Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

While storytelling may have been formerly relegated to the entertainment industry, it’s gained a special significance in the tech world. With the platforms for storytelling rapidly increasing in VR, AR, and more apps and social media tools at our disposal, technology is now taking a front seat.

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Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

While storytelling may have been formerly relegated to the entertainment industry, it’s gained a special significance in the tech world. With the platforms for storytelling rapidly increasing in VR, AR, and more apps and social media tools at our disposal, technology is now taking a front seat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Real customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

They are overloaded by the media with amazing advertising messages, and people now realize that you can’t believe anything you see in pictures, and even videos can be edited to deliver any message. In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. Media Partners.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Los Angeles-based Velocity Interactive Group, the venture capital firm led by Ross Levinsohn and Jon Miller, said this morning that it has added Mickie Rosen as an investment partner at the company. According to Velocity, Rosen will focus on video, music, social media, publishing, games, and online advertising at the firm.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Valuable personality traits in his previous life working in entertainment, no doubt. FROM THE BEGINNING.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. This Panel will explore issues such as: How can companies best utilize social networking media?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. If you're a big influencer, you might get paid by a brand, but every day, people are providing word-of-mouth advertising, posting about their favorite things.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Real customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The event attracted over 500 distinguished attendees from around the world in the digital media and technology industry including advertising, media, data, eCommerce, software, social and gaming. 2014 Wavemaker Award recipients are: Hang Ten Award: Advertising & Marketing Services. Hitesh Chawla, CEO.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. In plain English, they’ve redesigned the site so that it is more interactive from a social media perspective and not just for viewers but for their content producers and advertising partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Many companies try to recover with more advertising and rebranding, and discover that these strategies don’t work well in today’s market. Other companies keep the focus on their customers, and seem to thrive on disruption, much less survive. Yet, when faced with declining revenues, most companies focus on finding new customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

They are overloaded by the media with amazing advertising messages, and people now realize that you can’t believe anything you see in pictures, and even videos can be edited to deliver any message. In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. The old media companies were resistant to change. Advertising is approaching $50 billion dollars online, whereas licensing is maybe $1 billion on a good day,” said Tanz.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They are overloaded by the media with amazing advertising messages, and people now realize that you can’t believe anything you see in pictures, and even videos can be edited to deliver any message. In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

if you get some value out of the notes consider checking out his company or Twitter feed). He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Elite media giants, agencies and brands flew in from around the country to discuss the rapidly changing and complex ecosystem evolving between the primitive television and social engagement union. Social media giants Twitter and Facebook were both on hand to present their latest findings of their contributions to social television.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2013

Nick Tran, Social Media Director for Taco Bell said, “The new entertainment for teens is YouTube. For me, VidCon is already too big, having gone for 3 years now, but it’s crazy to think most of these big media companies are seeing the YouTube cultural fan phenomenon for the first time.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

TechZulu is proud to team up with Digital LA and accelerators Amplify, StartEngine, Launchpad, local companies BetterWorks, PromoJam, start-ups and co-working spaces, all working together to create the first-ever Silicon Beach Fest to celebrate startups, tech, and entertainment! Influencer (PromoJam) @ Tech Cube : social tools.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.) After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

As outlined a while back by Adam Holden-Bache on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, along the following lines: Strategic partnerships. Sponsorships and advertising. Branded entertainment. Incentives or rewards. Understand the competition.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Thompson''s jaded take on the travel industry, I wondered if there was a travel company that bucked his stereotypes and properly balanced making bold destinations accessible while respecting the unspoiled resources and culture that made the locales interesting in the first place. Then we started advertising and getting media attention.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2011

During our interview with PepsiCo's Bonin Bough at South by Southwest Interactive, the company's director of global social media enthusiastically called the conference the "Davos of Digital." Bough explains, Visit TechZulu for full story.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

The ten companies in this year’s program represent a diverse cross-section of technologies, and are inspired by their visions for the applicability of these technologies in the media space. 2 3D-Printing Companies. 2 AI Companies. Advertiser Optimization. Perfect Example is last years robotics company Sphero.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

That's something that typically only large companies with large ERP budgets, like Amazon or eBay, have been able to do, something which has not been available to local businesses. I called up the CEO of a company, MusicNet one day, because I am a big music fan and musician myself, and saw what they were doing. We sold that to IAC.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Nowhere else can you find the top app experts converging with the biggest names in advertising and marketing. To enter to win a ticket to digiday:APPS, send your name, title, company, city, and email address to: info@socaltech.com with the subject "digiday tickets". digiday:APPS is a one of a kind event.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 26, 2013

Since its inception into the mainstream fabric of people’s lives, social media and the concept of social networking has gone through a rather peculiar evolutionary transition. From gaming, to advertising, to branding and marketing, there’s no online business plan that Facebook can’t be used for at this point.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

We’ve simplified our pricing, and API partners are now utilizing our technology in unique ways to fulfill a growing demand for entertainment imagery.”. The immediate goal is to reach 5M photos by early 2012, all accessible via their streamlined subscription-based service with real time celebrity photo coverage and older archives.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. There is a true renaissance happening in entertainment today, where the distribution channels of television and cable are being disrupted and transformed quickly into new models.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. TechZulu captured the entire VC/Angle panel and we also had a chance to interview every StartupDemo startup company that participated. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. He doesn’t see many digital media VC firms in the space and makes it a point to invest in and work with companies who engage more deeply with content. Companies are steadily positioning themselves by acquiring data across other different industries.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

As lawyers in the social media and Internet law space, this duo brings to the table practical experience counseling clients in real time and explaining breaking legal news in plain English. Tech Law Tip of the Week: explanation of a frequently-asked IP law question for tech companies. Christina holds a B.A. Lisa received an A.B.

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