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Demand Media Sees Steep Drop In Content Revenues

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media reported a steep drop in revenues for the last quarter, saying that it had $89.8M in revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2014, down from the $101.1M Demand Media recently split out those operations into a separate, publicly traded company, Rightside Group. READ MORE>>.

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Cameo Buys Represent

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Represent operates e-commerce sites for celebrity clients, and counts such clients as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Sheeran, Jennifer Lopez, and Kendall Jenner, among many others. Represent was founded in 2014. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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Creativebug Acquired By Jo-Ann Stores

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Creativebug , the online educational video site for the arts and crafts market which was last owned by Otter Media , the joint venture between AT&T and The Chernin Group, has been acquired by Jo-Ann Stores , the arts and crafts retailer. Creativebug had been acquired by Otter Media in 2014, for $10M. READ MORE>>.

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

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As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works. Here are some sites from the trade show floor! Founders, Entrepreneurs, and Celebrities, Oh My!

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Pluto.TV Inks Deals For Content From Hulu, Jukin, Others

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Los Angeles-based streaming media site Pluto TV has inked a deal to stream free content from Hulu, Jukin Media, and a number of others , to bolster the content lineup for the service. The company raised a $13M funding round back in November of 2014. The deal with Los Angeles-based Jukin Media gives Pluto.TV

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Is Your Use Of Social Media For Marketing Working?

Startup Professionals Musings

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? In a recent book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. Where are the young social media users going? When the glass is only.04%

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Represent Acquired By CustomInk For Around $100M

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Los Angeles-based Represent , a social commerce startup which helps influencers and celebrities sell T-shirts and merchandise to their fans, has been acquired by custom T-shirt site CustomInk. The startup was lauched in May of 2014, and was founded by Bryan Baum, Leo Seigal and Andrej Pancik, who had met as students at Oxford University.