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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

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In the “long tail” you can become enormously valuable if you’re a platform. Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. Hulu announced $500 million to fund new content and Netflix has, for example, resurrected the hit / cult show Arrested Development. The Torso.

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful. The remaining 20 percent are independent film-makers.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

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Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. Our appetite for fresh content and this stuff is kind of limitless,” says Rojas.

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

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One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. So we've partnered and worked with technology partners, and built a technology company to develop applications for ourselves and third party platforms. READ MORE>>.

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Canoo takes the covers off of its debut electric vehicle

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Canoo has beta cars on site at its Los Angeles headquarters where prospective partners and customers can test out the vehicles, which were made by an undisclosed contract manufacturer based in Michigan. The idea, the company says, is to bring convenience and afforability of a Netflix movie service to the auto industry.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). These are both either “remnant” or free ad types.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? MOviepilot is starting to bring its movie recommendations and discovery site to the U.S., Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform.

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