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MAY 9, 2011

According to StockTwits, the content partnership with CNNMoney will feature editorial content from its blog network, linking directly to individual blogs its its StockTwits Blog Network, and also includes an advertising revenue share program. Financial detail fo the deal were not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

Hulu attributed the big gains in both reenues and subscribers to the "crest of two massive waves": the rise of online video advertising and the rise of online video subscription services. Kilar detailed the numbers and provided commentary in a blog post Monday morning. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Hulu said Monday that it has rolled out a new feature which will let users pick their own commercials mid-stream, flipping any commercial to another advertising choice on its site.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Kilar disclosed the numbers in a blog post summarizing the firm's 2011. Among other tidbits, Hulu said it saw that growth despite a soft advertising market, and now has over 1,000 brand advertisers signed up on the service.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu is set to earn half a billion dollars in revenue this year, according to an update from CEO Jason Kilar posted last night on its company blog. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2014

demand media content marketing advertising experian infographics' Pricing details on Demand Media''s expanded offerings were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

According to a statement on Twitter's blog, it shut down the access, for "violating our policies." The move is not the first battle between Twitter and a Southern California Twitter-focused startup; last May, fellow Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly, based in Los Angeles, faced a similar situation with Twitter when it banned in-stream ads.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Idealab-backed startup focused on monetizing Twitter messages, said today that it has inked two deals to display its search results, one with Twitter client TweetDeck , and another with popular technology blog TechCrunch. Tags: tweetup tweetdeck techcrunch search twitter advertising. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

The founders Los Angeles-based GumGum , a startup which offers ad-supported, celebrity and entertainment photos for blogs and other web sites, has diverged into the online ad business, saying this week that it has launched a separate, advertising service called Bedrock. Tags: bedrock gumgum online advertising. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

El Segundo-based AdEngage, an online advertising network, has been acquired by blog and Internet search site Technorati, Technorati said today. According to Technorati, it has acquired AdEngage to launch a new self-service advertising network for blogs and social media sites.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the online marketing firm which helps small and medium sized business place Internet advertising, is shutting down its Bizzy local business recommendations site, according to a blog post from the site.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Los Angeles-based GameRevolution , the online gaming unit of AtomicOnline/Evolve Media , said today that it has signed on online gaming site Destructoid.com , an online gaming blog site. Tags: atomiconline destructoid game videogame content advertising. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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JUNE 27, 2013

To help in that effort, Myspace launched a $20M marketing campaign, which includes broadcast television, cable, and digital advertisements--nearly as much as Specific Media spent on buying MySpace--as it has sought to convince new users to join the site.

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APRIL 10, 2014

Whether it''s the future of the wearables market, the rise in popularity of devices such as "phablets", the efficacy of native ads, mobile advertising, the advancements in location-based (LBS) technology or the return of Flappy Bird, the hot topics of mobile are always in motion. Prepare by knowing the three big debates or key topics.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Los Angeles-based Gorilla Nation , which represents web publishers to advertising brands, has piled on yet another win in Canada, this time with Reuters. The win is the latest in a string of Canadian wins for Gorilla Nation, including representing Tom's Hardware and popular technology blog Gawker for their Canadian inventory.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. So, it was interesting to speak with Sean Rad , founder of Twitter advertising firm Ad.ly (www.ad.ly), on how his firm is looking to help users make money from the service, even if Twitter isn't.

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MAY 9, 2012

According to Lijit, which is part of Federated Media, it has linked with FinDTheBest to provide customizable widgets and Wordpress plugins which allows blogs and other sites to embed comparisons of different products within those sites.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish, an online advertising network focused on social media, announced this monring that it has hired Becky Carroll as the firm's Director of Social Media. Brickfish operates a service which allows consumers to share videos, blogs, and photos, all tied into brand promotions and ad campaigns.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the venture funded online advertising effort run by Frank Addante, is reporting this morning that advertising CPMs were flat in Q4, even as the firm said it had an 30 percent growth in revenue across its publishers. Tags: project rubicon report advertising. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 4, 2011

Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly. Dan and I, my co-founder, obviously have social networking and advertising backgrounds. First off, what is Namesake all about? Brian Norgard: Namesake is a conversation community.

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APRIL 20, 2009

Buzz Media--which was formerly known as BuzzNet--is a venture backed operator of a network of pop culture, celebrity, and music-focused web content properties and blogs. According to the two, they are in a joint venture focused on digital content, marketing, and advertising. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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JULY 26, 2010

According to the study, it found that 49 percent of Internet users have used micro-blogging services like Twitter, but found that there was zero percent of users polled were willing to pay for such a service directly. The findings came as part of the Center's 2010 Digital Future Project, a long term study of Internet users and non-users.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

Shopit develops software which can be embedded in social networking profiles, blog pages, and on other web pages for selling products. The firm said the new funding will go to speed the development of its services, and towards hiring in advertising, sales, and technology in its Los Angeles headquarters. READ MORE>>

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MAY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the online entertainment blog and web publisher, is trumpeting its ranking today by comScore as one of the sites with the highest young adult reach. BUZZMEDIA said that 18-34 year olds are more likely to be found on its site than on Facebook and other sites.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the search and news site run by Jason Calacanis, has cut 10 percent of the firm's staff, Calacanis said in a post on his blog Wednesday. According to Calacanis, the firm is "fairly certain" that advertising for the next two years will be "severely depressed."

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. Is it difficult to find advertisers to match to sites?

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APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. Advertising is one of our revenue streams right now, but not our core focus.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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JULY 11, 2011

Weddingbee is an online blog focused on the wedding industry, brides, and wedding planning, and was launched in 2006. Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Monday that it has acquired two web sites aimed at women, Weddingbee.com , and JustMommies.com from Pasadena-based eHarmony. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Los Angeles-based VIRURL , the provider of online advertising technology, said Thursday that it has added a new feature called RSS Ads. The firm said its new feature allows publishers to use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to automatically distribute and create ads from a publisher's articles.

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MAY 24, 2011

We are seeing lots of traction in the 14 cities we are live in, and people are wanting to work with us, including bands, PR people, management firms, the venues themselves, and local advertisers. It's really been word of mouth, really viral, because we've never advertised. That's now what we're advertising.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The firm said its new "Slideout" widget helps provide unobtrusive advertising to help publishers monetize site visitors. Santa Monica-based VIRURL , which is headed by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, said today that it has launched a new widget aimed at web publishers.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Maggie Mason of Might Girl, Mindy Roberts of The Mommy Blog, and Rebecca Woolf, Girl's Gone Child. The firm's site currently features advertising from Target alongside its videos. DECA said it will post three episodes a week, each three to five minutes in length, featuring the panelists discussing different topics. READ MORE>>

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. As you know, the comments at the foot of every blog out there that is really kind of a big waste of time. Who do you see using this most?

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

The site will also feature blogs, interviews, and other information driven by Victoria Colligan of Ladies Who Launch. The new channel is being sponsored by L'Oreal. The move is the second, gender-specific focused effort from Demand Media, which just last week launched a split of LiveStrong.com into female and male specific verticals.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising. Early on in college, we built a product called Blog Hoster, which allowed you to create white label blogs.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

They have lost lots of advertising and subscription revenue, because you can get news online, and it's free. But, only about 30 percent of their pages are monetized, which they sell at a very low CPM to advertising networks. We're expanding into other news centric sites, such as user-generated news, big blogs, etc.

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