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Fandango: Best Year Ever

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Los Angeles-based Fandango , the online and mobile movie ticketing service which is a unit of NBCUniversal, said today that its 2012 was its "best year in company history". The company said it had a 12-year record high in ticket sales, web and mobile traffic, and app downloads. Fandango is run by Paul Yanover.

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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.

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Fandango Sets Another Ticketing Record With The Avengers

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Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango reports that it hit another ticketing record this weekend, after the debut of The Avengers. Fandango said it set a new record for the most tickets sold for any opening weekend in the company's 12-year history, surpassing its recent record breaking opening of The Hunger Games. 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”? The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. At Fandango, they examine ticket sales and trends over time.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. So, the first thing we're recruiting for is a strong sales team, that has a trusted relationship with the studios in LA. So it's going to be a sales team, a business development team, and helping our relationships with YouTube and Facebook.

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Digiday Mobile: The Future Of Mobile Media Live

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Moderator: Vince Thompson, Managing Partner, Middleshift LLC Speakers: Carrie Coffee, Mobile Sales Specialist, Mobile Advertising, Microsoft Evan Neufeld, VP Marketing, GROUNDTRUTH. The new app has translated into enhanced relationships with consumers and increased sales, but also bolstered the effectiveness of the overall marketing mix.

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

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We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. It’s needed for Fandango, RottenTomatoes, Movies.com, Lunch.com and scores of other companies. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. We all know about IMDB.

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