David Bloom Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Words & Deeds provides consulting, content creation, and communications/content strategy for a wide variety of clients.

Jersey City, NJ, US

Senior contributor writing about the collision of technology, media and Hollywood for Forbes.com. Areas of interest include media consolidation, online video, SVOD/AVOD/TVOD, online influencers/influencer marketing, videogaming and esports, branded content, advertising, augmented/virtual/mixed reality, location-based entertainment, audio and podcasting.

Advisory group of notables in visual effects providing perspective and background for editors of VFX Voice, the publication of the VFX Society.

Santa Monica, California, US

Write a weekly column on the collision between tech and entertainment. I try to spotlight broader trends and their implications, drawing on my deep experience in the space where the two sectors come together in interesting new ways.

Host and producer of Bloom in Tech podcast, focused on conversations with innovators in media, entertainment, technology, VR/AR, videogames/esports and the blockchain

Weekly columnist for news and perspective site, writing about the collision of technology and entertainment and related advertising/subscription business models, particularly across screens from traditional broadcast TV to mobile devices to augmented- and virtual-reality platforms.

I advise companies on communications strategy, media strategy, social media and more, on content creation and distribution, including social media, video, audio podcasts and much else. Clients have included AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, ShortsHD, TechStyle, Vertebrae.io, RampRate, Greenlots, Herbalife, Goldstar, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Consultant to technology, media and entertainment companies on communications strategy, social media and content marketing for national brand-building company.

Taught class on digital media impacts on traditional Hollywood for undergraduate students in a specialized joint program between the School of Cinematic Arts and Marshall School of Business. The students typically were training to become agents, managers, and other business-side executives in the entertainment industry.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Sunday News Editor overseeing all journalism operations. Initiated coverage of online-video industry, video games and other tech-oriented stories for top entertainment trade business. Social Media Editor, managing all social media initiatives, building substantial presence and click-through traffic on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+ and other sites..

Los Angeles, CA, US

Advise portfolio companies on communications and social-media strategy.

Highland Park, CA, US

Small Los Angeles-based non-profit dedicated to bringing artists from around the world to the city for extended residencies. Also provide a wide array of other programming, often in partnership with notable institutions such as Occidental College, the Museum of Contemporary Art, LACE and more.

DeepStrat provides Digital Media Value Chain consulting for companies in media, entertainment, online, mobile and related industries. We provide growth-strategy services, including Mergers & Acquisitions, partnership assessments, market opportunities, funding needs and exit strategies.My projects with DeepStrat included an in-depth competitive analysis of.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Chief communications officer responsible for all marketing and communications efforts on behalf of the University of Southern California's highly rated Marshall School of Business, which provides undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in a wide variety of areas of specialization, including accounting, finance, marketing, operations, IT.

Words & Deeds provides media relations, communications and related mar/com services, offline and on, for entertainment, tech and other companies. Recent and current clients include sourcing advisor RampRate; next-generation media-distribution service Solid State Networks; online product-placement service Media Matchmaker; online publishing site PageFish.

Beverly Hills, CA., US

Handled media relations regarding corporate matters, piracy and similar issues, capped by $4.9 billion sale of MGM to a consortium of five companies led by Sony. Represented the company with the MPAA trade group on piracy, public-relations strategy and policy. Managed charitable and corporate-image advertising, crisis communications, some investor.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Covered the film industry and related technology developments, the videogame business, cable industry, politics and other areas

US

Covered the impact of technology on the entertainment and media industries

Woodland Hills, CA, US

Covered politics and government for five years, then entertainment and technology for three more

Riverside, CA, US

Covered government and politics for this large metropolitan daily newspaper.

Covered politics and government for large metropolitan daily newspaper

Covered government, higher education, politics. Award-winning investigative reporter on projects such as nuclear-waste disposal, college recruiting scandals, college construction overspending.

Bachelor'S Of Journalism, News-Editorial Sequence

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