Los Angeles-based Break Media , which operates a network of male-centric content web sites, said today that it has linked with home entertainment system company Yoostar in a promotion. According to Break,it is teaming up with Yoostar for a special, featured channel on the site focused on the "Yoostar Casting Tour" competition. Tags: break Entrants into the competition use Yoostar's system to insert themselves into a movie or television scene to act with or replace original actors, to win walk-on roles to a 2010 Lionsgate film and other prizes. The finalists

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Los Angeles-based online publisher Break Media said today that the firm has more than tripled its branded content projects this year, and expects that it will grow 18 percent this year, despite the economy. Break, which operates a series of web sites focused on content for the young male demographic, said that it had what the company calls its "best revenue month" in the company's history in August, and is expecting revenue growth this year. The firm partly attributed the growth to its acquisition of HBOlab earlier this year, which the firm said it is using to ramp development of branded content projects for advertisers.