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MARCH 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based YouTube network Fullscreen said this morning that it has named Michael Wann as the company''s new Chief Revenue Officer. The company said that Wann will be responsible for developing new and existing revenue opportunities for Fullscreen, including business development, marketing, and advertising operations.

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MARCH 7, 2014

Los Angeles-based online content developer Machinima said Thursday that it has laid off 42 people at the company, all from its sales force, as the company continues to struggle with low ad rates and the large chunk of revenues that are claimed by Google from multi-channel networks. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Los Angeles-based AdQuick.com , which is developing software to help marketers and agencies measure the effectiveness of both out-of-home and digital out-of-home advertising, has named Max Polisar as the company's Chief Revenue Officer. Polisar was most recently Chief Revenue Officer at Awesomeness.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Selectable Media , a digital advertising firm which lets users unlock digital content in exchange for interacting with brand advertising, said today that it has expanded to Los Angeles, as part of a growth in its footprint. The expansion came alongside the opening of a new office in Chicago.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based LiveXLive Media said this morning that it has named two new executives at the company. According to LiveXLive, it has named Jason Miller as Global Head of Sales and Brand Partnerships and Kyle Hoedl as Vice President of Marketing.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Created by founder Toby Daniels , Social Media Week Los Angeles will focus this series of discussions around the theme of “Empowering Change Through Collaboration.” Monday: Los Angeles – The Social City. Why Los Angeles Is The Next Silicon Valley. Thursday: Advertising and Marketing.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On the legal side, my practice in North California and we have an advertising and media group in New York City. When you had an explosion of content developers that wanted to be in LA with all the resource that the entertainment industry has available here, all the creative people want to be here. We need some big exits.

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MAY 6, 2010

Los Angeles-based Gorilla Nation , which provides advertising sales for web site operators, reported today that it has renewed an agreement with eBaumsWorld.com , where it will continue to represent all of the site's ad inventory. Gorilla Nation specializes in finding brand advertisers for mid-range web sites.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles-based Gorilla Nation provides online ad sales for branded consumer sites; Los Angeles-based AtomicOnline operates its own network of online media properties; Springboard Productions is a developer of entertainment videos; and Double Helix is a creative and interactive web marketing firm.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based TYT Network has hired on BuzzFeed and Fullscreen veteran Chris Puckett as its new Vice President of Advertising & Brand Partnerships, the company said Tuesday. Puckett joins the company from Fullscreen, where he had been serving as East Coast Director of Brand Partnerships and Sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

As you may know we co-lead the first round of financing of Maker Studios, the largest overall producer for online video content, along with Greycroft Partners. So they began signing up Spanish-language content producers in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and so forth. Indeed we are already seeing that online.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

According to Yahoo, Levinsohn reports directly to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, and will manage the company's media group, advertising sales, and partnerships for the Americas region. Tags: yahoo ross levinsohn executive media content. News of the hiring was first reported by AllThingsD. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based SVnetwork , the brand advertising network and operator of SocialVibe, said this morning that it has named Chris Rooke as SVP of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships. Rooke also has served as VP of Domestic Sales at King World and Chair of King World New Media Group. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2009

Los Angeles-based Gorilla Nation , which represents online publishers for advertising sales, reports today that the firm has extended an agreement with The Brooklyn Company, which owns horror site Fangoria.com, FangoriaGoreZone.com, and Starlog.com. The two said they have been working together for the last five years.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Los Angeles-based Trigon Digital , the provider of digital advertising anf other services to both the traditional and online radio market, is powering a number of features of the new, free music streaming service from Microsoft, Xbox Music , the company said this week.

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Services Ticketmaster Advertising Los Angeles 159

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles-based Gorilla Nation provides online ad sales for branded consumer sites; Los Angeles-based AtomicOnline operates its own network of online media properties; Springboard Productions is a developer of entertainment videos; and Double Helix is a creative and interactive web marketing firm.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based ARTISTdirect , which operates an online site focused on music and film, has signed on a group to represent the firm in advertising and sponsorship sales. Tags: marketplace sponsorship content traffic advertising artistdirect internet. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Los Angeles-based humor website JibJab and automaker Toyota have settled a lawsuit, filed in March of last year, which had claimed that Toyota had infringed on JibJab's copyrighted viral videos and trademark in a Presidents Day sale ad. According to reports, the firms will each pay their own costs and attorney's fees.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content. So, we start with that.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Comcast Interactive Media announced Monday that it has appointed Scott Schiller as the new Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for the firm's Fandango, Fancast, Movies.com and Plaxo units. Fandango, Movies.com, and Fancast are all based in Los Angeles.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. A new generation of content producer and video style has emerged that is distinctly different from what you see in TV.

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APRIL 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzz Media , the online network of celebrity-focused web sites, announced today that it has inked a deal with OK! 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.

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MAY 24, 2011

Southern California--and particularly, Los Angeles--has always been a center of the music business, which makes it unsurprising that there are many, music-focused startups which end up starting here. We wanted to do some testing ni Los Angeles, and quickly expanded to four cities. That's now what we're advertising.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based Steereo (www.steereo.com) has a new idea: partner those artists with ride sharing drivers, and pay those ride sharing drivers to play their music to the ever-changing variety of people who hop in their vehicles. The content that we serve is all new music and releases.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Los Angeles-based content delivery network (CDN) EdgeCast has scored a big win, with Deutsche Telekom, the firms are set to announce today. The new CDN service is targeted at video, audio, content publishers, gaming companies, advertisers and others with need for streaming video delivery or web content acceleration.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based Steereo (www.steereo.com) has a new idea: partner those artists with ride sharing drivers, and pay those ride sharing drivers to play their music to the ever-changing variety of people who hop in their vehicles. The content that we serve is all new music and releases.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

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JULY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its quarterly results Wednesday afternoon, reporting that it saw 50 million monthly unique visitors to the firm's websites in June, up 35 percent from 37 million uniques in June of last year. The bright spot in the firm's result were advertising revenue, which the firm said were up $1.2M

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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. Each of them has different programs, but we get four to ten percent of a sale. What is Laudville? I love that.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Los Angeles-based Agility Studios said Wednesday that the firm has launched a new entertainment studio focused on digital media. According to the firm, it was founded by Scott Ehrlich, Larry Tanz, and Keith Quinn, and will focus on transforming digital media firms into viable businesses.

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