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Critical Media

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Critical Media offers real-time broadcast media capture, search, syndication and information services. The Company provides tools and services to content consumers, providers, distributors and advertisers, leveraging its real-time broadcast capture infrastructure.

Every day, Critical Media digitizes and monetizes over 15,000 hours of keyword searchable broadcast content from 4 continents. The Company is comprised of two divisions, the Information Services Group which markets Critical Mention™, the company’s dynamic real-time business intelligence platform, utilized by 25% of the Fortune 100, and the Broadcaster Services Group focused on building the world’s largest ad-supported repository of fully searchable, authoritative video news and information.

• ClipSyndicate, while providing broadcasters and content owners with risk-free, streamlined solutions, such as its clip publishing platform - Syndicaster™, and other solutions intended to take all complexity out of distributing and monetizing their video assets online.

Critical Media was founded in 2002 under the name Critical Mention by Sean Morgan, one of the founders of Screaming Media - the largest text syndication company on the Internet now owned by Dow Jones, Inc. and is headquartered in New York City.

Milestones

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  Critical Media added Andy Minkstein as Product Manager.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 9:44pm
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  Critical Media added Michael Johnston as VP of Network Operations.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 9:44pm
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  Critical Media added James Vaughn as VP of Software Engineering.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 9:43pm
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  Critical Media added Jim Pavoldi as VP of Business Development & Distribution.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 9:43pm
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  Critical Media added Nancy Dunn as VP of Advertising Strategy.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 9:42pm
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  Critical Media added Tim Reusing as Senior Vice President, General Counsel.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 9:41pm
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  Critical Media added Rey Contreras as CFO.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 9:41pm
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  Critical Media added Sean Morgan as Founder & CEO.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 9:40pm
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  Critical Media received $4.2M in Series B funding.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 10:02pm
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  Critical Media received $2M in Series A funding.
  Posted 1/9/08 at 9:59pm

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ClipSyndicate

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Website	clipsyndicate.com
Stage	Live
Tags	video

Above: ClipSyndicate Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

Above: clipsyndicate -- screenshot #2
Uploaded: 10/26/08

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