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The brains behind one of marketing’s biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mail

TechCrunch LA

Postie , a new Los Angeles-based startup, has a vision for the future of advertising and marketing — and it’s direct mail. Neddenriep, served as the chief technology officer for Science — a role he’s continuing at Postie. They aren’t the only ones. Postie has raised $3.5

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Rubicon Project: LA's Next IPO?

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Rubicon Project , the online advertising technology firm headed by serial entrepreneur Frank Addante, looks like it may just be the next Southern California company to file for an IPO, based on a number of executive appointments made Tuesday.

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Jetpack Gives a Boost to Mobile and Rich Media Advertising

Tech Zulu Event

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. Even so, ads only work if people can see them, and today’s ad formats need to be visible on any device.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

We have traditionally been a company heard about through word of mouth, radio advertising (now our own show) and from a Mini sighting. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. We are actually getting paid now to obtain customers, so our customer acquisition costs are now negative. Love the minis!

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Perfect Market Acquires MediaRiver

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Pasadena-based Perfect Market, which is developing technology to help publishers monetize their archive content, said Monday that it has acquired technology from Mediariver, which can be used to match content and advertising to any web page. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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How Mobile Is Changing Oversee's Business, With Debra Domeyer

socalTECH

We're doing targeted advertising, including ads hypertargeted based on geolocation, and also doing local search on specific devices. With app marketing, instead of an advertisement, we're showing and application ad to mobile users. Speaking of technology, has it been difficult for you to grow your technology operations here?

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. How big is YP?