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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Does the world need another, online streaming media service for movies and television? We caught up with M-GO''s CEO, John Batter , to hear about where M-GO fits into the streaming media market. It turns out that Technicolor had already been separately developing a platform for digital media distribution. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Baboo is looking to help brands and marketers in the entertainment space reach consumers, and recently launched an alpha of its services. Co-founder Sutton-Shearer previously co-founded Movie Song Vault and The Gift App, and is a former entertainment industry executive. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Beverly Hills-based Myspace , the online social entertainment site now owned by Specific Media, said this morning that it has named Roger Mincheff as President of Myspace Entertainment. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 26, 2013

Since its inception into the mainstream fabric of people’s lives, social media and the concept of social networking has gone through a rather peculiar evolutionary transition. From gaming, to advertising, to branding and marketing, there’s no online business plan that Facebook can’t be used for at this point. It’s All in the Numbers.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011 -- Facebook's Impact on Entertainment PR and Marketing. Learn first-hand from an all-star panel how the entertainment industry is using Facebook and other top social networking platforms. Social Media Week LA. See [link] (more)

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AUGUST 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based Evolve Media , the online publishing and media firm behind CraveOnline and TotallyHer, said Tuesday that it has named Jennifer Catto as its new SVP of Integrated Media. Evolve said Catto will oversee marketing efforts for CraveOnline, TotallyHer and Martini Media. Catto will be based in New York.

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JULY 24, 2017

Santa Monica-based streaming television provider Hulu announced on Monday that it has appointed Kelly Campbell as the company's new Chief Marketing Officer. Hulu said Campbell will oversee the company's brand marketing, performance marketing, media, content marketing, creative, entertainment publicity and consumer research teams.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Santa Monica-based Demand Media --in what looks to be a tumultuous day to for the stock market--said this morning that it will begin trading its common stock today on the New York Stock Exchange under the new ticker symbol, LFGR. The company is changing its name to Leaf Group Ltd. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2017

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 -- Harnessing Marketing Analytics for Business Impact - Matt Kautz from Machinima. Los Angeles Marketing Analytics Group. See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Selectable Media , a digital advertising firm which lets users unlock digital content in exchange for interacting with brand advertising, said today that it has expanded to Los Angeles, as part of a growth in its footprint. The company also said it has added Dan Feldstein as its Director of Marketing.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- Social Media Marketing Dinner. Join iHollywood Forum as we re-launch our popular monthly dinner series looking at whats next for the business of entertainment. See [link] (more).

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JANUARY 6, 2022

A new, free-streaming service, SPORTS.TV, has been launched by Allen Media Group, which said today its new app-based consumer video streaming service is free, and aggregates sports, news, movies, documentaries, and entertainment networks, as well as local broadcast television stations.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Los Angeles-based TeamDom , a new startup started by 19-year old social media star Jake Paul, disclosed today that it has raised $1M in a funding round. The round was led by Danhua Capital, and also included Eward Lando, Gary Vaynerchuk, Abe Burns, and Adam Zeplain. million followers. million followers. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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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. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks.

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OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

For today's interview, we spoke to Bill Curtis , the founder of Malibu-based CurtCo Media (www.curtco.com). We spoke to Bill about CurtCo's move into the podcasting area, and why he thinks podcasting is the next frontier in media. Talk about what CurtCo is working on? It ends up being good for both. That is amazing.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Westlake Village-based Row 44 , the provider of in-flight broadband equipment, announced today that it has linked with MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) in an in-flight live streaming television and on-demand video entertainment effort. As part of the deal, the two said that MLB Advanced Media will take an equity stake in Row 44.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

CEO is Adrian Sexton, who the company said formerly headed up digital efforts at Lionsgate Entertainment, Participant Media and Endemol Shine. TiTAN's U.S. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Los Angeles-based media and entertainment research firm MarketCast says it has acquired data science services provider Deductive. According to MarketCast, Deductive--formerly known as Dativa--will help expand its data science services for media and entertainment companies and brands.

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JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. “I n media and entertainment there are lots of isolated studios around the world.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Moviepilot''s web site focuses on film recommendations, film discovery, and the company also helps studios with social media campaigns. Moviepilot set up shop in LA in 2012 , due to the entertainment industry''s base here. The sale netted the company $20M, which it will use to fund its U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Join us tonight live at 8pm PST from UCLA Korn Hall for Digital LA’s Branded Entertainment panel right here on TechZulu. They’ll discuss how content creators and brands work together to create, develop, and market digital branded entertainment. Matt McMahon, Fox Digital Entertainment, VP Mobile. davidbeebe.

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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). Because of that, he has some unique insights into this market, having touched many, many pieces of the industry.

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JULY 26, 2019

Los Angeles-based MarketCast Group , which provides market research and consumer analytics services to the media, entertainment, sports, and lifestyle industries, has named a new CEO, and shifted its current CEO to Chairman. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

The company began trading on Thursday on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol GEEXU.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Los Angeles-based EQAL , the social entertainment and media firm known for lonelygirl15, is powering a new web site for Earth Balance and Whole Foods Market. Tags: eqal social media ecommerce holiday baking. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Peter Gotcher , the Chairman and co-founder of Santa Monica-based music startup Topspin Media , has scored an Emmy award, for his work in co-founding firm Digidesign. Avid's Pro Tools -- based on Digidesign's products -- are an industry standard used for sound editing in the entertainment industry. The Philo T. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

And if you work in the entertainment industry, you have Stage 32. by providing cutting-edge online education to a global population of people looking to make it in the ever-evolving entertainment industry. Educating the next generation of media talent. making connections, looking for jobs, staying up on news, etc.)

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

OpenDrives is developing Network Attached Storage (NAS) which the company says provides high performance computing (HPC), on-prem, and hybrid cloud capabilities for the enterprise, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical, and federal government agency markets. The company's CEO is David Buss.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Hollywood studios are jumping on the trend of the VOD market. Hollywood is Lacking in VOD Marketing Skills. Paramount Digital’s Tom Lesinski explains, “The way large films are marketed no longer makes sense.” They take advantage of a fundamental marketing truth that has never died: word of mouth.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

Santa Monica-babsed Tyffon , a developer of immersive entertainment technology started in Japan, said this morning that it has raised $2.17M in a funding round, to set up its first location in Los Angeles. The new funding round will go towards bringing its immersive entertainment experiences--which it calls "Tyffonium"--to the U.S.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based market research provider MarketCast said on Monday that it has acquired Fizziology , a software developer focused on social insights and analytics for the media and entertainment industry. Fizziology's software uses social media sites (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Sina Weibo, etc.)

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