The Gawker Media network’s traffic hit a record high last October — 297 million pageviews for 12 sites, to be exact.

Quoting their official announcement:

The more important numbers to our marketers, however, are audience figures! Gawker, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jezebel, et al now reach a total of

13 million US uniques
22 million global uniques

Congrats to Gawker Media for this milestone!

The Boing Boing network has added a new videogames blog to its roster by the name of Offworld. From the Blog Herald report:

Edited by Brandon Boyer, a familiar name for some of us that used to hail the Edge mag, it is bound to be something interesting.

The new blog gives ample attention to independent games but still covers the heavyweights such as World of Warcraft.

Go Offworld now.

The Blog Herald reports that The New York Times has launched Gadgetwise:

…a gadget blog that goes head to head with the likes of Gizmodo and Engadget (first and foremost), but so far in a less quirky and introvert style.

Visit the new blog.

The Beauty Blog Network has added a new blog to its lineup, ThisThatBeauty written by Felicia Walker Benson.

ThisThatBeauty is an online magazine dedicated to my passion for all things beauty related, as noted by ON MAKEUP magazine 2008.

Visit BBN’s new blog.

The ReadWriteWeb network has disbanded, jettisoning its AltSearchEngines and last100 blogs. According to RWW’s Richard McManus, the decision was made in order for RWW to focus on building and extending their core brand.

Straight from the horse’s mouth:

I will retain a personal stake in both AltSearchEngines and last100, but as of 1 November they are under the majority ownership of Charles Knight (AltSearchEngines) and Steve O’Hear (last100). I’d like to thank Charles and Steve for putting in so much effort to build up AltSearchEngines and last100 respectively. Both have done a great job covering their respective niches and we wish them all the best in continuing to grow the sites.

Read the RWW announcement.

The popular Freelance Writing Jobs website/community has expanded from one blog to a network of six blogs. Quoting the newborn network’s press release:

“This is a natural progression for the site,” says Deborah Ng, who founded the site in May of 2005 to help work-at-home moms find better writing opportunities. “We have multiple contributors now. By providing six different blogs, we’re making it much more readable. Community members can subscribe to the different blogs rather than scrolling down deeper and deeper to find the content that interests them. This design will provide our readers with much more freedom.”

Congratulations to FWJ, or should we say, the FWJ Network!

Shiny Media announced yesterday a record month for its network, with its total unique visits having grown by 7 per cent in October 2008 to reach 3.2.million. The network’s page impressions also improved by 6 per cent to 6.1 million.

Quoting their blog post:

Biggest rises were for craft site Crafty Crafty which reported a 40 per cent growth in uniques taking it to 89,000 and a 37 per cent rise in Coronation Street site CorrieBlog, taking it to 79,000 uniques. Other big rises were recorded for XBoxer.tv (34 per cent), US fashion site ShinyStyle.tv (28 per cent) and Kiss and Make Up (24 per cent).

We have added the BlogMedia.Asia network to our watchlist. Here’s part of the message we received from Althaf Ahmed, the network’s founder:

I am Althaf, an S.E.O Consultant and a Blogger from Bangalore, India. I am a regular reader of Performancing, and through the links landed here.

I recently launched a suite of educational blogs related to a multitude of topics like home improvement, car repair, cooking, travel and more. I have a team of about half a dozen writers who constantly churn out high quality content for the network.

I decided to unite them under the name BlogMedia.Asia. You can take a look at www.blogmedia.asia

Rest assured, this isn’t a cheap Made For Adsense Network. You can inspect the blogs individually.

Thanks a lot
Althaf Ahmed
BlogMedia.Asia

Visit the BlogMedia.Asia network here.

The Syntagma Media network recently celebrated its third anniversary, as commemorated by John Evans’ “birthday post”:

Three is a significant number in horse, dog and internet years. Horses get to run in the Derby, dogs are the equivalent of 21, and anything on the internet is a virtual centenarian.

When we started out 36 long months ago, this site was a pure technology and media play. It was also the cheerleader for the launch of new sites on a large sprinkling of topics. Now I write here only about politics, finance and technology, in that order of magnitude. You won’t need to ask why, discerning Reader.

A few days later, the network got itself a gift — a new Syntagma Media logo, which you can view here.

Congrats to Syntagma for both!

Glam Media, the brains behind the women’s network Glam.com, has turned its attention to the male market with the launch of Brash.com.

Quoting the Glam press release:

With close to 10 million US unique visitors a month at launch, Brash.com is going to “Change the Game”, with its edgy, upscale vertical network that caters to men’s desires and needs focusing on lifestyle, entertainment, automotive and gadgets, and news both from a national perspective and with local influence.

Visit Brash.com today.