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Auditude Joins the Arts+Labs Coalition

“Arts+Labs is excited to announce our newest members, Auditude, Blue Pixel and JibJab! We released this statement this morning.”

“Arts+Labs, a unique alliance of the technology, content and creative communities, today announced that three new organizations have joined its coalition. These innovative new companies are at the forefront of exploring distinct new ways of creating a safe, open and accessible digital marketplace that delivers a wide variety of legal content and services to consumers.”

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Adam Cahan named to Hollywood Reporter Digital Power 50

“Cahan’s specialty is helping content owners identify, manage and monetize video across the Web, even when they’re not the ones doing the uploading. Drawing on years of experience at MTV, Google and NBC Universal, he has been successful forming partnerships with media companies like MTV Networks and MySpace (and more to come), which are helping achieve a long-term goal of bringing returns that accurately reflect how much consumers are actually viewing video online. He questions the prevailing market estimates that range from $800 million to $1 billion. “We think it should be eight to 10 times that estimate,” he says.”

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