Videoplaza Secures $12 million For Ad Platform Led By Qualcomm, Innovacom

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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
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With the huge rise in the consumption of online video it follows that services to monetize that video are becoming hot properties. To that end, today Videoplaza, a ‘sell side’ ad management platform for video, has secured a Series B round of $12million led by Qualcomm Ventures and Innovacom. The company previously received rounds from VCs Creandum and Northzone, which also participated, which means VideoPlaza has received $18 million to date.


Company: Videoplaza
Website: videoplaza.com
Launch Date: November 2007
Funding: €15.9M

Videoplaza empowers broadcasters, publishers and ad networks to maximise their advertising revenues from the New IP-delivered TV. Videoplaza’s sell side ad management platform, Karbon, is used to monetise video experiences across PCs, mobile devices, tablets, game consoles, IPTV and Smart TVs. Headquartered in London, with offices in Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Singapore and Bangkok, Videoplaza works with a global client base including M6 (FR), Canal+ (FR), SBS (NL), RTL (BEL), Sony Entertainment (IND), Blinkbox (UK), Vocento (ES) and TV4...

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