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25 April, 2013 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

GrabPress Syndication Plug-in for WordPress Delivers Deeper Video Integration

Grab Media, which has been at the forefront of what I've called the "Syndicated Video Economy," is gaining traction with its recently-released "GrabPress" video plug-in for the WordPress content management system. GrabPress allows publishers of any size using WordPress to quickly customize and embed a feed of video from Grab Media' s ever-growing catalog of 500K+ video clips directly into their web pages.

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21 February, 2013 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

With A Revenue Model In Sight, Crowdsourced News Service Blottr Raises $612K For Its Content Syndication Platform NewsPoint

Author: 
Steve O'Hear
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Blottr, the crowd-sourced (or citizen journalism) news service, has raised an additional £400,000 (~$612k) to help scale NewsPoint, its syndication platfor

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11 February, 2013 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

Video Distribution Startup Rightster Buys Content Marketing Platform Preview Networks To Push Its YouTube Services Across Europe

Author: 
Natasha Lomas
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A spot of acquisition news in Europe’s digital video distribution space. Rightster, a U.K.

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7 February, 2013 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

With $360K From Fred Destin At Atlas And More, Timbre Takes Its Local Music Discovery App Global

Author: 
Ingrid Lunden
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Timbre launched last September as a bootstrapped mobile iOS app to help people discover and share live music recommendations in their vicinity.

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14 January, 2013 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

Financial Planning App SigFig Crosses $50 Billion In Assets Managed Through The Platform

Author: 
Colleen Taylor
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SigFig, the startup that tracks your financial assets and provides detailed visualizations of your investments and recommendations on how to manage them, is now officially playing in the big leagues.

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8 January, 2013 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

RAMP Enables Automated Contextual Videos With Launch of MetaQ

One of the main things content providers can do to create rich user experiences is present contextualized content that relates to the underlying article or video. This is why so many content sites have "Read More," "You Might Also Enjoy" and "Also View" type sections. They help content providers increase users' time spent (which drives monetization), build loyalty and create competitive barriers.

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7 January, 2013 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

Procera Networks Buys Vineyard Networks For $28M To Beef Up Its Deep Packet Inspection Capabilities

Author: 
Ingrid Lunden
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Some consolidation in the world of network traffic management — and specifically services involving the data-filtering process of deep-packet inspection.

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28 December, 2012 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

Three Reasons to Watch Interest-Based Social Networks in 2013

Author: 
Jay Jamison

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11 December, 2012 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

Content-Recommender Outbrain Buys Content-Fetcher Scribit

Author: 
Peter Kafka

You’re one of those brands that wants to be in the content business, but you don’t want to spend a lot of time making content? There are people who can do that for you.

And now you want to make sure people see that content? There are people who can help with that, too.

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9 December, 2012 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

Another way to get paid for your content: Dynamo goes white label for creators

Author: 
Liz Shannon Miller

Pivot alert: Dynamo, one of the first companies to make pay-to-play possible for independent creators, is taking a new approach.

Beginning in January, according to founder Rob Millis, the Dynamo player will no longer be open to any creators wishing to charge users for their content — instead, the company will be refocusing on white label services for those in need of digital distribution.

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4 December, 2012 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

AOL Is "Breaking the Glass Ceiling" of the Video Business with Syndication Play

Buoyed by its acquisition of syndicator 5Min two years ago, and more recently Goviral, AOL Video has grown its video revenues to $100 million. 

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23 November, 2012 by BT Featured Staff Comments Off

‘CHANGE OR DIE’: Why Federated Media Has To Reinvent Online Advertising All Over Again

Author: 
Alyson Shontell

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Federated Media Publishing was once a game-changing startup poised to shake up the digital advertising world.

Now, it's the one that's been shaken by a fast-moving industry, with layoffs and turnover in its executive ranks.

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