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| 24.02.2026 | Deloitte big winner at Winter Olympics as sponsor sees engagement surge | Big Four accounting firm Deloitte was one of the best performing sponsors at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics based on online engagement.
The London-headquartered giant was joined by TCL Technology and Omega SA as the best engaged firms, ... |
| 16.02.2026 | Fans negative towards Samsung and Virgin Atlantic Six Nations in-game adverts | The majority of Six Nations fans have reacted negatively to in-game adverts during the rugby tournament.
UK broadcaster ITV’s coverage has been broken up with adverts during scrum resets across the opening two weekends of the tournament, wh... |
| 11.04.2024 | Meet the 33 rising stars of adtech solving digital advertising's toughest challenges | Advertising Meet the 33 rising stars of adtech solving digital advertising's toughest challenges
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| 06.09.2022 | ZineOne raises cash to help e-commerce companies predict customer behavior | In-session marketing, a form of inbound marketing that attempts to analyze and influence web and app users’ purchasing decisions, is often challenging to implement. With so much competing for consumers’ attention these days, rare is the bra... |
| 07.06.2022 | The Time Is Now For Cookieless Advertising | 0 shares
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More than three quarters of advertisers rely on third-party cookies to reach their target markets while 69% believe the upcoming deadline will have a more si... |
| 09.04.2022 | How machine learning frees up creativity and strategy for marketers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 20.12.2021 | 11 Tech Trends That Will Impact Professional Communications In 2022 | Much of a professional communicator’s work depends on tech that helps companies communicate with their stakeholders, create awareness and drive conversions among consumers, and track the results of their efforts. While every industry is bou... |
| 26.10.2021 | Digital.com Announces Best Advertising Software of 2021 | SEATTLE (PRWEB) October 26, 2021
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best advertising software of 2021.
Researchers examined solutions with features th... |
| 22.09.2021 | 16 Valuable Benefits Machine Learning Can Bring To Small Businesses | getty |
| 15.07.2021 | Quantcast Joins The Gartner Peer Insights Customer First Program | Quantcast, a global advertising technology company, announced that the Quantcast Platform has joined the Gartner Peer Insights Customer First program. The Quantcast Platform is a new and modern intelligent audience platform that empowers ma... |
| 15.06.2021 | The Exceptional Women Awardees Foundation (EWA) announces that Tamara Cora, VP Finance Quantcast, has been selected as a Spring 2021 EWA Awardee | Tamara Cora VP Finance Quantcast "Tamara has the strategic vision, management experience, and agility needed for fast growth technology companies," commented Larraine Segil Chair and CEO of EWA
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| 28.03.2021 | AI could help advertisers recover from loss of third-party cookies | Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more.
Options for targeting digital advertising in a way that doesn’t rely on cookies are increasing, thanks to advances in predictive analytics and AI tha... |
| 28.03.2021 | AI could help advertisers recover from loss of third-party cookies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Options for targeting digital advertising in a wa... |
| 24.02.2021 | 13 Common Mistakes That Can Derail Your AI Initiatives | Artificial intelligence has made its way into businesses in nearly every industry, and it’s only continuing to rise in popularity. When utilized correctly, AI can be an incredible productivity booster and provide valuable insights to busine... |
| 06.02.2018 | Quizlet Raises $20 Million to Bring More Artificial Intelligence to Its Study Tools | Big numbers are nothing new to Quizlet, one of the most widely-used digital study tools in the United States. The San Francisco-based developer behind the platform claims more than 30 million monthly users, including 1 in 2 high schoolers, ... |
| 27.09.2017 | 20 By 2020: Quizlet’s Big Revenue Ambitions From Third-Party Content Partners | For its first 10 years, Quizlet was humming along just fine. The bootstrapped, San Francisco-based company claimed it was profitable thanks to its free popular digital flashcards, for which users could pay an annual subscription to get addi... |
| 01.08.2017 | Bankable Celebrations launches e-card app at Chase Center event | When it comes to expressing yourself to someone for life’s celebrations, low-points or everyday moments, sometimes it’s challenging to find a card that will accurately say what’s on your mind and in your heart, in a thoughtful, endearing wa... |
| 25.07.2017 | Snopes raises over $500K to stay alive during legal battle | True: The dot-com era mythbuster turned fake news watchdog Snopes.com is on the ropes over a protracted legal battle with one of its advertising tech vendors.
False: The for-profit fact-checking website has no choice but to shut down.
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| 14.02.2017 | Playboy is a porn mag again | Enlarge
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| 10.01.2017 | Detroit Expansions, Tumor Sequencing, and More Local Innovation News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here’s a look at innovation news from around Michigan:
—Avomeen Analytical Services, a research and chemical testing lab based in Ann Arbor, was recently acquired by High Stre... |
| 27.01.2016 | Greylock Partners Brings On Former Uber Exec Michael Pao As EIR | Michael Pao, who spent more than four years at the ride-hailing giant Uber, most recently as Head of Product on the company’s growth team, has joined the venture firm Greylock Partners as an entrepreneur-in-residence.
Pao is a graduate of t... |
| 06.11.2015 | The Self-Driving Car Revolution Will Be Slow And Help Us All, But It Won’t Kill Driving Anytime Soon | Ed Zitron Contributor
Ed Zitron is the CEO of EZPR, a media relations company based out of San Francisco, Boston and Portland.
An intelligent piece by BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan said that Google’s self-driving car would bring about the “ugly end ... |
| 07.10.2015 | Windows 10 sees people ditching IE -- but Chrome wins out, not Edge | Launching a new web browser was always going to be a risk. Microsoft used Windows 10 as a launch pad for Edge, shedding the shackles of Internet Explorer in a bid to take on the likes of Chrome and Firefox.
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| 07.10.2015 | Quantcast Launches Audience Grid To Connect Online And Offline Ad Targeting | Online advertisers and publishers might get a lot smarter about their audiences’ offline habits, thanks to a new product from Quantcast called Audience Grid.
Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman described this as as “the largest open data marketing... |
| 25.09.2015 | The Yelpification of business software: Why online reviews have reached a tipping point | This sponsored post is produced by Capterra.
For well over a decade, consumers have increasingly turned to online review sites to vet purchase decisions before they buy. Take a look at the top trafficked sites on the web, and it’s no shock ... |
| 15.09.2015 | Quantcast Opens Austin Office and is Hiring | Quantcast, a digital advertising and audience measurement firm, is opening an Austin office and is holding a recruiting event at Capital Factory on Wednesday. |
| 13.06.2015 | Google Launches YouTube Gaming And Twitch Twitches With A Funny Response | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 13 June 2015, 08:06 am
Twitch is certainly not backing down from Google as the search company gets ready to launch a YouTube spin-off dedicated for gamers, an app that, from Google's announcement, sounds and works ve... |
| 10.06.2015 | Quantcast Appoints Stephen Collins As Its New CFO | Online measurement and advertising company Quantcast has hired a new chief financial officer — Stephen Collins, former CEO at Bazaarvoice.
Collins has also served as CFO at Bazaarvoice and DoubleClick, and he’s had an advisory role at Quant... |
| 24.03.2015 | Moviepilot Listened to Their Fans: It Paid Off Big Time | About seven years ago Tobi Bauckhage planted the seed of an idea in Berlin, Germany with his company Moviepilot. His mission was to fill the void in his home country where an IMDB page would sit: at the time the site hadn’t expanded interna... |
| 20.11.2014 | Amazon reportedly set to launch hotel booking site | Amazon Travel, which will target independent hotels, will be competing in a very crowded market
So you're going on vacation. Depending on where you're going, you might need a new bathing suit, maybe some suntan lotion, new flip flops, a bea... |
| 01.10.2014 | Yahoo Tests A New Homepage Highlighting Magazines, Talent… And Twitter | For the past year or so, Yahoo has been working through a major design overhaul under CEO Marissa Mayer, and it looks like it has now started testing out new formats for its biggest property of all, Yahoo.com.
From the looks of tips that we... |
| 01.10.2014 | Quantcast Acquires Ad Personalization And Retargeting Company Struq | Quantcast is announcing that it has acquired Struq, a London-based company that offers cross-device retargeting and personalization for advertisers.
Quantcast may be best known for its data about Internet traffic, but it seems to have built... |
| 26.08.2014 | Amazon beats out Google to buy Twitch for $1.1B, yes $1.1B | Mark Hawver, Tech Times 26 August 2014, 06:08 pm
Amazon welcomes Twitch to the jungle, purchasing the video game streaming website for a nifty $1.1 billion.
What is Twitch, and why did Amazon, the online retailing giant, drop serious coin t... |
| 22.08.2014 | Why Flipboard Has Authors Flipping Out | Let me speak in defense of the click for a moment.
There’s no term I find more puzzling in modern media jargon than “clickbait.” A story lives to be told. Writers write for their readers. What does a storyteller long for more than the gaze ... |
| 26.05.2014 | Rap Genius Drops Co-Founder Following Elliot Rodger Manifesto Annotations | Rap Genius, the startup that wants to “annotate the world,” sees the departure of co-founder Mahbod Moghadam today, owing to Moghadam’s ill-advised annotations on the rambling manifesto of Elliot Rodger. Rodger went on a killing spree this ... |
| 05.04.2014 | Here's what Tesla Model S drivers are really doing in their connected cars | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 02.04.2014 | Tesla Drivers Are Using Their In-Dash Browser To Keep Up With The News, Quantcast Says | What are Tesla owners actually doing with their in-car web browsers? That’s the question that ad measurement and targeting company Quantcast tried to answer with some just-released data.
Apparently, the Tesla Model S (of which there are now... |
| 09.03.2014 | Pinterest: Yes, governments ask us for data. No, it doesn’t happen a lot | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Lots of people use Pinterest to collect and share... |
| 05.02.2014 | BuzzFeed Publishes Style Guide, Teaches Us How To Spell 'Vine-ing' | (Facebook)
Somewhere in between publishing all those crazily addictive and horribly inaccurate quizzes (we are SO not the cheers beers emoji), BuzzFeed published a style guide. They’re hoping to standardize the way we write stuff on the Int... |
| 27.01.2014 | Dear Jason Njoku, MTN Dobox is competition | Last December Dobox, a Video on Demand startup, struck a deal with MTN to provide customers with better access to their catalogue of Nollywood movies. I must confess – and I probably speak for a lot of people – I’m not so sure I heard about... |
| 11.01.2014 | Ad ‘Experiments’ Come To Delicious As It Updates Social Bookmarking API With Authentication, Rate Limits | Delicious, the veteran bookmarking site that last year released a rebuilt version of its service, is moving into its next phase of growth: the company has announced a new version of its API that gives it more security and control over data ... |
| 04.01.2014 | Google Puts Rap Genius Back Atop Searches, Favoring Smart Results Over Holding A Grudge | Google apparently cares more about giving the best search results than punishing spammers, as it’s returning lyrics site Rap Genius to its high rankings for searches after it was exiled for SEO spam 10 days ago. What looked like a death sen... |
| 05.12.2013 | Twitter's new retargeted promoted tweets offer 195% higher conversion, company says | Twitter launched retargeted advertising today in mobile via an ad product the company calls “tailored audiences.” The product had been in private beta for three months, but is now available globally to any advertisers.
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| 05.12.2013 | Twitter's new retargeted promoted tweets offer 195% higher conversion, company says | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter launched retargeted advertising today in ... |
| 04.12.2013 | Twitter Is About To Officially Launch Retargeted Ads [Update: Confirmed] | Twitter is ready to roll out retargeted ads fueled by browser cookies, sources confirm. Twitter could make the announcement as soon as tomorrow, expanding retargeted ads beyond the “experimental” phase that started in July. The secret sauce... |
| 20.11.2013 | Mobile Publishing Platform Onswipe Revamps With Support For Android Smartphones | Onswipe is launching the new version of its publishing platform for mobile browsers today. The biggest change? It now offers full support for Android smartphones.
The company has been talking about the revamp publicly for several months at ... |
| 10.11.2013 | The LA Times Trolls Innocent Teachers | The once-respectable Los Angeles Times is leveraging its dwindling platform to attack individual teachers under the guise of data transparency. The editorial board Times won a court case allowing them to use a highly contentious, self-desig... |
| 10.11.2013 | Vox Buys Curbed Network For A Reported Stock-Cash Blend Worth $20-30 Million | Vox Media, an online publisher of websites such as The Verge, has purchased the smaller Curbed network of websites for a reported $20 to $30 million according to the New York Times.
The Vox logo now graces the Curbed.com homepage. The deal ... |
| 06.11.2013 | 5 Lessons I Learned About Online Entrepreneurship from a Six-Figure Car Salesman | Entrepreneurs have a tendency to seek the newest trends, the newest marketing methods, the newest social networks… In our minds, newer equals better. And a lot of times, newer is better. But, sometimes the best way to move forward is to loo... |
| 23.10.2013 | So much for OpenGov: Quantcast traffic on HealthCare.gov ‘hidden by the owner’ | The online health exchange is an ongoing source of political embarrassment for the White House, with millions of Americans still struggling to log in and, worse, receiving incorrect insurance information.
President Obama estimated Monday th... |
| 15.10.2013 | Why Accel Is Leading A $40M Round In Vox Media, A Digital Content Company (!) | “At some level, it is still contrarian,” Accel Partners’ Andrew Braccia admits about leading a $40 million fourth round of funding in Vox Media, the publisher of hundreds of major league sports fan blogs as well as tech/culture site The Ver... |
| 06.10.2013 | There’s Life Left In Delicious Yet | For a long time, the web-based social bookmarking service Delicious was a poster child for the Web 2.0 movement. It was open, collaborative and full of the tags and user-generated content that made VCs instinctively open up their checkbooks... |
| 03.10.2013 | Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Explains How He Built A Web Empire | You don’t need to be a cut-throat jerk to be successful in the business of capitalism. Alexis Ohanian doesn’t stand out in a room; other than being tall enough to play NBA defense, he’s usually the unassuming guy in a corner making new frie... |
| 19.09.2013 | Pinterest Will Start Showing Ads As Traffic Keeps Growing But Shifts To Mobile | After four years, Pinterest is taking its first serious steps towards monetization [Update: as its traffic moves from the web to mobile]. CEO Ben Silbermann today told users “we’re going to start experimenting with promoting certain pins” b... |
| 24.08.2013 | You're Building WHAT? Shocking Your Way To Startup Success | Bang With Friends Lulu, Rap Genius, and Bang With Friends are shocking, controversial -- and their founders are all speaking at Business Insider's Startup Conference in October.
Together the three companies have raised more than $24 million... |
| 24.08.2013 | You're Building WHAT? Shocking Your Way To Startup Success | Bang With Friends Lulu, Rap Genius, and Bang With Friends are shocking, controversial -- and their founders are all speaking at Business Insider's Startup Conference in October.
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| 23.08.2013 | Rap Genius (YC S11) reaches the Quantcast Top 100 | Rap Genius is now a Top 100 website (currently ranked 96) via Quantcast. The site reaches over 20 million monthly people, of which 11 million (55%) are in the U.S. |
| 25.07.2013 | How PolicyMic, A Startup With A Handful Of Employees, Gets 6 Million People To Read It Every Month | Duncan Wolfe
Jake Horowitz (L) and Chris Altchek (R) co-founded PolicyMic. In 2011, Chris Altchek left his job at Goldman Sachs. He created PolicyMic, a site that used Bleacher Report's model of hiring mostly-free contributors to produce co... |
| 25.07.2013 | How PolicyMic, A Startup With A Handful Of Employees, Gets 6 Million People To Read It Every Month | Duncan Wolfe
Jake Horowitz (L) and Chris Altchek (R) co-founded PolicyMic. In 2011, Chris Altchek left his job at Goldman Sachs. He created PolicyMic, a site that used Bleacher Report's model of hiring mostly-free contributors to produce co... |
| 20.06.2013 | Over A Year After New Content Policies, “Self-Harm Social Media” Still Thrives | About a year and a half ago, just in time for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Tumblr took a hard stance against blogs on its network that encouraged “self harm.” This includes those that glorify or promote anorexia, bulimia, and o... |
| 20.05.2013 | Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion -- 'We promise not to screw it up' | As has been widely rumored over the last few days, Yahoo has paid $1.1 billion for blogging platform Tumblr. In recent times this is the most paid for an Internet acquisition since Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion last year.
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| 18.05.2013 | Hell No, Tumblr Users Won’t Go To Yahoo! | We’ve all by now heard about how Yahoo is trying to get some “cool” with a supposed $1 billion purchase of hip blogging platform Tumblr, but it may be a moot point if Tumblr’s users fail to stick around post-sale.
Microsoft and Facebook may... |
| 06.05.2013 | Tumblr’s Teenaged, Double-Edged Sword | “im ddeleting the internet [sic]“: A telling re-blog from a teenaged girl on the blogging platform turned social networking site Tumblr, in a chain of re-postings that had her pondering Tumblr’s impact on her life twenty years from now, whe... |
| 17.04.2013 | Quantcast Passes $100M Run-Rate, Lands Senior Hires As Ads Business Booms | Online display advertising has been a murky business — who is actually viewing all those ads, and do those ads make a difference to them? Quantcast has been quietly trying to solve this problem since 2006, and now it’s starting to break out... |
| 21.03.2013 | Quantcast Adds Mobile App Data, Promises A Truly Cross-Platform View In Its Analytics Service | Advertising and measurement company Quantcast is launching a new service today called Measure for Mobile Apps. As the name implies, it collects data on the usage of a publisher’s iOS and Android apps.
The service is available for free, and ... |
| 25.02.2013 | San Francisco To Dublin, Ad Specialist Quantcast Opens EMEA Ops Center, Plans 100 Non-Engineering Jobs | Digital advertising specialist Quantcast has become the latest U.S. tech company to put down roots in Dublin. The San Francisco-headquartered company has announced the opening of a new EMEA Operations Center in the Irish city to support the... |
| 08.01.2013 | Quantcast Acquires Startup MakeGood To Improve Ad Data Aggregation | Online measurement and ad targeting company Quantcast has acquired MakeGood (also known as MakeGood Software), a Seattle-based ad tech startup founded in 2009.
Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman said the company spent the last year looking for wa... |
| 08.01.2013 | Quantcast buys Seattle online ad startup MakeGood Software | The MakeGood team — Jeff Coon, Steve Sadowski and Sean Kelly — sporting Quantcast T-shirts
Quantcast has acquired MakeGood Software, a Seattle startup that simplifies data management and reporting for online advertising campaigns. As a resu... |
| 02.01.2013 | Oh, The Places Tumblr Can Go | Nothing says Internet opportunity like a social media juggernaut. Tumblr, the meme–olicious, gif-tastic, photo-fabulous, (but also occasionally) thoughtful blogging platform that attracted 167 million visitors and nearly 18 billion pageview... |
| 28.12.2012 | Touch Publishing Platform Onswipe Now Reaching 10M Monthly Active Users On iOS | Onswipe, a startup that helps publishers build websites optimized for iPads and other touchscreen devices, is closing out what sounds like a big year. Content published through the Onswipe platform reached 44 million unique visitors over th... |
| 20.12.2012 | Delicious Previews Its Next Update With Better Search, Enhanced Profiles And Keyboard Shortcuts | After YouTube’s founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen bought Delicious from Yahoo in early 2011, it looked like things would move quickly for the former Web 2.0 social bookmarking star. Overall, though, development of the service has moved ra... |
| 28.11.2012 | Startup News: New York Tech Plans Sandy Relief Hackathon and Tumblr Shines Bright Like a Diamond | Tumblr’s Mr. Karp (Photo: wikipedia.org)
PartyHat.GIF Tumblr just passed a huge traffic benchmark by finally reaching 170 million global users a month. It’s now the ninth most visited site in the U.S., according to Quantcast. David Karp too... |
| 26.11.2012 | Tumblr makes it into the top 10 U.S. networks | Blogging website now has a global audience of 170 million
I will admit that I have never actually used Tumblr. I have tried to keep blogs in the past, but I usually forget about them. While I have been told by multiple people that I should ... |
| 26.11.2012 | Tumblr is now the 9th most popular site in the U.S. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Blogging platform and social network Tumblr has j... |
| 26.11.2012 | Tumblr Hits Quantcast’s List Of Top 10 U.S. Networks | Tumblr is announcing today that it has broken into the top 10 networks in the U.S., according to third-party measurement firm Quantcast. According to a post from Tumblr CEO David Karp, the site now reaches a worldwide audience of 170 millio... |
| 27.09.2012 | Quantcast Open Sources Hadoop Distributed File System Alternative | Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System (QFS). Today, it’s making that technology avai... |
| 25.06.2012 | McAfee: Sneaky Teens Surf On PCs More Than Mobile, Facebook Rules Over All Other Social Networks | Going mobile may be the mantra for a lot of tech companies these days, but if they’re in the business of targeting teenagers with their services, perhaps they should think twice: over 37 percent of teens use laptops, and a further 30 percen... |
| 21.05.2012 | Mayo Clinic is not ‘stupid’ for accepting advertising. It’s profitable | He went further in an email to me: “I think an experienced marketer would know that you can’t engage in any activity that jeopardizes your brand promise. There may be ways to use ads in a way to enable the clinic’s strategy, but I can’t vie... |
| 12.05.2012 | Pornterest Vs. Pornstagram Vs. Tumblr’s #NSFW | Wow, Pinterest’s porn section is fairly tame. I was just curious about the type of not-so-mommy-friendly content that might be popping up on what’s now the third-most popular social network after Facebook and Twitter. (Also I’m bored). Afte... |
| 12.05.2012 | Android in Europe and Asia | I was going through the board deck of our portfolio company Wattpad this morning. Wattpad is the leading writing/reading community on the web and mobile. Quantcast says over 7.5mm people visit their website each month. And Wattpad is one of... |
| 21.03.2012 | Expanding Its Presence In Asia, Live Video Streaming Platform Ustream Launches In Korea | Back in October, live video streaming platform Ustream announced a partnership with KT Corporation — a leading telecommunications provider in South Korea. The joint venture also included an additional $10 million funding round, much of it l... |
| 08.02.2012 | Star Wars: The Old Republic isn’t hurting World of Warcraft as much as you may think | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
To what extent has Electronic Arts’ Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) been keeping users away from Activision Blizzard’s cash cow Wor... |
| 23.01.2012 | Tumblr now reaches 120M people each month | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tumblr’s quirky blogging platform and community n... |
| 23.01.2012 | Tumblr now reaches 120M people each month | Tumblr’s quirky blogging platform and community network reaches 120 million people every month, founder and CEO David Karp disclosed at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich Monday.
Karp, citing the startup’s latest Quantcast figures... |
| 13.01.2012 | Amazon Has a Throbbing Erotica Problem, But Not the One You Think | The much-anticipated follow-up!
As students of Gothic literature and Keanu Reeves fans know, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is that rare classic that offers high-brow cover for what is essentially a sex romp through Transylvania. As author Maria Cru... |
| 29.12.2011 | Facebook Started Saturating The US Market In 2011 | Most third party web measurement firms have provided a steady drumbeat of positive growth news for Facebook over the years, as the company has gained tens of millions of users in the US and around the world. But now the social network appea... |
| 28.12.2011 | Blip.tv Just Raised $6 Million, But Where Is The Audience? | Blip Networks, which operates Blip.tv, is raising more money. According to an SEC filing, the New York City company sold $6 million worth of stock beginning on December 22, 2011 in an offering that could expand to as much as $11.1 million. ... |
| 15.11.2011 | Meebo Now Reaches 250 Million People Across The Web | Meebo’s been around a long time in Web years. The company was founded in 2005 as a universal IM service. But two years ago, it introduced the Meebo Bar, a social toolbar that sites could put along the bottom of their web pages that allows v... |
| 26.09.2011 | Tumblr Is A Pageview Machine, Now Bigger Than Wikipedia | If you are wondering why Tumblr just raised $85 million, all you have to do is look at its pageviews. The super-easy blogging platform saw its pageviews jump from about 2 billion a month to 13 billion since the beginning of the year. It rec... |
| 22.09.2011 | Why lyrics are the consumer web’s next big thing, again | The next big thing for the consumer web could actually come from one of its oldest content verticals: lyrics. Services like RapGenius and TuneWiki are spearheading a new way of publishing and making money from song lyrics.
Lyrics are a mass... |
| 22.09.2011 | Why lyrics are the consumer web’s next big thing, again | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The next big thing for the consumer web could act... |
| 15.09.2011 | Pinterest Has Already Pinned Down $10M At A $40M Valuation | If you’ve attended any mass gathering of investors in Silicon Valley lately, you’ve probably heard some buzz about invite-only visual bookmarking site Pinterest raising a “massive” round.
Business Insider initially reported the round as hav... |
| 11.09.2011 | Tumblr Reels in Big Traffic, Now 8x More Page Views Than WordPress.com | This time last year, we compared the growth of the two leading light blogging services: Tumblr and Posterous. The conclusion was that Tumblr had all but defeated its rival. All through 2010, Tumblr showed exponential growth. That has contin... |
| 09.09.2011 | In One Year, Tumblr Goes From 1 Billion Posts To 10 Billion | This morning, I logged into Tumblr (where I run my personal blog) and saw confetti flying everywhere on the screen. Was Tumblr hacked? Were they converting the platform to be Geocities-powered complete with animated GIFs? No, they were cele... |
| 02.09.2011 | Oprah to appear on Facebook Live to help Oprah.com | Though she mastered the art of TV, the Web is a whole new thing... and social media is here to help
On May 25, 2011, the world ended. After a quarter century of emotional, ratings-transcending television, Oprah hosted the finale of her Opra... |
| 25.08.2011 | Users First, Brands Second | I like simple ways to think about things. Like mobile first, web second. These kinds of constructs work for me. One that I've been using a lot lately to describe what we like and don't like as much is User First, Brands Second.
When you are... |
| 19.08.2011 | Feature Friday: Disqus Ranks | AVC community regular RichardF suggested a while back that I do Feature Fridays. I'm not sure I can do it consistently week after week, but I'm doing it this week because we have a new feature to disqus.
Disqus has launched "ranks"... |
| 27.06.2011 | A Massive Solar Flare Of Activity Pushes Tumblr To 400 Million Pageviews A Day | Last month, founder David Karp noted that Tumblr was now seeing over 250 million pageviews a day. As we noted, that was incredible since as recently as July of 2009, they were seeing 250 million pageviews for the entire month. But it turns ... |
| 13.06.2011 | Remix this: Image-sharing site Canv.as brings in $3M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Canv.as, an online image-sharing website created ... |
