socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based streaming video site Hulu has been in New York this week pitching its service to advertisers at its Hulu Upfronts event, revealing today four new original series, plus some statistics on the service. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Hulu , the online video streaming site headed by Jason Kilar, detailed its 2012 numbers today, saying that it will close the year with approximately $695M in revenues, a growth of over 65% since 2011. Hulu said its subscriber count more than doubled during the year. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2012

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu reports this morning that it has now surpassed 2 million paid subscribers to its Hulu Plus service, as of Q1 this year. Hulu said there will be no charge for the change, where advertisers will not be charged unless their advertisements have been streamed through completion.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2010

Los Angeles-based video site Hulu has just rolled out a number of major upgrades to the service and its video player, the firm announced this morning. Hulu also said it is continuing to use Flash on its player, and will "continue to monitor developments on HTML5," saying the new standard "doesn't yet meet all of our customers' needs."

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, Enter content. AOL and the like.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

At the simplest level you can think about markets in terms of the number of times media is consumed and/or purchased by people plotted against the total number of content of that media type that is available. In the “head end” market you can make a lot of money if you’re a content producer. Sadly, no Kindle edition).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. We''ve got a really great group testing it, and we''re excited to add more service next year based on feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Note that I didn’t say there will be total “convergence&# – but I believe the services will inter-operate. they’ll try to “move up the stack&# and provide some of these services themselves. they’ll try to “move up the stack&# and provide some of these services themselves.

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2014

Editor''s note: we''re dual running this content across our Southern California and Pacific Northwest Site, since Vadio is split between the two regions). What we realized, was that people went to the audio sites for curation, and went to YouTube for the video of that same content. What is Vadio all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They had the foresight to understand the trend of content moving online. This potential merger is another example of media companies getting together in what seems like a monopolistic way that still might find itself as prey for market innovation of the future; like Hulu for example. Monetizing content is going to be a moving target.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media. What's your ideal investment opportunity?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media. What's your ideal investment opportunity?

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Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. Or maybe you’re trying to dramatically change the way TV is consumed, like Boxee or TV advertising works on the Internet, like Hulu. But be sure that along your ascent they’re going to notice you and respond.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Iroko Patners had , a souring relationship with YouTube, Google Ads Words, Amazon Web Services even though the movie streaming firm had about eight million YouTube streams a month, with a $1 million revenue run-rate in 2011. We also have a music streaming service, iROKING , which has been dubbed by some as the ‘Spotify’ of Africa.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

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. Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. Fuel Micro Jobs.

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Tech Zulu Event

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. Wilson is the President/COO of Paltalk, a profitable leading live social interest/topic & content based video and chat community, with millions of active users a month, cross platforms.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). startup scene so hot. And what happened in L.A. Were all connected.

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