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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

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Finding the signal in the noice of social audio is turning out to be the real challenge. Or, well, adding to the social audio noise. Why focus on short-form audio as a social media medium? “We raised $3M in late 2020. Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as tech giants’ clones circle.

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AI-powered VFX startup Wonder Dynamics raises $10M A round

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The company was founded by Nikola Todorovic and actor Tye Sheridan; they joined forces some years back after working on a film together and finding they shared a belief in democratizing cinema tools. “Our platform can be used for film and TV, but also video games, social media content, and even the Metaverse.”

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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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Maximum Effort was founded to help promote the actor’s first Deadpool film. The film raked in $783.1 million at the box office — a record for an R-rated film that held until the 2019 release of Joker. Reynolds and Dewey had come up with several low-budget spots to get people excited about an R-rated comic book movie.

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EWA, which taps into popular media to teach languages, hits 51M downloads and 3.5M MAUs and raises its first outside funding

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In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a media-based approach to language acquisition, with excerpts from films and TV, and books, to familiarize learners with vocabulary and speaking — has passed 51 million downloads and picked up 3.5 million in its first outside funding.

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4 video content tips for your startup’s growth marketing

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Teach yourself growth marketing: How to perform growth experimentation through A/B testing In recent years, video has morphed into the king of social media content across the globe. These marketplaces make it easy to find talent who can film videos for your startup, and you won’t have to pay a large influencer fee either.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

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The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. .” Aspiration can now tell you the ‘social impact’ of your monthly spending.

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Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly

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Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” Daniel Liss. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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