About

Salon empowers audiences with fresh and distinctive perspectives on not just what’s now, but what's next. It believes good journalism is fearless journalism and goes beyond the headlines to reveal the story behind-the-story. Content that sparks conversation and makes the conversation smarter.

Salon continually engages in experimentation and innovation across its editorial, sales and technology groups, positioning it to lead in both media and technology. Evidence of this approach can be seen in its journalism and advertising, how it interacts with readers and its ability to provide a compelling platform for exchange and collaboration.

Founded in July 1995 by David Talbot, Salon has been called "intriguing and intelligent"​ (Washington Post), "truly compelling"​ (Time) and "smart and provocative"​ (Forbes). Salon.com has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, "Good Morning America,"​ "Morning Edition,"​ "Talk of the Nation,"​ "Crossfire,"​ the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Time, Newsweek, and other major media.

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    • Sponsored Posts
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    • Native Ads
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    • High-Impact (Takeovers, Billboards, Overlays, Sliders, Skins)
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    • Rich Media (Expandable & Non-Expandable)
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  • Email
  • Mobile Display
    • Mobile Rich Media (Including Interstitials & Expandables)
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    • Tablet Traffic
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    • Native & Custom Mobile Executions
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    • Requires SDK Integration
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    Ad Features / Call-To-Actions
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  • Native
  • Social
  • Desktop Video
    • In-Banner Video
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    • Pre-Roll
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    • Mid-Roll
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    • Post-Roll
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    • Video Companion Ad
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    • Outstream Video
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    • Custom Video Executions
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  • Desktop Display, Email, Mobile Display, Native, Social, Desktop Video
  • CPM
  • Mobile App Publisher, Web Publisher
  • Headline:
    in-depth news, politics, business, technology & culture
  • Self / Managed Service:
    Managed Service
  • Industries
    Clothing & Fashion, Consumer Packaged Goods, Dating, eCommerce, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Beauty, Retail, Travel & Leisure
  • Key Differentiator
    Salon draws an educated, influential and rapidly growing audience that you can reach with a range of high-impact advertising and social media programs.For more information on how we can assist in developing a customized program that will help you meet your marketing needs and objectives, please contact:
  • Approved 3rd Party Ad Serving / Rich Media Vendors
    Sizmek - http://www.sizmek.com
Site Traffic
  • 7407 Global Rank
  • 1753
    United States
  • 12.2 M Estimated Visits
Traffic Sources
  • Search
    39.79%
  • Direct
    35.43%
  • Social
    16.36%
  • Referrals
    7.73%
  • Mail
    0.66%
  • Display
    0.02%
Geography Breakdown
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Alexa Traffic Data
Global Rank 2,732
82
United States Rank 541
150
United States Page Views 89.0%
0.2%
Top Countries
Top Search Keywords
  • Online Writing
  • Non-Fiction
Mobile App Data
MixRank is the most comprehensive database of mobile apps, developers, SDKs, technologies, services, and integrations. Learn more.
  • 50 K Downloads
  • 10 SDKs
  • 4.13 Avg. Rating
  • 594 Total reviews
  • App Url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.salon.salonapp
  • App Support: http://salon.com
  • Genre: news_and_magazines
  • Bundle ID: com.salon.salonapp
  • App Size: 7.9 M
  • Version: 14
  • Release Date: April 29th, 2013
  • Update Date: September 14th, 2015

Description:

Salon, the award-winning news and entertainment Web site, combines breaking news and hard-hitting investigative journalism with provocative personal essays and witty cultural criticism. From politics and entertainment to technology and business, you can always expect fresh insights on the most important and interesting news of the day.

Features:
• The latest articles and opinions from Salon.com
• Share articles with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or email
• Rich-content with images and video

New features will be regularly added. Check back for updates.

NOTE: This is app is not yet supported for Android Operating System versions above 6.0.1.

Google Search
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DoubleClick
DoubleClick Digital Marketing (DDM) is an integrated ad technology platform that enables advertisers to more effectively create, manage and grow high-impact digital marketing campaigns. DDM brings together world-class solutions to help buyers run holistic programs across multiple channels.
Google Authorization
Google Play services offers a standard authorization flow for all Google APIs and all components of Google Play services. In addition, you can leverage the authorization portion of the Google Play services SDK to gain authorization to services that are not yet supported in the Google Play services platform by using the access token to manually make API requests or using a client library provided by the service provider.
Google Play Game Services
Make your games social with Google Play game services. Add achievements, leaderboards, real-time multiplayer, and other popular features using the Google Play game services SDK. Let players sign in using their Google+ identities and share their gaming experience with friends. Visit developers.google.com/games/services for more information about integrating game services into your app.
Google Play Location APIs
The location APIs make it easy for you to build location-aware applications, without needing to focus on the details of the underlying location technology. They also let you minimize power consumption by using all of the capabilities of the device hardware.
Google Play Maps
Allow your users explore the world with rich maps provided by Google. Identify locations with custom markers, augment the map data with image overlays, embed one or more maps as fragments, and much more.
Google Play Services
Google Play services powers a broad set of SDKs on Android to help you build your app, enhance privacy and security, engage users, and grow your business. These SDKs are unique in that they only require a thin client library to be included in your app, as shown in figure 1. At runtime, the client library communicates with the bulk of the SDK's implementation and footprint in Google Play services.
AdMob Mediation
AdMob Mediation is a feature that lets you serve ads to your apps from multiple sources, including the AdMob Network, third-party ad networks, and AdMob campaigns. ... This guide is your one-stop shop for integrating mediation into your AdMob app.
Android API
The Android platform provides a framework API that applications can use to interact with the underlying Android system. The framework API consists of: A core set of packages and classes. A set of permissions that applications can request, as well as permission enforcements included in the system
Google Mobile Ads
Ad Manager uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK which helps app developers gain insights about their users and maximize ad revenue. To do so, the default integration of the Mobile Ads SDK collects information such as device information. iOS setup Android setup.
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Ad Intelligence
  • Native
    10.69%
  • Standard
    88.94%
  • Direct
    0.37%
Ads Seen Recently
34,040
Longest Running Ad
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Ads.txt
Ad Exchange
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Publisher ID
Certification ID
advertising.com
direct
16260
rubiconproject.com
reseller
10278
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pubmatic.com
direct
156347
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indexexchange.com
reseller
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synacor.com
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engagebdr.com
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rubiconproject.com
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openx.com
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appnexus.com
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Salon Media Group advertising reaches 12.2M visitors across desktop and mobile web, in countries such as United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, India. Pricing models they offer are CPM on channels such as Display, Email, Mobile, Native, Social, Video Advertising on Salon Media Group will allow you to reach consumers in industries or verticals such as Food & Beverage, Travel & Leisure, Consumer Packaged Goods, Dating, eCommerce, Entertainment, Clothing & Fashion, Retail, Health & Beauty.

They are headquartered at San Francisco, CA, United States, and have 1 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. According to their Ads.txt, Salon Media Group inventory partners include: advertising.com, rubiconproject.com, pubmatic.com, indexexchange.com, synacor.com, engagebdr.com, openx.com, appnexus.com, sovrn.com, lijit.com, amxrtb.com, spotx.tv, spotxchange.com, lkqd.net, contextweb.com, kargo.com, facebook.com, 33across.com, triplelift.com, beachfront.com, criteo.com, my6sense.com, revcontent.com, media.net, liveintent.com, nativo.com, google.com, undertone.com, proper.io, e-planning.net, lemmatechnologies.com, rhythmone.com, onetag.com, emxdgt.com, districtm.io, sonobi.com, sharethrough.com, themediagrid.com, mantisadnetwork.com, lockerdome.com, freewheel.tv, adform.com, improvedigital.com, outbrain.com, coxmt.com, bidtellect.com, gumgum.com, conversantmedia.com, adyoulike.com, yahoo.com, aps.amazon.com, yieldmo.com, didna.io, vidazoo.com, adtech.com, teads.tv, axonix.com, pubnative.net, smaato.com, xad.com, loopme.com, smartadserver.com, startapp.com, pokkt.com, mobilefuse.com, inmobi.com, gammassp.com, blis.com, bidmachine.io, admanmedia.com, adcolony.com, video.unrulymedia.com.

Salon Media Group works with Advertising technology companies such as ADTECH, PointRoll, Atlas, Criteo, Spongecell, Rocket Fuel, LiveRail, LucidMedia, Simpli.fi, Digilant, Brandscreen, Advertising.com, SiteScout, Connexity, AdPredictive, Yahoo Genome, Aggregate Knowledge, AOL-Time Warner Online Advertising, Google Publisher Tag, DoubleClick.Net, Openads/OpenX, Google Adsense, Index Exchange, AdMeld, Optimax Media Delivery, BlueKai, Chango, Dstillery, Tribal Fusion, AppNexus, Undertone, X Plus One, Martini Media, AdBrite, Turn, Media Innovation Group, eXelate, DoubleVerify, The Trade Desk, Pubmatic, Yield Manager, Rubicon Project, Accuen, Adify, Experian, ContextWeb, Neustar AdAdvisor, SpotXchange, Adap.TV, DemDex, Yahoo Publisher Network, 247 Media, Evidon, Open AdStream, Teads, Videology, IponWeb BidSwitch, Tapad, RadiumOne, MyBuys MyAds, Facebook Exchange FBX, Magnetic, Yahoo Small Business, Crosswise, eyeReturn, AudienceScience, AdGear, Burst Media, BlueKai DMP, Jumptap, Drawbridge, RealVu, Outbrain, Facebook Audience Network, Nativo, Prebid, Proper Media, BounceX, Adobe Audience Manager Sync, Sharethrough, TripleLift, Sonobi, RhythmOne, Amazon Ad System, Amazon Associates, Connatix, Integral Ad Science, Carambola, Sortable, World Now, Header Tag by Index Exchange, BrightRoll, Bidtellect, StackAdapt, Criteo Publisher Marketplace, GumGum, Twitter Ads, CogoCast, Eyeota, Geniee, Eye View Digital, Yahoo Ad Sync, Adhigh, GetIntent, Avocet, Facebook Custom Audiences, RUN Ads, Taboola, Media.net, Improve Digital, AcuityAds, Visible Measures, adingo, Narrative, Smartclip, Ads.txt, Amazon Direct, ContextWeb Reseller, DistrictM Direct, AppNexus Reseller, AppNexus Direct, ORC International Reseller, Google Reseller, Converstand Media Direct, FreeWheel Reseller, RubiconProject Reseller, Google Direct, GumGum Direct, 33 Across Reseller, AOL Reseller, Criteo Reseller, Fyber Reseller, OpenX Reseller, PubMatic Reseller, Smaato Reseller, Sovrn Reseller, SpotXChange Reseller, Synacor Reseller, Taboola Reseller, Tremor Video Reseller, Kargo Direct, AOL Direct, OpenX Direct, ContextWeb Direct, RhythmOne Direct, PubMatic Direct, RubiconProject Direct, Sovrn Direct, Lijit Direct, GumGum Reseller, Teads Direct, SpringServe Reseller, BrightRoll Reseller, Connatix Direct, Triple Lift Direct, Facebook Direct, Tremor Video Direct, ShareThrough Direct, SpotXChange Direct, Carambola Direct, DistrictM Reseller, Lijit Reseller, RhythmOne Reseller, LKQD Reseller, SmartAdServer Reseller, Beachfront Reseller, Fyber Direct, SmartAdServer Direct, Outbrain Direct, Outbrain Reseller, 33 Across Direct, Amazon Reseller, Comet Cox Media Reseller, Beeswax, DistrictM, C1X Reseller, IndexExchange Reseller, IndexExchange Direct, Sonobi Reseller, Brightcom Direct, 161Media, SkimLinks, BidTheatre, Google Inteactive Media Ads, ORC International Direct, Beachfront Direct, Cedato Direct, Criteo Direct, SpringServe Direct, Sonobi Direct, Adform Reseller, LKQD Direct, Intimate Merger, Admedo, Improve Digital Reseller, Teads Reseller, C1X, Innovid, StickyAds TV, Outbrain Sponsored Content, LiveIntent Direct, YieldBot Reseller, Google AdSense Integrator, Admixer, Yieldmo, Proclivity, Adition, MBR Targeting, AdTheorent, DoubleClick Bid Manager, EMX, Mantis, AdStanding, AppNexus Segment Pixel, Resonate Insights, Infolinks, MicroAd, AdMatrix, Ad Tech Japan AOL, Mediaplex, Sociomantic, DynAdmic, ClickCertain, Mobile Ad Trading, JustPremium, VINDICO, Flashtalking, Adelphic, Retargetly, bRealtime, Datonics, Advangelists, Blis, MaxPoint Interactive, PLAYGROUND XYZ, BidSwitch, ZypMedia, Loopme, Technorati Media, Permutive, So-net Media, Freebit Admind, Cinarra, AdTech Studio, Rhombus, Omnitag, Appier, Clickagy, Between Digital, AdYouLike Direct, Lockerdome Direct, Nativo Direct, Revcontent Direct, Undertone Direct, Yieldmo Direct, Aniview Reseller, Bidtellect Reseller, Facebook Reseller, LoopMe Reseller, my6sense Reseller, Telaria Reseller, Yahoo Reseller, Yieldmo Reseller, The MediaGrid Direct, Chocolate Direct, OnScroll, Amazon Transparent Ad Marketplace, Smart Adserver, Consent Management Platform API v 2.0, comScore Activation, Commission Junction, OneTag, Audigent, Ad Lightning, Sovrn, Yahoo Gemini.