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BermanBraun was a Los Angeles-based media and technology company. It was founded in 2007 by Gail Berman, previously the president of Paramount Pictures and the president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Company, and Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC and the Yahoo Media Group.

History
BermanBraun's inaugural project was the American version of Duel, a game show for ABC produced in 2007. That same year, the company entered into a broad "first look" agreement with NBC Universal.

In 2008, the company partnered with MSN to produce a destination site for MSN aggregating celebrity, entertainment and pop culture news, which launched as Wonderwall in February 2009. At the same time, it entered into a deal to produce Lunacy News for Yahoo. Duel was picked up for a second season by ABC, and NBC pre-ordered three series.

By July 2009, Wonderwall had become a top celebrity site. According to comScore, it attracted about 12.4 million unique users that month, with viewers spending an average of 11.6 minutes on the site. Glo, a women's lifestyle site created as a partnership with MSN Hachette Filipacchi that focused on style, beauty, and living, and relationships was launched in 2010. Noted for its design, it had similar success.

A $100 million advertising and marketing deal with Starcom MediaVesta was announced in August, 2010. Anchored by advertising via newly developed digital entertainment programming, it was described as a "potential turning point for Hollywood’s efforts to tap digital advertising dollars." The agreement provided Starcom clients including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and Wal-Mart with first look access to new advertising opportunities for digital content.

In March 2012, the company acquired Whiskey Media, a San Francisco-based media and technology company established by CNET founder Shelby Bonnie, adding Web sites Anime Vice, Screened and Tested to its digital portfolio as well as Whiskey's proprietary publishing layer, built on top of the Python-powered Django framework. In 2013, AOL teamed with BermanBraun to overhaul their Moviefone service as a broader destination for entertainment news and content and implement a mechanism to view straming video across multiple devices. It launched the following year.

In 2013, following the expiration of its deal with NBC, BermanBraun signed an exclusive multiyear production deal with MGM Television to create and develop scripted and unscripted programming for broadcast and cable.

In January 2014, Berman left the company. Braun acquired her interest, and launched Whalerock Industries in February 2014.