TODD DUFOUR

TODD DUFOUR

BUZZMEDIA - Popping 24/7 | once you pop, you can't stop

Location
Los Angeles, California (Greater Los Angeles Area)
Industry
Entertainment

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TODD DUFOUR's Overview

Current
  • Vice President of Branded Entertainment at BUZZMEDIA, INC
Past
  • Vice President, Influencer Marketing and Talent Relations at BUZZMEDIA
  • Creator and Founder at DDOT, LLC
  • MySpace, Executive Director, Influencer and Strategic Marketing at Fox Interactive Media
  • Executive Director, MySpace at FIM/MySpace.com
  • Executive Director, Strategic and Influencer Marketing at MYSPACE.COM
  • Events Manager, Marketing at MySpace
  • Senior Account Executive at Bragman Nyman Cafarelli (BNC)
  • Publicist at SHADREW PR

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Education
  • Pepperdine University, The George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Clayton High Scool

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Recommendations

3 people have recommended TODD

Connections

500+ connections

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TODD DUFOUR's Summary

Specialties

Branded Content, Branded Entertainment, Talent Procurement, Strategic Marketing, Client Partnerships, Brand Relations, Event and Content Capture, Video Development, Story Conception, Offline Production

TODD DUFOUR's Experience

Vice President of Branded Entertainment

BUZZMEDIA, INC

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry

January 2011 – Present (1 year 1 month)

Vice President, Influencer Marketing and Talent Relations

BUZZMEDIA

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry

January 2010 – January 2011 (1 year 1 month)

Creator and Founder

DDOT, LLC

April 2009 – January 2010 (10 months)

MySpace, Executive Director, Influencer and Strategic Marketing

Fox Interactive Media

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NWS; Internet industry

April 2005 – 2009 (4 years)

Executive Director, MySpace

FIM/MySpace.com

2005 – 2009 (4 years)

Executive Director, Strategic and Influencer Marketing

MYSPACE.COM

August 2005 – April 2009 (3 years 9 months)

Events Manager, Marketing

MySpace

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; NWS; Internet industry

August 2005 – September 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Senior Account Executive

Bragman Nyman Cafarelli (BNC)

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; BNCC; Public Relations and Communications industry

April 2002 – August 2005 (3 years 5 months)

Publicist

SHADREW PR

September 2001 – April 2002 (8 months)

TODD DUFOUR's Publications

  • MySpace Fashion Launch

    • New York Times
    • August 30, 2007
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR, ERIC WILSON

    MYSPACE, the social-networking Web site, introduced a dedicated space about fashion on Tuesday — one of dozens of such topical pages that exist for its millions of users to discuss their interests. Presumably this would offer insight into what a broad sample of young people from around the globe think about fashion.

  • MySpace Celebrity - Evolution of Celebrity Bloggers

    • NYLON Magazine
    • January 17, 2008
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR, KATRINA MITZELIOTIS

    Step aside Perez, MySpace’s new Celebrity Channel launched this week with the latest news on your favorite stars and starlets. Celebrities themselves will share secrets about upcoming projects, post never-before-seen pictures, dispute rumors in a public forum, and, most importantly, reach out to their fans. MySpace tosses in some interesting features too, such as Behind the Scene at the MySpace Café, Rising Star profiles, and Celebrity Impact, where the likes of Orlando Bloom discuss world issues. After eating up all we could on Juno’s Ellen Page, Amy Winehouse, and Bijou Phillips (where has she been?!), we talked to Todd Dufour, MySpace's Director Influencer Marketing, to get the rest of the scoop.

  • MySpace's New Chic Clique - MySpace Fashion Launch

    • Business Week
    • August 27, 2007
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR

    The move reflects MySpace's strategy of identifying the communities of interest that have grown organically and the building official member communities around them, turning once-grassroots groups into content platforms for old-media companies and consumer brands. But will the top-down approach work? And if so, who will be the big winners—the established corporations or the unknown designers trying to make their names among peer-driven social networks?

  • Executive Shuffling: "Newsmakers"

    • Los Angeles Business Journal
    • May 24, 2010
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR, LABJ Staff Reporter

    MEDIA: BuzzMedia, a Hollywood operator of pop culture Web sites, has named Todd Dufour head of marketing and talent relations. Mary Michael Marlo was named director of integrated marketing. Previously, Dufour was executive director of integrated and strategic marketing at MySpace, a Beverly Hills-based social networking website. Marlo was an account director at Fanscape, an L.A. marketing agency.

  • MEET…Todd Dufour OF ddot

    • The MALCOLM
    • December 20, 2009
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR, Yale Breslin

    "Creative minds always inspire me. From the way they think to the way they execute their emotions - Todd Dufour is someone who has always been on my radar. After getting involved with MySpace when social networking was in its infancy, he went on to become the Executive Director, Influencer and Strategic Marketing at MySpace.com. Recently launching his own endeavor ddot (pronouced ‘dot’), Dufour created a Creative Script Marketing Firm - focusing on the development and execution of tailored programs for his various clients." Yale Breslin.

  • Recession-Proof Retailing - Marketing strategies for retailers in a slow economy.

    • Wharton Real Estate Review, Fall 2008
    • September 2008
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR, BERTRAND PELLEGRIN

    American Consumers are cutting back. They are spending less on junk food, T-shirts, and jeans, and on cars many couldn’t afford anyway. According to Andrew B. Hargadon, associate professor at the Graduate School of Management at UC Davis, “Fifteen years of binge-buying SUVs is just one of the reasons. People are losing that discretionary income and pouring it into their gas tank. Remember that most of them are filling up their tank three times every two weeks. That’s a hundred dollars less a week to spend at the store.” Many consumers were ill-prepared for a weak economy. Now retailers are seeking ways to reestablish their value with consumers in order to keep them shopping. A few retailers have seen sales drop by as much as 25 percent. The bankruptcy of the twenty-year-old Sharper Image is one of many retail casualties, and the International Council of Shopping Centers is forecasting that overall store closings could reach nearly 6,000 this year alone, the highest since 2004.

  • MySpace to make Web series ‘Freshman 15’ - Site teams up with Seventeen mag to track the lives of 15 college girls

    • Associated Press (MSNBC)
    • September 13, 2007
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR, Erin Carlson

  • BUZZMEDIA Adds Four to Advertising Team

    • Media Bistro
    • May 4, 2010
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR, E.B. Boyd

    Executive shuffling announcement for BUZZMEDIA and the addition of four new members to its Sales department.

  • Where Todd Dufour Buys Scandinavian Candy in the West Village

    • Racked NY
    • July 1, 2011
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR, Yale Breslin

    Todd Dufour, who was an original MySpace employee long before the days of Justin Timberlake's involvement, recently became vice president of branded media at Buzz Media. That makes him the go-to guy for all business matters pertaining to the celebrity websites of the Kardashian sisters, Whitney Port, Shenae Grimes, and Nicole Richie. While he may be an LA transplant who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, this handsome chap knows where to get his sweet fix: The West Village by way of Scandinavia.

  • Tracking Down Todd Dufour's Sartorial 'Church' in WeHo

    • Racked LA
    • November 11, 2011
    Authors: TODD DUFOUR, Yale Breslin

    Los Angeles has more stores than anyone could physically tackle, but somehow we always keep returning to the usual suspects. To break out of the rut, we've asked some local shopping and fashion gurus to provide their hidden retail gems—those unique stores around LA that we might not all know about. Cue the Beatles: We're about to get a little help from our friends.

TODD DUFOUR's Education

Pepperdine University, The George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management

Executive MBA

2009 – 2011

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Arts, Behavioral Science and Law

1997 – 2001

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Arts, Behavioral Science and Law

1997 – 2001

Clayton High Scool

diploma

1993 – 1997

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