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How powerful has new media advertising become?

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We think of media advertising as either paid or free – placed by paying a fee or by a PR firm or by you at no placement cost, especially when you provide editorial content beneficial to the publisher. One of “my” companies learned and grew to spectacular size. The post How powerful has new media advertising become?

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OpenX Acquires Two Companies

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Los Angeles-based OpenX has acquired Mezzobit and PubNation , two companies in the programmatic advertising space, the company said on Monday. Financial details of those acquisition were not announced by the company. According to OpenX, it plans to integrate Mezzobit and PubNation's tools into its platform.

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H Code Links With Argentine Media Company Artear

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Los Angeles-based digital advertising company H Code , which focuses on advertising for the U.S. Hispanic market, says it has inked an exclusive partnership with Artear , a media and television company in Argentina. Financial details of the deal were not announced. H Code is led by CEO Parker Morse. browsers and viewers.

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OpenX Gets $22.5M More For Online Advertising

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Pasadena-based advertising technology firm OpenX has raised $22.5M more in a round of funding, the company announced today, via a Series E funding round. The company said the new funds will go towards growth, financing acquisitions, and international expansion. Global Investment, Inc., and Presidio Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Building A Dream Team For Mobile Advertising, with Gradient X

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If there were such a thing as a "Dream Team" for mobile advertising, you would be hard pressed not to pick the founding team of Los Angeles-based Gradient X (www.gradientx.com), whose founders include Michael Lum (formerly of OpenX), Brian Baumgart (formerly at Adconion), and Julie Mattern (formerly of Rubicon Project). What is Gradient X?

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Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral.

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Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. And of course, that could easily require a large amount, far beyond the capability of a small company looking for its initial audience. Here is my list.

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Have you heard? Eyeballs aren’t everything.

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Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. I am an investor and advisor to one such “eyeballs” company. Remembering the insanity before 2000. And the numbers were staggering.

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