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Bloom in Tech

Bloom in Tech

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I talk with (and about) smart, innovative people and companies in tech, media, entertainment, VR/AR, games, esports, AI, blockchain and advertising. I'm a long-time journalist and former studio executive. I write regularly for Forbes, Next TV, Tubefilter, and TVRev, and consult on communications and content strategy. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/davidlbloom/support

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Building A Better Streaming Service For Latin American Markets

Published: Aug. 25, 2022, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 24 seconds

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It's An Ad's World: Apple TV+, Friday Night Baseball, Advertising, and Adweek's New Podcast Network

Published: April 14, 2022, 12:39 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds

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Taking The Oscars Online, And Talking With Topico CEO Andy Walraven

Published: April 2, 2022, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 47 seconds

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Streaming Services Head For A Big Oscar Night

Published: March 25, 2022, 4:26 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds

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Which Streaming Services Are Set For Big Oscar Night Wins?

Published: March 25, 2022, 3:24 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds

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Writer-Director Neill Blomkamp On 'Demonic,' Volumetric Capture, Videogames and His Next Projects

Published: Aug. 19, 2021, 11:51 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 9 seconds

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The Logan Paul-Floyd Mayweather 'Fight' And The Celebrity-Sports-Live Event Mashup

Published: June 11, 2021, 12:28 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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The World After Covid With Deloitte Chief Futurist Mike Bechtel

Published: June 9, 2021, 12:38 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 31 seconds

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Maestro Media's Javon Frazier on Marvel, the Binding of Isaac, Umbrella Academy, and Creating Spinoffs Fans Love

Published: April 9, 2021, 2:09 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 3 seconds

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Tastemade CEO Larry Fitzgibbon On Streaming Video's Watershed Year And What's Next

Published: March 8, 2021, 1:07 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 42 seconds

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Streaming Video Year-End Grades And 2021 Trends To Watch

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 7:13 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 47 seconds

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HBO Maxes Out Movie Gambit As WarnerMedia Faces An Expensive, Transformative 2021

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 12:38 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 41 seconds

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The Role of Social Media In Our Elections Still Needs A Lot Of Work

Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 1:14 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 54 seconds

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Lessons From Quibi's Fall, And Curio's Govind Balakrishnan On Subscription Audio

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 8:47 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 28 seconds

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Tubi Chief Content Officer Adam Lewinson On AVOD Streaming's Big Years

Published: Sept. 19, 2020, 3:23 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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How Hollywood's Most Important Labor Day Weekend Ever Sets Up Film's Future

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 8:11 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 29 seconds

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Oscar Winner Walter Murch On 'Coup 53' And The British Secret Agent Who Overthrew Iran's Government

Published: Aug. 31, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 11 seconds

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Disney, NBCU and ViacomCBS Make It A Red Letter Week in Streaming History

Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 6:12 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 38 seconds

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Universal and AMC Turn The Movie Business, And Maybe Streaming, Upside Down

Published: July 31, 2020, 11:10 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds

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Grading the Big Video Streaming Services in Quarter 2, 2020

Published: July 24, 2020, 7:02 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 30 seconds

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Paket Media's Raffi Bagdasarian On Solving Subscription Video's Sign-In Chaos

Published: June 18, 2020, 11:19 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 20 seconds

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Building and Buying Into the Metaverse with Peter Levin Of Griffin Gaming Partners

Published: May 17, 2020, 8:27 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 50 seconds

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Ken Jennings, Richard Garfield, Half Truth The Game, and Studio71 CEO Dan Weinstein

Published: May 10, 2020, 9:36 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 16 seconds

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Duncan Trussell on Netflix's Animated Mind Trip "The Midnight Gospel"

Published: May 3, 2020, 10:04 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 54 seconds

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Facebook's Phil Ranta on The Booming Opportunities for Video Game Influencers

Published: April 13, 2020, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 33 seconds

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Talking With UTA Chief Innovation Officer Brent Weinstein on Hollywood And The Pandemic

Published: April 3, 2020, 1:32 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 10 seconds

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How Social Media Creators Can Thrive, And Help The Rest of Us Survive, The Pandemic

Published: March 19, 2020, 6:49 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 58 seconds

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Influencer Marketing Takes Center Stage, with Former Nike Exec Drieke Leenknegt and CreatorIQ CEO Igor Vaks

Published: March 10, 2020, 6:42 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 16 seconds

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My Meta-Podcast About Podcasting, iHeart CEO Bob Pittman , And My Essay On Sticks, Boxes and Gratitude

Published: Feb. 16, 2020, 4:08 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds

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Quibi's Oscar Coming-Out Party Was Big But Can Its Ad Blitz Buy Success?

Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 12:52 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 17 seconds

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Why Awards Season Will Never End For Netflix And Other Streaming Services

Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 4:29 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 6 seconds

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Deepfake Videos And A Divisive Election Are Both Upon Us. What Could Go Wrong?

Published: Jan. 16, 2020, 9:14 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 48 seconds

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Disney+, Apple TV+ Enter Dangerous New Territory: The Churn Zone

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 7:19 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 4 seconds

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The Coming Deluge Of College Athlete Influencers, and My Panel On The Influencer Lifestyle With YiZhou, Brendan Kane, Bruna Nessif And Others

Published: Nov. 30, 2019, 5:44 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 31 seconds

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The Lessons Claire Wineland Taught Us And Why Nick Reed Had To Make Her Documentary

Published: Oct. 20, 2019, 6:31 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 11 seconds

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Power's Changing Face, And How OTT Video Services Can Attract More Subscribers

Published: Oct. 4, 2019, 10:32 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 22 seconds

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How Apple's TV+ Could Get 100 Million Users, Plus Philo's COO On Making A Skinny Bundle Make Sense

Published: Sept. 21, 2019, 6:13 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 56 seconds

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Making Online Video Pay, Whether You're Apple Or Niche Providers

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 8:18 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds

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The Worldz Conference and Helping Brands and People Tell Their Stories Better

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 6:56 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 4 seconds

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Netflix Triples Down On Theatrical Runs For its Biggest Oscar Hopefuls, And It Should

Published: Aug. 29, 2019, 7:22 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds

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Jeopardy King Ken Jennings and Magic The Gathering Creator Richard Garfield On Their New Game "Half Truth"

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 7:56 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 30 seconds

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ViacomCBS, Tumblr and Houseparty: The Companies We Keep, And Those We Can't

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 12:04 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds

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Ninja Remixes The Gamer Live-Streaming Business With His Stunning Leap To Microsoft

Published: Aug. 8, 2019, 3:52 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 1 second

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Netflix's Stumble And How Tubi Can Thrive Amid The Streaming Wars

Published: July 29, 2019, 2:13 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 7 seconds

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World of Wonder Co-Founders On RuPaul, DragCon, Retail and Subscription Video

Published: July 19, 2019, 7:18 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 12 seconds

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Joey Graceffa Really Doesn't Want To Direct

Published: July 15, 2019, 4:51 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 8 seconds

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Gamers Outreach Founder Zach Wigal On Helping Sick Kids

Published: July 9, 2019, 1:51 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 5 seconds

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Going Digital Means We Lose A Way To Share Culture Together

Published: July 4, 2019, 4:17 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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EDM Duo Vicetone On Dance Music In Nashville, Videogames And Their Big Asia Tour

Published: June 25, 2019, 6:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds

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Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas On Producing TV And Film Together For 50 Years

Published: June 19, 2019, 11:40 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 41 seconds

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Mindy Kaling And Nancy Meyers On Being Do-Everything Creators In Hollywood

Published: June 13, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 46 seconds

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Producing TV and Film In A Changing Hollywood: Gail Berman, Lucy Fisher and the Produced By Conference

Published: June 7, 2019, 6:34 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds

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Apple Dumps iTunes, And The Web, At WWDC

Published: June 5, 2019, 1:51 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds

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Crowdfunding Comes To Commercial Real Estate, with CrowdStreet CEO Tore Steen

Published: June 3, 2019, 5:46 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 56 seconds

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Beating Burnout For Influencers And Everyone Else, With Dr. Habib Sadeghi

Published: May 30, 2019, 5:19 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 58 seconds

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Dr. Fiorella Terenzi On Teaching Astrophysics With Space Opera

Published: May 23, 2019, 2:27 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 33 seconds

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Digital Anthropologist Brian Solis On Influencers And Scaling Your Life For The Digital Era

Published: May 17, 2019, 2:14 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 51 seconds

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Edward James Olmos On His Iconic Roles, Acting As Activism and Growing Up In East L.A.

Published: May 12, 2019, 8:22 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 29 seconds

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Instagram Is Killing Likes; Beca Alexander of Socialyte Tells Me What It Means

Published: May 3, 2019, 4:15 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 55 seconds

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Short Films on Alien's 40th Anniversary and Tongal CEO James DeJulio

Published: April 29, 2019, 11:09 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 31 seconds

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Emilio Estevez on 'The Public' Movie, Libraries and The Homeless

Published: April 21, 2019, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 57 seconds

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Disney+ Shows Its Cards While Netflix Continues To Count Its Winnings

Published: April 18, 2019, 4:35 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 51 seconds

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Snap's Great Week Doesn't Solve Everything Yet

Published: April 14, 2019, 1:40 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds

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Trump's Twitter Suit And Social Media As Public Trust

Published: April 3, 2019, 7:01 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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Apple Echoes Amazon in Subtweeted Rebuke of Google And Facebook

Published: March 30, 2019, 10:20 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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Critical Role's Leaders On Its $7.7 Million Kickstarter Hit, The Legend of Vox Machina

Published: March 21, 2019, 5:40 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds

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Facebook's Fake Pivot, Amazon's Ascendance and Social Media's Inflection Point

Published: March 13, 2019, 12:39 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 38 seconds

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Digital Media Sports Spending, Jeff Zucker's Rise, And Conde Nast Catches Cricket Fever

Published: March 7, 2019, 2:20 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 21 seconds

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How Netflix Won The Oscars Even Though It Lost Best Picture

Published: March 1, 2019, 5:56 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds

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Cinemark CEO On VR, Esports and The Future of Theaters

Published: Feb. 25, 2019, 1:25 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 1 second

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Surveillance As Art, Gender As Boundary: Jill Soloway and Jill Magid at Frieze LA

Published: Feb. 17, 2019, 7:23 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 39 seconds

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Fortnite, Dollar Shave Club And The Future Of Content Marketing

Published: Feb. 10, 2019, 2:07 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 36 seconds

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Tom Cruise, Callie Khouri and the Dog Days of Hollywood's Awards Season

Published: Feb. 2, 2019, 6:18 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 57 seconds

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Baseball All Star Adrian Gonzalez and PopFly XP's New Fan Apps

Published: Jan. 27, 2019, 9:07 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 54 seconds

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Netflix's Awards Strategy Pays Off With Roma's 10 Oscar Nominations

Published: Jan. 23, 2019, 12:26 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 28 seconds

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Can Influencers Reach Their Fans Beyond Social Media Platforms?

Published: Jan. 20, 2019, 9:05 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 22 seconds

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NBCU's Bluprint And The E-Commerce Future of Online Video

Published: Jan. 11, 2019, 9:12 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds

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Netflix's Many Holiday Moves Set It Up For Challenging 2019

Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 2:43 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 35 seconds

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Five Trends Shaping Influencer Marketing In 2019

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 4:50 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 30 seconds

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Virtual Reality's Improved Reality At End of 2018, With Dreamscape Immersive

Published: Dec. 27, 2018, 3:21 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 34 seconds

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Looking Back At Hollywood's 2018 and Its Momentous Makeover

Published: Dec. 23, 2018, 12:33 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 48 seconds

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What Netflix's $100 Million 'Friends' Deal Might Be A Bargain

Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 1:06 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds

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Giving Tuesday and NewsMatch - Funding Accountability Journalism

Published: Nov. 24, 2018, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds

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Making Esports A Cultural Happening - DreamHack, Subnation and VRTL Summit

Published: Nov. 17, 2018, 5:51 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 40 seconds

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The Bear Chasing Streaming Video's Would-Be Giants

Published: Nov. 11, 2018, 4:49 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds

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Has Donald Trump Actually Been Good For The Media?

Published: Nov. 5, 2018, 9:39 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley on Future TV and the Video Sea of Blood

Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 5:39 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 28 seconds

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Vogue's 73 Questions and DP Vincent Peone

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 2:11 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 43 seconds

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Snapchat's Future & A Talk With Thrillist's Ocean MacAdams

Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds

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Mobile's Future In Apple, Big Smartphones and 5G Networks

Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 11:35 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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Julia Maes of VidCon On Influencers, Dodging Cannes Lions, And London

Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 12:10 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 8 seconds

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Influencers and Fighting Follower Fraud, with James Creech

Published: Sept. 8, 2018, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 8 seconds

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How Brands Can Win At Fortnite: Subnation's Seven Volpone

Published: Sept. 4, 2018, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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Steve-O and Sam Macaroni on VR talk show "Headset Hotshots"

Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 1:29 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds

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Emmy Nominee Alexis Denisof of "I Love Bekka & Lucy"

Published: Aug. 20, 2018, 6:02 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 18 seconds

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Amazon, Downstream and the Value of Transaction Data

Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 10:58 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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TBS CMO Michael Engleman on Social Good, The Last O.G. and Tracy Morgan

Published: Aug. 2, 2018, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 58 seconds

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Comic-Con Panel: Creating Our Future Through Science & Art

Published: July 21, 2018, 7:51 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 4 seconds

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deadmau5 on Music, Games and Merging the Two

Published: July 5, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds

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Musing on Social Media, Memoir and McLuhan

Published: July 4, 2018, 8:33 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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Big Block's Seven Volpone on Subnation, E3 & Gamer Culture

Published: June 12, 2018, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 46 seconds

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Why Hollywood Should Focus on Getting Better, Not Just Bigger

Published: May 19, 2018, 7:37 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds

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Hollywood and Games - Bloom in Tech at the LA Games Conference 2018

Published: May 9, 2018, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 28 seconds

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Healing American Democracy: Can "Constitutional Localism" & Tech Break the DC Logjam?

Published: May 4, 2018, 1:28 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 52 seconds

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Rising Tide Summit - Oceans, Brands and Good Business

Published: March 25, 2018, 8:39 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds

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Bloom in Tech: David Bloom with Tubular Labs Allison Stern

Published: March 13, 2018, 6:57 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 8 seconds

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