User:Alphabird

Alphabird is a vertically integrated audience development company that guarantees targeted, engaged audiences for online video on a performance basis. Alphabird was an early pioneer in the distribution of Click-To-Play video content and has delivered tens of millions of engaged viewers for major studios, agencies and Fortune 1000 brands.

Alphbird's CEO is Chase Norlin. Prior to Alphabird, he founded Pixsy, a pioneer in video search. Previously he served as a senior executive at ValueClick where he managed publisher distribution for the display advertising network, paid search, and comparison shopping divisions.

The Alphabird investor group is led by Joe Abrams. Abrams co-founded Intermix in 1998, the predecessor company to MySpace, which was sold to News Corp. in 2005 for $580 million. In 1983, Abrams co-founded The Software Toolworks, Inc., a publicly held developer, publisher, and distributor of educational and entertainment software, which was sold to Pearson, Plc. in 1994 for $462 million.

In 2012 Alphabird launched an original content development and branded video production unit run by members of the programming team from worldwide entertainment leader Endemol.