Just a week away from Thanksgiving, we are counting our many blessings here at Clearspring. We’ve just been named among the AlwaysOn 2011 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic Top 100 for being among the most promising private companies “creating new, vital solutions that will lead to industry disruption and huge value creation.” The honor stems from nominations by several top firms including Morgan Stanley, Technology Partners, DFJ, SAP and KPMG.
It’s great to be recognized, especially on the heels of a very busy past couple of months. In late September, we welcomed Ramsey McGrory, formerly of Yahoo! and RMX as our new CEO. In October, we took a look back at five years of sharing and analytics as we celebrated the fifth anniversary of our social sharing platform, AddThis (check us out in Adweek). Last week, AddThis hit another milestone as the largest social sharing platform – in a 24 hour period, we saw 3,000,000,000 (that’s 3 billion!) views. And, we recently announced our acquisition of data science company, XGraph. Together, we’ve created the largest multi-graph platform on the open web. By multi-graph, we mean that our understanding of an audience is multi-dimensional where a single-graph would only represent one dimension of how people are connected (like social ties, for instance). Based on 1.2 billion users, the extensive multi-graph capability has incredible implications for all of our partners across the board.
Whew! It’s been busy and we wouldn’t have it any other way. It couldn’t be more appropriate that all of this comes right before we each take a moment to give thanks. We are incredibly grateful to all of our clients, partners, investors and supporters. Thank you AlwaysOn, those that nominated and voted for us for this honor, and all of you for continuing to keep us motivated and inspired. As always, please reach out and let us know how we can better serve you.
XGraph is the leading data science company focused on modeling web-wide connections between people. Clearspring’s scalable data processing and massive reach via AddThis coupled with XGraph’s technology create the largest multi-graph platform on the open web—mapping 1.2 billion user’s connections by brand affiliation, intent and social behavior.
The social graph, the data structure that maps the connections we have with our friends, has taken the web by storm. This has proven to be a powerful platform, but this single graph only represents one dimension of how we are connected to one another. XGraph not only models these social connections, but also multiple other types of connections such as how we are related by brand affiliations, intent and more. This is the multi-graph.
With our new multi-graph platform, Clearspring has a truly differentiated capability to deliver powerful results to our publishers and advertisers. For publishers, we will use this graph platform to enable deeper audience insight, monetization and actionable data products in the near future. And, that’s just the beginning.
Thank you, as always, to our customers, partners and investors for making this possible. Welcome XGraph into the Clearspring family!
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.
If you are a big MyBB contributor, we highly recommend you download the AddThis plug-in! The super cool add-on will automatically put an AddThis button in your threads. You can even set it to display on all posts or just the first one!
Once again, serious props to our amazingly smart and talented community. We love this stuff!
Are you a fan of AddThis and use the Opera browser? Good news for you! There is now an Opera AddThis extension — making it easy to share from ANY site on the web.
We also have to give a special shout out to our wonderful community because it was an AddThis user who created the plug-in. Words can’t express the gratitude we have for your loyalty. It’s actions such as these that inspire us to continue to strive in making the best bookmarking and share product on the web!
Have you created something awesome using the AddThis API? If so, please drop us an email, we’d love to highlight it!
AddThis user Derek Poore recently e-mailed us this AWESOME display advertisement that he created for AddThis, to show his support. We thought it was so cool that we wanted to share it with you all.
December 17th, 2008 by Justin Thorp in Promotional
We’re really excited about AddThis and how easily it can make your content shareable. We’ve been brainstorming ways that we could share our excitement and the value proposition with you.
Our genius creative director recently put the finishing touches on an AddThis Video Tour, kind of a 60 second commercial, and I wanted to share it with you guys.
As always, if you ever any questions, thoughts, feedback, or you just wanna say hi, e-mail me – justin@addthis.com. We ALWAYS love meeting our users.
