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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com). What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. Addroid is following up on that, and evolving that to work in the ecosystem of 2015 and moving on.

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. We''re based in Los Angeles, and make a game called Egg Baby, which so far has had more than nine million downloads, with zero marketing spend. So what finally convinced other people to invest for your first angel round?

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Video is the new HTML.” You may notice in the pictures that Jonah is wearing a “Los Angeles” sweatshirt and I don’t believe this was simply catering to me. He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

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