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Capitalized Content Development Costs | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
Capitalized Content Development Costs |
Capitalized Content Development Costs | 5. Capitalized Content Development Costs Capitalized content development costs consisted of the following as of (in thousands):
|  | December 31, 2013 |  | March 31, 2014 |
Capitalized content development costs |  | $ | 11,816 |  | $ | 13,703 |
Capitalized content development costs in process |  | 1,961 |  | 1,520 |
Accumulated amortization |  | (4,873 | ) | (5,543 | )
Capitalized content development costs, net |  | $ | 8,904 |  | $ | 9,680 |
The Company recorded amortization expense related to capitalized content development costs of $0.5 million and $0.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014, respectively. As of March 31, 2014, the estimated future amortization expense for the capitalized content costs is as follows (in thousands):
2014 |  | $ | 1,995 |
2015 |  | 2,368 |
2016 |  | 1,879 |
2017 |  | 1,235 |
2018 |  | 665 |
Thereafter |  | 18 |
Total |  | $ | 8,160 |

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