Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2019

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? United Airlines spend a long time recovering from that debacle. With over 77% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. As a part of Integrated Media, StackCommerce will join properties like Fandom and Goal.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. Donut Media is venture backed by Techstars Ventures, 3311 Ventures, Fontinalis Partners and professional driver Ryan Tuerck. What is Donut Media?

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Los Angeles-based Deluxe, which provides digital services to the motion picture, television, and digital media industry, said yesterday that it has acquired Sundog Media Toolkit, Ltd., a UK-based provider of a cloud platform for the industry. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

Culver City-based Jukin Media , which identifies and licenses trending and viral user-generated content to traditional media, has named Craig Parks as its GM of Brands, the company said this week. Parks was previously VP of Programming for Comcast's video platform, Watchable. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Lisa Hennessy: The short one liner answer, is it''s a robust, digital platform that broadcasts once-of-a-lifetime job openings and experience, which everyone can apply for. This is an interesting combination of media and online website, can you talk about the strategy there? However, until recently, the two rarely intersected.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Alliance for SoCal Innovation , a nonprofit looking to help connect Southern California's innovation ecosystem, has partnered with Verizon Media to help launch microsites to connect the local technology community, and grow the ecosystem, Verizon said on Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Social platforms and media content creators in Los Angeles are leveraging their influence to encourage voting by Gen Z and millennial audiences as registration deadlines approach.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention. Part of that is because of how PortalOne has built out its platform. “This is part of our secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The next thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

According to H Code, the new product offers up a "fully integrated" digital marekting and media solution to connect brands and agencies with U.S. Hispanic consumers. The expansion pushes H Code further into the land of agencies with additional services, on top of its current digital advertising representation services.

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MARCH 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based LiveXLive Media , which provides digital media streaming focused on live music and entertainment, has inked a deal with music festival producer Insomniac , which is also based in Los Angeles. Insomniac is behind such events as the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) Las Vegas. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

What special data, content, APIs, etc., Do you need to process user-contributed media? How often is message content updated? SEO Support Will URLs and page content need to be properly formed for SEO? Content Management How often will the application’s content need to change? What content is searchable?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

CEO Evan Spiegel blames social media --implying, indirectly, Facebook--for the phenomenon of "fake news", saying that personalized newsfeeds have revolutionized the way people share and consume content but at a "huge cost to facts, our minds and the entire media industry." In an editorial, posted this morning, Snap, Inc.

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MARCH 13, 2013

PublishThis , the Los Angeles startup headed by Matt Kumin, has enhanced the firm's online, content marketing and curation management tool. The firm said the latest version of its platform is aimed at brands, retailers, media companies, and trade associations, to help them scale their content efforts across digital channels.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based Stem , which is developing a platform to simplify payments for musicians and other content creators, announced Wednesday morning that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding. Stem says it has created a financial platform that unifies and manages contracts, distribution, payments and data for artists and creators.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Beverly Hills-based OWNZONES Media Network , a technology and entertainment company which provides products for the motion picture, television and digital content creation industries, says it has named Rob Hopps as Chief Security Officer (CSO), and Senior Vice President, Platform Operations.

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MAY 28, 2020

Glendale-based Loop Media , which develops short-form video for online and app streaming, says it has partnered with Drone TV, a streaming channel for aerial videos from around the globe. Loop Media said it will provide access to Drone TV's high quality drone-recorded videos, both for its business and consumer platform.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Irvine-based Pivotshare , a new startup offering up a service to help content creators publish and monetize their video or audio via subscription or pay-per-view, said today that it has raised $1M in a Series A funding. The company was founded by Adam Mosam. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based viral video entertainment network Jukin Media is continuing to build out its executive team, saying today that it has named Jerry Boonstra as its new Chief Technology Officer, and Theresa Tran as its new Head of Product. jukin media viral video youtube content hollywood videos executive frequency cnet'

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Los Angeles-based audio advertising technology developer Triton Digital announced this morning that it has been selected by radio station owner NRG Media. The software will be used for creating, managing, and syndicating content, and also running contests, surveys, and email marketing efforts.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

Los Angeles-based Pluto TV , which is developing an online Internet TV platform aimed at curating live TV entertainment for Internet users, said Wednesday afternoon that it has signed up a roster of over 20 new content partners fro the service.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based Po.et , a new, blockchain-based protocol which is aimed at enabling digital media licensing and authentication, said on Friday that it has partnered with content production company Blink , to automate licensing requests for Blink's network of photographers, filmmakers, and writers. The two said that Po.et

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MARCH 31, 2014

Los Angeles-based Pluto.TV , a new company led by startup veteran Nick Grouf, said Monday that it has launched a brand new, video platform which will curate streams of video content around music, sports, news, entertainment, and many other areas. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. Our appetite for fresh content and this stuff is kind of limitless,” says Rojas.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. The bad was that it seems like when I shared media on Facebook I wouldn’t get any heat initially so Twitter was my go to place to share my blog.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2020

Shows on the platform at launch include a gameplay-focused series built around the augmented reality game, Ingress , developed by Niantic , the game studio behind the massive AR hit Pokemon Go. Series run anywhere from three to ten episodes and there area an additional twenty shows that are currently in production now.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator. How did you get involved with the Warner Media Camp? How do you do that?

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JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. What is Jukin Media?

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Venice, California-based ZEFR , which helps brands and content owners monetize use of their assets on YouTube, said Monday that it has linked with Fuisz Media , to include direct purchase links on video or people in any video. The two said ZEFR will make the platform for Fuisz available to its partners. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. All of the major internet-age media companies had their own mobile strategies.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based Evolve Media has launched a new, social video product via its SpringBoard Video Division , aimed at distributing social video content to publishers. Evolve Media''s platform includes its own customizable and brandable video player, video analytics and reporting, and more. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It reportedly paid a hefty $230 million to acquire the podcast publisher and network startup Gimlet Media, and has also acquired the podcast monetization platform Anchor for an undisclosed price. Spotify Acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. at the intersection of technology and media. According to Warner Media Camp, all of the startups went through mentoring from Turner/Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank on Monday evening.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Beachfront Media , the developer of video publishing tools, said today that its Beachfront Builder software now supports HTML5 applications. Burbank-based Beachfront Media offers up tools to help content publishers publish their videos to the Internet and to mobile platforms; the company also operates the video discovery engine Mefeedia.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising exchange operator, is powering female content network Glam Media , Glam Media said Tuesday. Glam Media said it is using REVV Connect, Rubicon Project's real time advertising trading platform as part of an invite-only, premium ad marketplace.

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