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Fandango: Mobile Drives Best Summer, Ever

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Mobile consumers drove what Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information site Fandango says is its best summer in its history today, as mobile purchases drove a 26 percent year-to-year increase in ticket sales on the service. The company reports that it saw more than 26 million downloads of its various mobile apps. READ MORE>>.

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

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Steve Belin , Product Manager , Fandango. ” So what did Steve Belin of Fandango mean when he answered “Move the needle: data”? At Fandango, they examine ticket sales and trends over time. These factors can vary greatly week to week, and movie launches often influence what sales look like.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. Our platform is all about connecting early fans and early audiences with new and upcoming movies, months before a movie comes out. We used that platform to start engaging audiences with movies and that data, and built up. What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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A Conversation with Ben Satterfield, Burstly

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Prior to that, I had an app in the App Store, when iOS first came out, which was basically like a Fandango for live music. I told him how we were looking to track people who were looking at Hiphop events in a city, and do direct sales to them and present them to brands to highlight that matched their interests.

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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

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He was the startup-to-profitability CFO at Fandango, and really is one of the most incredible, operational executives in all of So-Cal. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. It's managing money for money's sake, rather than money in the context of life.

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Digiday Mobile: The Future Of Mobile Media Live

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Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. Moderator: Vince Thompson, Managing Partner, Middleshift LLC Speakers: Carrie Coffee, Mobile Sales Specialist, Mobile Advertising, Microsoft Evan Neufeld, VP Marketing, GROUNDTRUTH. Who are the agents for the change? The advertiser? The agency?

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07. Cloud Data Platform. We all know about IMDB.

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