Comments on: PopJax Gets $4.7M for Web Video Trivia http://gigaom.com/video/popjax-gets-47m-for-web-video-trivia/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:14:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ReverendJim http://gigaom.com/video/popjax-gets-47m-for-web-video-trivia/#comment-455923 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:24:52 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3439#comment-455923 Nice site, but I’ve been playing wiseoz.com – a lot of prizes, growing community and a lot of nice people.

]]> By: March 17, 2008 | next media update http://gigaom.com/video/popjax-gets-47m-for-web-video-trivia/#comment-455922 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:11:14 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3439#comment-455922 [...] PopJax Raises $4.7 Million for Web Video Trivia NEWTEEVEE PopJax, a company devoted to games about web video, is launching tomorrow. The year-old company has raised $4.7 million from Shasta Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Selby Ventures (where it was incubated). San Francisco-based PopJax has hired professional gameshow writers to seed 10,000 questions in categories like “Super Bowl Ads,” and “Oscars Greatest.” “We’re going to build out everything to be the Trivial Pursuit of the Internet age,” PopJax CEO Doug Barry said. Source> [...]

]]> By: Harlan Talbot http://gigaom.com/video/popjax-gets-47m-for-web-video-trivia/#comment-455921 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:38:27 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3439#comment-455921 This is HUGE. What a great idea. It’s totally fun. I’m playing a game and answering questions about a TV commercial – what more of a revenue model do you actually need?

]]> By: Liz Gannes http://gigaom.com/video/popjax-gets-47m-for-web-video-trivia/#comment-455920 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:58:46 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3439#comment-455920 Right now the only prize I see offered on the site is a $250 drawing for submitting trivia questions, but I’m sure there’s more than that.

http://popjax.com/videocube/prizes.htm

]]> By: mikecane http://gigaom.com/video/popjax-gets-47m-for-web-video-trivia/#comment-455919 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:37:17 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3439#comment-455919 Do they offer cash prizes? During the initial dotcom boom, there was a company that had a weekly LiveTrivia game using their patented (I think) livematrix software. They offered, like WWTBAM, a $1M prize. I recall seeing the guy in charge on CNBC saying he was capitalized enough to keep doing that for several years. Within three months, the game stopped and they collapsed into marketing the software only.

]]> By: PopJax Raises a Non-Trivial $4.7M http://gigaom.com/video/popjax-gets-47m-for-web-video-trivia/#comment-455918 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:53:03 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3439#comment-455918 [...] to build out everything to be the Trivial Pursuit of the Internet age,” PopJax CEO Doug Barry told NewTeeVee earlier today. “After all, they sold 90 million [...]

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