Interview with Nick Hedges, MomentFeed (socaltech)

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges, the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses. Nick filled us in on the company's business, his move to head up the company in the last year, as well as some lessons learned running a company in the time of a pandemic.

What is MomentFeed doing now?

Nick Hedges: MomentFeed is what we would describe as in the proximity search optimization space. For us, relatively large and very large multi location brands use our platform to ensure they get discovered online. Multi location brands, often restaurants and QSR brands, and we have some of the biggest brands, including the world's largest coffee brand with multiple locations, are our clients. 

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Keanu Reeves to Make Comic Book Writing Debut With ‘BRZRKR’, Preview Set for Comic-Con@Home

Although Keanu Reeves has had his fair share of being inside comic series including several Bill & Ted series, he has never entered the world of writing a comic — until now.

Reeves is joining forces with co-writer Matt Kindt (Folklords, Bang!) to create a 12-issue limited series at BOOM! Studios. The comic, titled BRZRKR (pronounced Berzerker), will be a monthly series that has cover art by Rafael Grampá and Alessandro Vitti and will center around a warrior, who just so happens to look like a beloved actor, that has walked a blood-soaked path across the country for centuries. In present day, the Berzerker is hiding in the U.S. doing dangerous jobs for the government in exchange for intel on the truth of his existence.

Kindt said in a statement to USA Today who broke the news, that working with Reeves is immensely cool and that Reeves has

Exceptional creative instincts, deep reservoirs of wisdom on the story, the ability to consistently tap into the raw emotion of a moment, relentless commitment to quality, and the task at hand – it’s all this and much more that make Keanu an inspiring force.

Reeves goes on to say that the story explores themes like “the nature of violence, morals, ethics, and what side you choose.”

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MomentFeed Launches Proximity Search Optimization Dashboard for Greater Visibility into Local Marketing Reach, Engagement, and Revenue

MomentFeed, the leading provider of Proximity Search Optimization, today introduced the release of a new Proximity Search Optimization Dashboardthat allows multi-location brands to easily monitor and manage how well their local marketing efforts are performing. The fully integrated dashboard aggregates a brand’s data across hundreds or even thousands of location review pages, social media platforms, and listings in one place. 

“Before we consolidated our local marketing efforts on MomentFeed, we’d lose so much time trying to find insights and metrics from multiple sources,” said Mary Newell Director Digital and Brand Marketing, Texas Roadhouse. “The new Proximity Search Optimization dashboard gives our team one place to log in and see in seconds how all of Texas Roadhouse’s nearly 600 stores are performing — across reviews, social media, and listings. Now we can see how we’re performing at-a-glance and dig in for more details.”

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Apple TV+ lands graphic novel adaptation 'Snow Blind' starring Jake Gyllenhaal

Apple has secured another show for Apple TV+, beating out five other studios in a bidding war over Snow Bling starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

As reported by Deadline:

In a highly competitive six-way bidding war, Apple Studios has acquired Snow Blind, a thriller adaptation of the BOOM! Studios graphic novel by Ollie Masters (The Kitchen) and Tyler Jenkins. Jake Gyllenhaal is attached to star and Gustav Möller (The Guilty) will make his English language directing debut. Script is being written by Patrick Ness, the author/scribe of A Monster Calls who is currently scripting Lord of the Flies for Warner Bros. and director Luca Guadagnino.

Gyllenhaal and his Nine Stories partner Riva Marker are producing with BOOM! Studios' Ross Richie and Stephen Christy. Adam Yoelin and Noah Stahl will be exec producers. Mette Norkjaer is co-producing.

Snow Blind is the story of an Alaskan high school teen who discovers he and his family are living in the Witness Protection Program, soon after their town is invaded by a man seeking revenge, and the FBI who are chasing him.

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Pokémon GO breaks its revenue record once again

Niantic’s flagship work has topped $ 3.6 billion in revenue since it launched in the summer of 2016.

Pokémon GO is still everything a success, despite the fact that the augmented reality game was launched for mobile devices four years ago. The title based on the famous Nintendo franchise, which continues to incorporate new content, such as new events for the month of July; It has also continued to reap a good figure of earnings in all this time, it has even beaten his record earnings in the first half of 2020.

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