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Tremor Media

Tremor Media Received $11 Million for Video Advertising Network

Tremor Media

B Round: $11,000,000
C Round: $18,000,000

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Tremor Media operates a video advertising network.

Tremor Media is an online video advertising network. Tremor operates a standard advertising network having both advertisers and publishers. They obtain inventory from publishers and match appropriate advertisers.

Advertisers can choose from in-banner and in-stream video advertising. Currently they state they reach 92 million unique visitors per month through their network of over 800 publishers.


5min

5min Received $5 Million for their Instructional Video Startup

5min

Seed: $0

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5min allows individuals to provide short instructional videos to others. 5min is a niche video sharing site focusing on instructional videos. Their idea is that any solution can be visually explained in no more than 5 minutes.

They not only want you to share your knowledge once in a video but for those experts in various subject matter, to share training information on an ongoing basis. For example, they have and individual with multiple yoga videos each under 5 minutes. There are hundreds of other examples, if not thousands.

A great way to share knowledge with others and learn from an expert or other individual quickly via short videos.
Acquia

Acquia Received $7 Million for Drupal Products and Services

Acquia

Seed: $7,000,000

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Acquia provides software products and services for the Drupal web collaboration and publishing platform.

Acquia is to Drupal what RedHat is to linux. They intend to provide value added services and products for Drupal. Drupal is an open source platform, this entire site is based on Drupal.

Company founders are Dries Buytaert, original creator of Drupal, and Jay Batson, previously founding CEO of open source VOIP software company Pingtel.

The Drupal web platform has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth doubles annually. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of Web 2.0 application types including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and core web content management.

Assisted by a thriving ecosystem of consultants and developers, a diverse list of organizations are using Drupal as their core social web platform including SonyBMG, Warner Brothers Records, New York Observer, Forbes, The Onion, Harvard University, and Amnesty International. A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active individuals who contribute to the open source technology, including nearly 2000 community-developed modules for extending Drupal functionality.
AdReady

AdReady Raised $10 Million for Providing Customizable Successful Ads

AdReady

A Round: $10,000,000
B Round: $5,300,000

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AdReady provides a self service banner creation tool allowing you to choose and customize banner ads based on their click thru rates and test as your own.

AdReady allows advertisers to easily create banner advertisements using ads that are already available. Most importantly you can choose advertisements by category to meet your needs, and view their click thru rates to determine which ads seem to be working well with respect to click thrus.

Once you create your ads you can use AdReady’s platform to run and optimize campaigns using the ads. AdReady also enables publishers and agencies to offer a co-branded version of their self-service advertising platform directly to their own clients.
Twitter

Twitter Received $4.8 Million for their Social Tracking Service

Twitter

Seed: $200,000,000
A Round: $4,800,000
B Round: $15,000,000
C Round: $35,000,000

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Twitter provides a free service to log your goings on and allow others to follow them.

Twitter is a service to allow you to easily post information, anything you like. Others can easily subscribe to your postings. The service is free and appears to become more popular every day.
AdBrite

AdBrite Received $23 Million for their Online Advertising Marketplace

AdBrite

A Round: $23,000,000

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AdBrite is an online advertising marketplace.

AdBrite brings publishers and advertisers together to sell and buy advertising, repectively. AdBrite sells on a CPM , CPC , and a flat rate price for advertisers.

For publishers they have many tools. There are ad zones to display the advertisement. The ad zones include text ads, banner ads, and a video player. If you upload your video into their player and place the player on your pages AdBrite will monetize it. They monetize video by dropping text ad links down into the video window and charging advertisers the cost per click.
Avail Media

Avail Media Received $25 M Capital $5 M Debt for their IPTV Services

Avail Media

B Round: $25,000,000

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Avail Media is a provider of IPTV and advanced media services to broadband operators.

Avail Media is a provider of IPTV and advanced media services to broadband operators. Avail Media delivers a combined MPEG-4 linear TV and Video On Demand (VOD) IPTV solution.

Avail Media delivers to its customers a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all encoded in MPEG-4, IP encapsulated, encrypted, combined with Video on Demand.

Avail Media's system has been designed for use by broadband network operators of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail Media offers a broad and deep set of IPTV services, technologies and solutions.
Amobee

Amobee Media Systems Received Funding for Mobile Advertising

Amobee

A Round: $0

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Amobee has an advertising network for mobile operators. Amobee addresses three customers: mobile operators, publishers/developers and advertisers/agencies.

For mobile operators they provide an ad serving technology to place advertisements in all non-voice applications on the phone. Their ad server enables contextual and behavioral targeting across all users on all handsets. The only cost to the operator is a revenue share with Amobee.

Publishers/developers have access to the Amobee ad server that works across multiple channels. The contextual and behavioral targeting works in multiple types of applications such as games, WAP browsing, video & music, messaging etc. The ad server provides a single point for campaign management, reporting, optimization and commercial policy enforcement.

For advertisers/agencies they pool the mobile operators and publishers/developers user bases into one large advertising accessible audience. This Amobee Media Network is an audience organised around key verticals including games, video, music, messaging, youth, news, sports, travel, entertainment, and business.

Its software solution supports digital ad delivery to all mobile content and communication types, including WAP and mobile web, mobile games, mobile video and mobile messaging. Amobee launched its first live consumer trial in March of 2006 and has now several commercial operator launches including Vodafone, a strategic investor.
SynthaSite

Synthasite Received $5 Million for Website Building and Publishing

SynthaSite

A Round: $5,000,000
B Round: $20,000,000

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Synthasite is a publishing platform allowing users to construct a website without any knowledge of programming.

Synthasite is a free to join website building service. Without any programming language you can use their easy drag and drop interface to build a website. Unlike the typical blog you can build an entire site. You can use their hosting or download the site and host elsewhere.

Synthasite is AJAX based thereby creating an easy to use drag and drop interface.

They state they plan to monetize the platform at a later stage by providing advertising related services.
Backchannelmedia

Backchannelmedia Received $9.5 Million for Digital TV Advertising

Backchannelmedia

A Round: $9,500,000

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Backchannelmedia is a digital television ad serving and response capture company.

The Backchannelmedia solution employs the TV remote control, which enables a consumer to opt-in and click through from TV and access deeper content and advertiser information from the consumer's favorite Internet web sites.

This bridges the gap between the TV and Internet worlds through the "tagging" or "bookmarking" of TV content. Once content is tagged, the relevant bookmarks are forwarded to a customized consumer portal online.

Backchannelmedia's technology will integrate the direct marketing, Internet advertising and television advertising industries into one platform.



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