socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based online entertainment, music, and advertising firm BuzzMedia is no more: it's just rebranded itself SpinMedia. The firm is venture backed by Anthem Ventures, Focus Ventures, Interscope, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Universal Music Group. BuzzMedia started its life as BuzzNet.

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2009

Buzz Media--which was formerly known as BuzzNet--is a venture backed operator of a network of pop culture, celebrity, and music-focused web content properties and blogs. According to the two, they are in a joint venture focused on digital content, marketing, and advertising. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The funding was led by European investor RTL Group, and also included Anthem Venture Partners, Simon Equity Partners, Third Wave Capital, Wavemaker Partners, ZenShin Capital, and Startup Capital Ventures. VideoAmp is led by Ross McCray. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The funding was led by European investor RTL Group, and also included Anthem Venture Partners, Simon Equity Partners, Third Wave Capital, Wavemaker Partners, ZenShin Capital, and Startup Capital Ventures. VideoAmp is led by Ross McCray. READ MORE>>.

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Anthem Tool Santa Monica Screening 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Buzznet will take over all advertising sales for The Superficial, along with providing engineering, design, and marketing support for The Superficial. Buzznet is venture backed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Anthem Ventures, NEA, and Universal Music Group.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. They sponsor TWiVC. LibreDigital. Hello, Chair.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). But I made it for a reason. We pass links and that’s powerful.

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