TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks , persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. ” So, is it a good time to be building a buzzy new social app, or is it a complete mess? Fizz closed a $4.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

DJ Gabeau, one of Snapchat Stories’ earliest engineers and founder of web3 social network Primitives , told TechCrunch that he thinks NFTs can be a genuinely enjoyable way for people to connect with one another digitally and make memories. Users don’t have to go through multiple steps to claim the assets, he added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor Teach yourself growth marketing: Which metrics really matter? What does all that mean for growth marketing?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. Telecoms are betting on immersive media and see it as one of the most robust use cases for 5G and the future of video streaming. Asia, and Europe. “Our

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We last wrote about Breakr — a platform that connects record labels, artists and brands with social media influencers to run mass campaigns in a programmatic way — when it closed a $4.2 million round in 2021. In the past two years, Breakr has onboarded over 30,000 influencers and managed more than $3.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Regie.ai , a startup using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating system to create sales and marketing content for brands, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Foundation Capital, South Park Commons, Day One Ventures and prominent angel investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. Teach yourself growth marketing: How to set up a landing page. The answer is simple: Growth marketing. Booting up an email marketing campaign. Jonathan Martinez. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The startup offers a freemium web-based editing tool that allows users to create videos that are fit to be published on popular social media platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube). InVideo app offers a range of functionalities at no charge, and charges only $10 a month for premium clients, such as a marketing agency.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

During that time, Chen says they realized that the marketing, sales and design process have stayed the same, despite new technology and tools being introduced to the market, and is often riddled with bottlenecks. Chen says most have large sales and marketing teams, but a shortage of designers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This is a quiet period for marketing: End-of-year campaigns are already underway, teams are on holiday vacations and there’s little to do until after the new year. Growth marketers have a wide variety of tools available, but which ones do the pros use? Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But Backdrop is not unlike other global social media platforms that allow users to take ephemeral photos, flex their lifestyle on disappearing stories or discover millions of personalized short videos. Social media and travel. But Backdrop is quite different; the target market is a global one.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Kapu , a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising $3 million pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Descript also now provides new video transitions and animations and various templates, including layouts, titles sequences and social clips, along with the ability to create custom project templates. ” AI-powered media editing app Descript lands fresh cash from OpenAI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Everyone who has email knows what a canned marketing email sounds like (and has probably deleted tons of them). Aakash was in growth engineering at Nextdoor, while Ishan held a position in McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing and Sales Service lines. But badly written emails result in few replies and also make companies look bad.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Startups and VC It’s always nice to have a lot of capital to invest, but managing a large new fund can be even more advantageous right now given that many later-stage companies that put off fundraising last year will likely be in the market come hell or high water in 2023, Connie reports. billion , up from the $1.3 Kirsten has more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Breef , a platform that allows brands to manage and service marketing agency projects, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A round (an undisclosed portion of which was debt) led by Greycroft with participation from BDMI, UTA.VC, Afterpay’s Touch Ventures and UC Berkeley’s The House Fund.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To attract and retain top-tier talent in a competitive market, organizations must adopt innovative strategies that help identify the right candidates and create a cultural environment where they can thrive. Social media also facilitates two-way communication, allowing for real-time interactions that can enhance the candidate experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

After some research, the founders noticed that these sellers also engaged with other channels, such as websites or social media. So wherever you sell, on social media, Afrikrea marketplace, or your website, all of it ends up in one dashboard,” the CEO said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

The teenage market for apps is a tough nut to crack and stay relevant in. Equally, teens are going through a stage in life where almost every social interaction seems to carry portent of some kind of other. Slay ” bills itself as a “positive social media network for teenagers”. Just ask Snapchat.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Angelina Liparteliani is a digital marketing expert for Johnson & Johnson. Brands are growing concerned about where to spend their main social media marketing budgets. The purpose of the marketing campaign on Instagram was to raise awareness about the service and generate leads. Angelina Liparteliani.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Radio has long been described as the most intimate of media. “I believe that the best consumer investments come from people who have unique insights on consumer behavior and ways that new tech products can allow new forms of social interaction,” said Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures , who led the pre-seed investment round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

On the one hand, the face of “media” and who and what gets attention has changed drastically in the last decade. Social media has a viral element to it that’s completely different from traditional media, and those creating content on there are different, too. Sometimes, they are still journalists.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

He called the deal “a remarkable turnaround” for Zelto, a company that has stared down a few near-death experiences, including cash flow and product market fit problems, during its 10-year-old life. Daily Crunch: Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee acquires Zelto for $70M by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To stay competitive, media, advertising, and entertainment enterprises need to stay abreast of recent dramatic technological developments. Ideation and iteration Advertising agencies and marketing teams can leverage these models to generate visually stunning and attention-grabbing assets for their campaigns. Stable Image Ultra 1.0

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The startup uses blockchain technology to help brands build customer loyalty without having to rely on buying up pricey ads on third-party social media platforms, Haney explained. “[Outdoor Voices] would spend 30% to 40% of our dollars raised directly to the big [social media] platforms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Yes, there is a way of doing it, it turns out, and that’s the market Artie is taking a leap into. I can either follow the game there and return (akin to Farmville back in the day and Facebook) and go back to social to play, or I can save a bookmark or a progressive web app to my phone screen and have a pseudo-app at my finger tips.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company, which announced a $200,000 pre-seed last September , said it intends to use the investment to hire talent, build up its processes, structure, and scale into new African markets. A business owner probably uses up to 10 solutions, including social media, payments, invoicing, logistics and marketplace apps.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

King said the cross-chain marketplace (although currently built on Avalanche blockchain) allows crypto and card payments but plans to add mobile money as the startup makes it easier for people in emerging markets like Africa to trade with ease. They get instant access to millions of people all around the world at the touch of a button.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Block Party launched in early 2021, but now, the company hopes to expand to other social platforms with the help of $4.8 “Is there going to be a willingness to pay for this, like how big is the market here? But Chou thinks social media platforms simply aren’t incentivized to prioritize safety over pure usage.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

But many of them don’t have the social media clout to attract advertisers. Based on research they sourced from Research and Markets, Digital Journal and Statista, they found that the creator economy in Southeast Asia has a projected CAGR of about 10% to 30%. In our case, promoters help creators sell their digital content.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Founded in January 2022 by Sophia Solanki, an Australian serial entrepreneur whose previous startup was content marketing and social media management SaaS platform DrumUp. How Narrato wants to differentiate is by embedding generative AI into the entire marketing and content creation workflow in a single platform.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Let’s be brutally honest: if you’re a CMO still clinging to outdated hiring practices and marketing strategies, it’s time to wake up or step aside. The marketing world is moving at warp speed, and those who don’t know how to actually harness AI are getting left in the dust. The real players aren’t where you think they are.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Africa’s beauty and personal care market is growing accelerated by its growing young and fashion conscious population, increasing spending power, and urbanization. The market’s potential has in recent years attracted major brands, with Fenty Beauty by Rihanna and LVMH being the latest entrants. Image Credits : Uncover Skincare.

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CIO

JULY 1, 2024

Generating and maintaining awareness is notoriously challenging for small businesses, often working with limited in-house resources and without the budget for external marketing support. For example, it can help generate ideas for brand-building content and optimise marketing campaigns. Eye catching This is just the start.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

“We started back in 2016 with a really clear use case to solve this problem for musicians and artists that needed a better way to link out of socials to all their different revenue streams, and we really needed to unify that experience for them to help drive monetization,” Zaccaria told TechCrunch.

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