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JANUARY 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Hulu is gearing up once again for the Super Bowl, and recently launched its Hulu AdZone. Hulu will also be posting, in real time, the new crop of ads are they unveiled during the big game. Hulu will also be posting, in real time, the new crop of ads are they unveiled during the big game.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu is set to earn half a billion dollars in revenue this year, according to an update from CEO Jason Kilar posted last night on its company blog. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu said today that its Hulu Plus subscription service has just passed six million subscribers, which it credited to both exclusive access to broadcast and cable shows, as well as its own original content effort, Hulu Originals. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

It's not far from the kickoff of the Super Bowl --and best of all, the many advertisements expected to debut during the sporting event. However, fans of those advertisements can start getting their Super Bowl advertising fix now, according to Los Angeles video streaming Hulu , via the company's online Hulu AdZone.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Hulu said Monday that it has rolled out a new feature which will let users pick their own commercials mid-stream, flipping any commercial to another advertising choice on its site.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu said Tuesday that it is planning a big push of its Hulu Plus subscription service, with a Super Bowl XLVI advertising campaign. Hulu did not say how much it is spending on the advertisement, which is due to air during the Super Bowl XLVI this weekend. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based streaming video site Hulu has been in New York this week pitching its service to advertisers at its Hulu Upfronts event, revealing today four new original series, plus some statistics on the service. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based video site Hulu reports this afternoon that the firm has received more than one million votes in its Super Bowl commercial rankings on its Hulu Adzone , where the firm has posted all of the ads from Sunday's Super Bowl. Tags: hulu super bowl commercial advertising video content. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu announced today that the most liked ads from yesterday's Super Bowl XLVI so far are Honda's "Matthew's Day Off" and Volkswagen's "The Bark Side" and "The Dog Strikes Back" advertisement--at least, according to Facebook "Likes" on the site.

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MAY 13, 2010

Los Angeles-based video site Hulu has just rolled out a number of major upgrades to the service and its video player, the firm announced this morning. Hulu also said it is continuing to use Flash on its player, and will "continue to monitor developments on HTML5," saying the new standard "doesn't yet meet all of our customers' needs."

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu is launching its own, private programmatic advertising marketplace , which will make all of its live and on-demand TV inventory available to advertisers, according to a report. The programmatic marketplace is set to launch on January 1st. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu has re-opened its Super Bowl advertising site, sponsored again this year by Toyota. Hulu''s AdZone features all of the Super Bowl ads from prior years, and also will be featuring new ads released on game day. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu is planning to add another, premium tier to its services, which would allow users to completely skip out on advertising. According to the WSJ, Hulu is exploring adding thew new premium service at between $12.00 Hulu has not officially announced any plans for the service.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu has been featuring the ads on the Hulu AdZone and ranking them based on popularity again this year, currently showing Budweiser''s "Lost Dog" followup as the most liked spot. Unlike prior years, Hulu is ranking the ads through Facebook Likes, rather than its own voting system.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu said this morning that it has launched a new, ad-free service , which will cost $4 a month more than the company's existing, premium subscription. per month service is the first time Hulu has offered up viewing of the company's streaming content without advertising.

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MARCH 24, 2015

In a strange intersection of corporate advertising and filmmaking, Dell and Intel said they have released a new film on Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu , produced by an Oscar winner and including a number of well known actors. Simmons ("Whiplash") and Catherine O''Hara ("Best In Show"). READ MORE>>.

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MAY 4, 2016

Los Angeles-based Hulu confirmed today at its Upfront event in New York that it indeed is planning to roll out a live, TV streaming service next year. Hulu's Upfront offers up a look into Hulu's shows and business to major advertisers. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango is getting a spot in its first SuperBowl ad this weekend, the firm said Friday, as part of a promotion for Universal Pictures' new action movie, Battleship. Fandango said that the SuperBowl advertisment will feature a tag which links viewers to its mobile apps. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Los Angeles-based MySpace said Wednesday that the firm has launched a new application which links user profiles on the social networking site to the Hulu video site. According to MySpace, the new MySpace Primetime Application allows users to embed videos from Hulu and MySpaceTV on their profiles and home pages. READ MORE>>

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MARCH 27, 2014

Los Angeles-based entertainment news provider HitFix has launched a new video channel, which will feature both content, news, and advertising, the company said this morning. HitFix said its new HitFix Video channel delivers both original content and highly targeted advertisements, delivering 90 million monthly video streams.

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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.

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MAY 20, 2014

The latest venture out of Los Angeles-based entertainment news site Hitfix is perfect for those with mere seconds to spend on figuring out if that latest movie is worth investing time into. The new feature features--as advertised--six second reviews of current films in a very (very) short video. Leatherman is best known as "Mr.

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MAY 3, 2018

Los Angeles-based OpenX , which develops advertising technology, in addition to running its own ad exchange, said this morning that it has named three new executives. Ho had served at Hulu and Yahoo. Firestone previously served at Nickelodeon/Viacom, Panache, and Engage BDR. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2017

Los Angeles-based advertising software developer SteelHouse announced on Thursday that it has named Ross Levinsohn, the former CEO of Yahoo!, He also served at News Corporation, where he was involved in the formation of Hulu, and also is co-founder and partner at Whisper Advisors, and a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This potential merger is another example of media companies getting together in what seems like a monopolistic way that still might find itself as prey for market innovation of the future; like Hulu for example. Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Los angeles-based sell-side advertising platform operator Magnite announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire SpotX, a video advertising platform provider, in a deal worth $1.17 billion in cash and stock. Magnite is acquiring SpotX from RTL Group. Magnite is led by President and CEO Michael Barrett.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

One new, Los Angeles startup-- Laudville (www.laudville.com)--recently launched its service to try to tackle that huge task, of bringing your content together. We''re now in beta, and are incorporating services like iTunes, Amazon, and Hulu, and will be incorporating more (this) year. What''s the business model behind this?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Los Angeles-based Velocity Interactive Group, the venture capital firm led by Ross Levinsohn and Jon Miller, said this morning that it has added Mickie Rosen as an investment partner at the company. According to Velocity, Rosen will focus on video, music, social media, publishing, games, and online advertising at the firm.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. We spoke with Daniel Altman, the CEO of the company, to learn more. READ MORE>>.

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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. TALK NYC Heads to SOHO House, Bringing Madison Avenue to West Hollywood on June 13, 2012.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We also talk about creating things specifically for the web, how to distribute on the web, and how to build a revenue stream aside from advertising revenue.

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JULY 1, 2014

Vadio came out of LA''s Amplify startup accelerator, and now has operations both in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. The two we went through early on were Amplify in Los Angeles, and Weiden & Kennedy in Portland, which made an investment through PIE. Bryce Clemmer: Quite frankly, that was quite instrumental to us early on.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).

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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. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this?

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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. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this?

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MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other online distributors bring viewers to their portal to watch movies and TV shows. The small startup in Los Angeles created an online movie player to be embedded anywhere on the web. “We Yekra Theater joins the few online distributors by providing a different business model.

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