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Hulu: Six Million Hulu Plus Users, New In-Stream Purchasing

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Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu said today that its Hulu Plus subscription service has just passed six million subscribers, which it credited to both exclusive access to broadcast and cable shows, as well as its own original content effort, Hulu Originals. READ MORE>>.

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Magnite Acquires SpotX For $1.17 Billion

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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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How Vadio Is Putting The Video Into Music, With Bryce Clemmer

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We caught up with Bryce Clemmer , the co-founder and CEO of the company, to learn more. How did you start the company? We tried to figure out why people would go to an audio platform, which might be a iHeartradio, Pandora, or Spotify, and why people would go to platforms like YouTube for music.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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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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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

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One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. We spoke with Daniel Altman, the CEO of the company, to learn more. Tell us a little bit about your background and the company? One of the companies there I was working with was CollegeHumor.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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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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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens

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TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV.