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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based Vantage Media said Thursday that it is selling its Education Services Business--which sells leads to education advertisers--to Campus Explorer , as it looks to sharpen its focus on the technology behind its real time bidding (RTB) advertising platform. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based MediaAlpha , a developer of programmatic advertising software, said today that it is expanding into the European market. Goldsmith was previously a Sales Director at KAYAK. MediaAlpha said the value of media transacted through its platforms in 2017 was worth $250M. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based media measurement and optimization software developer VideoAmp has raised $275M in funding, giving it a $1.4 VideoAmp said the funds will go to accelerate rollout and adoption of its platform, and also to scale its enterprise sales, engineering, data science and client success teams.

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MAY 12, 2014

Online advertising technology provider Adform announced today that it has raised $5.5M operations in Los Angeles, where it set up offices in February--said the funding came from Via Venture Partners. In particular, Adform said the finacning will go to bolster sales efforts out of its Los Angeles and New York City offices.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

According to report this week, abuse of the communications and advertising features of Los Angeles-based Snapchat is playing a significant role in the sale of firearms outlawed in California. However, the recent arrests show how easy it is for criminals to bypass those rules on any social networking platform.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Los Angeles-based programmatic advertising marketplace operator OpenX announced late Monday that it has opened up a new office in Japan, where it says it has moved into larger office space, and added account management, sales engineering, technical implementation, technical support and yield management resources.

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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. MarketShare, which is co-led by Wes Nichols and Jon Vein, said the financing will go towards its technology platform and accelerate growth in markets worldwide.

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JULY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, has launched an offering for the mobile advertising market, the company said this morning. The new mobile offering uses a similar, real time trading marketplace to the firm's REVV platform.

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“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. It’s different than working with a group like us that’s trying to optimize every small piece of the funnel, and being accountable for the entire funnel to drive as much sales or revenue. What type of clients do you work with?

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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APRIL 7, 2016

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project says it has named Harry Patz, Jr. Patz was most recently at Microsoft, heading up a 300 person sales team for Microsoft's Communications Sector, and also had served at Velti. as its new Chief Revenue Officer, and Rob Deichert, Jr., as Head of Global Revenue Organizations. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based Spot Runner , which operates an online service to help businesses buy and sell TV and video advertising, said late Friday that it has promoted Gus Warren to General Manager of the firm's Malibu Media Platform unit. Warren has been VP of Media Partner Sales and Development for the last three years.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based Steereo (www.steereo.com) has a new idea: partner those artists with ride sharing drivers, and pay those ride sharing drivers to play their music to the ever-changing variety of people who hop in their vehicles. Anne Kavanaugh: I came through the ranks of sales and marketing.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based Steereo (www.steereo.com) has a new idea: partner those artists with ride sharing drivers, and pay those ride sharing drivers to play their music to the ever-changing variety of people who hop in their vehicles. Anne Kavanagh: I came through the ranks of sales and marketing.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. What our technology platform does, is determines what about a marketer's offers that will matter to the consumer.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. Los Angeles' I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. The idea immediately resonated. I stayed close.

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MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. We now have teams in our headquarters in Los Angeles, and offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, and Bangalore.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based Bridg (www.bridg.com), led by CEO and founder Amit Jain , has created a solution which it's been offering to those offline retailers for several years now. Amit Jain: Bridg is a customer data platform and marketing technology for offline retailers. Brig is a customer data platform for offline retailers.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser.

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MAY 24, 2011

Southern California--and particularly, Los Angeles--has always been a center of the music business, which makes it unsurprising that there are many, music-focused startups which end up starting here. We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. That's now what we're advertising.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser.

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APRIL 1, 2010

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Burstly (www.burstly.com) announced that it had raised $1.8M in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform. Our space is pretty young.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. Both of us are purely digital. So, where's the company now?

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MARCH 12, 2013

He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. Greg was the CMO at HauteLook from the early days all the way through growing the business to 12 million registered users and far in excess of $200 million in annual sales.

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MARCH 10, 2017

For today's interview, we thought we'd catch up with Robert Blatt , the CEO of Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com), which recently announced a $16.3M Our clients are telling us that, because our platform is based on their location, there are so many other things they want to do to engage with consumers.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. If a tutor were to go out and try to advertise like we do, they would go under, and they'd lose money right away.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

One new, Los Angeles startup-- Laudville (www.laudville.com)--recently launched its service to try to tackle that huge task, of bringing your content together. Each of them has different programs, but we get four to ten percent of a sale. That''s also one of the things I really love about Los Angeles. I love that.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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MARCH 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based FameBit (www.famebit.com) has developed a new platform which lets any content creator connect with brands, without the need for an agency or MCN, to help them grow their content and network. We have a 98 percent approval rate on our platform. How big of a following do YouTubers need to use your platform?

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

One way is to automate the process, which is what Los Angeles-based CallFire has been helping its business customers with. Dinesh Ravishankar: CallFire is a platform that allows businesses to automate their conversations with their customers. What is CallFire?

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MARCH 3, 2011

The firm is based in Los Angeles and Seattle. We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. We're now doing revenue share on affiliate revenue, doing revenue share on DVD sales, or ads we run against that content.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. To start out, can you describe to us where Hydra fits into the advertising network world?

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