StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is the easiest way to discover new and interesting things from across the Web. More than 20 million users turn to StumbleUpon to be informed, entertained and surprised by content and information recommended just for them. In addition, more than 60,000 brands, publishers and other marketers have used StumbleUpon's Paid Discovery platform to promote their products and services.-
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StumbleUpon: Building for Windows 8
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Say hello to the new, dramatically different StumbleUpon.com
An all-new, radically different StumbleUpon web experience arrives Tuesday to provide the service’s more than 25 million content seekers with reworked ways to explore videos, photos, news, and articles from across the web. Ten-year-old StumbleUpon, having just released a new experience for iPhone and iPad, is in the midst of a design and user experience awakening. The company, under the direction of new vice president of product Cody Simms, is remaking all of its products to be more personal and playful.
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StumbleUpon Revamps iOS App With Improved Navigation, Page Previews, And 'StumbleDNA'
StumbleUpon is releasing a new version of its iOS today. I've played with a little, and it's a good-looking, intuitive-feeling app that could make the content discovery service more addictive than ever. Cody Simms, the company’s new vice president of product, tells me this is the first big product update since he joined the company in June, and it reflects three general ideas that StumbleUpon will be focusing on moving forward. First, it will be to giving users more of a personal identity within the service. Second, there will be them ways to “stumble” through content. Last, Simms aims to add more ways for users to find recommended content.
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StumbleUpon has mastered the science of making money on mobile
The social web exploration company is growing fastest on mobile, but unlike behemoth social network Facebook, Stumbleupon has not-so-accidentally stumbled upon a formula for serving ads to mobile users in a way that doesn't jeopardize the bottom line.
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StumbleUpon Snags Yahoo Exec for VP of Product Role
StumbleUpon Thursday morning tapped former Yahoo executive Cody Simms to be vice president of product at the social discovery Web site. Simms spent seven years at Yahoo in various product-related roles, and previously held product positions at the New York Times and NBC Internet. The hire comes little more than a month after StumbleUpon co-founder Garrett Camp stepped down from the CEO position, which remains to be filled.
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StumbleUpon Reaches 25M Registered Users, Plans For Global Expansion And API
CEO Garrett Camp tells me that content discovery service StumbleUpon hit 25 million registered users earlier this week, and that those users are pretty damn active-- the service is now seeing 1.2 billion Stumbles a month.
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Stumbling Gets More Social: StumbleUpon Releases Facebook Timeline App
Content discovery service StumbleUpon is the latest company hoping to claim some space in your Facebook Timeline. A StumbleUpon spokesperson says the thinking behind Timeline integration is pretty straightforward: It's "based on our finding that many of our users find Stumbling more enjoyable when the things they discover become social objects," and Timeline is a "frictionless" way to make that happen. That also means StumbleUpon is about to get a lot more exposure on Facebook.
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StumbleUpon Names First VP for Sales
StumbleUpon, the content-discovery site that helps users "stumble" around the web based on their interests, has hired Digitas exec Teal Newland as its first VP-sales.
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Live Drawing SXSW: StumbleUpon, the Traffic-Generating Machine
Earlier this afternoon StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp sat down at SXSW with All Things Digital's Liz Gannes to talk about a social media company that drives a huge amount of traffic on the social Web. Fun fact: It delivers more than 1 billion personalized recommendations per month. Unified and @visualhero where there to capture the session.
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StumbleUpon, the ten-year-old social site, has managed something few Silicon Valley companies have: a comeback. It may not have the buzz -- or billions -- of Facebook, but StumbleUpon has managed to right itself after a brush with obscurity to become one the most powerful sources of traffic on the internet.
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StumbleUpon Gets NFC Sharing & More On Android; Rolls Out New UI Across Platforms
At The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, StumbleUpon, the veteran content discovery platform, will be announcing "its first major integration with Android," says Co-founder Garrett Camp. What does that mean? Well, nearly as we can tell, Google is calling on a handful of apps at MWC to showcase the new integration possibilities (with Google+ and other Google products) that are part of Android 4.0-- otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Android will be featuring (promoting) StumbleUpon at MWC, thanks to some new updates to its Android app that go live today.
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The biggest social media opportunity your brand is missing
Online media has struggled to meet both criteria that make the brand opportunity in TV so compelling: scale and psychology. The internet has undoubtedly given marketers scale, as millions of users flock to search engines on a daily basis. Until recently, the psychology that makes TV a friendly medium for brands has not existed for the online sector. The introduction of social media extensions, however, has enabled a distribution platform for discovering rich, engaging promotional microsites that can capture the hearts of internet users.
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Infographic Of The Day: The Incredible Power Of StumbleUpon
Running a website is a nerve-wracking business, because traffic on the web is so fickle: At Co.Design, the difference between a superb month and an average one can be a single hit on StumbleUpon. So I knew the power that the social-bookmarking site has. But I had no idea that their influence was so unbelievably huge until I saw this infographic by Column Five. Simply put, StumbleUpon is a roaming traffic monster, able to make or break content all across the web.
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StumbleUpon Brings Its Tablet Experience To Android, Optimizes UI Across All Its Mobile Apps
Content discovery platform StumbleUpon, which just launched a much improved iPad app in August, now brings that same user experience to Android with the very first StumbleUpon app designed specifically for Android tablets (the app was previously only available for the Android phone). The app is ready for download in the Android Market here.
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How Stumbleupon is winning on the web
At nearly ten years old, StumbleUpon is certainly well past the point of attracting users by being a new and hot trend. But the San Francisco-based web discovery engine has proven that slow and steady growth can still lead to success: Earlier this month, StumbleUpon surpassed Facebook to become the biggest traffic driver among social media startups in the US.
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The iPad Was Built For Something Like StumbleUpon, Now They Have A Worthy App
Since its inception, StumbleUpon has always been one of the most perfect lean-back apps. Long before anyone even used that term, the StumbleUpon toolbar took various pages on the web and allowed you to quickly jump between them to find new things of interest. This concept seems perfect for a device like the iPad. Unfortunately the app just wasn't very good. Until today.
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StumbleUpon sends more traffic to US websites than Facebook
Web discovery engine StumbleUpon is now the biggest traffic driver among social media websites in the US, according to global web analytics service StatCounter. The company unseated Facebook at the top during June 2011 .The ten-year-old StumbleUpon has been working diligently at its comeback since 2009.
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Former Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh Joins StumbleUpon
Former Yahoo CTO and EVP Products Ari Balogh is to become StumbleUpon's VP of engineering, the company said this morning.
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StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp On What It's Like To Buy Back Your Company
There aren't many startup founders that have done what Garrett Camp has done. After selling content discovery service StumbleUpon to eBay for $75 million in 2007, Camp and investors decided to buy it back for a reported $29 million in 2009.
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StumbleUpon Unveils Paid Discovery, Its New "No Click" Ad Platform
Content discovery engine StumbleUpon, which most recently received 17 million in Series B funding, is unveiling a new ad platform today, StumbleUpon Paid Discovery. Whereas the old Stumble ad model was primarily targeted to getting traffic for publishers, StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp tells me that Paid Discovery is setting its sights on bigger brands, like movie studios promoting a movie or stuff like NFL teams promoting their sites.
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Recommendation Engine StumbleUpon Stumbles Onto $17M From Accel, August Capital And Others
StumbleUpon has had an interesting history, being snatched up by eBay in 2007 and then bought back by its founders for a rumored $29 million plus in 2009. Currently the service has 14 million users and now serves up over 800 million “Stumbles,” or recommendations, a month.
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Received $17M Series B Funding
Participation Accel Partners, August Capital, DAG Ventures, First Round Capital, Sherpalo Ventures, Garrett Camp
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StumbleUpon Sent 700M Pageviews To Other Websites In Dec, Is Growing 20% Monthly
Social discovery service StumbleUpon made headlines yesterday when CEO Garrett Camp tweeted out that it had surpassed Facebook in terms of referral traffic on StatCounter.
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StumbleUpon Sent 700M Pageviews To Other Websites In Dec, Is Growing 20% Monthly
Social discovery service StumbleUpon made headlines yesterday when CEO Garrett Camp tweeted out that it had surpassed Facebook in terms of referral traffic on StatCounter.
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StumbleUpon Passes Facebook As Top Source Of Social Media Traffic
Web discovery service StumbleUpon has just overtaken Facebook as the No. 1 source for social media traffic in the U.S., according to analytics site Statcounter. StumbleUpon accounted for about 43% of the U.S. social media traffic on January 1st, while Facebook accounted for about 38%.
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Will StumbleUpon Redefine Internet Advertising?
StumbleUpon's ability to propagate viral material online is normally enjoyed by Internet junkies who just want to find out what's out there on the web. But, founder and CEO Garrett Camp is banking that the site can be much more than that. With new options to be launched early next year, they believe they may have the next evolution in online advertising, steering companies away from your traditional banner. Read more: http://techland.time.com/2010/12/07/will-stumbleupon-redefine-internet-advertising/#ixzz27YQ7N41x
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StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp On The Downside To Getting Our News On Facebook
We've got search engines, decision engines, and internal-combustion engine. But when was the last time you tried a discovery engine?
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StumbleUpon's Android App Discovery Feature: 1 Million Stumbles And Counting
Discovery engine StumbleUpon recently announced App Discovery, a free beta feature of its Android app that basically suggests mobile apps based on a user's individual interests and preferences and those of friends and like-minded users.
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StumbleUpon Announces New Auto-Targeting Feature for Ad System
StumbleUpon, a discovery engine, today announced the latest in a series of planned enhancements to its innovative "no-click" ad system, allowing brand advertisers and publishers to automatically target their campaigns to audiences most likely to engage with and share their branded content with others. This new auto-targeting feature uses StumbleUpon's content recommendation technology to enable advertisers to easily optimize the reach and relevance of their web marketing efforts. The enhancement also aims to reduce their administrative overhead and improve their return on investment.
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StumbleUpon Brings Its Serendipitous Discovery To The iPhone And Android
On a desktop computer, StumbleUpon makes sense. You're on the prowl for cool stuff, click a button and find it. But there is a ton of competition these days among services that let you do this — and increasingly people are relying on Twitter and Facebook for this. But mobile is a different beast. A tailored, contained experience for the small screen is welcomed. That's exactly what StumbleUpon has built with their iPhone and Android apps.
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StumbleUpon Poaches A Pair Of Googlers To Fill Director Roles
Discovery engine startup StumbleUpon today announced it has hired two new directors to expand its sales and partnership teams, both previous Google employees.
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Social Media Masters: StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp
It's been a year since StumbleUpon stumbled out from under the shadow of Ebay, which had acquired the Web site discovery engine for $75 million in 2007 but lacked any grand plan for it. StumbleUpon offers a way to click through random Web sites. It learns which ones you might like next by registering the ones to which you give a thumbs up or down. The more you stumble the more StumbleUpon learns what you might like, and you can connect with other like-minded stumblers. StumbleUpon's founder and chief executive Garrett Camp bought the site back with the help of Accel Partners and billionaire angel investor Ram Shriram and the nine-year-old site just passed its 10 millionth registered user, and is one of the top sources of social media traffic for news, video and other content sites.
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StumbleUpon Quietly Signs Up 10 Millionth User
Without making a lot of noise about it, StumbleUpon yesterday surpassed 10 million registered users. The milestone was reached upon registration of a user that goes by the name Nellzom, a 20-year old from Colombia.
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StatCounter: Facebook, StumbleUpon Generate More Traffic Than Twitter
According to StatCounter's GlobalStats research arm, Twitter now generates almost 10% of social media driven global hits to websites, while Facebook still reigns supreme as the primary source of traffic to global websites with almost half (48%) of ‘Social Media hits'.
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Received Series A Funding
Participation Accel Partners, Sherpalo Ventures, August Capital, First Round Capital, Garrett Camp
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Received $1.5M Seed Funding
Participation First Round Capital, Ram Shriram, Mitch Kapor, Ron Conway
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Received Angel Funding
Participation Brad O'Neill
