Travora Media sells remaining assets: Ad network to live, content biz to close


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Travora management ran the company into the ground, and its consumer sites languished and will die.
Travora Media's anticlimactic next chapter begins as its assets have been sold to a company that hopes to build an advertising network for hotels, airports and Internet service providers. AdVantage Neworks, which is in the process of a reverse merger with shell company JMG Exploration -- which recently sold off its oil and gas interests to focus on digital advertising -- acquired Travora on February 6 for an undisclosed sum. Brendon Kensel, president of JMG Exploration, says the company will pair the advertising network with AdVantage Neworks to upgrade Travora's targeting capabilities to build a large advertising platform for ISPs, and private networks at airports and hote