34 channels are currently live, with 47 more in various stages of launch preparation.

I did so because I like the Maven Team. I believe they will better promote the "Mish" brand than I can personally. James Heckman / Founder and CEO - Background: Head of Global Media Strategy for Yahoo!; Chief Strategy Officer at Fox Digital; architected a $900 million ad alliance between Google and Myspace; founder/CEO of 5to1.com (sold to Yahoo!); CSO of Zazzle.com; Founder/CEO of Scout.com (sold to Fox); Founder/CEO of Rivals.com and Rivals.net (sold to Yahoo!)

Big News from HubPages - Acquired by Maven Discussions in the HubPages HubPages Tutorials and Community Forum

The digital ad startup TheMaven, led by former Yahoo media exec Jim Heckman, is acquiring the publishing platform HubPages. The deal will bring the stealth company's network of niche websites to 40 million collective monthly visitors. Heckman believes the new entity will appeal to marketers that have been burned by having their ads end up in dicey corners of the web.

Silicon Valley celebrates the massive exits and the brilliant entrepreneurs behind them. There's Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Snap's Evan Spiegel, Salesforce's Marc Benioff and Twitter's Evan Williams, just to name a few. But the overwhelming majority of start-up founders are a lot more like Paul Edmondson than any of the aforementioned celebrities.

Moving the network to Maven, a market-tested, state-of-the-art platform is expected to improve traffic, engagement, and monetization. This represents an instant acceleration of growth within Maven's existing model, adding thousands of content creators and tens of millions of users. The two companies' missions, vision and culture align perfectly.

HubPages is a user generated content, revenue-sharing website founded in 2006. The company acquired its main competitor, Squidoo, in 2014 and moved from a single-site to a multi-site business model in 2016.