Tag: Livestreaming
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AmazeVR Raises $15 Million to Bring Music Fans Virtual Reality Concerts With Artists Like Megan Thee Stallion
AmazeVR, a West Hollywood-based virtual reality startup that allows users to experience musical artists’ VR concerts, has secured $15 million in new funding.The funding round was co-led by Partners Investment and Murex Partners and was oversubscribed …
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dot.LA Summit: The Concerts of the Future Will Be Hybrid, Says Wave Co-Founder
As the pandemic shut down, cancelled and delayed events people had been looking forward to, Wave co-founder and CEO Adam Arrigo saw an opportunity.His company was founded in 2016 at a time when brands like Oculus and PlayStation were looking to bring …
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LiveOne Buys Gramophone Media
Los Angeles-based on-demand livestreaming and podcasting company LiveOne–which until recently was known as LiveXLive Media–says it has acquired Gramophone Media, a New York-based artist and brand development company. LiveOne says that Gramophone Medi…
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BallerTV Picks Up Youth League Streaming Startup NextPro
BallerTV, a livestreaming service for youth sports, is expanding from the gymnasium to the playing field, adding millions of games that it can broadcast into people’s homes. The Pasadena-based company announced Tuesday it acquired NextPro, which films…
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Whatnot Connects With $150M More For Live Shopping
Los Angeles-based live shopping streaming marketplace operator Whatnot said on Thursday that it has raised $150M in a Series C funding. The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, YC Continuity, and new investor CapitalG, along with angel investors Andr…
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LiveXLive Plans Rebranding, Spinout
Los Angeles-based LiveXLive Media, which operates both an online livestreaming and pay-per-view business, says it is going through a major rebranding, and plans to spin out its pay-per-view business as a separate company. According to LiveXLive, it pla…
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Moment House’s Livestreams Aren’t For Everyone — Just the Real Fans
Moment House is a livestreaming platform that’s gained traction building an audience among music fans, but CEO and co-founder Arjun Mehta doesn’t see it as just another livestreaming platform.Like the name suggests, Mehta is trying to mold the platfor…
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Bright Raises $15 Million As It Adds More Celebrities Onto Its Platform
Naomi Campbell is offering a class on being “model ready”; you can chat directly with her.She’s part of a group of celebrities — including Lindsey Vonn, Amy Schumer, Judd Apatow, Madonna and the D’Amelio Sisters — giving livestream courses to small a…
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Popshop Live Ramps Up, Betting Live-Shopping Is the Future of Ecommerce
As the COVID-19 pandemic destroyed small businesses, some struggling companies turned to livestreaming-based ecommerce business Popshop Live to stay afloat.Now, Popshop Live wants to prove that ecommerce via live streaming is here to stay.Valued at $1…
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With In-Person Concerts Back, What Will Happen to Livestream Audiences?
In-person concerts are coming back. In California, venues have received the provisional go-ahead to open at full capacity by June 15 so long as statewide COVID numbers continue their downward trend. But 15 months after venues shuttered, the musi…