Lesson One – How to successfully orchestrate negative PR for the company you represent:

Federated Media Says:
Hi,

My name is Mark, I happen to be the account executive for an ad rep firm for Federated Media. I find this post VERY much misleading and shows you are a cheat without any ethics. In any case don’t start making a post about your traffic making it look like you are the number 1 design site out there. I represent the Graphic Art channel for Federated Media and our clients are Mocoloco, Core77, Not Cot, and many more. They do not even generate the numbers you do and believe me you are no where close to being the level that they are. So be honest and stop doing posts like this, it’s very unproffesional.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:35:38 +0000

This has to be THE most depressing and negative dialogue that I have read on this site to-date. Why on earth should Marcus have to defend himself in such a manner? He is proud of what he has managed to achieve in a very short period of time. And so he should be. I have to say, I have often wondered how he has managed to run a site such as this when until recently “We at Dezeen”, meant ‘he’ at Dezeen. I think the sight is great, as I think Mocoloco, Core77 and the like are too. Why slam a really good resource like this? and why the hell are you (Mark /Nick) here anyway? If you don’t get anything from this site and are too concerned with ratings etc to appreciate the work he is doing… then stay away, I for one, won’t miss your laboriously negative remarks.