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AUGUST 9, 2016

Santa Monica-based Tongal , which operates an online, content crowdsourcing site focused on video, has named a Vaughan Emsley as its new Head of Strategy and Client Development. The company has driven campaigns for LEGO, Johnson & Johnson, NASA, Mattel, P&G, General Motors and many others.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Santa Monica-based Retention Science , the marketing software technology maker led by Jerry Jao, has snagged $7M in a Series A funding, according to the company. retargeting advertising analytics software capital venture science retention' The new funding was led by Upfront Ventures, and also included. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Santa Monica-based social analytics software developer MomentFeed announced this week that it has been accepted into the Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) Program, Facebook''s program for linking with companies who develop technologies in the advertising, page management, social integration, and tool areas for the social networking site.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based VIRURL , which is headed by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, said today that it has launched a new widget aimed at web publishers. The firm said its new "Slideout" widget helps provide unobtrusive advertising to help publishers monetize site visitors.

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MARCH 16, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHow , the online question and answer site owned by Demand Media, has revealed a new site redesign today, saying it has launched a new look-and-feel plus additional site enhancements. eHow said the new organization makes the site more useful to advertisers. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

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. We want to help you monetize your knowledge, your skills, and your social media. Right now, we're helping people every day make money on their favorite social platforms.

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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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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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JULY 11, 2011

Santa Monica-based ThisNext , the social shopping and content site run by Matt Edelman, has scored a partnership with Lucky Magazine. According to ThisNext, the two have created a co-branded shopping site, which was launched Friday.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has raised $18M in additional funding, and acquired the Fox Audience Network (FAN) from New Corporation. In further details on the FAN deal, Addante also said that it has not acquired the advertising sales team at FAN, saying that it "is not, and will not be, an ad network."

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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 the new channel is aimed at helping "inspire women who want to make changes in their lives" and "positively impact others around them."

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

Auto maker Honda is taking direct aim at Santa Monica-based TrueCar , with threats to pull advertising allowances from dealers who list below invoice on the site, according to a report from the LA Times. In the report, the Times says that TrueCar is now on track to reach $100M in revenues this year. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Our interview today is with Gabe Gottlieb , Co-founder and CEO at Santa Monica-based advertising analytics firm Pathmatics (www.pathmatics.com). Gabe Gottlieb: We provide competitive and market intelligence for online advertising. We have now been doing this for almost six years now, in LA and Santa Monica.

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MAY 19, 2009

Santa Monica-based Business.com , which provides online directories for B2B purchasing, announced today that the firm has launched a new tool to help advertisers access pay-per-click metrics on the site. Tags: business.com online advertising guide analytics. Business.com is now owned by R.H. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , which provides web advertising optimization software, has expanded into New York, the firm announced Thursday. The new location is in addition to the company's existing offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Wexler joins the firm from SWMX, where he was CEO and co-founder.

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MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. I figured there.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site. It was discouraging.

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JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. ThisNext.com has been a social shooping site, really for anyone and everyone, and for every product category. We also have half a million registered members across our sites.

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JUNE 30, 2011

This morning, we spoke to Thomas Swalla , the COO of Santa Monica-based Savings.com , the online coupon and deals site, to talk a little bit about how the move has impact at one of Southern California's many, many affiliate-dependent Internet businesses--and how the move might result in lost jobs, and the firm moving out of state.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

To help it along, we developed some software which makes it easy to create a mobile experience, which corresponds to a QR code you can place on any, real world object. The objects we are focused on are out-of-home advertising. That's the big opportunity for us, out of home advertising, to make it engaging, and ultimately, measurable.

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JULY 26, 2010

Back by popular demand Schmoozd 3 is set for this Thursday, July 29th 6-10 PM at Wokano in Santa Monica, CA. Venture Capitalists, Marketing VP's, Angel Investors, and Hot Tech Startup's are just a few examples of attendees all looking to make a connection and help better the community. How about VC/Angel advice?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. Essentially, we're still oriented around social shopping, where our fundamental value proposition is helping consumers figure out what to buy. What verticals are you thinking about?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Born on the shores of Santa Monica, California, the company is taking its beta-tested Cv3 platform out into the public today. Some of the new CallFire Cv3 platform features a new and improved UI, helps enable CallFire customers to view from mobile devices and multiple desktops.

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JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Current round: $4. Total raised: $6.0mm. See: TechCrunch.

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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. We bought sites, built a studio system, and now we're figuring out what different formats to approach.

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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. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Recently, an interesting project popped up on the site--a a 2D to 3D conversion project , from the inventor of the original, LCD projector, Gene Dolgoff. Tell us about your project?

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

The team at Recycled Bride knows weddings are expensive, time-consuming to plan, and that’s the reason they want to make it easy to source great deals on pricey wedding items, and help you recover some of the money spent. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. How does Recycle Bride work? Business Model?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO. Tracy realized her constituency and being a public figure helped elevate her. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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JULY 13, 2012

On Tuesday, July 10, Crowdfunder hosted Crowdstart LA, the first crowdsourced startup contest at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. They provide a platform that helps users find heal discounts and deals provided by health professionals in their area. Doctors Coupons is exactly what it sounds like.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

Who with her Co-Founder Valerie Brennan , left a high profile position to help make a difference in peoples lives. After college I came back to Los Angeles to work in the advertising industry. So we wanted to help other women on the best places to go and find particular guys based on type. So we narrowed it down to that.

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MAY 24, 2007

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. This new company is in the Internet advertising (technology) space. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush?

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships. We see this as a community built on a trusted repository of structured data, something which ultimately helps everyone make decisions.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Make sure to tune in!

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Community Sponsors.

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