Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Until recently, three legacy providers (Sizmek, PointRoll and Google’s DoubleClick) have dominated the rich media market. But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? MOviepilot is starting to bring its movie recommendations and discovery site to the U.S., and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.

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socalTECH

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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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

It’s a matter of survival thanks to the persistent lack of demand from consumers. . For Survios and other companies that have placed multi-million dollar bets on the viability of virtual reality, the move to location-based gaming isn’t a matter of choice.

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Torrance Los Angeles Entertainment Platform 180

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Hollywood Walk of Fame. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Site launched in October and CEO stated ad impressions are increasing ~200% month; now at 15 billion impressions/day.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

But it isn’t meeting the needs of everyone, leading to the creation of several sites positioning themselves as the go-to professional network for niche industries. Educating the next generation of media talent. The continued proliferation of media network and online distribution channels has increased demand for quality content.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We are the ‘Netflix’ of Africa – with iROKOtv we stream Nollywood (Nigerian Hollywood) movies online, so they are accessible to anyone with an Internet line, anywhere in the world. They saw our passion for content, the Diaspora’s thirst for Nollywood movies, the site traffic and our plans to grow the company and we went from there.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

For all those who want to talk about the fragmentation of media and the models for journalism is in trouble; it’s actually not. Design, photography, tech, any sort of media broadcast, any kind of contracted workforce, we expect to be there and help. Where do you think printed media is heading? Digital media?

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller.

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