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AskMen and IGN switch from Times Internet to Fork Media

Ant Farm's media and advertising business Fork Media has announced a five year partnership with publisher Ziff Davis, wherein Fork will run publications AskMen (mens lifestyle site) and IGN (games, movies and entertainment site) in India. These publications were previously being run by Times Internet's Times Global, and as per a deal which was inked three years ago. Samar Verma, CEO of Fork Media, told MediaNama that the brand names (and domain names for AskMen India and IGN India have always been owned by Ziff Davis. The model is similar to the deal that they had with Times Internet: Fork will continue to run the two domain names in India. What this also tells us is that if Times Internet has similar deals with other publishers under Times Global, then others could come and wrest partners away as well. Fork Media will…

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