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AUGUST 10, 2009

Encino-based Bid4Spots , which operates a number of online reverse auction marketplaces for radio and cable television advertising, claims today that the firm has been seeing a huge amount of growth this year. Bid4Spots is headed by Dave Newmark, who launched the firm in 2005. Actual financials and revenue were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

in revenues of 2005. Tags: reachlocal inc500 revenue search engine advertising. One of the revelations in yesterday's Inc. 500 listing was that Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a venture backed provider of local online marketing services, hit $147M in revenues in 2008, up significantly from $4.4M READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

WebVisible is a provider of local online advertising services, which helps small and midsize businesses place search engine marketing. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Adapt Technologies was venture backed by Concept2company, Emergence Capital Partners, and Mohr, Davidow Ventures; the firm had raised $9.8M

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JULY 27, 2015

One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. Matt Cooper: What we're really trying to do, is reshape the advertising space. We've figured out how to take the banner into 2016 and beyond.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. You see users moving to a platform that doesn''t monetize advertising as well. They''re even one of our advertisers right now. All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms.

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MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. AdECN was a system that basically was trying to be the New York Stock Exchange of advertising.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. Is it difficult to find advertisers to match to sites? plus range.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. Zac Brandenberg: I've been in the advertising space, and in online advertising and interactive for much of the last ten years. Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. I didn't think I was contributing or impacting the world in real life.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients. Thanks to our advertisers. socalcto socaltech Comment help. Get Livefyre. Post comment as. Follow conversation. Sort: Newest | Oldest. Got A News Tip?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The other thing we do, is were very transparent about sharing data with them, like user data and advertising data. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Someone, for instance, who goes to Amazon or puts their channel on Youtube wont get any of that data. I had built an audio company before.

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JULY 6, 2009

We're a business that has both advertising revenues and subscription, a blend of both. in 2004, we purchased Buoyweather.com, moved it into our setup, weather department, and marketing department, and in 2005, we added much more multimedia news and entertainment to Surfline. That turned out to be a good move, because it got much worse.

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MAY 11, 2011

Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. We do not want to provide that data to insurance or supplement or advertising companies who, if you think about it if your mental performance is declining, are the last people you want to see your data. I ended up managing that project.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. Josh Stomel: How we make money right now is advertising revenue. What's your background and what drove you to start ResumeBucket?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Berkeley in 2005, and right after that I started working on the site. Eric Bjorndahl: We're primarily advertising driven, and we also do hotel and flight bookings on the site. Eric Bjorndahl: We've definitely seen a slowdown in display advertising. What's your brother's background? He graduated from U.C.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. Tags: interview advertising media networking social referral business small facebook startup entrepreneur favrav.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. Part of our advertising, is we are sending people checks in the mail for $25, or $50. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For us, digital media means consumer Internet, online advertising, mobile, gaming, and most importantly--this is Rick and my background--next generation infrastructure to support consumption of this media. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it.

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MAY 15, 2010

Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos. 11.65mm in Series C – Investors: not announced – likely an inside round; previous investors: Redpoint and JAFCO – Read more: : SEC Registration Form D , peHUB , SoCalTech. Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. As I watched my kids' eyeballs move over, as well as looked at the research data and advertising data which saw TV's share shrinking, I started looking into new media.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector. Thanks to our advertisers. socaltech socal socalcto Matt Coffin, President and founder of LowerMyBills.com and SoCal “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2006, has an absolutely ubiquitous presence in LA.

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JULY 13, 2009

We're also looking at technology in the retail sector, or which touch the retail supply chain--things like out of home advertising, software to optimize the retail supply chain, and other related areas because we know the retail sector so well. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Although we're not going to be focused on revenues for a year, it's clear at this time that this kind of real estate is very valuable for advertisers. But, advertisers will know you've got to be where people are comparing products. How is the firm funded?

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APRIL 23, 2013

I started Young Turks back in 2002, and then, in 2006 and really towards the end of 2005, started daily web streaming for the show. Back in 2005, we even had Sirius Satellite Radio tell us they''d pay us a quarter million to not do online video. How did the network come about? We''re now the longest daily web show, ever.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

It was so much more advanced than back in 1960's, and we started selling posters in 3D for advertising. By late 2005 and 2006, we saw the return of 3D movies, made possible by the digital projectors. After I left, I started working on a lot of different areas, and one of those was 3D, lenticular printing.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Between 2005 and 2008, there were lots of companies raising half a million, and selling for 15 million. True entrepreneurs always find a way to move the ball forward, without barriers. It's in the DNA of entrepreneurs. The second thing we look at is the quality of the idea. We are looking at a starting position so that this can be really big.

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