Tremor Media executive chairman Jason Glickman is working on a new company called Connected Sports Ventures. While still in stealth, the startup looks poised to change the way people watch sports by connecting their social activity on second-screen devices with what’s happening on the big screen. Read More »
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Last month, online video ad network Tremor Media added some mobile capabilities through its acquisition of Transpera. But many former members of the Transpera team are now at Tremor competitor YuMe to help improve its mobile ad platform. Read More »
Tremor Media has raised an additional $65 million in financing, according to an SEC filing, on top of $80 million it had raised since being founded in 2004. While details are sparse, the funding could be related to the November acquisition of rival ad network Scanscout. Read More »
Were you wondering what Tremor Media was going to do with that $40 million it raised earlier this year? Well now you know: it has acquired rival ScanScout in a deal that will make it the second-largest online video ad server in the U.S. Read More »
Tremor Media has struck a deal to begin offering Innovid‘s interactive pre-roll ads across its video ad network. The strategic partnership, terms of which weren’t disclosed, will result in a co-branded, co-marketed form of pre-roll ads available to more than 1,700 video publishers that … Read More »
Online ad startup Tremor Media announced today that it has raised a $40 million financing round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund, with participation from DFJ, Triangle Peak Partners and other existing investors. Tremor had previously raised a total of $40 million … Read More »
Boxee Box Remote Has a QWERTY Keyboard; the company says for people to get the most out of the box the remote was going to need to do more than just point and click. (Boxee blog) Meanwhile, Engadget goes ‘hands on’ with the Boxee Box. … Read More »
U.S. Internet users watched close to 31 billion videos in November, according to new numbers released by comScore today. The market research company is reporting that around 170 million U.S.-based Internet users watched videos online during the month. A big chunk of those views … Read More »
Comcast, NBC Execs Meet with FCC Commissioners; seeking approval for the Comcast-NBC deal, Brian Roberts and Jeff Zucker separately met with four of the five FCC commissioners, in discussions that have been called “introductory.” (Bloomberg) YouTube Chief Says Ad Sales Are Soaring; co-founder Chad Hurley said … Read More »
Magnify.net Raises $500K; new funding comes from previous investors, brings total amount raised to less than $3 million. (paidContent) Two Execs Leave Tremor Media; co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Andrew Reis and co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Jesse Chenard depart the video ad network to pursue … Read More »