socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. For example, if someone is browsing a clip, they can see the origin of that, if it's a movie, and that can be linked to a DVD, or merchandise, or a T-shirt. What is the SnapCuts service? They can then share that across a social network.

Social Network

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. I’ve heard the new media doubters before as nobody thought Google, Facebook or Twitter would ever make money. From the business perspective you need to understand a few things about media and video in particular.

Snapchat

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

If you wanted to find someone who truly understands the convergence of the media and technology, you need to go no further than Peter Csathy , the CEO of newly launched CREATV Media (www.creatv.media). Peter Csathy: CREATV Media is a very different kind of firm. I came to Manatt to build digital media companies.

Media

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

chapter of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Alliance (METal) and the voice of KenRadio's World Technology Roundup on CBS Radio, Rutkowski has recruited a roster of mentors to coach entrepreneurs who enroll in the institute's programs in LA. For example, there's an idea for an events company we're considering.

Mentor

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. We also are dong the Twilight premiere from LA.

Paramount

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? Basically, we've built a platform that allows businesses to build social media promotions across multiple social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Linkedin. Matt MacNaughton: Our mantra, is to reach social media users everywhere.

Social Media

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Let's take a look at some of the many ways businesses can benefit from these new models to streamline operations and deliver faster and more accurate results.We’ll begin by looking at some real-world examples and then we’ll dive into more details of how these improved search capabilities can enhance your business.

Generative AI

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 6:00 – 7:30).

Capital

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media. However, as we have seen in the last few years, traditional media has been failing. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. Entertainment is confusing--we didn't make investments in pure content plays.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

They are overloaded by the media with amazing advertising messages, and people now realize that you can’t believe anything you see in pictures, and even videos can be edited to deliver any message. In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools.

Media

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I also lead our media and entertainment vertical practice. magazine, for example. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances.

Google

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Santa Monica-based SPACES (www.spaces.com), led by CEO Shiraz Akmal and a team of entertainment veterans from Dreamworks Animation, is hoping to do that with a series of physical attractions, powered by VR technology. We're an entertainment company. What is SPACES? We're building attractions that are VR-enabled. In the U.S.,

Entertainment

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2010

The sense that I've had for awhile, is that just because you are using these great services out there, you shouldn't have to completely give up your ability to have greater control over how that that media is shared. Emmanuel, who created Endeavor, and I started the New Media division for them. On one of those trips, I met R.

Innocal

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We watch our news and entertainment anywhere we want to on any kind of device we choose. Examples of re-imagining the business. There are hundreds of other examples of re-imagination everywhere we look, making our lives easier and our reach greater than ever before. Let’s explore examples of these and more.

Mobile

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start? That''s where the company started from.

Mobile

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Entertainment has changed. New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways.

Help

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One example is driving, which has an actual physiological reason it makes you creative. I know this sounds abstract so let me give you an example from this week. I started to build this into a media & entertainment value chain that broke down the components of the industry into discrete parts. If so, why?

Writing

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

Kevin is also well known as the organizer of the Digital LA networking group (digitalla.net), which hosts dozens and dozens of events in Silicon Beach every year (Editor''s note: socalTECH.com is a media sponsor of the event). We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that.

Santa Monica

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

USC

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

We make websites, and we make banners, primarily for the entertainment industry and Hollywood. I think it's a shining example of Silicon Beach's technology helping out Hollywod. What's unique about what entertainment companies are looking for in mobile ads? Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product.

Hollywood

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

every thing from smartphones to the network, video streaming for example over the Internet. If you think about the City of Los Angeles, just as an example, there''s pretty much continuous interaction between the city and technology. I view myself as having a pretty good background across a lot of things., Thanks, and good luck!

Los Angeles

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway. Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it.

Company

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

Southern California

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

Capital

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

For example, say we're buddies--and I wanted to encourage you to go out and vote, you go to the AT&T multimedia storefront, find the Obama "Yes We Can" Mogreet, and type in a cell phone number and just click send. Finally, we have Spyglass Ventures, a smaller, digital media focused fund here. But, there are two things.

Mogreet

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

A lot of people think of Los Angeles--rightfully so--as a creative hub, and just equate us with media and entertainment. That makes the opportunity for creating physical things much more akin to creating things like media. An example of land use, is that most people do not realize that industrial land is in scare supply.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

Here''s an example. Geoff Campbell: My professional life has all been in digital media. That was all in digital media. So I''ve spent most of my time in digital media. I wanted to marry my digital media experience with my private life experience. Geoff Campbell: That''s a great question.

Mobile

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: StarGreetz is a digital media content company, that allows brands to stand out in a very cluttered marketplace. You've been in more traditional entertainment firms--as an executive in a big studio--why jump to a startup? Did those prior entertainment relationships help to get those celebrities to work with you?

Entertainment

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2017

This year's Disney Accelerator class appears to be far more mature than prior years; for example, Epic Games is a well established company whose tools are behind such games as Gears of War and Infinity Blade, and aXiomatic is an investor in its own right, owning esports team Team Liquid, plus a stake in Super League Gaming.

Class

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

The convergence of the Internet and the entertainment business has made Los Angeles a hotbed of activity in the online entertainment industry, attracting companies from all over the country interested in connecting Hollywood with the Internet. Peter Hoskins: We're more about entertainment than a technology, platform, or wire.

Entertainment

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2012

For those who may think Las Vegas is just the home of Zappos, Conferences, and day/night entertainment, well you are right. The technology lets users manage and enrich their varying daily tasks by integrating elements from social media and project management. Welcome to Tracky from Tracky on Vimeo. Sarah Evans PR.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They are overloaded by the media with amazing advertising messages, and people now realize that you can’t believe anything you see in pictures, and even videos can be edited to deliver any message. In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools.

Entrepreneur

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

It's a fascinating new world out there in entertainment and media, where YouTube stars are now as popular--or maybe, more popular--than traditional celebrities. For example, the MTV Video awards and Kanye West. It's mostly about the things I'm thinking about, style, positive messages, and motivational things.

Startup

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. Details coming soon!)

Product

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess. VCs generally have had an easy time fostering relationships with large ad agencies and media companies given how much our businesses have intersected over the past 20 years. You also need marketing muscle.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A new generation of entrepreneurs is emerging to refashion the Los Angeles studio system for the digital age forming companies that combining live-streamed video, podcasts, and the newfound social media celebrities to craft entertainment for a new breed of consumer. “I think HQ was a prime example of our thesis.

Chief Technology Officer

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place. Our mission was to build the best online entertainment company in the world. At the end of the day, it also took lots of business smarts, too.

CTO Coach