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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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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Los angeles-based sell-side advertising platform operator Magnite announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire SpotX, a video advertising platform provider, in a deal worth $1.17 Magnite says the combined companies would have a full year, 2020 non-GAAP net revenue of $350 million. billion in cash and stock.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

The topic of whether in-stream advertising has heated up. Let me lay out my defense of In-Stream Advertising because I believe the topic is really important. People feel angst about advertising in any form – I feel the same feeling about advertising as most consumers. I feel it’s a necessary evil.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. The first generation of short-form online video companies seemed to be a bit of a land grab as online video companies were mostly “horizontal” in that they produced video of nearly any genre that could drive views.

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MAY 3, 2018

Los Angeles-based OpenX , which develops advertising technology, in addition to running its own ad exchange, said this morning that it has named three new executives. The company said it has named Sophia Chung as Vice President of product, Roy Firestone as Senior Director of Product, and Treven Ho as Senior Product Manager.

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MARCH 27, 2014

Los Angeles-based entertainment news provider HitFix has launched a new video channel, which will feature both content, news, and advertising, the company said this morning. HitFix said its new HitFix Video channel delivers both original content and highly targeted advertisements, delivering 90 million monthly video streams.

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MAY 18, 2017

Los Angeles-based advertising software developer SteelHouse announced on Thursday that it has named Ross Levinsohn, the former CEO of Yahoo!, He also served at News Corporation, where he was involved in the formation of Hulu, and also is co-founder and partner at Whisper Advisors, and a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. You must find ways to get some distribution through other online partners like Hulu or package up shows for distribution on Roku or Xbox. MSN & AOL.

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APRIL 24, 2013

They must have the creativity to figure out unique ways of driving growth in addition to testing/evolving the techniques proven by other companies.” This is the most important role because this person graduates a company from startup to viable long-term business.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Los Angeles-based Velocity Interactive Group, the venture capital firm led by Ross Levinsohn and Jon Miller, said this morning that it has added Mickie Rosen as an investment partner at the company. According to Velocity, Rosen will focus on video, music, social media, publishing, games, and online advertising at the firm.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? Advertising is great. Then came blogs.

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JUNE 6, 2012

This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet. Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. ” That is why Hulu has invested so much in building its Hulu Plus subscription service. Why is that? Put simply: YouTube OWNS the long tail.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Our approach is a little unusual in that we try to back a team early, then continue to invest along the lifecycle of the company. Instead of picking a stage, say seed rounds and A rounds, and investing in a variety of companies as they pass through that stage, we take companies that we like and support them through each of those rounds.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

We spoke with Daniel Altman, the CEO of the company, to learn more. Tell us a little bit about your background and the company? Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. What's the business model behind Laffster?

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JULY 1, 2014

We caught up with Bryce Clemmer , the co-founder and CEO of the company, to learn more. How did you start the company? The one with Weiden & Kennedy was instrumental, because it gave us access to some of the largest brands in the world, who are already spending money advertising on all of these digital platforms.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

We spoke with Michael Tringe , one of the startup's co-founders, to learn more about what the company is getting set to launch. We also talk about creating things specifically for the web, how to distribute on the web, and how to build a revenue stream aside from advertising revenue. What is CreatorUp all about?

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JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. The best online video companies will be technical in nature and content at their core. That’s your job.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And as a result we have bred a culture of companies that have been quite innovative on making money. company called Applied Semantics.

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JULY 2, 2010

But the word on the street is that very few, if any, of the video-only companies are making money. Their revenue from advertising may approach one billion dollars this year, with most consumed by bandwidth and associated costs, YouTube isn’t even profitable yet. billion for the site in 2006.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google. Smart companies will figure this out early.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. The folks over at Blip.tv It’s got a fresh clean look.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In this area I’ve developed another philosophy that guides my investment decisions and forms a lot of the premise that I debate in our internal partners’ meetings when I’m advocating that we invest in a company. If there were, other companies would already be filling it. Let me explain.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. ” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. Article 2 posed the question of “Where is advertising going in this new digital age?” FROM THE BEGINNING.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

I founded a company called thePlatform, which is sort of industrial strength video publishing. I kind of thought there was a similar opportunity you see in the video space with YouTube, Hulu, thePlatform all going after. Actually, from that, I just got lots of analogies with publishing geographic specific content. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We talked with Richard Yen, the firm's Director of Venture Capital and New Media, about the company's link to Univision, what kinds of investments it is making, and his impressions as an investor of the opportunity here in Southern California. We also see teams out of companies like Qualcomm and Broadcom. where he is Chairman.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We talked with Richard Yen, the firm's Director of Venture Capital and New Media, about the company's link to Univision, what kinds of investments it is making, and his impressions as an investor of the opportunity here in Southern California. We also see teams out of companies like Qualcomm and Broadcom. where he is Chairman.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. TVSync is not alone in developing ACR.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

All you have to do is want something like Hulu on your Facebook so you can watch “Lie to Me” and a slurry of other amazing shows and hit movies. It’s far too easy to find Spotify , Hulu , Whatever News Site, and other “fun” applications that exist in the Facebook ecosystem. The logic trail seems pretty straight forward to me.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. Before working in California, Chris worked for Maryland based game companies MicroProse and Games Workshop. It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Why Africa in terms of why did we set the company up there? It wasn’t really a case of ‘convincing’ anyone – our hedge fund partners, Tiger Global, approached us having read about us in TechCrunch and saw the significant potential in the company. We can’t disclose revenue as we are a private company. Profitable?

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. It should be the next generation content/ entertainment portal that leverages millions of user profiles to more accurately provide data to advertisers on what is appealing to specific demographics.

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