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Los Angeles Becomes YouTube's Content Hub With New Playa Vista Studio

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The Los Angeles area is fast becoming the content hub for online video site YouTube , a position that takes advantage of both the LA region's long history in the entertainment business, and the rise of a slew of startups producing content specifically aimed at the YouTube audience.

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Hulu Eyes IPO

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Los Angeles-based Hulu , the online video streaming site, is apparently in efforts to file for an IPO, as a long line of Southern California firms heads towards the public markets. According to a report in the New York Times, Hulu is in discussions with investment bankers about pursuing an IPO in the fall. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Hollywood Walk of Fame. Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. 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. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Competitors: Skype.

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Jetpack Gives a Boost to Mobile and Rich Media Advertising

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With more than 100 big-name clients that include publishers like Conde Nast, CBS Interactive and Vox Media and The Hollywood Reporter, and agencies such as Maxus and MEC, Jetpack has been able to scoop up a large percentage of the high-impact rich media market in just a few short years. “We

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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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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Interview With CEO Jason Njoku iRoko Partners | Africa’s Netflix Set To Disrupt US TV & Cable Market

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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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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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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.