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    Rep Report for August 25, 2017

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    Lauren Schuchman, founder of independent rep firm Diplomat which now handles the West Coast for production house Chromista.
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    Chromista has signed indie commercial representation firm Diplomat to handle the West Coast. Lauren Schuchman founded Diplomat last year; her firm joins a Chromista sales team which includes Hustle, Monaghan Talent Rangers and ENID London. Commercialmaking/branded content house Chromista was founded in 2013 by Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) and partners Scott Franklin, Sandy Haddad and Ted Robbins. Chromista scored two Cannes Gold Lions this summer for Aronofsky’s spot for The New York Times. His new feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence, Mother, will premiere on September 15. Meanwhile director Alessandro Pacciani’s new Acura work was also just nominated for best commercial at the London Motor Film Festival. Chromista’s roster includes Aronofsky, Pacciani, Xavier Mairesse, Marcelo Burgos, Kasra Farahani, Daniel Portrait, Dael Oates, Rory Kelleher and Josh Cole….

    Spot Welders, an editorial house with studios in Venice, Calif, and NYC, has signed with Ezra Burke and Shane Harris of Content Chemics for West Coast representation.  Content Chemics will also now represent the full spectrum of creative finishing, motion design and animation services of Spot Welders’ sister company SHIPPING + HANDLING….

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    Growth Brings Growing Pains–and Bots–To Bluesky

    Sunday, December 22, 2024

    Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk's X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner's support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta's Threads and its algorithms.

    The platform grew out of the company then known as Twitter, championed by its former CEO Jack Dorsey. Its decentralized approach to social networking was eventually intended to replace Twitter's core mechanic. That's unlikely now that the two companies have parted ways. But Bluesky's growth trajectory — with a user base that has more than doubled since October — could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms.

    But with growth comes growing pains. It's not just human users who've been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites.

    The skyrocketing user base — now surpassing 25 million — is the biggest test yet for a relatively young platform that has branded itself as a social media alternative free of the problems plaguing its competitors. According to research firm Similarweb, Bluesky added 7.6 million monthly active app users on iOS and Android in November, an increase of 295.4% since October. It also saw 56.2 million desktop and mobile web visits, in the same period, up 189% from October.

    Besides the U.S. elections, Bluesky also got a boost when X was briefly banned in Brazil.

    "They got this spike in attention, they've crossed the threshold where it is now worth it for people to flood the platform with spam," said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and a member of Issue One's... Read More

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