socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. 3 very active, 3 have been deployed.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The theme for Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is startups and Hollywood, featuring leaders from movie studios, music labels, agencies, and startups in entertainment – how Hollywood studios are investing and working with startups, and how Silicon Beach startups are making entertainment businesses.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. <JG Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers. <Break here> Skimlinks For The Video Age. .

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

If you're a big influencer, you might get paid by a brand, but every day, people are providing word-of-mouth advertising, posting about their favorite things. We make it really easy for you to add tags before you post something to your own social platform, and before you send a quick reply to your friends on what you've bought.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

The convergence of the Internet and the entertainment business has made Los Angeles a hotbed of activity in the online entertainment industry, attracting companies from all over the country interested in connecting Hollywood with the Internet. 90 of the top 200 brands have advertised with ManiaTV through our history.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Valuable personality traits in his previous life working in entertainment, no doubt. FROM THE BEGINNING.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Advertising your brand utilizing YouTube could increase revenue by millions in under a year. So here are the top 8 tips from 2 successful brands on what we can do to create engaging content and market our brands using YouTube as our platform. Jeffrey Harmon, CMO of Orabrush and Orapup. we needed to have loud content.”

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Entertainment." In the same way, video creators and Multi-channel Networks (MCNs) must utilize YouTube''s distribution clout to gain subscribers, views and brand awareness. To this end, he and his brother Hank recently launched Subbable , a platform by which content creators can directly marshal their fan''s financial support.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

We caught up with Andy, whose executive experience ranges from ZeroDegrees, NBC Internet/Xoom.com, Infoseek / Go Network, to CNET and Snap.com, and whose last firm was MerchEngines, which he sold last year, to hear more about his new startup. The firm is backed by Idealab, and is headed by Internet veteran Andy Steuer. What is Punchcard?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. They can then share that across a social network. What's your team's background?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The event attracted over 500 distinguished attendees from around the world in the digital media and technology industry including advertising, media, data, eCommerce, software, social and gaming. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially. I asked Jonah about this. “I

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN).

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

imperson provides an artificial intelligence platform enabling fans to have conversations with their favorite movie and TV characters. StatMuse is developing an artificial intelligence platform to help sports fans explore data using simple, natural language. Advertiser Optimization. Video Engagement Platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

Industry-specific networking site Kaleio , has partnered with Indeed.com to include both national and international job listings within the Kaleio Marketplace in a move that is expected to make it a one-stop professional networking and business tool for students and the non-executive workforce. Below is our interview in detail.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000. Sellbot helps online sellers sell through multiple platforms. Consumers do want ads, but they want them to be relevant and entertaining,” Cheng explained.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. After Tanz had sold his pre-Instagram photo-sharing app called MoJungle, he was intrigued with notion of bringing advertising to photos, and had no idea if it was even possible.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies. Advertisers upload their 30 second ads and each time a user watches the ad, they receive $.50. Targeted mobile advertising.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2013

Nick Tran, Social Media Director for Taco Bell said, “The new entertainment for teens is YouTube. The conference is primarily targeted to people with a passion for the YouTube platform. He concluded with mentioning that he thinks, “YouTube is the next Comcast… more 18-34 year olds are watching YouTube than watching any cable network.”.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Haim's background is in media and the entertainment industry, for several decades. He's an entrepreneur and operating executive, and has made investments in companies like Univision--the largest television network in the U.S.--where where he is Chairman. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Haim's background is in media and the entertainment industry, for several decades. He's an entrepreneur and operating executive, and has made investments in companies like Univision--the largest television network in the U.S.--where where he is Chairman. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Culver City-based Lootsie (www.lootsie.com) has createe a product which ties together those loyalty reward programs with the advertising and marketing efforts of brands, to help both those mobile developers and marketers. We work with a lot of brands who have tried advertising on mobile, but wanted a better solution than what's out there now.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

We operate the largest online news network overall, with about 1.25 Our other shows are about sports, entertainment, movie reviews, university news--all of the things that fit under the umbrella of news. We also have a television show, which is not connected to the network. How did the network come about? billion views.

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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. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. What does that mean? Even more choices.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. Babette Pepaj: BakeSpace is a food social network and recipe swap. So very much a social network involved? What is BakeSpace? I scratched my own itch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. OTHER DEALS: 1. Total raised: $29.5mm. Go Boulder!

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

Guy Kawasaki Talks About “Artisanal” Publishing, also covering a wide range of topics from using social media to build a Guy-like platform, the mega battle between Facebook and Google+, Apple versus Android religious issues, and the dumbest things you can do with social media. Shani Higgins took over as CEO at Technorati in 2011.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. First off, tell us about your network of sites? We're a business that has both advertising revenues and subscription, a blend of both. It's now a one-stop shop for surfer's entertainment, plus a utility portal.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. What's special about your virtual world?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. We put all of that into our system, and distribute it among our network through our logistics platform. What's your background? That reflects heavily in our hiring.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

Barnett encouraged people to prepare themselves now and get involved, “If you’re a company, create your profile and start creating your network of future investors. They provide a platform that helps users find heal discounts and deals provided by health professionals in their area. TradeYa Inc.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. We saw people were exchanging sound bites, sending them around to friends, and using the platform as we had envisioned, which was not just for long form audio, but for actual sound bites.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings. Enter Google.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

How much of FOD advertising is focused on the internet rather then more traditional channels? Funny Or Die doesn’t do any advertising. Building the Funny Or Die brand and social media platforms to where they are today. No social network has stood the test of time. You make a great video and hope that it becomes viral.

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