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About Spot Runner
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Press Releases
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Founders' Bios
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Founders' Photos
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Investors' Profiles
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Website Screenshots
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Spot Runner Logo
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Video and Radio News Releases
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Television Ads
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Media Contact
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Contact Us
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About Spot Runner
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Spot Runner is the first Internet-based ad agency that makes it easy and affordable for local businesses to advertise on TV. With Spot Runner's revolutionary approach to commercial production, media planning and media buying services, local businesses now have access to a powerful marketing tool that was previously out of their reach. Advertisers can choose from a comprehensive library of professionally produced ads which can be viewed, purchased and personalized in a simple process online. With its proprietary media planning engine, Spot Runner also creates customized media plans by using some basic information entered by the advertiser, such as their industry, target demographics and budget. The entire process, which can traditionally take months and hundreds of thousands of dollars, now takes just days and at a fraction of the cost. Spot Runner manages each account by securing the ad buy, placing and tracking the ads, and analyzing viewership and demographic information. All of it is available online - a simple mouse click away.
Company Backgrounder
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Fact Sheet
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Overview of Services
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Press Releases
May 7, 2008 - Spot Runner Receives $51 Million in New Funding from Daily Mail and General Trust, Grupo Televisa, Legg Mason Capital Management and Groupe Arnault/LVMH
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April 15, 2008 - Mark Rosenthal Joins Spot Runner as President, Media Platforms and Vice Chairman
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March 26, 2008 - Spot Runner Brings Democracy to Political Election Process
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March 19, 2008 - Spot Runner Names John Gentry as President
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March 19, 2008 - Spot Runner Hires New Chief Financial Officer Samuel Paisley
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March 13, 2008 - Spot Runner Appoints Joanne Bradford as Executive Vice President, National Marketing Services
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March 4, 2008 - Spot Runner Extends Leadership in Local Advertising by Acquiring Weblistic, A Top Online Marketing Services Provider
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January 22, 2008 - Spot Runner Acquires GlobeShooter, A Network of More Than 1,200 Video Producers
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October 10, 2007 - DPS Establishes a $750,000 Co-Op Advertising Fund Through Spot Runner to Help Retailers Sell More Journey Diamond Jewelry This Holiday
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October 9, 2007 - Spot Runner Wins WebAward for "Best Advertising Website"
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August 7, 2007 - Spot Runner Expands Offerings to National Network of Diamond Jewelry Retailers Through New Strategic Alliance With Stuller
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July 11, 2007 - 60Frames Entertainment Launches to Finance and Syndicate Professionally-Produced Online Content, Offering Unique Advertising Opportunities to Top National Brands
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June 26, 2007 - Spot Runner Wins Stevie® Award for "Most Innovative Company" and Seven Telly Awards for Outstanding Creative Work
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May 30, 2007 - LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® and Spot Runner Team Up To Deliver First Local TV Advertising Program for Law Firms
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January 3, 2007 - Warner Independent Pictures and Spot Runner Create New Marketing Model for Independent Films
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December 11, 2006 – Spot Runner and Diamond Promotion Service Strike Alliance to Help Jewelry Retailers and Manufacturers Advertise Diamond Jewelry on Local TV
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December 5, 2006 – Robert Pittman Joins Spot Runner's Board of Directors
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October 30, 2006 --WPP, CBS Corporation and Interpublic Group Make Investments In Spot Runner To Leverage Its Innovative Automated Advertising Platform
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October 2, 2006 - Spot Runner's new advertising platform helps franchisees build their businesses through cost-effective, local TV advertising
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Learn more about Spot Runner's Franchise Advertising Program
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September 12, 2006 -- Spot Runner and OrthoClear, Inc. Strike Strategic Marketing Agreement to Promote "Invisible Orthodontics" in Local TV Markets
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July 31, 2006 -- JWT and Spot Runner Form Strategic Alliance to Offer Highly Targeted, Local TV Campaigns and Develop New Advertising Services Based on Emerging Video Platforms
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March 28, 2006 -- Spot Runner Survey Reveals Small and Medium Businesses Rank TV Advertising Over Radio, Newspapers, Magazines and Internet Keywords
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February 8, 2006 -- Cendant Real Estate Services and Spot Runner Announce Strategic National Alliance
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January 11, 2006 -- Spot Runner Reinvents TV Advertising By Enabling Local Businesses To Produce Ads
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January 11, 2006 -- Spot Runner Secures Series A Financing from Index Ventures and Battery Ventures
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Founders' Bios
Nick Grouf
Nick Grouf is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of privately-held Spot Runner, Inc., the first Internet-based ad agency aimed at revolutionizing the way advertising is created, targeted, bought and sold. [download pdf for complete biography]
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David Waxman
David Waxman is co-founder of privately-held Spot Runner, Inc., the first Internet-based ad agency aimed at revolutionizing the way advertising is created, targeted, bought and sold. [download pdf for complete biography]
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Founders' Photos
Nick Grouf
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David Waxman
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Nick Grouf and David Waxman
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Nick Grouf
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Investors
Spot Runner is backed by a wealth of experienced venture capital firms and investors, including:
Battery Ventures
www.battery.com
Battery Ventures is a leading venture capital firm focused on investing in technology companies at all stages of growth, from seed to later stage and tech buyouts. Battery leverages its people, expertise and capital to actively guide companies to category leadership. Its distinguished track record of investments includes Infoseek, Friendster, Akamai, MetroPCS, InFocus and many others.
CBS
www.cbs.com
CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) is a mass media company with constituent parts that reach back to the beginnings of the broadcast industry, as well as newer businesses that operate on the leading edge of the media industry. The company, through its many and varied operations, combines broad reach with well-positioned local businesses, all of which provide it with an extensive distribution network by which it serves audiences and advertisers in all 50 states and key international markets. It has operations in virtually every field of media and entertainment, including broadcast television (CBS and The CW — a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment), cable television (Showtime and CSTV Networks), local television (CBS Television Stations), television production and syndication (CBS Paramount Network Television and CBS Television Distribution), radio (CBS Radio), advertising on out-of-home media (CBS Outdoor), publishing (Simon & Schuster), interactive media (CBS Interactive), music (CBS Records), licensing and merchandising (CBS Consumer Products) and video/DVD (CBS Home Entertainment).
Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT)
www.dmgt.co.uk
DMGT is one of the largest and most successful international media companies in the UK and has interests in national newspapers and related digital operations, local media, business and financial information, exhibitions and radio.
The Group's objective is to be the owner of high quality sustainable media properties, reflected in premium commercial positions, thereby generating a premium return for shareholders. Over the past decade the strategy has been to extend the Group’s media activities so as to reduce its dependence on UK newspapers, which are heavily dependent on advertising, and, due to their strong market positions, much regulated.
The Group's newspapers remain highly profitable and we are continuing to invest in them in order to maintain their market-leading positions. The stability of these businesses has underpinned the manner in which we have built a re-balanced group: by deployment of capital most successfully in DMG Information, recently in Euromoney through its acquisition of Metal Bulletin and in dmg world media and DMG Radio.
DMGT was incorporated in 1922 but has origins dating back to the launch of the Daily Mail in 1896. As one of the longest-established media companies in the UK, DMGT has long invested in editorial excellence to become one of the most successful information providers in the country.
Groupe Arnault/LVMH
www.lvmh.com
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton is the world's leading luxury goods group. The Group is represented in Wines and Spirits by a portfolio of brands that includes Moët & Chandon, Dom Pérignon, Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, Krug, Ruinart, Château d'Yquem, Hennessy, Glenmorangie, Ardbeg, Belvedere Vodka, Chopin, 10 Cane, Chandon, Cloudy Bay, Terrazas de los Andes, Cheval des Andes, Green Point, Cape Mentelle, and Newton.
Its Fashion and Leather Goods division includes Louis Vuitton, the world's leading luxury brand, as well as Celine, Loewe, Kenzo, Givenchy, Thomas Pink, Fendi, Emilio Pucci, Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, Berluti, StefanoBi as well as eLUXURY, the authoritative online source for luxury goods on the Internet. LVMH is present in the Perfumes and Cosmetics sector with Parfums Christian Dior, Guerlain, Parfums Givenchy, Parfums Kenzo, Perfumes Loewe as well as other promising cosmetic companies (BeneFit Cosmetics, Make Up For Ever, Acqua di Parma and Fresh). LVMH is also active in selective retailing through DFS, Sephora in Europe and the United States, Le Bon Marché and la Samaritaine. LVMH's Watches and Jewelry division comprises TAG Heuer, Chaumet, Christian Dior Watches, Zenith, Fred and De Beers Diamond Jewellers Limited, a joint venture created with the world’s leading diamond group.
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B.
www.televisa.com
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world and a major participant in the international entertainment business. It has interests in television production and broadcasting, production of pay-television networks, international distribution of television programming, direct-to-home satellite services, cable television and telecommunication services, magazine publishing and publishing distribution, radio production and broadcasting, professional sports and live entertainment, feature-film production and distribution, the operation of a horizontal internet portal, and gaming. Grupo Televisa also owns an unconsolidated equity stake in La Sexta, a free-to-air television venture in Spain.
Index Ventures
www.indexventures.com
Index Ventures is a leading venture capital firm dedicated to working with entrepreneurs who have the drive and ability to build world-class technology companies that can become global players in their market. The firms' investments have included Last.fm (now CBS), MySQL (now Sun), Skype (now eBay).
Interpublic Group
www.interpublic.com
Interpublic is one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. Major global brands include Draftfcb, FutureBrand, GolinHarris International, Initiative, Jack Morton Worldwide, Lowe Worldwide, MAGNA Global, McCann Erickson, Momentum, MRM Worldwide, Octagon, Universal McCann and Weber Shandwick. Leading domestic brands include Campbell-Ewald, Carmichael Lynch, Deutsch, Hill Holliday, Mullen, The Martin Agency and R/GA.
Legg Mason
www.leggmason.com
Legg Mason is a global asset management firm. The company provides active asset management in many major investment centers throughout the world. Legg Mason is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, and its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: LM).
WPP
www.wpp.com
WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY) is one of the world's leading communications services groups, providing national, multinational and global clients with advertising; media investment management; information, insight and consultancy; public relations and public affairs; branding and identity, healthcare communications, direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing. WPP's worldwide companies include JWT, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Y&R, Grey Worldwide, The United Group, MindShare, Mediaedge:cia, MediaCom, Millward Brown, Research International, KMR Group, OgilvyOne Worldwide, Wunderman, Hill & Knowlton, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Burson-Marsteller, Cohn & Wolfe, CommonHealth, Sudler & Hennessey, Ogilvy Healthworld, Grey Healthcare Group, Enterprise IG, Landor, Fitch and G2 among others.
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Website Screenshots
Homepage
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Where do you want to advertise?
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Find a great ad
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Personalize your ad
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Spot Runner Logo
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Video and Radio News Releases
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Television Ads
View a selection of Spot Runner 30 second television ads.
Personalized ads for our customers:
Dentistry: Dr. Ashish Vashi
Health & Medicine: Ola Loa
Before and after personalization:
Mortgages: "Dream Business"
Selections from our ad library:
Pest Control: "Annoying"
Printing: "Spot Runner Document Solutions"
Employment Services: "Suspects"
Test Preparation & Tutoring: "Unlimited Potential"
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Media Contact
Members of the media may contact Spot Runner Corporate Communications via email
at press@spotrunner.com.
If you are not a member of the news media, please contact us at 888-880-SPOT for more information.
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Contact Us
6300 Wilshire Boulevard
Twenty-First Floor
Los Angeles, California 90048
(310) 430-7900 phone
(310) 430-7999 fax
www.spotrunner.com
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