socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. Donut Media is venture backed by Techstars Ventures, 3311 Ventures, Fontinalis Partners and professional driver Ryan Tuerck. What is Donut Media?

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2017

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software used by multi-location brands to manage consumer experience interacting with their locations, has enhanced its Paid Media Manager software. The company said the enhancements include the ability to executive targeted, local Snap Ads and Geofilters on Snapchat. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 23, 2019

According to report this week, abuse of the communications and advertising features of Los Angeles-based Snapchat is playing a significant role in the sale of firearms outlawed in California. However, the recent arrests show how easy it is for criminals to bypass those rules on any social networking platform.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2017

the parent company of Snapchat , said on Tuesday that it has not established a new international headquarters in London--despite media reports. The company said it has "one HQ, in Venice", and the changes in London simply involved billing advertising revenue in the UK through a UK entity. Venice, California-based Snap, Inc. ,

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Venice Snapchat Advertising Report 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence. As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. In the Growth Years. And here’s the thing.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Ransomware: Social media will be the number one vehicle for ransomware distribution in 2018. Currently, there are nearly 1 million social media accounts compromised every day, and that number will continue to rise, thanks to the plethora of easily identifiable targets.

Social Media 82

Social Media Artificial Inteligence Media Technical Review 82

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

They want to advertise on Facebook and Instagram, and they want to see what they can do with Waze, Snapchat, and Yelp. We certainly have some very valuable agency partners, like Horizon Media and Razorfish, but we just haven't fully focused our energies on agencies, which are a key element in enabling our clients.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This year's fest has expanded to included panels on how to grow your startup internationally, maintain your company culture, manage developers in multiple countries, and reach mainstream audiences using TV advertising combined with digital. Some grow nationally and internationally, and get huge valuations like Snapchat, and some IPO.

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Marina Del Rey Dollar Shave Club Beverly Hills Startup 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. If you're a big influencer, you might get paid by a brand, but every day, people are providing word-of-mouth advertising, posting about their favorite things.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. As the value for users decreased, it naturally decreased the ROI for advertisers and their clients too.The CPM on Twitter was very high and still remains one of the highest today. What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006.

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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. And the more you succeed the more advertisers in search of endemic audiences want to advertise with you. This is the cycle of synergies that lead to strong vertical franchises in media. ESPN in sports.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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