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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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And with mobile you even have the ability to message your users when new content is released which leads to much higher consumptions rates. And ironically many consumer mobile apps are more of hits-driven businesses than video is today. And production is where Hollywood beats Silicon Valley. Technology is Critical. Set design.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. And of course you have Hollywood. Los Angeles.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge. Just as in the mobile battle when Apple goes closed it creates an opportunity for somebody that is substantively open. Imagine how much mobile telco money still exists in meat & potatoes.

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

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This San Francisco startup has amassed an impressive portfolio of innovative products that have the potential to disrupt content distribution in Hollywood and everywhere else. Their product offerings can benefit business from different perspectives from the producer, to the advertiser, to the end user — they have covered it all flawlessly.

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The Interaction of Our Lives | QR Codes and Augmented Reality

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Our daily lives are filled with advertisements of the latest and greatest technologies offering to “change the way we live.” Recently we’ve begun to see the rapid adaptation of mobile applications and their defiance of technology’s limits. Remember that promotional advertisement handed to you about the big concert coming next month?

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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There are trade publications such as Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline at one end, and gossip celebrity news at the other end. We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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We're also looking at technology in the retail sector, or which touch the retail supply chain--things like out of home advertising, software to optimize the retail supply chain, and other related areas because we know the retail sector so well. I think because we're a Hollywood town, people haven't taken it all that seriously.