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24/7 Media Expands Video Formats

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Online advertising provider Real Media Group , which is part of 24/7 Media, said today that it has launched three new video formats. The Social Slide Bar links users to social media sites like Facebook; the Action Button links to retailers like Amazon.com; and the Click-to-Long Play format features links to longer, branded content.

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Startup's Technology Helps L'Oreal Target Ads Based On Hair Color

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In a demonstration of the power of targeting in a world of ubiquitous computing power, Santa Monica-based ad startup GumGum is powering a new advertising campaign which is able to target ads based on hair color shown in photos. GumGum offers up in-image photo advertising technology, which slides in ads in photographs and images.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos. Invidi – Provider of addressable television advertising and marketing services to cable, satellite and telco-delivered television carriers. Addressable advertisements are capable of being targeted to the individual household.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Users: More than 280mm monthly users worldwide use its apps or see its advertising. Competitor: Slide. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. -Popular apps include: “SuperWall” and “Likeness” for FaceBook, “Slideshow” and “PhotoFx” for MySpace/Hi5, Friendster, Orkut, Bebo.

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Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

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Press doesn’t mean anything other than free advertising. Put up your slide with the 5-6 logos of journals that have covered you. A good friend of mine was features on the front cover of the LA Times business section with a glowing article. Reduce any quotes to a few key words and make them large.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. I cranked out 20+ slides based on this pre-existing metaphor of media in my head. The process of visualization is literally imagining or seeing things in your mind. No matter.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. But be sure that along your ascent they’re going to notice you and respond.