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GodTube’s Got Friends in High Places

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May 5th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Jeez Louise! GodTube, an online video sharing and social networking aimed at Christians, has secured a whopping $30 million in a funding round from GLG Partners, paidContent.org reports. The valuation of the round is about $150 million and GodTube has previously raised $2.5 million from private investors. GodTube reportedly has [...] more...

Cash Money! Pontiflex Gets $2.5M in Funding

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April 30th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Pontiflex, Inc., a company involved in the online lead generation marketplace, reports that it has completed a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by New Atlantic Ventures and Greenhill SAVP. The funds will be used to build the company’s sales and marketing efforts and support its suite of [...] more...

Travel Ad Network Gets $15 Infusion

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April 21st 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – The Travel Ad Network has raised $15 million in a Series A round of financing, the company announced today. Rho Ventures, Village Ventures and individual investors provided the influx, which will be used to grow its product lineup and expand into new markets. The vertical ad network targets travel [...] more...

Glam, Adconion Secure Funding in Insecure Financial Environment

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February 25th 2008
Author
Editor

ADOTAS — Online ad network execs are still bringing home the bacon despite worries that the economy is hitting the skids. Glam Media and Adconion Media Group are leading the pack with significant new funding rounds announced today. Glam, a network that targets women with its own sites and its online [...] more...

ADOTAS Conversations: Yoav Shaham, Founder and CEO, Kontera

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September 13th 2006
Author
Lauren Kerensky

Search engine marketers bank on the fact that when you search for an item or topic, their site or ad will catch your eye. In reality, though, how much of their overall online time do users actually spend searching? Studies revealed that the answer is not much. Searches, even if [...] more...

IGA Receives VC Funding from Intel

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July 5th 2006
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Editor

In-game advertising company IGA Worldwide has just received an extra $5 million in Series A funding from Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s venture capital wing. IGA’s current investor group, led by Easton Capital Group had already announced $12 million in Series A funding. IGA’s Radial advertising system lets advertisers inject targeted [...] more...

Oddcast Nabs $4 Million in Funding

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June 13th 2006
Author
Editor

Everyone loves the talking heads. Especially Oddcast, Union Square Ventures, and Japanese trading company ITOCHU. Oddcast creates online talking animated avatars used by more than 5,500 small, medium, and large b2b and b2c companies as anything from virtual salespeople and marketers to virtual instructors and customer service representatives. They just [...] more...

Kontera Gets Funding, Unveils ContentLink

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April 26th 2006
Author
Editor

In-text advertising company Kontera today announced that they have received round one funding from Sequoia Capital. Subsequently, they have launched their ContentLink advertising system, a technology that peruses a website’s content and places appropriate in-text keyword advertising links within the page. The ContentLink system also comes with two keyword bidding [...] more...


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