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MAY 22, 2009

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JUNE 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based online publisher Break Media is delving into that question this morning with the launch of a new site, called Acumen , focused on pulling insights and analysis on the behavior and trends driven by men. Break Media also said it will be running an ongoing, R&D panel of several thousand men for its new site.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

For our profile today, we had a chat with Jonathan David , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Tapstone (www.tapstone.com), a company providing media buying and optimization. We spoke with Jonathan about the company and where it fits into the advertising market. Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Convertro said it has been working with Media Design Group , a direct response TV advertising agency, to help measure the efficacy of broadcast marketing. Media Design Group has been working with Dollar Shave Club to measure how well TV advertising is working for the company. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

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JUNE 5, 2014

Pasadena-based UberMedia , which develops mobile advertising technology, is looking to connect mobile ads with television advertising with a new, targeting tool. ubermedia television advertising targeting mobile media' Pricing on the new product was not announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Santa Monica-based NearWoo , the provider of mobile advertising software for local businesses, announced this morning that it has signed up twenty partners which it says provide advertising marketing and marketing services to small businesses. nearwoo marketing local advertising mobile partnerships partners' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

The company said its Geopulse Proximity Designer and Geopulse Audience Builder are specifically aimed at marketers, and use its Global Places data to help target ad campaigns. Factual said the dools are being used by such networks as StrikeAd, Turn, Manage, Deep Forest Media, EQ Works, MdotM, Juice Mobile, Adsmovil, TAPTAP, among others.

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MARCH 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based Myspace has a new design, and a new brand sponsor, the first since its redesign and relaunch over the last few months. Myspace said the new brand promotion includes original content and Chevrolet advertising across Specific Media's digital network. No financial details of the sponsorship deal were announced.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and online advertising software, said today that online shoe and apparel firm Zappos.com and Steve Madden are using its social media platform. Tags: brickfish social media advertising zappos steve madden football shoes retail ecommerce. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Los Angeles-based FastPay announced today that it has acquired AnchorOps , a developer of electronic payment solutions for media buyers. The two said AnchorOps' payment solutions were exclusively designed for media industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Los Angeles-based Myspace has a new design, new owner, and is hoping for some new users with its brand new, music-focused, user interface--and says that so far, the response is good. Myspace has been on a quest to win back mind share and users, after it was acquired by Specific Media almost exactly two years ago.

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MARCH 20, 2009

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. We also have a managed serviecs business, where we have campaign managers and designers working on RFPs and mocks, and when a campaign is sold, will design the ad units all the way through to ad approval.

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JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers.

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JUNE 5, 2012

We will design and manufacture an apparel brand based on the inspiration of collective editors. We then take that information and find trends and metadata, and all that content and sharing, and use it to drive e-commerce, and to design and manufacture apparel products. The two sat down with us to explain the idea behind the company.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Buzznet said that The Superficial will become part of Celebuzz.com, the firm's entertainment focused and social media website. Buzznet will take over all advertising sales for The Superficial, along with providing engineering, design, and marketing support for The Superficial.

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JULY 18, 2012

Santa Monica-based eHow , the online advice and information site owned by Demand Media, is targeting mothers with a new channel, the company said today. eHow said it has launched a new eHow Mom Channel , specifically designed to provide information to mothers. The channel actually launched in May.

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JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. The new site--funded by Forbes Media--said it is looking to create a "new visual discovery experience" for consumers.

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JUNE 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media company which owns Manolith, Twirlit, Kidglue, and Nibbledish, has lost its Vice President of Product and Design, Mike Macadaan. Tsavo develops content-focused web sites which apply technology to serve up more relevant information and advertising depending on who was visiting those web sites.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Zac Brandenberg: Meteor Games is a game design studio, focused on casual social games. We were well suited to design and develop those games, because we already had the infrastructure in place, and the founders were experts in game design. Zac, thanks for sitting down with us today. What's the story behind Meteor Games?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Peter Hoskins: Mania TV sells, produces, packages, and distributes original programming on the Internet and other new media platforms. We sell advertising and have been very fortunate to have the best brands advertise on our network. 90 of the top 200 brands have advertised with ManiaTV through our history.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

My background is I worked for consumer websites for two years, and digital agencies for two years, and I have a strong background in media. For all of the online advertising out there, there are few places you can advertise against a stated interest, which we think is the most valuable signal of all. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. Los Angeles has a strong online advertising industry, and Rubicon Project is one of the companies we heard has been doing well and. The now-public. Rubicon Project. is a good place for employees.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

In particular, it''s a safe, well connected market, and it''s easy to get around for trading, and it''s also easy for us to reach via media. That''s a major differentiator in the way we''ve designed this. You''ll see in our advertising and in our messaging that there is lots of activity focused on the mom demographic.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising.

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JULY 20, 2011

The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns. Basically, that disruption is 18-34 year olds have changed how they consume media. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. Everyone knows this.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

We caught up with Soylent VP of Marketing, Andrew Thomas , to hear how the company finally decided to embrace the nameand the frequent trolling on social mediato instead emphasize the sustainable aspects of its products, as well as the new product line, with Plants, Not People. We get lots of comments about our name on social media.

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MARCH 1, 2012

We made it easier for local businesses to acquire customers through search and social media We sold that to Deluxe Corp. One of the things I heard often when doing any marketing, was that although local businesses would get customers from their advertising efforts, the didn't know when they were coming back. That led me to Punchcard.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

ThisNext will continue as a standalone brand, and will be slightly repositioned on design products--by which I mean products that are interesting, unique, specialized, and boutique-like in nature. And second, that Curate Media will be the corporate brand and organizing unit. About 1/3 of our model is around display or standard media.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

There are many people who are in design or engineering who live and die by referral business I started mocking up the idea. That really helped us figure out how to design the product. We are also white labeling the software, and letting them show their own advertisements. We figured this out with our first beta test.

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JUNE 27, 2011

In terms of the problem, is the majority of tools available today to help people with their money have been designed by financial times, for people more like them. That's compared to other financial products, which are designed for managing money, and just feel like work. I also wanted to approach things differently than they are now.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

The Infocast and the Sony Dash are more like a digital photo frame in terms of look and industrial design. Steve Tomlin, the founder, envisioned the company as instead a network of content, and potentially a media network. We always struggle with what to call the category of the Chumby. What do you guys call it?

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Streaming media. Social media. Advertise on VentureBeat. Web Design Software. It covers a range of technology trends, from social media to mobile, clean technology, games and chips. socaltech socalcto Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone. Google Plus.

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MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It''s designed for business people. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink. Thanks to our advertisers. socaltech socal socalcto

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