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JANUARY 31, 2013

Glow Digital Media , a developer of a Facebook advertising platform, said Thursday that it has raised $1.3M in a seed funding round, and set up its U.S. The UK-based company did not disclose the source of the funding. Glow Digital Media has set up its U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2015

Los Angeles-based FastPay , the provider of financing products for ad and media driven companies which is led by Jed Simon, has backed mobile and video advertising products firm Altitude Digital with $30M in financing, Altitude said Thursday. Terms of the financing were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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 Until recently, three legacy providers (Sizmek, PointRoll and Google’s DoubleClick) have dominated the rich media market.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. RunwayML Runway is an applied AI tool artists can use to create AI-generated media, like video, audio and text. Runway AI user interface. million in 2023, up from $181.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. And it turns out that we click a lot.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

It was over 11 years ago that I saw a need to better connect startups and innovators with the communities around them so they could connect for partnerships, funding, amplification, and support. Our model evolved over time as the landscape changed, from ticket sales and sponsorships to online advertising, content marketing, and consulting.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

The startup says it added more than 200 new publishers and 100 new buyer channels for the six months ended March 31, 2013, and that its customers now include more than 500 of the world''s premium publishers, including eBay UK, Time, ABC News, the Wall Street Journal, Tribune Company, Virgin Media, People, Universal and many others.

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MAY 7, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising attribution technology developer Convertro has been acquired by AOL , in a deal worth approximately $101M. AOL said the deal will help to bolster its programmatic advertising platforms. convertro merger acquisition online advertising attribution jeff zwelling' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 12, 2014

Online advertising technology provider Adform announced today that it has raised $5.5M in a Series B funding round, as part of the company''s expansion into the United States. operations in Los Angeles, where it set up offices in February--said the funding came from Via Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based online coupon and deal site Savings.com has been acuqired by Cox Target Media , Cox announced Thursday afternoon. Cox said the buy "substantially expands" its business across traditional, digital, social and mobile platforms. in funding. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. households by mail.

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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? So, we're partnered with them on a couple of different levels.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2014

startup which provides technology for online video players for media companies, said Wednesday that it has partnered with Vevo , to bring Vevo''s large catalog of music videos, concerts, and other programming to Vadio''s media partners. Vadio , the Amplify.LA Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. At the time, it was doing Facebook media buying for e-commerce companies. They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Our sources put the company’s funding somewhere around $6 million in its recent funding round. That at least gets sponsors and advertisers out of the potentially messy situations that can come from working with spokespeople whose actions can’t be controlled by software — or an ingenious marketing team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. At the simplest level you can think about markets in terms of the number of times media is consumed and/or purchased by people plotted against the total number of content of that media type that is available. Why is that? That was the only way.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based Focused Labs , which provides social media marketing services, said Thursday that it has renamed itself GraphEffect , and raised $2M in funding. GraphEffect provides a social advertising platform which helps advertisers gain Facebook fans and Likes. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the developer of predictive analytics software for the marketing industry, has raised a big, $38M funding round, the firm said Monday. The funding was led by FTV Capital, and also included Elevation Partners and others. The firm said it was advised by LUMA Partners in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

At the moment, Conolly heads the startups social media team in Egypt while Turdubaev looks after Russian countries and translation of the site. Where does someone who is starting a hairdressers advertise their business? Most people now useFacebook- but it is a platform that is changing a lot since it floated on the stock market.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

A trio of online advertising vets are heading up a new, mobile advertising firm, Gradient X , which said this morning that it has raised $3.75M in a seed financing round. The firm said it will provide a demand side platform focused on advertising on mobile media. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

Facebook expanded its mea culpa on Monday for failing to prevent “bad actors” such as Russian entities from using the social media platform to distort democratic processes—notably the U.S. presidential election in 2016. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2012

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the online advertising and celebrity sports endorsements startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg, has raised $4.5M funding round, according to a filing from the firm this week. as part of an ongoing, $7.0M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing tools for the Associated Press, McClatchy, Belo Interactive, and other publishers, said this morning that it has raised $7M more in additional funding. According to Verve, the new funding will go towards further development and expansion of products. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

It was over 11 years ago that I saw a need to better connect startups and innovators with the communities around them so they could connect for partnerships, funding, amplification, and support. Our model evolved over time as the landscape changed, from ticket sales and sponsorships to online advertising, content marketing, and consulting.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 7, 2013

Social media aggregator RebelMouse recently raised $10.25 million in Series A funding led by Oak Investment Partners , SoftBank, Sterling Investment Partners and Michael Lazerow in a move that will help the firm power clients sites to better engage their audiences and nab in more clients. ” Phenomenal Growth. ” Top Clients.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In other news we announced the closing of $61 million in funding at Maker Studios , which I’ll talk publicly about soon. It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. Media relationships. Startup DNA.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Personalized card-linked offers Edo has raised $15million, ready to set a new trend in the payments and advertising sector. The platform also gives an insight into consumers spending behavior which traders use to increase their loyalty and acquire new clients. Funds to Sign Up More Partners. Personalized Card-Linked Offers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Ross tells us about how they bootstrapped the company, the challenges of going up against big, venture funded competitors, and how it sees opportunity in Europe. Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What''s different about your platform that more general advertising platforms?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

For example, they might want to see what version of a song to put on an EP or not, or which songs they might want to put additional marketing behind on other platforms. What makes us different from streaming platforms, is that when you're sitting in the back of a car and ride share, you're sitting in an unbiased environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. And also why today Mitu attracted $27 million in funding from AwesomenessTV (DreamWorks/Hearst), WPP, Verizon and Upfront Ventures. This is the cycle of synergies that lead to strong vertical franchises in media.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

For example, they might want to see what version of a song to put on an EP or not, or which songs they might want to put additional marketing behind on other platforms. What makes us different from streaming platforms, is that when you're sitting in the back of a car and ride share, you're sitting in an unbiased environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen. OTHER DEALS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 CEO Derrick Oien said Friday that ScoreStream recently completed a Verizon R/GA digital “Media Tech. million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2017

What's wrong with the online advertising industry? We were just launching one of our previous startups, VidRoll, working on video training and video advertising, we started seeing all of the problems that the video and general ad industry was facing. We like to call it a coordination platform. How are you funding this?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. <JG <JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers.

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