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Digital Marketing Start-Up Thismoment Raises $7.3 Million From Sierra Ventures

Kara Swisher in Media on November 15, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Another day, another pile of funding for a social marketing start-up.

Former Myspace Music Head Holt Lands as COO at Maker (Plus Cool Video!)

Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 11:10 am PT

As video on the Web evolves, Courtney Holt moves to the new-generation production company — which makes and distributes more professional original content to the Internet, mostly via YouTube.

Hey Kids, Let’s Put on a $4M VC-Funded Show! A Visit to the YouTube Moguls of Maker Studios (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on June 20, 2011 at 12:02 pm PT

Maker Studios, a new-generation production company, has just gotten another $2.5 million in venture funding to help it make videos, mostly for YouTube. That brings total funding from Greycroft Partners and GRP Partners to $4 million for a studio created to bring more professional original content to the Internet.

YouTube’s Payouts to “Channel” Partners Come With Strings

Peter Kafka in Media on June 3, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

YouTube is giving some content-makers as much as $5 million to create stuff for the site. Here’s what it wants in return.

Google Confirms That Groupon COO Will Be Google's Margo Georgiadis

Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2011 at 11:14 am PT

Margo Georgiadis, VP of Global Sales Operations at Google, will be COO of Groupon, Google confirmed. She is currently located in Chicago, where the social buying site is headquartered. Besides COO, BoomTown will officially bestow the title of “Chief Cat Wrangler” on her in recognition of the massive organizational job ahead of her at the notoriously chaotic start-up.

Viral Video: Foursquare's Dennis Crowley Is Character Approved

Kara Swisher in News on March 17, 2011 at 12:05 am PT

Recently, Foursquare was selected for an “award,” as part of an advertising campaign for USA Networks, whose motto is “Characters Welcome.” Now, a commercial featuring co-founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai is in heavy rotation on the cable television channel–what can BoomTown say, except, “NCIS” rocks, and thus, I have had to endure the ad 67 times so far!

Pixelmator Co-Founder: Mac App Store's 30 Percent Cut "Definitely Worth It"

John Paczkowski in News on January 25, 2011 at 11:20 am PT

Here’s a hell of a developer testimonial for Apple’s new Mac App Store. Image-editing app Pixelmator just hit the million-dollar milestone. And it’s been available in the App Store for only 20 days.

OWN It Online? How Digital Will Oprah’s Latest Attack on the Media Landscape Be?

Kara Swisher in News on December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm PT

The marketing of the Oprah Winfrey Network, set to debut January 1, 2011, is definitely ratcheting up. What will be interesting to see is how much of a digital element there is on OWN, which is obviously heavy on the television shows for the new cable network.

New Miramax CEO Lang Talks Digital Options for Movie Company

Kara Swisher in News on December 9, 2010 at 5:02 am PT

While the news has been be out there for a month, Miramax officially confirmed this morning that former News Corp. exec Mike Lang was named CEO of the Hollywood movie company. What will be interesting about that for digital content players will be to see exactly what the man who was deeply involved in deals to buy the Myspace social networking site and also create the Hulu premium video service will do with Miramax’s rich trove of more than 700 award-winning films in its movie library.

Netflix Adds More Disney/ABC Shows–But Not the Ones You Missed Last Night

Peter Kafka in Media on December 8, 2010 at 9:08 am PT

A familiar trade for Netflix: It gets more content for its Web streaming service, but agrees to wait longer to show off some of it. Want to watch TV shows that ran yesterday? Go somewhere else.