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The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

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They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down. The eyes are in the image.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers. It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. This is the dog whistle.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. Or perhaps you think Donald Trumps assessment that BuzzFeed is a “ Failing pile of garbage is correct?” Others are skeptical, “Ha! I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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