| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.02.2019 | ‘Circle with Disney’ device maker raises $20M to help parents set screen time limits, block content | Circle with Disney parental control device. (Circle Photo)
Circle Media Labs, maker of the Circle with Disney parental control device, has raised $20 million in new investment.
The Portland-based startup makes products that allow parents to... |
| 10.06.2016 | Whatever happened to MCNs? | Peter Csathy Contributor
Peter Csathy is Chairman of CREATV Media, a media innovation and advisory firm and the author of “Media 2.0 (18): An Insider’s Guide to Today’s Digital Media World & Where It’s Going”.
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| 14.01.2016 | PewDiePie Now Has His Own YouTube Network Within Maker Studios | PewDiePie is launching his own multi-channel network called Revelmode. You may remember that PewDiePie was part of Maker Studios, Disney’s successful MCN. PewDiePie isn’t really parting ways with Disney as PewDiePie is working with Maker St... |
| 28.04.2015 | How To Break Through Online Video Clutter | Mark Terbeek Contributor
Editor’s note: Mark Terbeek is a partner at Greycroft focusing on investment opportunities in the digital media sector, with an emphasis on online video and infrastructure software.
Every day, there are press announ... |
| 23.03.2015 | Think SXSW has lost its cool? Here’s why you’ll still be back next year | We heard quite a bit of lamenting this year that SXSW is not what it used to be — from cute tweets announcing how “over SXSW” folks were before the festival started to questions of whether the event was worth so much focus, hype, and invest... |
| 15.02.2015 | Why Mobile Video Advertising Is Set To Explode | Yoni Argaman Contributor
Yoni Argaman is vice president of marketing and business strategy at Inneractive.
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Why Mobile Video Advertising Is Set To Explode
Editor’s note: Y... |
| 09.01.2015 | More Than Tween Stars: How YouTube Is Steering Brands Into the Future | January 9, 2015 8 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Summer With Cimorelli, an original five-episode scripted Web comedy on YouTube’s AwesomenessTV channel, opens with the aftermath of a party – streamer... |
| 17.09.2014 | BeautyCon Raises Seed Funding So Brands Can Say Goodbye To Hollywood… And Hello To YouTube | Moj Mahdara has seen the future of branding and entertainment, and it’s on YouTube.
The chief executive of the burgeoning media business BeautyCon has raised under $2 million in seed financing from entertainment and publishing heavyweights ... |
| 26.06.2014 | YouTube May Be Winning The World And Losing Its Soul | Just as YouTube isn’t just about Gangnam Style and viral videos of animals eating burritos, the online-video conclave VidCon, which kicks off a little little later today in Anaheim, Calif., isn’t just a giant celebration of all things YouTu... |
| 10.06.2014 | The new rules of new-school marketing | This sponsored post is produced by Robert Brill, Executive Director of ION and Programmatic Media at Ayzenberg Group.
In April 2009, a Swedish teenager named Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg created a YouTube channel under the name PewDiePie while... |
| 14.04.2014 | Disney & Relativity Media are now in a bidding war over Maker Studios | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Looks like YouTube network Maker Studios is even ... |
| 16.01.2014 | Maker Studios Hires Former AOL Exec René Rechtman To Lead International | YouTube network Maker Studios has made a big hire to run its growing international business. The company announced that former AOL executive René Rechtman has joined as President of International and will oversee Maker’s international growt... |
| 23.10.2013 | YouTube Network Maker Studios Introduces Its Platform For Managing Videos And Engaging With Fans | Over the past several years, Maker Studios has turned its talent-focused media haven for YouTube stars into a huge business, attracting tens of thousands of channels to its network, which in turn have attracted hundreds of millions of subsc... |
| 12.09.2013 |
Maker Studios Raises $26M More
| Culver City-based Maker Studios confirmed today that it has raised $26M in additional funding in its Series C funding. According to the company, the new round was led by Time Warner Investments, along with Canal+, Astor, Singtel Innov8, Upf... |
| 12.09.2013 | Online media company Maker Studios raises another $26M | Online media production company Maker Studios has just secured another $26 million in funding, the company announced today.
Maker Studios gained popularity by producing content that was wildly popular on YouTube. It currently has more than ... |
| 12.09.2013 | Maker Studios takes in $26M in additional funding | New funding brings YouTube network's Series C round to $62 million
Think back to all of the YouTube stars we have come to know over the years. There was Chocolate Rain guy. And Chris Crocker, of LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE fame. And David, the drug... |
| 12.09.2013 | Maker Studios Raises $26M in Second Tranche of Series C Funding | Maker Studios, a Culver City, Calif.-based YouTube multichannel network, raised $26m in the second tranche of its Series C venture capital funding.
thay had announced a $36m first tranche in December 2012 (read here)
Backers included Canal+... |
| 12.09.2013 | Funding Daily: The fog rolls in | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The summer is over as day-fog rolls in over San F... |
| 12.09.2013 | Online media company Maker Studios raises another $26M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Online media production company Maker Studios has... |
| 12.09.2013 | Maker Studios Raises Another $26 Million From Canal+, Singtel, And Others To Grow Its Business Overseas | YouTube network Maker Studios just closed out its Series C funding round, bringing on an additional $26 million from a wide range of international investors. The funding will bring the full amount of the round to $62 million, and brings tot... |
| 12.09.2013 | Maker Studios Completes $26M in Series C |
LOS ANGELES, CA, YouTube artist company raised $26M in Series C from mostly foreign investors.
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| 21.08.2013 | Maker Studios buys Blip. Does YouTube even wince? | The purchase of videocaster Blip.tv by YouTube network Maker Studios – announced this morning – may signal another step in the evolution of Google’s online video giant. That’s because the Time Warner- and venture capital-backed Maker could ... |
| 21.08.2013 | Maker Studios In Deal To Buy Blip As It Works To Reach More Screens | YouTube multichannel network Maker Studios has agreed in principle to acquire long-running video distribution network Blip. While the deal hasn’t closed yet and there are a number of issues to be worked out, it would bring more content unde... |
| 26.06.2013 | Maker Studios Co-Founder Danny Zappin Sues The Company Over His Ouster | It was only about six weeks ago that Maker Studios co-founder Danny Zappin stepped down from the CEO role, replaced by Endemol exec Ynon Kreiz. Well it turns out that he didn’t “step down,” so much as he was “pushed out.” And now he’s takin... |
| 23.03.2013 | The top 10 Los Angeles startups to watch | Many of L.A.'s hottest startups are tied to celebrities like Justin Timberlake and Kim Kardashian
When it comes to technology, Silicon Valley still reigns supreme. But that does not mean that other cities around the world, and in the United... |
| 18.02.2013 | Participation: The Trend That Is Bigger Than The Harlem Shake | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster on his Startup Advice blog: Both Sides of the Table
By now many of you know the Harlem Shake.
It is a YouTube p... |
| 21.12.2012 | Maker Studios Closes $36M in Series C Financing | Maker Studios, a Culver City, Calif.-based YouTube multi-channel network, has closed $36m in the initial closing of its Series C financing.
The round was led by Time Warner Investments, with participation from Greycroft Partners; GRP Partne... |
| 20.12.2012 | With 2 Billion Video Views A Month, Maker Studios Raises $36 Million Round Led By Time Warner | There’s more big money going into video startups: Maker Studios, which ranks among the top networks of creators publishing on YouTube, announced today that it has closed a $36 million round of financing led by Time Warner Investments. The a... |
| 20.12.2012 | Time Warner Invests $36 Million In YouTube Network Maker Studios | Time Warner has officially entered the YouTube content industry by investing $36 million into Maker Studios, a prominent network on the video-sharing site that gets roughly 2 billion views a month. (So much for the rumors of Yahoo snapping ... |
| 20.12.2012 |
Maker Studios Lands $36M More For YouTube Content
| Culver City-based Maker Studios, which develops YouTube channels and content, said today that it has raised $36M in a funding round. The investment was led by Time Warner Investments, and also included Greycroft Partners, Downey Ventures (R... |
| 21.11.2012 | Funding Daily: Happy Thanksgiving | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
On Halloween, I opted not to go the obvious holid... |
| 27.06.2012 | Oh Dear, Maker Studios Isn’t Solving YouTube’s Quality Problem… | Maker Studios is the fifth most popular YouTube partner in the U.S., according to statistics reported today by Nielsen. Maker Studios models itself on Hollywood movie studios, except it produces content for YouTube instead of the Big Screen... |
| 02.06.2012 | YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund | Editor’s Note: John Greathouse is a general partner at Rincon Venture Partners and has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, including Computer Motion, Citrix Online and CallWave... |
| 26.12.2011 | Is Video The New Software? | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
VC (TechCrunch contributor) Mark Suster published an article on his personal blog about one of his portfolio companies, Maker Studios.... |
| 12.11.2011 | Can Content Producers Be Disruptors Or Is Content Only Meant To Be Disrupted? | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
Why is content such a dirty word in venture capital? We have seen a few generations of technology entrepreneurs and investors, but the... |
| 31.05.2011 | (Exclusive) YouTube's New Strategy: Create a Network Of Networks | YouTube is now showing approximately 3 billion videos a day. A growing proportion of those are shown with ads—more than 2 billion a week—and YouTube as a business is expected to pass $1 billion in revenue next year.
But when it comes to mak... |
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В городе ангелов найдутся и бизнес-ангелы. ЛА работае... |
