{"id":275,"date":"2008-01-26T14:51:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T22:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-01-26T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T22:53:30","slug":"usa-today-buys-bnqtcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"USA Today Buys Bnqt.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bnqt.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bnqt.jpg','popup','width=500,height=422,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bnqt-tm.jpg\" height=\"168\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bnqt\" \/><\/a>In the world of action sports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnqt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bnqt.com<\/a><\/strong> has been a bit of an outsider. Founded by a former <strong>AOL Sports-<\/strong>man, the site featured viral video of action sports along with a user-generated content community. Though the site never gained any traction, recognition, or significant traffic, it was still acquired by <strong>USA Today<\/strong> for an undisclosed amount of money. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;USA TODAY&#8217;s acquisition of Banquet is another example of the innovative ways we are trying to diversify our audience,&#8221; said <strong>Craig Moon<\/strong>, president and publisher of USA TODAY. &#8220;We believe that action sports are a dynamic and exciting category and that we have found an excellent stand alone brand which truly resonates with the youth audience.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This purchase shows how desperate old media is to get involved with &#8220;the kids.&#8221; And to think, <strong>Time Warner<\/strong> sold their &#8220;action sports&#8221; sites a little less than a year ago. Then again, this certainly gives us hope. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/prnewswire\/DC1230424012008-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CNNMoney.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of action sports Bnqt.com has been a bit of an outsider. Founded by a former AOL Sports-man, the site featured viral video of action sports along with a user-generated content community. Though the site never gained any traction, recognition, or significant traffic, it was still acquired by USA Today for an undisclosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}