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| May 15, 2012 | Internet Radio Not Quite Warming to Social Media Yet | The odds aren’t bad that sometime today you will tune in to some type of internet radio service and kick out some jams for a couple of hours. At least, that’s the word from a study conducted by targetspot that revealed that listener market ... |
| May 15, 2012 | Internet radio listening is highly established, growing | Broadcast radio makers should direct their focus on building an online presence to continue
Those fearing for the future of radio need to look no further than the Internet to see that there is a hopeful future.
A recent study commissioned b... |
| Apr 12, 2011 | The Internet Radio "Super Demographic" | Our portfolio company TargetSpot recently conducted two large research studies on the Internet Radio listener. For those that don't know, TargetSpot is the leading third party advertising network for streaming audio.
I've been an Internet R... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Monetizing Mobile Audio | I'm going to the gym in a few minutes. I'll bring my android and stream some music while I'm on the treadmill. Maybe I'll listen to my soundcloud dropbox, or maybe I'll check out the popular tracks on hypem, or maybe I'll listen to some fre... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | Streaming ad network TargetSpot raises $8M to jam ads into online radio | TargetSpot, a provider of advertising for online radio services, announced today that it has raised $8 million in its most recent round of fundraising.
The network is geared toward music radio services like CBS Radio and Yahoo Music. Advert... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | TargetSpot Closes $8M Financing Round | TargetSpot, a New York-based digital audio advertising network, has closed $8m in equity financing.
Investors include Union Square Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, CBS Radio and Milestone Venture Partners.
The company intends to use the fun... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | Digital Audio Advertising Company TargetSpot Lands $8 Million | TargetSpot, which operates a large digital audio advertising network, this morning announced that it has secured $8 million in equity financing from Union Square Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, CBS Radio and Milestone Venture Partners.
The... |
| Jun 26, 2010 | Everyone Can Be A Radio Advertiser | Our portfolio company Targetspot launched a new simplified self serve interface to their radio advertising platform this week. If you have a local business and want to reach hundreds of thousands of radio listeners in your area for a few hu... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | A Manic Start to a Very Mobile Week | This is shaping up to be a big week for mobile. Across several areas--advertising, location-based services, devices--there's a lot going on in the manic mobile market right now. Here's a round-up:
On Tuesday, Millennial Media, an AdMob comp... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Mobile Audio | There's a reason why radio and outdoor (billboard) advertising together became a $30bn to $50bn annual domestic market. When people are mobile, like driving a car, they are not reading, they are not watching video, they are not opening emai... |
| Nov 27, 2009 | Looking For An Expert In SEO/SEM/Online Direct Marketing | Our portfolio company Targetspot is looking for an experienced online direct marketer to "own" and manage their self serve advertising business.
This
is a fun job for the right person because it is an opportunity to run
and grow a... |
| Oct 3, 2009 | Local Media's Hidden Asset: Their Salesforces | I've said this before on this blog and I'll say it again. Traditional local media companies; radio stations, TV stations, local newspapers, and the like, are in a tough situation. Each of those businesses had a monopoly or near monopoly on ... |
| Sep 16, 2009 | Tracking Audio Advertising | Our portfolio company Targetspot announced something pretty interesting today. They are calling it Targetspot Analytics and the announcement is here.
When you run an ad campaign on the web, you can track its performance. That's been a vital... |
| Aug 4, 2009 | Targetspot Enters The Next Phase Of Its Life | I've written about our investment in Targetspot here and on the USV blog before so many readers know how I feel about the potential of online audio advertising.
Of all the major offline advertising categories, audio is the least developed o... |
| Dec 3, 2008 | CBS Is Quietly Building An Internet Radio Powerhouse | I’ve had a ringside seat for a number of reasons and it’s been fun to watch the team at CBS Radio quietly putting together a streaming audio powerhouse. Earlier this year, CBS acquired the rights to operate AOL Radio and yesterday they anno... |
| Nov 22, 2008 | Hard Interruption vs Soft Interruption | Earlier this week I was reading my brother’s blog and he listed his top 10 Clash songs on it. I thought, "gee it would be nice to have them as a playlist." So just for kicks I went to MySpace Music and made the playlist and put it... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | Joe the plumber's landing page | How ReachLocal, Yodle and Clickable can help the plumbers of the world
Last month I attended the New Business Models For News Summit and found myself running the "revenue" breakout group. We talked quite a bit about generating rev... |
| Nov 16, 2008 | Joe The Plumber's Landing Page | Last month I attended the New Business Models For News Summit and found myself running the "revenue" breakout group. We talked quite a bit about generating revenue from local merchants. There are a bunch of companies working on th... |
| Oct 15, 2008 | TargetSpot Acquires Ronning Lipset Radio | Our portfolio company TargetSpot, which is the leader in streaming audio monetization, has acquired Ronning Lipset Radio, the largest internet radio ad sales organization. This is a great marriage, technology plus sales, and makes TargetSpo... |
| Sep 8, 2008 | Monetizing Internet Radio With Music | Doug Perlson, CEO of our portfolio company Targetspot, which offers a monetization service (like adwords for audio) for internet radio has penned an interesting and thought provoking column in Alley Insider today.
Anyone can go to Targetspo... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | A Great Web Developer Opportunity in NYC | Our portfolio company Targetspot helps internet radio services make money. They’ve built “adwords for streaming music” and they’ve got many of the top radio stations in the country using their service.
They are growing rapidly and are looki... |
| Aug 17, 2008 | Constraints and Rules | I believe web services benefit from doing less, not more. I believe that allowing the users to stitch web apps together to get increased functionality is better than a web service trying to do everything for everyone. The Facebook app ecosy... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Structural Change and Marketplaces | There was a brief period of time around 1999/2000 when it seemed that B2B marketplaces would rule the world of commerce, but then most of them collapsed. Just go to the URLs for three of the big names from back then Chemdex, e-Steel, or Pap... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Mixtapes - A Hobby That Just Won't Quit | Back in the day of the cassette tape, making mixtapes was one of my favorite pastimes. I made them for friends. Friends made them for me. The Gotham Gal and I still have a whole drawer full of tapes we made for each other. We keep them at o... |
| Mar 11, 2008 | TargetSpot Raises Series B Round | Last year, we helped get a company started called TargetSpot. TargetSpot is the first self serve ad network for streaming audio and internet radio. TargetSpot was built by our portfolio company Oddcast for CBS Radio and they eventually conc... |
| Mar 8, 2008 | Saving Money On Startups | Jason Calcanis has written a post with almost twenty ideas for saving money in a startup. I agree that keeping the costs down is a critical part of doing a startup right, both because it allows the founders to dilute less and because it cre... |
| Mar 6, 2008 | The Targetspot Value Proposition | Doug Perlson, CEO of our portfolio company Targetspot, has penned an opinion piece in Forbes about monetizing online audio that does a great job of explaining what Targetspot is and why it matters.
I particularly like this paragraph:
Yet, i... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | Last.fm Jumps On The On-Demand Streaming Bandwagon | I’ve been saying for as long as anyone would listen to me that one day all the music ever recorded is going to be on the Internet and we are going to have sufficient bandwidth and connections on every possible listening device and at that p... |
| May 30, 2007 | CBS Buys Last.fm | I just did a search on my blog for the term "last.fm". I’ve used that term so many times that there are 16 pages of search results and that’s just for my blog posts. Clearly I’ve been obsessed by this service from the day I starte... |
| May 1, 2007 | Roundup: WSJ on sale?, 4Info’s SMS network, plankton, PropertyShark, more | Here’s the latest action:
News Corp makes $5 billion takeover bid for Dow Jones — If the bid is accepted, the owner of Fox News would own the old, gray business media icon, the Wall Street Journal. What next?
PropertyShark takes property sn... |
| May 1, 2007 | 10x Revenues | Companies don’t really sell for multiples of revenue, but the math is easy so everyone does it.
I’ve read that Doubleclick sold for 10x their revenue of $300mm.
And that Right Media sold for 12x their annual revenue of $70mm.
Please correct... |
| Apr 30, 2007 | USV Portfolio In The Times | Not one, but two, of our portfolio companies were featured in today’s New York Times business section.
TargetSpot was featured in the advertising column.
And outside.in got some coverage (but no link!) for their "most blogged neighborh... |
| Apr 24, 2007 | TargetSpot | We are announcing a new investment today on the Union Square Ventures weblog.
The company is called TargetSpot and is an advertising system/marketplace for streaming audio.
You can read all about it here. |
