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Crowdsourced Video Ad Startup Tongal Raises $15 Million

Tongal, a startup that uses crowdsourcing to create video ads, has raised $15 million from Insight Venture Partners. The five-year-old company, whose clients include Lego, P&G and McDonalds, says it has distributed $3 million to contributors to date, and says revenue grew 400 percent last year.

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus