Anthony Batt

Current

Founder & Chief Creative Officer at Buzzmedia (Self-employed)

Past

President & Founder at Buzznet
CEO & Founder at Buzznet Inc.
Board Advisor at N-tonic Software

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Industry

Internet

Anthony Batt’s Summary

A lot of people call me a serial entrepreneur; I just say I thrive at creating companies that produces value by combining media, technology, community and publishing into unique and consumer friendly products.

Today, I am President and Founder of Buzznet a leader in the social media category. Buzznet publishes the most influential and authentic music and pop culture social media sites on the web; reaching 32 million unique people monthly. We have been able to acquire top web publishers like: Stereo Gum, Idolator, Absolute Punk, A Sociallite Life's to extend Buzznet's breath and depth of content in music and celebrity verticals. Buzznet is privately funded by Redpoint Ventures, Anthem Ventures, NEA and Sutter Hill.

Before founding Buzznet; I was a co-founder of Metapa Inc. (now Green Plum); where I served as the CTO and VP of Product Management. Other important positions I held have been Manager of Internet Publishing for Time Inc. New Media and iVillage, where I was responsible for day-to-day publishing, editorial publishing tools and consumer facing product design for: Time.com, Fortune.com, People.com, TeenPeople.com, Entertainment Weekly, Money and iVillage.com. These web sites at their time were among the top ranked portals in terms of unique visitors and page views.

I was also a partner in TROON a web agency that won multiple awards for digital products we created for our clients like TBWA/Chait Day and Absolut Vodka. In our advance research and development group we engineered products for Microsoft. We sold TROON to Exceed 1998.

I was co-founder of Digital Threads a web consulting agency with Craig Newmark. Craig and I consulted on many early web projects back in the early 90's. Also durning that time a side project that Craig started turned into craigslist.org which has become lager then ever imagined.

Anthony Batt’s Specialties:

Web 2.0 Product Development
Web Software Design
Web Media Sales
SEO
Team Management
Business Development
Mobile Media
Blogging & Photoblogging
Creative Direction
Online Publishing

Anthony Batt’s Experience

Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Buzzmedia (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Online Media industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

# Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.
# Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.
# Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures, drafting privacy policies and structuring commercial transactions.
# Member of the Board of Directors