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Mighty Oak Entertainment Gets Investment

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Los Angeles- and Atlanta-based Mighty Oak Entertainment , which produces sports clips for traditional, digital, and streaming, has received an investment from former MGM Television President John Bryan and entrepreneur and KDOCTV (Los Angeles) owner Bert Ellis, Jr., before leaving in 2005 to found Might Oak Entertainment.

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Ross Levinsohn Named Head of The Hollywood Reporter

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Ross Levinsohn , the former head of Yahoo and Fox Interactive Media, has just been appointed CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media , the parent firm of The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek, and other entertainment focused properties.

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LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M

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Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. Los Angeles, California, USA – March 23, 2016: Aerial view of the Hollywood sign at dusk in Los Angeles. Morgan Stanley & Co.

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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. At the end of 2013, we were excited when there was an investment round of $20M to $30M. What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? I like events.

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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Interview with Nick Higgins, Joost

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To build out our technology and ad serving platform, we made the investment and acquisition around a video ad server, with a strategic investment in Redlever for branded entertainment, and the acquisition of Joost's assets. Specifically, there was a greater and higher level of consumption of video.

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Interview with Zach James and Rich Raddon, MOVIECLIPS.COM

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Rich Raddon: When Zach and I came together, I had been working in LA for fifteen years in entertainment and traditional media. I ended up taking a real job at Credit Suisse as an investment banker, where I spent time studying and finding hot new Internet companies that were in Silicon Valley at the time. Fascinating story.

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