InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

This automated coupling of intent and content results in uber-relevancy and ultimately enhances marketers’ ROI. The company has scaled so quickly because its platform uses vast natural language algorithms to match intent with the appropriate content. Another promising company in this space is SteelHouse.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Over the past five years, virtual reality was the latest new thing to make or break fortunes, and the founding team behind the Korean company AmazeVR are the latest would-be dream-makers to take their turn spinning the wheel for Hollywood fortunes. “What we saw as the problem is the content creation itself,” says Lee.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Over the past year, you’ve probably seen people showcasing impressive AI-generated artworks, thanks to progress in text-to-image algorithms introduced by groups like OpenAI and Stability AI. do but for video production,” Xu said to TechCrunch, referring to two of the top AI content helpers of today.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The only requirement is that they focus on educational video content targeting children and young adults. Through this content, they may discover a field or a topic they haven’t had access to. All participants in the program will jointly participate in a revenue share on revenue generated from their content.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2014

Los Angeles-based Revee , a developer of content analytics software used to help publishers understand their page yield on advertising, has raised $1M in a seed funding round. Revee was founded by Nic Paul and Cham Kim, who the company said have bene working in the publishing area for the past decade. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 9, 2021

Even as NFT sales dip below their most speculative highs, startups aiming to tap into their potential are still scoring big funding rounds from investors who believe there’s much more to crypto collectibles than the past few months of hype. Users can buy or sell the limited run or open edition items through their marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

It works best through effective use of social media, mobile apps, societal initiatives, becoming an influencer, and providing a modern easily-found web site with credible customer-focused content. Your challenge is to provide credible content, sources, and assistance. Optimize your content for search engines to get attention.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ensure that you investigate the designers' past work, samples of their work product, and their process. Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. If you require user interface or graphic design, the selection process will differ slightly. Avoid them.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Santa Monica-based Tongal , the crowdsourced, marketing and advertising content firm led by Rob Salvatore, has been ramping up hiring, saying today that it has added a significant number of people this month--including three executives to its senior leadership team.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network (CDN) provider EdgeCast said this morning that it doubled its revenues in 2012, and now has more than 225 employees. The firm provides edge network services to help deliver content from such customers as Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu to end users.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The allegations include that two employees who defended diversity initiatives were "targeted by online mobs and out of a job soon after."

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 5, 2022

Over the past few years, China has restricted playtime for minors, slowed down regulatory approvals for games, and imposed stricter rules on content. The Chinese gaming giants are venturing abroad at a time their home market comes under increasing regulatory scrutiny.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

Many collectors, whose primary goal was to complete their collections, were content to have an Excellent or even a Very Good card, which ensured broader demand for lesser grade cards. As such, the relative difference in value between a Mint and an Excellent card was not significant. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2018

Rancho Palos Verdes-based Kumbaya , which is developing a device to bring solar- and battery- powered Internet connectivity and content to third world communities, said today that it has added a United Airlines IT executive to its board. According to Kumbaya, Silvia Prickel has joined its Board of Directors.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

“The way I look at it… a lot of it is going to be like any kind of content studio,” says Peter Rojas, a partner at the New York investment firm Betaworks Ventures. “We’re looking more broadly at the issues around manipulated or faked content and how do you address that,” says Rojas.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

We spoke with CEO Matt Levin to hear about how Donut Media is looking to speak to the Millennial car enthusiast through both its online videos as well as social content. The way we're doing that, is we are creating video content, which we distribute across social platforms. What is Donut Media? How did you start the company?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

In numerous interviews throughout the past two years, Weiss and other executives have emphasized the company’s focus on its direct-to-consumer online shipping model and obsession with iterating the customer experience based on feedback.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The firm has created a tool which uses software and semantic search to help in the whole process of curating content. We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. Matt Kumin: It's a licensed model.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2017

According to Evite, it's been seeing a trend where users are using its platform for events which have five or fewer invited guests over the past 12 months, with 9.3 percent of events on the platform fitting that description.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Well, if you''re looking for past episodes, you will have to subscribe to Santa Monica-based Hulu , which said today that it has obtained the exclusive, video-on-demand rights to the show. The deal gives Hulu subscribers access to 300 episodes and all complete past seasons of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

So, after shepherding 26 batches of thousands of founders over the past 10 years, 500 is shaking things up. Our goal is to move away from the one-size-fits-all approach of the past, and towards delivering relevant content, based on each founders’ growth stage and needs, precisely when they’re ready for it.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2012

Continuing its push into original content, Los Angeles-based Break Media said today that it has launched a comprehensive redesign of Game Front , its online video game site, to add new, original editorial content, videos, and commentary to the site. Break acquired Game Front from Ziff Davis back in 2009, when it was known as FileFront.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

As you may know we co-lead the first round of financing of Maker Studios, the largest overall producer for online video content, along with Greycroft Partners. And as my Media Redef feed this past week reminded me Hispanics over-index for watching movies and they share their movie experiences 26% more than non-Hispanics.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

That data is based not just on feedback from past and current students and student outcomes, but also other channels. Its “content arm” Entity Mag has quite interestingly gone viral on social media and has more than 1.1

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2014

The company said that it is specifically aiming at creating games for mobile devices--and specifically, tablets--because those platforms are now "just as good" as the consoles that the company''s founders had previously built games for in the past. The company said its first title, Midnight Star, will be launched into beta this summer.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The company said it spent the past seven months on the rebranding, with the aim of establishing Machinima as the "place to reach Millennials thru the prism of fandom and gamer culture". machinima rebranding youtube network content millenial gaming culture hollywood' READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2020

We all know that the world of marketing has turned upside down these past years through the power of the Internet. If you cannot incorporate social content into your product, surround your product with social content. Woe to those teaching yesterday’s methods. The way to do this for most of us.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

One of the hottest area for online publishers, has been the move back towards paid subscription paywalls for content. One of the companies which has been helping to drive that trend is Los Angeles-based MediaPass , a supplier of software which helps online publishers meter and paywall their content.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2018

Uproxx Media Group also provides branded content and video services to marketers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Murally enables us to visually lay out our imagination on a digital scrap board so that unlike a stencil like mind map, with Murally we can paste photos, videos, online clippings creating an incredibly visually appealing and actionable story board laying out and organizing our once scattered ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2014

I’ve been promising to relaunch a new show for the past 18 months but needed to find somebody to help me with cameras, filming, editing, distribution, etc. I’ve created a separate Twitter handle that I’ll use to share all this content. For 2 years I interviewed VCs & founders for a show called This Week in VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). So as video content producers we need to understand that if we want to build mass-market video brands we need to distribute via YouTube. So can you successfully build a YouTube network?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Initially, that means trivia quizzes, exclusive content and news snippets — i.e. exclusive content clips for members — but the plan to go beyond that and enable games, augmented reality, collectibles and more. “With Popbase, we are giving them a chance to gamify and monetize their YouTube content and personality.”

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 29, 2013

The past is now officially the past. Maybe losing my blog content was exactly what needed to happen. P.S. I probably can get most of the content back but I don’t think I’ll bother. When I realized my backup was faulty and my posts of 4 years were lost, I was angry. Then, I suddenly felt lighter and free.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For the past three years I have been pounding the table as loud as I can about the future opportunities in digital video. And investing in content companies won’t return money! For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We met and shared ideas and business cards, from the opening party at the Viceroy, to the packed panels starring Silicon Beach accelerators, VCs, startup CEOs, digital content creators, movie, music, games, and PR pros; hackathon, demo days, student pitch fests, parties and more. At the closing party, attendees kept saying "This is great!

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