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JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet. Why is that?

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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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MAY 18, 2017

Levinsohn, who is a well known advisor and investor in the digital media and technology market, has previously served as CEO of Yahoo!, Fox Interactive Media, and Guggenheim Digital Media. , to its board of directors.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

It’s the biggest night for television and streaming media services tonight as the stars are gathering to celebrate themselves at the 70th annual Emmy Awards. Emceeing tonight’s festivities are Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost.

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socalTECH

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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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Hollywood studios are jumping on the trend of the VOD market. For those who are more confident in their Indie film brand, they usually move onto platforms like Hulu that offer income from ad supported platforms (AVOD). Hollywood is Lacking in VOD Marketing Skills. For example, Warner Bros. It is becoming a global movement.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2011

Los Angeles-based TopSpin Media , the provider of tools for helping musicians market themselves online, has scored a win with the Sundance Institute , the nonprofit which runs the Sundance Film Festival. Financial details of the win were not announced.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Guest article by Richie Hecker, Founder of Bootstrapper Media. For about 50 years, (…cough M) Ad Men, or marketing and sales individuals, have been the kings of organizational hierarchy … and then came the Internet of things and engineers took over the throne.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2014

If you’ve watched any industry in the last 20 years where technology has begun to transform how the industry works the results are always predictable driven by what Clay Christensen appropriately called “ The Innovator’s Dilemma ” (one of the most influential books that changed my thinking about markets).

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MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. That results in a drastically lower marketing and PA budget for the film. That's a massive amount of money to spend on marketing. What's your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. This is where the digital media puck is going. Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. The device itself will have no storage.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Other firms currently in registration include Santa Monica-based Demand Media ; San Diego-based Zogenix ; Inphi Corp. Among firms who have not filed, but have been rumored to, are Los Angeles-based Hulu , Los Angeles-based LegalZoom , Irvine's Fisker Automotive , and Pasadena-based eSolar.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. This is the cycle of synergies that lead to strong vertical franchises in media. And you have a franchise.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They are a national practice but “it would be hard to see a local media success that Revolution isn’t part of&#. We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. One thing that is abundantly clear is that we are consuming media in new, and changing, ways.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I’ve spent a lot of my career thinking about digital and online video (with investments in companies like Maker Studios) so for that reason amongst many, I was excited to open the Upfront Summit a few weeks ago by interviewing Meg Whitman about Quibi and the digital media space. monthly subscription (or $8 ad free) for Quibi?

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

State of Content is an unrivaled opportunity to connect and collaborate with today’s leading influencers, executives, and entrepreneurs in the new establishment of advertising, marketing & technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Hulu is the leading player for streaming television. Frankly, I’m surprised Netflix doesn’t buy Hulu. He defines this as new products that are dramatically cheaper, lower quality, lower margin but larger markets. Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. Incumbents can’t react.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. In plain English, they’ve redesigned the site so that it is more interactive from a social media perspective and not just for viewers but for their content producers and advertising partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? This post looks at how the best in industry are moving well beyond the 16.5% MSN & AOL.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

The invitation-only attendees included founders, business development leaders, and marketing directors from companies big and small, including NBCUniversal, Mobclix, DDB Los Angeles, Airpush, adly, Mobile Roadie, Disney Animation Studios, BetterWorks, and more. Having previously worked at notable companies including Myspace, PayPal, Yahoo!,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. No matter how smart or knowledgable Gore was he couldn’t get a break in the media. And it was oft repeated and gave Salesforce a huge marketing advantage.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered. We set up to develop that technology, in partnership with institutions and researchers, psychologists, and marketing professors. One of the companies there I was working with was CollegeHumor. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Before iROKOtv, Nollywood was almost completely closed to the Diaspora – lovers of Nollywood were always dependent on getting their hands on DVDs from family coming back from Nigeria, or from local market stalls – DVDs which may or may not have been pirated. I can tell you that our most popular film to date is Fazebook Babes – a classic!

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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.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. So did the media. was the 2-way web.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Companies were selected based on five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Honoreess in the OnHollywood 100 include Beachmint, Zefr, Hulu, Laffster, Vella , Triptrotting, Legendary Entertainment, Jammit , Hollywoodland, Scopely and SocialVibe.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

Our system works on under-the-table payments of below-market wages for jobs that our non-Hispanic citizens don’t want to do and in a country where people our unemployment rate is already so low that some economists are warning about inflation due to full employment. Invisibility.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002. He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. Think Hulu is done by the studios for all good reasons? Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis. It’s a great experiment for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. As media morphed into individually packaged pieces of content across platforms, viewing media on the couch (lean back) quickly became the old model.

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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. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. If so, why?

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