socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays? Our whole goal is to create content for real life.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content publishing empire of Richard Rosenblatt, has tapped Joost --now owned by Adconian--for its pre-roll advertising inventory. Joost is now Adconian's business for providing in-banner and in-stream video advertising. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Populating them can be hard work, especially when the content needs to be just right. It means wasted advertising spend and lost goodwill. On a different project, we’d just used a Large Language Model (LLM) - in this case OpenAI’s GPT - to provide users with pre-filled text boxes, with content based on choices they’d previously made.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence TechEmpower Tips 295

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Your challenge is to provide credible content, sources, and assistance. Optimize your content for search engines to get attention. That trend is growing every day.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media reported its results Thursday, saying that it had a net loss of $5.6 Demand Media said the revenues numbers were driven by continued momentum from its owned and operated sites. Demand also mentioned strong direct brand advertising sales helped its results. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Develop viral content. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 139

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHow , the question and answer site of Demand Media, is announcing today that it has launched a new women-focused channel called Shift. eHow said that the move will include such content as the "eHow 100" list of women who are making changes to their lives, selected by the site's editorial team and advisory board.

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eHow Santa Monica Journal Demand 196

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MARCH 27, 2012

Looking to attract more consumers interested in learning more about technology, Santa Monica-based eHow , the online how-to site run by Demand Media, said today that it has launched a new Tech Channel as part of the site. RadioShack is heavily represented on the channel as an advertiser and sponsor. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds. Start with sites like Elance.com and Guru.com for specialized tasks you can’t do yourself. Let your audience help with content creation. Position yourself as an expert.

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Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 124

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 The best-performing ads are often custom, high-impact rich media ads that integrate seamlessly into a publisher’s content with interactivity, video and other features.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

To top it all off, the AI startup recently partnered up with Getty Images, one of the largest repositories of paid stock imagery, to develop a new generative AI model ‘Runway’ geared towards the film and advertising industries. million site visits in October alone. Tome Tome is another AI startup that's been causing a stir in 2023.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2017

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Your challenge is to provide credible content, sources, and assistance. Optimize your content for search engines to get attention. That trend is growing every day.

Marketing 76

Marketing Social Media Content Media 76

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Develop viral content. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. That realization set forth our current business strategy, which is to create a portfolio of vertical shopping sites which allow consumers to discover and be passionate about categories they are interested in.

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Content Demand Sites Media 165

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. Beyond that, everything is just gravy.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. The now-public. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds. Start with sites like Elance.com and Guru.com for specialized tasks you can’t do yourself. Let your audience help with content creation. Position yourself as an expert.

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Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. I joined about a year ago--a bunch of us did--and looked at where Sidebar was as it was gearing up for a full consumer launch of its personalized content portal.

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JUNE 13, 2013

We caught up with James DeJulio , the company''s President and one of its co-founders, to hear about how the crowdsourced video site works. James DeJulio: We''re a social content development platform. We work with really big businesses and brands, everyone from P&G to Lego, Mattel to NASA, to develop mostly video content.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds. Start with sites like Elance.com and Guru.com for specialized tasks you can’t do yourself. Let your audience help with content creation. Position yourself as an expert.

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Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Joey Flores to learn more about the service, plus hear more about the new on-demand service and the challenges it is trying to help musicians and labels deal with in the age of Internet streaming. Our site has historically been more of a radio experience. What is Earbits?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

Indi operates an app which lets people get paid for sharing their social content, making product recommendations, and more. 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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Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Develop viral content. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. It's basically a "wisdom-of-the-crowds" way to get content. What's Scripped?

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Develop viral content. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

We then take that information and find trends and metadata, and all that content and sharing, and use it to drive e-commerce, and to design and manufacture apparel products. I'd make my own style books in my bedroom, and post them on my bedroom walls, and editorialize my own stories and content. Each one took six hours to make.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Includes content mobile guides, ie. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Develop viral content. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

Marketing 95

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds. Start with sites like Elance.com and Guru.com for specialized tasks you can’t do yourself. Let your audience help with content creation. Position yourself as an expert.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

People read magazines for a reason and it’s a combination of focused content and beautiful images. My partner was in product management at Demand Media. We know that their model works for a certain type of content but we believe we can build higher value sites where we can sell premium advertising and target niche audiences.

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Startup Content Conference Media 315

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. Broadcast isn't like that.

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Google Advertising Media Startup 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds. Start with sites like Elance.com and Guru.com for specialized tasks you can’t do yourself. Let your audience help with content creation. Position yourself as an expert.

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Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99