Category Archives: Milestones

Clearspring Raises $20MM from IVP

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(Originally posted on the Clearspring blog.)

We’re excited to announce that we’ve just closed an investment round led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). IVP has backed some of the best data-driven companies on the web, including Twitter and Zynga. 86 out of the 300 companies they last invested in have gone public.

In the last couple of years, we’ve grown tremendously across the board. AddThis is now used by over 9MM domains, reaching over 1B unique users monthly. It’s so popular that we’re now one of a handful of sites to have a Google PageRank of 10. We’re processing 10TB of data/day – every week, we process as much data as the entire digital Library of Congress.

AddThis has in turn fueled the growth of our Audience Platform, enabling hundreds of advertisers to deliver more relevant advertising. All the while we’ve been hiring as fast as we can to continue to support the needs of all the great companies that use our products.

We want to thank all of you for working with us over the years. We hope to show you just how thankful we are by putting this money to work on great new products. As always, if you have any ideas about how we can better serve publishers and advertisers, hit us up.

Look forward to continuing to rock (and roll) with all of you!

Cheers,

Hooman

AddThis for Firefox Surpasses 3 Million Installs

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We are humbled by another great milestone here at AddThis – our Firefox browser extension has surpassed 3 million downloads.

AddThis for Firefox was originally created at a Clearspring Hackathon and it has been a thrill to watch the success of this product. It goes to show how beneficial it is for end users to have that persistent one-click access to sharing regardless of where they are on the web.

Thanks again to a wonderful and supportive community. Your honest feedback has helped shape this product – a product that proves its great function through the numbers.

Download the AddThis for Firefox plug-in if you haven’t already or one of our other handy dandy browser extensions. AddThis for Chrome maintains over 26k weekly installs and AddThis for Internet Explorer has reached over 1.4M downloads.

Clearspring Featured on Good Morning America

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(Originally posted on the Clearspring blog.)

Clearspring was excited to be featured on Good Morning America this past weekend. The ABC crew stopped by last Friday and highlighted us as an example of a fast-growing company demonstrating the economic recovery.

Since 2008, Clearspring has extended the reach of AddThis from 200MM unique users monthly to over 1B. And with our new Audience Platform, revenue is growing just as fast. It’s been quite a ride!

Want to join the fun? Check out our Careers page and submit your resume. We’d love to hear from you.

Check out Clearspring on GMA:

And some behind the scenes photos:

(Photos via Jeff Wong Design)

AddThis for WordPress Reaches Over 300k Installs

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We are excited to announce that the AddThis for WordPress plug-in has reached over 300k installs. Since launching our second version of the plug-in last month, there have been over 60k installs!

Not only do we want to thank all the users who downloaded the plug-in, but all those who took the time to give us their feedback. It definitely has been a group effort and for that we are truly grateful!

We’ve got some more features in the pipeline, but it’s you, the user, that will drive us forward, so please feel free to post in the comments any questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas you have regarding AddThis for WordPress.

Clearspring Named One of the 2011 OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies

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(Originally posted on the Clearspring blog.)

We’re pleased to announce that Clearspring has been named one of the 2011 OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies by AlwaysOn. It’s an honor to be included alongside so many other great companies, such as Groupon and Tumblr, that are driving the future of the social web.

We want to thank all the publishers, service providers, and advertisers that have driven the tremendous growth of the AddThis network for making this possible. Together, we’re making great strides to better connect publishers, advertisers and service providers with the audiences on the Social Web.

Finally thanks to the AlwaysOn team for recognizing our hard work over all these years. We have consistently been recognized as a leader in social media:

Come visit us at OnMedia NYC on Feb 1st where we will be speaking alongside advertising pioneers Joe Zawadski (CEO MediaMath) and Brian O’Kelley (CEO AppNexus) discussing “How the Mathematicians and Rocket Scientists took over the Advertising Industry”.

Stay tuned for more announcements – 2011 is going to be an exciting year!

Go Big or Go Chrome

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We’re proud to announce another milestone this morning. We’ve surpassed 40,000 installs of AddThis for Google Chrome — making us the #1 sharing plug-in for the fast-growing browser!

If you are a user of Google Chrome and have yet to download the AddThis plug-in, what are you waiting for? It’s the best extension to make sharing and bookmarking easy. Just a couple clicks, and you’ve shared your content to your favorite social networks.

If you don’t use Chrome, don’t feel left out! We also have browser plug-ins for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox, as well as the AddThis Bookmarklets.

If you have any questions or feedback about AddThis for Google Chrome, please let us know! We’re always listening in our forum or you can drop us an email – kori@addthis.com or justin@addthis.com

AddThis for Firefox Passes 2,000,000 Downloads

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Today, we’re celebrating another milestone. AddThis for Firefox has passed 2,000,000 downloads.

AddThis for Firefox was originally created during a Clearspring Hackathon, where we stay up all night and code up fun projects. It’s since become the world’s leading browser plug-in for online sharing. Now, we’re starting to dream up what the next generation of AddThis for Firefox will be. More coming soon…

If you don’t use Firefox, don’t worry. We’ve got you covered. We also have browser plug-ins for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, as well as the AddThis Bookmarklets. (An extension for Apple Safari is coming soon.)

Have any comments on our browser extensions, let us know. Drop a note on our forum or e-mail me personally. – justin@addthis.com

AddThis is Now as Big as Mario Lopez, On Twitter

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With AddThis, we recently passed a fun milestone. We now have over 110,000 followers for our AddThis Twitter account (@AddThis). We’re about as big on Twitter as Mario Lopez (@mariolopezextra), of Dancing with the Stars and Saved by the Bell fame. *smiles*

When we’re not heads down on new features for AddThis, we love geeking out about social media. Twitter has been a fantastic mechanism for getting the word out to our user base about what’s going on. We also depend on Twitter for helping to identify customer issues and making sure that they are quickly resolved.

Thanks to all of you who are following us.  If you’re not following us, I hope that you will. We’re working on some extra special updates for the feed. Stay tuned…

People Love Sharing With the New AddThis Toolbar

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A couple of weeks ago we launched an update to our AddThis browser extensions for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. For Firefox users, this update introduced the option of sharing with AddThis using a browser toolbar.

Like most of us in the office, I love sharing links with friends and posting them to my favorite online services. With the new AddThis Toolbar, I can do it all with just one click. It’s pretty awesome.

Well, after a few weeks of these new browser extensions being out in the world, we’re excited to report that they have been a big success. For Firefox users specifically, we’ve seen a 3x increase in sharing from the previous version of the add-on. Plus, someone with the new AddThis toolbar shares 39x more often than the average AddThis user.

Website publishers, this is great for you. When people share more often, that means they’re sharing your content more often and your content is getting exposed to even more new users.

As we’ve said before, our goal is to make it easy for anyone to share anything, anywhere. We’re excited to evolve these sharing tools and make them even better. Stay tuned!

Have questions about the AddThis Toolbar? Check out our FAQ, drop a comment on this post, or e-mail me at justin@addthis.com.

Do you use one of the many other browsers? Well, we love you, too. Have you seen AddThis for Chrome or the AddThis Bookmarklets?