Tastemade has had quite a year. The company, known for its quirky short-form videos about food, travel and lifestyle topics, hit the 100 million monthly active users mark, with more than 1 billion monthly views. On Facebook alone, Tastemade grew its audience from around 100,000 fans to more than 5.7 million. This year, the company joined Apple TV—the only food and travel channel on the platform—linked up with Facebook's Anthology and Suggested Videos, partnered with Spotify on the streaming music company's video service, and landed one of the 15 prized spots on Snapchat's Discover platform. As Tastemade, which was founded in 2012, heads into its fourth year, it will do so with deeper pockets. The video publisher announced this morning it has closed a $40 million Series D funding round led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Raine Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Liberty Media, Scripps Networks Interactive, and Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. Tastemade had previously raised $40 million, bringing the total funding to $80 million. With the extra cash in hand, Larry Fitzgibbon, one of Tastemade's co-founders, wants to continue Tastemade's momentum, especially when it comes to working with brands. "All of that work has culminated into us reaching the exact consumer we thought we would at a scale we thought we would as well," said Fitzgibbon. "We are truly becoming the brands for our categories for that audience." Fitzgibbon noted... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Digital media company Refinery29 is looking to raise up to $20 million through a new funding round, according to a recent SEC filing. The filing was spotted by Axios, which reports the startup will... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
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BuzzFeed plans to make 20 episodic video shows across Facebook, YouTube and other platforms this year. In an effort to Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-05-21 17:00:27 UTC ]
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The Austrian news publisher has grown video revenues to 10% of digital ad revenue. The post How Austrian publisher Die Presse made its video business profitable appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Based in Clayton, Invisibly is seeking to help publishers monetize digital content they put on the internet. Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Four decades after debuting as an insert in a 1978 issue of Playboy, Food & Wine’s 40th Anniversary campaign celebrates not only its 24,000 published recipes and its collaborations with world-renowned chefs, but also the year of growth the brand experienced across its digital, social, video,... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Weather Channel is no longer actively publishing videos to Facebook due to a lack of meaningful revenue and Facebook's tendency to routinely shift its priorities. The post ‘A fun adventure, not a business’: The Weather Channel stopped publishing video on Facebook appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After posting disappointing holiday results, Barnes & Noble instituted a round of layoffs yesterday that it says will save the company $40 million annually and result in severance payments of about $11 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The food video format that launched successful publishing brands like Tasty is no longer new, forcing publishers to look for new revenue sources. The post Signs that Facebook food videos are losing their luster appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers and agents report positive meetings and rights sales, and Frankfurt responds to political disputes by reaffirming its commitment to freedom of expression. The post Frankfurt Book Fair: Booming Business for Trade Visitors, Reflections of German Politics Play Out appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is offering major record labels and music publishers hundreds of millions of dollars so the users of its social network can legally include songs in videos they upload, according to people familiar with the matter.The posting and viewing of video on Facebook has exploded in recent... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Characterized as South Korea's largest ebook service, Ridibooks' parent company raises funds. And Quarto Group Takes on Zest Books distribution. The post Industry Notes: South Korea’s Ridibooks Raises $20 Million; Quarto Distributes Zest Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Penguin Random House has agreed to buy major Barcelona-based publisher Ediciones B for a rumored €40 million, further consolidating its power in Spanish-language markets. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For a second year in a row, publishers arrived at the London Book Fair with the wind at their backs. Will Brexit change that? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publishing giant plans to produce six to eight short videos a day for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter with its first social-only launch, Well Done. The post Time Inc. is hungry for social food videos, too appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alvin Zhou is not your typical video producer. On a recent fall afternoon, he's hovering over a table in a test kitchen cutting and prepping vegetables and meat that he'll later whip into an ersatz "fried rice" dish made with cauliflower. As I watch, I'm offered a hot chocolate chip cookie... Continue reading at AdWeek
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Tastemade is a food video giant. And yet, the publisher wants to be known for more than its recipe videos. It’s one of the reasons behind “A Perfect Day in Los Angeles,” the company’s first VR film, which features Ryan Seacrest, Conan O’Brien and social influencers providing a tour of the city.... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How Tony Lyons grew a publishing company that is on track to publish 900 books across 17 imprints ten years after its founding. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trinity Mirror is on a mission to drive up programmatic ad yields, and it's using a mix of methods to do so. Its relatively new programmatic team has been using data insights as a lead generation tool to court big brands like Nestle. It's also assigned people dedicated solely to monitoring yield... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TV networks have been teaming up with digital publishers, hoping to tap into their often-younger audiences as their own viewers age. Along those lines, A+E Networks is tapping PureWow to produce 12 45-second recipe videos for FYI, A+E's 2-year-old lifestyle channel. The deal lets A+E tap into... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Food-themed social videos have been all the rage, but everything has a saturation point. So publishers including BuzzFeed, Thrillist Media Group and NowThis are glomming on to booze-related content. Seems cocktail stirring, like the hands-in-bowls genre, is well suited to the 30-second,... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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