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Pocketwatch Picks Up $6M For Kids Media Brand

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Culver City-based Pocketwatch , a startup media brand focused on creating and acquiring content for kids, has raised $6M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Third Wave Digital, and also included Les Moonves (CBS ), Jon Landau (Avatar & Titanic), United Talent Agency (UTA), Robert Downey Jr. READ MORE>>.

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Epoxy Looks To Help Online Video Creators With Social Tools

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Venice, California-basd Epoxy --which was built by former executive from Team Downey--has launched a brand new set of tools aimed at helping online video creators use social media, and also disclosed a funding round. The startup is led by Juan Bruce, and was co-founded by fellow Team Downey executive Jason Ahmad. READ MORE>>.

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How Epoxy Is Helping Content Creators Make Their Video More Social

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It turns out, nowadays, creating the content is only a small part of your job description The most successful YouTubers, studios, brands and agencies today are intensely focused on using social media to engage with fans, get that content out there, and grow their audience. What''s your background, why did you start the company?

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Epoxy Gets $6.5M For Social Video Tools

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in a Series A funding round, for the company''s social-focused, video tools. According to the company, the investment came from Upfront Ventures and Time Warner Investments, along with prior investors, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Advancit Capital, Greycroft Partners and Robert Downey Jr.''s s Downey Ventures.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets.

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Epoxy Tunes Into $2M to Enable YouTube, Video Publishing

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With the rise of an increasingly large number of companies, producers, individuals, and others building online video channels, there's been a corresponding increase in the need for tools to serve that audience. According to Epoxy, the new funding will go to expand its engineering team and build out its products.

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Why Sidevision Is Tying Content, E-Commerce Together, with Justin Wu

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We recently spoke with co-founder and CEO, Justin Wu to learn more about the company, which so far has received a small seed funding from Warner Bros. as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator. How did you get involved with the Warner Media Camp? We also helped launch a company Pluto.TV. READ MORE>>.

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