Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. The folks over at Blip.tv

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? To top it all off, the AI startup recently partnered up with Getty Images, one of the largest repositories of paid stock imagery, to develop a new generative AI model ‘Runway’ geared towards the film and advertising industries. million site visits in October alone.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Rubicon Project's services are used by web publishers to pick the best ad networks to run on a specific page of their site, based on the return predicted from that ad network. Rubicon is venture backed by News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project announced this morning that it has hired three new executives. Rubicon Project is headed by Frank Addante, and develops ad optimization technology for web publishers, helping them to pick the best ad networks to optimize revenue on their web site.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. They're not ill informed, they're just short on time and think the news networks are biased.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Los Angeles-based Gorilla Nation , which represents web publishers to advertising brands, has piled on yet another win in Canada, this time with Reuters. The win is the latest in a string of Canadian wins for Gorilla Nation, including representing Tom's Hardware and popular technology blog Gawker for their Canadian inventory.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

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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. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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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! Magazine is a celebrity news magazine and website. According to the two, they are in a joint venture focused on digital content, marketing, and advertising. Buzz Media said it will use OK!'s

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the venture funded online advertising effort run by Frank Addante, is reporting this morning that advertising CPMs were flat in Q4, even as the firm said it had an 30 percent growth in revenue across its publishers. Tags: project rubicon report advertising. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. It also shows how such a website can scale by adding new cities.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Early on, we realized that because Twitter was having issues keeping the site live and up, we needed to solve that for our users in order to build our business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. It also shows how such a website can scale by adding new cities.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutelier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. With Ad.ly, any Twitter user--ranging from your average Joe to a celebrity, can send a tweet on behalf of an advertiser, and get paid for doing so. is based in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more.

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MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutleier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

We recently ran into Frank Sinton, founder of Burbank-based Mefeedia (www.mefeedia.com), a popular online video search web site. Although Mefeedia plays in the very crowded, online video space, the site seems to be very popular with end users, so we thought we'd chat with Frank a bit about the company. What's your background?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Advertising presence. Professional user-friendly site design. People buy from people.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Patrick is the man behind all the marketing aspects of what could be called one of the funniest sites on the web. Above is an interview we did with Patrick at BlogWorld Expo New York 2011. How do you market the Funniest site on the internet? Funny Or Die doesn’t do any advertising.

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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? Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. If I'm not mistaken, your firm has actually been around awhile, hasn't it?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

We now have over 100 million users visiting our owned and operated sites, and we're also doing this for other people like USA Today. That why we're not in perishable news, and will never by like the AP, or never like the national news, and never would include things like NFL scores or rights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, with popular sites like YouTube , so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements. You are now reading one of about 50 million out there already. Streaming video.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

They''re mostly C level executives, and households with incomes of over $200,000 a year, which makes advertisers on our site such as Neiman Marcus, LVMH, Mercedes, Ritz Carlton, and Mandarin Oriental a big component of our business. I''ve already bought four packages on the site myself, and I don''t even get a discount.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2010

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. It also shows how such a website can scale by adding new cities.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? We have our own site, IBNSports.com, and we also work with partners schools to create a presence on the network. It's a combination of sponsorship, advertising, and for some of our partners, fee for that content.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I was reading an article by Robert Scoble earlier today about how amazing Spotify and some other news app are on Facebook, and how awesome frictionless sharing is for the Internet. They can discover new music, new foods, new news, new and amazing embarrassing things they would have never seen!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

See how many of the following “new” Internet concepts you recognize, and can explain in terms of value to your business. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us.

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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. We did a successful trial in 2008. Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds.

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