Moving West.An interactive online entertainment network is ditching its Connecticut digs for sunny L.A. After hunting for the past five months, eUniverse executives found a new home in the Mid-Wilshire district. Staff from the company's Wallingford, Conn., headquarters and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden office are currently relocating here. "As a leading online entertainment network, it made a lot of sense to be in the entertainment capital of the world," said Brad Greenspan Brad Greenspan is an internet entrepreneur who has been involved in the founding and proliferation of web properties including MySpace. Greenspan founded eUniverse Inc. (later renamed Intermix Media) in 1998, which went public in 1999.[1] The company survived the . , chairman and chief executive of eUniverse. "L.A. has the leading entertainment companies, online and offline, and we can access a lot of the talent out here as we grow the company and build our team." EUniverse's network of sites was ranked as the eighth most visited online property, behind Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co.'s Go Network (seventh) and ahead of Time Warner Inc.'s network of sites (ninth), according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a July 17 report from Nielsen/NetRatings. EUniverse executives plan to launch new sites containing short animation, celebrity interviews, original programming and other content. Though the company currently has partnerships with gaming site iwin.com and virtual hard drive company Xdrive, it will need to land deals with major content providers in order to grow. "We're real confident in the long term about getting access, to talk to different companies, because of the enormous amount of traffic and viewership view·er·ship n. The people who watch a television program or motion picture: a largely male viewership. we have," Greenspan said. |
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