Oktopost announced that it has secured a $20 million minority investment from London-headquartered growth equity firm Expedition Growth Capital. Prior to this round, the business had raised less than a million dollars and grown profitably since inception in 2013. Oktopost provides a user-friendly, enterprise-grade cloud platform, built on a single code base, where B2B marketers […]
Content-marketing agency Immedia has launched the martech platform Contrend. The artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) powered platform gives users insights on how content-marketing campaigns are landing with audiences. Contrend—the name combines the words ‘content’ and ‘trend’—was originally developed by Immedia as Immediate. Contrend was developed as a new iteration after the R&D […]
Clubhouse is going wide. Co-founders Paul Davison and Rohan Seth announced that the app is no longer invite-only. Around 10 million people are currently on the waitlist, a spokesperson confirms, and they’ll slowly be added to the app over time. (Essentially, millions of users won’t be added today, but seemingly, if you attempt to sign […]
DeFine, a Social NFT platform for all creators, announces a $5 million strategic funding round led by Huobi Ventures, Abyss, a K-Pop/eSports entertainment management company, and global game developer PearlAbyss, makers of the game Black Desert. The round also includes top Asian blockchain funds including Draper Dragon, NGC Ventures, and SevenX Ventures. Other notable investors […]
Netflix confirmed that it’ll expand into video games, starting with ad-free games for mobile devices like phones and tablets available on its existing service at no added cost to subscribers. In its biggest expansion into a new kind of entertainment since it started streaming in 2007 and released its first original show in 2012, Netflix […]
Creatd, the parent company of Vocal, announced that it has completed its acquisition of a controlling stake of WHE Agency (“WHE”), following the Company’s initial announcement of the proposed transaction in mid-June. WHE is a talent management and public relations agency dedicated to the representation and management of family- and lifestyle-focused influencers and digital creators. […]
Tinuiti, announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire a leading purchaser of digital streaming media, Bliss Point Media, and its subsidiary, Prospect Point Media. The Santa Monica-based company provides a patented machine-learning technology to accurately measure and optimise performance for leading brands like Fabletics, Instacart, Square, Thumbtack and Tonal. The deal will allow […]
TikTok has launched Spark Ads, a new format that enables brands to grow by elevating and sharing relevant, native content from the TikTok community. The aim of the product is to start conversations and ignite interactions between brands, creators, and the community. Spark Ads enables brands to amplify existing organic videos that fit their campaign […]
KUKApp is now available to 1.7 million merchants on Shopify. Convenient no-code technology lets businesses publish apps with App Store and Google Play in a single day. KUKApp aims to replace both development teams and app builders by offering a shorter release cycle than existing solutions. “Most low-code app builders are still a major time […]
Salesforce announced it has completed its acquisition of Slack Technologies, Inc. “We couldn’t be more excited to have Slack as part of the Salesforce family, combining the #1 CRM and the trailblasing digital platform for the work anywhere world,” said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce. “Together we’ll define the future of enterprise software, […]
