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Founder Grows DNAInfo.com Hyper-Local NY News Site
Joe Ricketts, Nebraska native and founder of the online brokerage TD Ameritrade, decided in 2006 to buy a $29,2 million apartment in the Time Warner Center north tower. According to Capital NY,...
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Lucky Magazine Launching Shopping Site
Lucky (magazine) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The online magazine Lucky will be introducing a shopping site called myLucky.com that directs readers to buy clothing and accessories directly from more than...
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Tumblr’s Advertising Model Emphasizes Caring
100-employee company Tumblr prefers an office in Manhattan, and may be on the brink of understanding how to make money from the internet. Tumblr is a combination of a blog platform and a social...
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Buzzfeed Gives Advertisers Creative Beyond Banners
Image via CrunchBase Buzzfeed has recently experienced an extreme traffic surge paired with an ambitious plan to redefine media company. According to Digiday, Buzzfeed has also had success in winning...
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10Gen Offers Engineers a Challenge
Image via CrunchBase NY tech startups have to compete with Wall Street, ad agencies as well as Google and Facebook for engineers. While the deep pockets of these companies tempt high-tech talent, 10Gen...
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CBS Partners With nRelate for Content Discovery
CBS Logo Light (Photo credit: watchwithkristin) CBS Interactive announced a new partnership with nRelate. Recently purchased by IAC, nRelate is a content discovery service that targets article...
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Cablevision Makes Fun of Itself in New Ads
In its latest ad campaign, Cablevision makes fun of itself. The company’s previous marketing strategy involved discounts to attract new customers and attack ads against rivals. The new TV ads show a...
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NY Giants Score Points With Social Media
NY Giants NFL Apparel jersey shirt – logo (Photo credit: RunwayModels) The job of social media manager is climbing the executive world. For example, Nilay Shah is the 28-year-old social media manager...
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Daily News National Site Increasing Traffic #nydn
New York Daily News logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Since the NY Daily News re-launched its homepage as Daily News America, viewership on the site has increased by 21.6%. according to Capital NY. This...
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NY Daily News Launches SMB Digital Consultancy
New York Daily News logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The NY Daily News launched a consulting department, called Digital Solutions, which provides digital services to small and medium-sized NY businesses....
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NY Big Data Companies Announce #venturecapital Funds
Image via CrunchBase Recently, two NY based big data companies announced additional funding. The first, Dataminr, raised $13 million in a Series B round with GSV Capital, Equity Partners, and others....
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Thrillist Packages Content, Commerce and Data
English: Thrillist’s logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The NY based men’s digital lifestyle magazine Thrillist has an e-newsletter, a mobile app, a local deals provider and a shopping recommender. CEO of...
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AOL Launches 22 YouTube Channels at #AWIX
Image via CrunchBase During Advertising Week in NY today, AOL announced that it will offer its full original video library on YouTube, according to Web Pro News. The videos will be both distributed...
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Tumblr’s David Karp Pitches to Advertisers at #AWIX
MUNICH, GERMANY – JANUARY 23: Founder of Tumblr David Karp speaks during the Digital Life Design conference (DLD) at HVB Forum on January 23, 2012 in Munich, Germany. DLD (Digital – Life – Design) is a...
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Genesis Media Raises $3M in Series A Funding #VC
NY-based startup Genesis has raised $3 million in Series A funding. The company is a video advertising startup that was created after the merger of AdGenesis and TVGenesis in November 2011. According...
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NY Based Aviary Excels After Shift in Strategy #nyctech
Image by Avi Muchnick / Aviary via CrunchBase Aviary, a NY-based startup, is currently serving more than 10 million image edits a day and boasts about 20 million users. According to Bloomberg, the...
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New #FourSquare Feature May Revamp App
Logo for Foursquare (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Foursquare recently launched its newest feature a few months ago, called Explore, which gives users location-based recommendations and attempts to create a...
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#BuzzFeed Expands Advertorial Posts
Image via CrunchBase Recently, BuzzFeed wrote a story entitled “11 Things No One Wants To See You Instagram,” and over the next few weeks it grew into some sort of a phenomenon. It gained over 330,00...
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NY’s #Viggle Engages TV Viewers
NY based startup Viggle was founded by Robert F.C. Sillerman with the goal of helping the entertainment industry better interact with their television viewers. The Viggle app, available via Apple and...
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Pittman Takes on Radio with Clear Channel
Bob Pittman, founder of MTV and current CEO of Clear Channel Communications, is out to reinvent radio. He told The Wall Street Journal, ”I’ve not had my adrenaline pumped up like this in years and I...
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New #Yahoo COO Will be Based in NY
Image via CrunchBase Yahoo’s new chief operating officer, Henrique de Castro, will be based at the company’s NY offices, according to Adweek. Mr. de Castro, who does not start until the middle of next...
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LocalVox Acquires Postling for its Dashboard
LocalVox, a NY-based local marketing platform, announced today that it has acquired Postling, which has developed a social media marketing dashboard. Postling’s dashboard is used by more than 20,000...
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Normal is Still Days Away for Ad Agencies in the Wake of #Sandy
Hurricane Sandy Flooding East Village 2012 (Photo credit: david_shankbone) Ad agencies in NY are struggling to get back to normal as a result of Hurricane Sandy this week. Partners at ALLDAYEVERYDAY...
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NY Digital Companies Still Get to Work After #Sandy
Image via CrunchBase Even though Lower Manhattan businesses are temporarily out of order this week, employees are still working. SoHo-based AKQA said individual client teams are getting together to...
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#NYTimes R&D Cracking the Digital Advertising Code
NYTimes R&D Lab (Photo credit: dpstyles™) The New York Times’ R&D Lab functions as its own in-house startup according to AdWeek. Recently the lab’s focus shifted from strictly creative ideas to...
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PluggedIn: Seconds Screens, Social TV and 4 Different Hashtags
Rich Ullman (foreground) and Eli Mandelbaum of PluggedIn Ventures Roundtable (photo: L. Keyson) By Lauren Keyson What are people actually doing with all these screens? The speakers at yesterday’s...
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#Microsoft Paints the #TimesSquare Shuttle Pink
Microsoft Surface Tablet (Photo credit: methodshop.com) Riders of the S train between Grand Central and Times Square are in for a massive dose of pink. According to Mashable, Microsoft’s subway ad...
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Advertisers Eager for New #Digital #TimesSquare Billboards
Times Square (Photo credit: Wikipedia) SL Green Realty Corp. and Vornado Realty Trust are hoping that a new generation of digital billboards in Times Square will be major moneymakers. Currently...
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#Forbes Profits from Programmatic Ad Buying
NY Forbes Building Forbes’ plunge into programmatic ad buying has been very profitable. According to Meredith Levien, Forbes’ chief revenue officer, digital business had double-digit growth from 2011...
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NY Startups are catching up to #SiliconValley
New York City (Photo credit: kaysha) The rapidly emerging NYC tech scene, is often compared to Silicon Valley and Venture Beat writer Hadley Harris did just that in a recent post. NY has seen a 32...
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