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MAY 21, 2009

El Segundo-based out-of-home advertising firm Ripple TV said today that it has added two media executives to the firm's board of directors. Ripple places news and advertising on screens in retailers such as Borders, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Gelson's, Juice it Up!, Robeks, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Tully's Coffee. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. We believe that the structural industry changes will continue to create big opportunities for technology firms that enable the changes in media consumption for television, radio, inbound calls, online & social media.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Irvine-based Specific Media , the online advertising provider--and parent firm of MySpace--said today that it has launched a new advertising targeting product which allows automotive advertisers to target households based on what cars are currently in their garage. specific media auto targeting advertising online automotive'

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities.

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JUNE 10, 2010

El Segundo-based iSuppli announced Thursday that it has acquired UK-based Screen Digest , a firm which provides market research covering film, television, broadband media, mobile media, cinema, home entertainment, TV technology and video games. Screen Digest has over 45 analysts and is based in London.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Now defunct, Los Angeles-based multi-channel content network Defy Media is unlikely to be able to pay the $1.7 One of the companies which had provided debt funding to Defy Media, Ally Bank, said recently that it expects to experience "a substantial loss" on its loan to the company. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

We dropped in recently, and found a screening session for the Tech Coast Angels; a number of former StartEngine, MuckerLab, and LaunchpadLA startups in residence; not more than a few startup founders wandering the halls; and a long list of upcoming technology networking events on the calendar. We just see so much potential.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. If you can engage massive online audiences they will come en masse to bigger budget theatrical releases.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based DEFY Media , a developer of YouTube channels and digital content, said on Tuesday that it has raised $70M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Wellington Management Company LLP, and also included ABS Capital, Lionsgate, Viacom and ZMC (Zelnick Media Capital). READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , which operates a number of web sites focused on the young male demographic, announced this morning that it has launched a new website, MadeMan.com. The new property will be managed by Break Media VP Jonathan Small. The new property will be managed by Break Media VP Jonathan Small.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. Tags: entrepreneur startup kids children video videogame game content world virtual myminipeeps media masher gunther sherry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

This was pre social media. I am often asked about social media by those who want to know how they should best do it professionally. My advice always follows along the line of: Twitter is part media distribution platform. It shouldn’t be a one-way media publishing platform. To get on his radar screen.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Broadcom's new BCM2157 dual-core, baseband processor includes functionality for mobile hot-spot, multiple touch screen, and other media and applications processing features. Broadcom said the new chip is sampling now to early access customers, with first commercial launches expected in Q1 of 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Marketing Sample Screening Platform 191

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MARCH 27, 2012

TeleSign is being run by serial Southern California entrepreneur Steve Jillings, who has had a number of successful exits, including FrontBridge and Vantage Media. The company has quietly emerged to power the phone-based screening for a very large number of top tier Internet services. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Screening Web Los Angeles 180

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). Here’s a screen shot of my home page on awe.sm. And so forth. No brainer.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Santa Monica-based ad technology developer GumGum --which injects contextually relevant ads into images on publishers' websites, said today that it has signed a renewed partnership with Wenner Media, the publisher of Rolling Stone , Us Weekly and Men's Journal. Financial details of the renewal were not announced.

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Santa Monica Journal Screening Media 178

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MAY 23, 2016

The Green Screen Institute , a startup accelerator which is looking to create innovation in the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) areas, says that it is getting close to closing applications for its first, startup accelerator program.

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Fandango Startup Screening Venture Capital 174

TechCrunch LA

MAY 30, 2019

Now, he designs those systems for the real world through his company Oblong Industries , which has labored to create a full stack of collaborative tools for business users that are every bit as high-tech as the one’s Underkoffler dreamt for the silver screen.

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Screening Tool High Tech Los Angeles 175

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. And…they have opened up their API for all of you clever developers to create the amazing interactive second screen apps of the future. It is essentially a super large screen pad. What does that mean?

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JANUARY 15, 2013

MySpace , the online social networking site which is now owned by Specific Media, has finally rolled out its new, Justin Timberlake-inspired web design, in conjunction with the release of a new single from Timberlake and JAY Z. READ MORE>>.

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Design Web Design Social Network Press 159

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JANUARY 2, 2018

According to Evite, it is working with nonprofit Common Sense Media on the effort, which is an attempt to get families to put down their devices at dinner, which Common Sense Media helps kids with better vocabularies, fewer behavior problems, and less substance abuse.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 31, 2010

Saturday, February 6, 2010 -- New Media Revenue Models: Growing Greenbacks in the Digital Ecosystem. The New Media ecosystem is growing rapidly with content distribution networks, mobile devices and social networks connecting and interconnecting consumers like never before. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum.

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Media Enterprise Forum CalTech Social Network 100

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contact management software, said today that it has linked its app into social media management service Hootsuite. nimble hootsuite social media management contact sales software saas' READ MORE>>.

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Social Media Santa Monica SaaS Screening 138

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MAY 3, 2013

Los Angeles-based CraveOnline , the online unit of Evolve Media which caters to men with its video and other online content, said it has set up its own studio for creating original video. The company said the studio includes a green screen, "numerous" sets, and state-of-the-art equipment.

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Product Screening Content Los Angeles 159

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In what looks like a plan by Specific Media to revamp the relevance of former social networking giant MySpace as a choice for social networking, the firm is showing a new video of a revamped user interface for the site. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here at Sparkhouse in southern, California, we aren’t aware of a decrease in literacy (though the replacement of emoticons for words might say otherwise), but perhaps it tickles a certain part of the brain that enjoys the easiness of visual stimulation over reading all those words on that tiny screen. Social media is popular.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons. What we find, especially in the mobile world, is you've only got one or two screens to get a consumer to make a purchase, before they abandon the visit. We're really headed for three screens.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Santa Monica-baesd online art site Saatchi Art 0--part of Demand Media--said Thursdya that it has launched a new, mobile app that lets users use virtual reality to see how a piece of art might look like on their wall. The new app uses augmented reality to superimpose a picture on any wall, whether at home or at the office.

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Santa Monica Screening Mobile Demand 153

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JUNE 14, 2012

THe firm said that SMI Corporation Limited , a Chinese entertainment and media company operating the Stellar International Cineplex brand, will equip 100 screens across its network with RealD's technology. Financial impact of the win was not announced.

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Screening Entertainment Los Angeles Report 124

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Mediapeers serves such companies as Lionsgate, MGMG, FremantleMedia, and Global Screen. Mediapeers becomes part of Delxue''s Burbank Deluxe Media Unit. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Mediapeers was based in Berlin, and had been founded in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. That's really the core focus for us.

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MAY 10, 2011

According to Huntington, the financing round goes to facilitate the deployment of a network of high definition, LCD media screens for out-of-home advertising at Barnes & Noble College bookstores. Size of the equity funding deal was not disclosed. The funding by Huntington was led by Tim Bubnack.

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JUNE 5, 2014

The company explains the product can either be used to reach the same audience across multiple screens--or make sure that consumers see an ad outside designated viewing times, or even to show ads to consumers watching a TV show they don''t currently have ads running. ubermedia television advertising targeting mobile media' READ MORE>>.

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Tool Advertising Mobile Screening 147

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

IHS said late Friday that the deal also included Screen Digest, a digital media and technology research company which was recently acquired by iSuppli. The acquisition of El Segundo-based iSuppli , worth $95M, has completed, according to acquiring firm IHS Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. We are the media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that I often see, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Not having a social media policy.

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that business often make, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Not having a social media policy.

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Social Media Media Startup Content 85