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The Digital Family Reunion and the socalTECH 50 In Pictures

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Miss our big technology and media industry holiday party last week, the Digital Family Reunion ? Here are some photos from the event, which brought together over 800 people from the industry to rub elbows, meet old friends, network with others, and honor the socalTECH 50 for 2014. See more photos on Facebook. Presenting Sponsor.

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Demand Media Content Revenues Continue To Plunge

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media reported its quarterly earnings Monday afternoon, revealing a precipitous decline in the company's content revenues. Demand Media said that its Content and Media revenues dropped 40%, from $22.5M in the first three months of 2015 to just $13.5M in Q1 of 2015 to $13.5M in Q1 of 2016.

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Donut Media's Matt Levin On Creating A New Car Enthusiast Brand

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Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. Donut Media is venture backed by Techstars Ventures, 3311 Ventures, Fontinalis Partners and professional driver Ryan Tuerck. What is Donut Media?

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Robb Report's Bill Curtis On Why Podcasting Is The Next Media Frontier

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For today's interview, we spoke to Bill Curtis , the founder of Malibu-based CurtCo Media (www.curtco.com). We spoke to Bill about CurtCo's move into the podcasting area, and why he thinks podcasting is the next frontier in media. Talk about what CurtCo is working on?

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Interview with Clark Landry, Maple Media

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Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. What's the idea behind Maple Media? What's the idea behind Maple Media?

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Ross Levinsohn Joins SteelHouse's Board

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Levinsohn, who is a well known advisor and investor in the digital media and technology market, has previously served as CEO of Yahoo!, Fox Interactive Media, and Guggenheim Digital Media. The company passed up the $100M in revenues mark back in 2015, and has been rumored to be seriously considering an IPO.

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GumGum Powers In-Image Ads On Rolling Stone

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Santa Monica-based ad technology developer GumGum --which injects contextually relevant ads into images on publishers' websites, said today that it has signed a renewed partnership with Wenner Media, the publisher of Rolling Stone , Us Weekly and Men's Journal. The two have been working together since August of 2015.