Web and Publishing Veteran, Val Landi, Joins the Daily Galaxy as CEO the Web's Alternative to the Discovery Channel

The Daily Galaxy announced today that Val Landi, an original seed investor, has joined the company as CEO. Landi was former Executive Vice President of the global technology-publisher IDG, later joining Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Interval Research. Landi was also a member of the pre-IPO executive team at LookSmart, an early Yahoo and Google competitor, and was founder and CEO of Redband Broadcasting, a Sony venture.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 6, 2007. The Daily Galaxy announced today that Val Landi, an original seed investor, has joined the company as CEO. Landi was former Executive Vice President of the global technology-publisher IDG, later joining Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Interval Research. Landi was also a member of the pre-IPO executive team at LookSmart, an early Yahoo and Google competitor, and was founder and CEO of Redband Broadcasting, a Sony venture.

The Daily Galaxy - News from Planet Earth & Beyond - is described as an eclectic text and video presentation of fascinating, often irreverent, news and insights on science, space exploration, technology, and popular culture.

"Readers of The Daily Galaxy," said Landi, "are brand influencers: iPod, iTunes and iPhone users; Stumblers, Twitters, Facebook networkers; Daily Show and Colbert Report viewers. They are affluent, educated, involved, with an approximate 50/50 gender split."

"We are your eye on the universe for out-of-the-ordinary, exceptional content," Landi continued. "The Daily Galaxy is growing at warp speed, attracting a smart, passionate audience that is hungry for news that defines our world and its concerns, reaching above and beyond a hardcore geek audience. Our readers embrace issues and events that define our daily lives on Planet Earth."

Growth Metrics:
Technorati: With over 70 million blogs to track, The Daily Galaxy started, like all blogs, at over a million in ranking. DG has consistently dropped between 5,000 - 10,000 places per week, and is on track to be among Technorati's top 1,000 sites by end of September, 2007.

Alexa Rankings: The Daily Galaxy's Alexa Chart over the past three months shows impressive growth, with a 1,000 % increase since launch and a traffic- rank acceleration of 514,000. At our current rate of growth, we expect to be in Alexa's worldwide top 10,000 sites by fall of 2007.

Syndication: This past month, The Daily Galaxy was selected as a member of the Pluck/BlogBurst syndication network (which includes USA Today, Reuters, Gannet, and Fox). The Daily Galaxy is regularly featured on Reuters worldwide, and daily updates can be found on Squidoo, Netscape, and Digg.

Accolades: On June 27, 2007 The Daily Galaxy was hand-selected by TypePad as a featured blog, and continues to receive rave reviews within the blogosphere and social networking communities, such as StumbleUpon.

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