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2 years ago

A startup that helps developers create games, advertising, and other interactive experiences on web pages.

2,268

4 years ago 1 views

A startup helping small businesses create their own, more profitable, online marketing campaigns. The company helps small businesses with organic content creation, on-page SEO, and paid advertising. It’s currently looking for top-level talent.

978

4 years ago

A team that creates digital advertising for brands. The startup says they have over 1,000 clients including companies like Ford, Sony, and General Electric.

394

4 years ago

A business-to-business (B2B) sales tool that helps firms manage their advertising campaigns.

305

5 years ago

A digital advertising company that helps companies sell directly on Facebook

243

4 years ago

A “Facebook for Real Estate” that combines a platform for real estate agents and sellers to find buyers and sellers with a native advertising platform (similar to Rent.com) that lets companies manage their presence on the site.

243

4 years ago

An SaaS data platform meant to help companies understand what types of influencers they should be advertising to and which ads are effective.

228

5 years ago

The founders of this startup say they are “building the first truly global, blockchain-based, decentralized and transparent peer-to-peer marketplace for advertising.”

210

5 years ago

A startup that provides marketing services for small businesses, with a focus on Facebook advertising.

187

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for making, distributing and monetizing augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) games The company says it’s already built over a dozen AR and VR games and is currently monetizing them through app stores, advertising, premium content, and in-app purchases

185

4 years ago

This is a service for the social media influencer market. It lets influencers promote brands without the need for retailers to ship products to them or pay for advertising. It’s similar to Influential, though it appears to have fewer influencers on its platform.

185

5 years ago

In the US, over $15 billion is spent on advertising for pet care services, but there is currently no app-based service that lets you find a good pet sitter. Pet Care Hero wants to be the first.

180

4 years ago

A “social network for real estate agents”, an advertising platform for them to promote their services, and a social network for buyers.

174

4 years ago

China’s internet giants are increasingly dominating the global digital advertising market. A recent report from Digiday says: “Chinese social media and news platforms have commanded the lion’s share of ad revenue as global digital ad spend in the country has grown at a staggering compound annual growth rate of around 40% over the last five years.” How are these companies making money They’re using the vast audience of consumers on social media for traditional advertising.

173

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a system that uses machine learning to help businesses with advertising.

171

5 years ago

A company that makes it easier for retailers to offer discounts on products, allowing them to promote sales without advertising.

170

5 years ago

A solution for marketing and advertising products to people shopping on Amazon.com

168

5 years ago

A “checking card” to help startups get paid. It’s a card that can be used for all of a company’s purchases, including things like affiliate marketing or advertising.

157

5 years ago

A company that builds “smart in-app advertising” for mobile games.

156

5 years ago

A startup that sells a subscription service that sends someone to clean your house once a month. The startup is advertising the service on Facebook, reaching a lot of potential customers that have seen its ads and are interested in it.

155

5 years ago

A platform to create a digital marketing and advertising agency for small business owners.

155

5 years ago

A platform for creating individualized content in bulk. It helps small businesses create advertising campaigns through its machine learning based technology

155

5 years ago

A platform that helps big agencies and brands to get the best media deals at scale. The company is now only looking to work with publishers, content creators and agencies. It would give publishers more visibility into advertising deals in order to improve their sales and marketing strategies.

154

5 years ago

A cloud-based platform that allows businesses to sell merchandise using paid advertising, sponsored content and interactive social ads.

154

5 years ago

A company that integrates traditional and social media advertising, for smaller brands looking to do more with less.

153

5 years ago

A startup that allows anyone to create and promote a podcast, and then earn revenue through advertising and sponsorships

152

5 years ago

A platform for programmatic advertising, helping buyers target ads at businesses based on their size, location, and other criteria.

150

5 years ago

An ad tech company that’s building a new technology that they say has the potential to significantly change the way digital advertising is purchased and sold. The company’s technology has the potential to revolutionize the digital advertising market by giving advertisers complete control of their ad campaigns, directly from their desktop and mobile devices.

150

3 years ago

A startup for sales and services to help small businesses with their marketing and sales needs, including design, digital marketing, and advertising.

150

5 years ago

A platform that connects brands with influencers for advertising, sponsored content, and social media campaigns.

148

3 years ago

A platform for digital advertising that makes it easier for brands to sell on Facebook and Instagram.

148

5 years ago

A company is planning to launch in August 2020, working on a way to better integrate ad tech, which often gets in the way of native advertising.

144

5 years ago

SolveMedia works with brands on digital advertising, and also helps them build out their own digital marketing systems.

144

5 years ago

Unbounce isn’t selling directly to customers, but instead to small agencies and marketers that want to hire them to do their advertising.

142

5 years ago

A new way to buy and sell media. The company wants to provide a new lens on marketing and advertising and help brands use data to reach consumers more effectively.

142

4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps consumers and businesses manage their advertising and marketing budgets and track ROI.

140

5 years ago

A “native advertising” platform that allows publishers to create and share native video ads that look like the video content they’re promoting.

135

5 years ago

A new service that offers a way to automate marketing tasks like advertising, email marketing, and follow-up/updates.

135

5 years ago

A provider of “AI-empowered” imagery for advertising, which identifies and tags objects in photos to generate ad campaigns.

133

5 years ago

A new take on digital advertising that seeks to take over the desktop space. The founders say it’s the first product that can put advertising on every desktop screen. It’s also intended to be a “frictionless” experience for users, removing the need to navigate multiple ad networks or pay for ads.

132

5 years ago

A platform for data-driven advertising

132

3 years ago

A spinoff from the now-defunct cloud-based gaming service Chuggaaconroy. This startup-turned-company is now building a platform for social media influencers to sell advertising on their Instagram and YouTube channels.

129

5 years ago

The high cost of online advertising means that marketers struggle to find the right people to reach with their ads. Yieldly wants to automate the process of finding the right people, using a system of algorithms that finds the right person to target for the right job, based on the criteria the company needs.

128

5 years ago

An API that makes advertising and marketing more efficient. “We’re trying to make it easier for marketers to manage campaigns,” says the company.

128

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform for online consumer engagement campaigns. It also aims to bring more transparency to the online advertising industry.

127

5 years ago

A chatbot-based service that helps businesses sell to those in their target markets. Founded by two Interactive Advertising Bureau employees, the company wants to build “your friend in advertising” — a tool that helps you buy a product or service with a personalized conversation.

126

5 years ago

A platform for selling advertising through instant video. The startup wants to build a video site that allows brands to sell ad space through auto-pilot videos.

126

3 years ago

An analytics platform for data scientists to use to evaluate marketing campaigns, and determine the success of their online advertising campaigns.

125

5 years ago

A startup for businesses to do online marketing and advertising for themselves, including things like advertising on Instagram.

123

5 years ago

A startup that helps people choose and set up online advertising campaigns, including cost-per-click (CPC), cost-per-thousand (CPM), cost-per-action (CPA), and cost-per-install (CPI).

120

5 years ago

A company that collects and analyzes data on the social aspects of digital advertising in order to optimize the process.

119

5 years ago

This startup is building a financial tool that helps companies manage all of the money they spend on advertising. The startup converts all of that data into digital marketing reports and services.

116

5 years ago

VaynerMedia is an advertising agency that has pivoted its business into a platform for influencer marketing, with the goal of creating “a financial engine” for influencers, allowing them to monetize their content.

114

4 years ago

A startup that helps Facebook pages and Instagram profiles monetize with advertising.

114

3 years ago

A company that uses a combination of big data, AI and data science to create better advertising campaigns.

112

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform for location-based mobile advertising aimed at driving in-app purchases and attracting shoppers. The startup is currently focused on shopping malls in the US, but they have plans to expand to other verticals.

111

5 years ago

It’s a brand new concept in the world of advertising, using the “perks” of a travel-based credit card to show you ads you’d be interested in on a flight.

110

5 years ago

Connecting a company’s marketing and sales efforts through a single platform. The startup is looking to connect sales with marketing, allowing companies to track the effectiveness of their marketing efforts and the ROI of different types of advertising.

110

5 years ago

A company that wants to help businesses advertise on their own websites. It offers hosted advertising and a platform to create custom ads.

110

5 years ago

A new type of advertising where companies pay to have their ads appear in live videos on platforms like Facebook. The company is also building a platform to help users monetize those videos, allowing users to sell ad space on their own behalf.

108

5 years ago

An advertising platform for artists that uses blockchain technology to smooth out the payment process. ArtPro is building a DApp on Ethereum that will allow artists to sell their digital work directly to their fans.

106

5 years ago

A map of New York that acts as a digital billboard, providing advertising and location-based services. It was one of the winners of the NYC Tech Challenge.

103

5 years ago

A system for creating and managing social campaigns for advertising, marketing, and sales.

101

2 years ago

This startup is building a digital marketing platform for the Indian market. It offers lower-cost advertising options and analytics tools.

101

5 years ago

An advertising platform that works to make ad buying more transparent and transparent, with a focus on helping advertisers make more informed decisions.

100

5 years ago

A two-sided marketplace for ads, designed specifically for blockchain and cryptocurrencies, and backed by Y Combinator. The platform will allow publishers and advertisers to sell digital advertising at an auction, then use smart contracts to facilitate payment.

100

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform to better understand the efficacy of different digital advertising formats

98

3 years ago

A platform to bring more transparency to online advertising

96

4 years ago

Wix wants to be the “Facebook for small business owners”, connecting small businesses with a network of experts and allowing them to build their own custom pages and use Facebook’s advertising platform.

93

3 years ago

A marketing platform that allows people to bring all their marketing and advertising in one, seamless interface. The company says they have 3,000 monthly active users and 35,000 monthly impressions.

93

4 years ago

A SaaS platform for digital advertising, which allows advertisers to manage their budgets and deliver more personalized ads by understanding the intent of the consumer. The startup says they have $5-6k in revenue since launching in May.

88

4 years ago

This startup is building an advertising platform for influencers that allows brands to deal directly with influencers.

87

4 years ago

An advertising platform for app developers. The startup uses AI to figure out which ads are most effective for a specific user.

86

3 years ago

A company that offers a “hospitality suite” for event organizers, including ticketing, event registration, venue management, and event advertising.

86

2 years ago

A remote jobs platform for companies based in the US and Philippines. The company is focusing on health care, advertising, and construction.

85

5 years ago

Idea: A startup in the UK that is building a platform that helps make it easy for businesses to pay for online advertising using cryptocurrency.

83

3 years ago

A startup that makes software to help better target digital advertising to save companies money

83

4 years ago

A company that sells photos taken by its users to other companies like Coca Cola, Microsoft, etc., for use in advertising.

81

3 years ago

A startup that helps advertisers manage, monitor and analyze the return on investment for all of the advertising that a company does, using proprietary data sets.

81

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform for digital advertising. It allows publishers to create campaigns and track performance.

81

2 years ago

A company that offers real-time bidding and ad rotation for online video advertising

81

4 years ago

An advertising-focused startup that helps brands better target potential customers. It has raised $2.5 million in funding.

78

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps brands and agencies plan out their Instagram marketing strategies. The founder is a former head of marketing at Instagram (who worked on its mobile app) and says that brands still have a hard time figuring out how to adapt their advertising to the platform.

77

4 years ago

A platform that automates the process of doing social media advertising. It uses AI to match ads to consumers based on their interests on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

77

4 years ago

An AI-based startup that lets you listen to your favorite songs without any advertising. However, the company has not yet launched any products or services.

75

2 years ago

This company is using machine learning to create more efficient advertising for companies.

75

4 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses manage their online advertising campaigns, with a focus on getting more people to sign up for email marketing lists. They charge $239 per month.

73

4 years ago

An alternative to the pay-per-click model of web advertising that’s based on a subscription model rather than a pay-per-click scheme. It’s pitching itself as a way for both marketers and consumers to get the information they want.

72

4 years ago

A way for companies to create and store data about their customers, so they can be targeted with personalized advertising.

71

4 years ago

A freelancer platform for the film, gaming, and advertising industries.

71

3 years ago

AdAstra is a startup that uses AI to help retailers create advertising campaigns. The company is headquartered in Singapore and is led by CEO Shaun Hee.

71

3 years ago

A company that provides tools and a marketplace to help companies build online marketing and advertising campaigns.

71

4 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses get more out of their social media advertising. Currently has a working prototype and aims to close a seed round and launch in early 2020.

70

3 years ago

A company that specializes in helping businesses take advantage of the billions of dollars being spent on advertising every year.

70

4 years ago

A team of former Facebook engineers who left the company to build a tool to allow businesses to better manage their paid digital advertising.

69

3 years ago

A video-chat app for native advertising. The startup has built a system that allows businesses to embed video ads in their own content.

69

4 years ago

A digital advertising platform that serves as an intermediary between publishers and advertisers. The startup takes a 30% commission from ads sold.

68

4 years ago

A startup where companies can buy and sell advertising on Facebook.

67

3 years ago

The company wants to provide a tool for creating and managing advertising campaigns, and make it easier to reach people who might be interested in what you’re selling.

67

3 years ago

A startup that focuses on and improves the quality of digital advertising through its proprietary ad tech.

65

3 years ago

A company that helps companies with advertising, media buying and analytics. They’re building an API for the B2B biz, and have managed to secure $4.5 million in funding so far.

65

3 years ago

“A platform that helps non-profit organizations, like universities and hospitals, get free advertising”.

65

3 years ago

The company claims that its software allows people to get paid for their time spent texting and talking to their customers, making it easier for social media influencers to generate a living from promoting brands without having to have an expensive advertising budget.

65

3 years ago

A company that makes a tool to help data scientists integrate their work with the rest of their company (e.g. HR, legal, advertising).

65

4 years ago

A way for non-technical people to set up Google Adwords campaigns or other PPC advertising campaigns.

64

3 years ago

a new kind of analytics for ad campaigns. It’s an Excel-based tool that claims to help big brands make more money from their advertising budgets. They’re currently in the market testing, aiming toward a launch in late 2020

64

3 years ago

A software company that wants to create a platform for digital advertising, making it easier for companies to customize ad campaigns for their customers.

64

3 years ago

A company that helps businesses with their search advertising. The company is built on a search engine called SmartyStreets, which is built on a sheet of paper and helps users find businesses that match their needs.

64

3 years ago

A digital, video advertisement platform and ad network that claims to generate more revenue for brands than TV and digital advertising.

64

3 years ago

A stealthy startup getting big funding to break into the crowded advertising space and disrupt the $41 billion in annual ad sales

62

4 years ago

An advertising platform that allows digital advertisers to create and host their own websites.

61

2 years ago

An advertising network that allows you to create ad campaigns for any brand, with the possibility of being paid in cryptocurrency and with the ability to target on Facebook.

61

4 years ago

A company that helps companies measure ROI on campaigns and online advertising. The startup is starting with a platform that lets marketers track spending on Facebook.

60

3 years ago

A tool that helps small businesses spend less on advertising by allowing them to buy ads for a specific time or day. Users can also sell their ad space to others.

60

3 years ago

A firm that wants to help people get a piece of the digital advertising market in Africa. The platform helps companies create ad campaigns and works with brands to target their ads at a specific audience.

60

3 years ago

A platform that helps bring advertising revenue to “lower-budget” video creators.

60

4 years ago

A cloud-based platform that helps companies build and manage automated marketing campaigns. The startup also wants to automate the process of buying advertising in order to reduce the need for people to sell ad space.

59

3 years ago

A “self-service digital advertising platform” that helps publishers and advertisers work together to realize their own campaigns.

59

2 years ago

A startup that helps webmasters monetize their websites by selling advertising space within them. They charge “click-through rates” on ads, but don’t reveal what that is.

59

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help advertising agencies show off their creativity and engagement to a wider audience.

59

4 years ago

The company’s goal is to “put the attention economy to work for people, not for advertising.” Or, as they put it: “Imagine a world where the people who you want to be connected to are the ones who know you best – your friends – not the people who pay the most.”

58

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easy to measure ROI on a variety of digital advertising mediums.

58

3 years ago

A platform for building and monetizing web-based mobile games. It’s also building a web-based platform for marketing games, with an emphasis on in-app advertising.

56

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies expand their reach on Facebook by purchasing advertising in the News Feed.

56

4 years ago

A startup that helps brands track and measure their digital advertising effectiveness. They’re hoping to help brands (like Amazon or Walmart) pay for ads in real-time so they can better understand what’s working and why, and use that information to make better decisions in the future.

54

3 years ago

A tool for home-based business owners to manage all aspects of their online presence, such as: online stores, social media, advertising, marketing, and more.

54

3 years ago

A toolset to help crowdfunding campaigns implement “native advertising”. Launched in December 2015.

54

4 years ago

An advertising company that provides a platform for publishers, brands and non-profits to advertise on social media platforms.

53

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a decentralized system for digital advertising, which they say is able to reach nearly a billion users without paying any fees.

53

3 years ago

A platform for the digital advertising industry to connect the people who bid on media space with the ones who need to buy it.

53

3 years ago

A 3D design app for online advertising, available in beta

50

3 years ago

This startup is building a network for the sports world that helps athletes and teams collaborate on content, advertising and sponsorships.

49

2 years ago

A tool for creating and executing online advertising campaigns.

49

3 years ago

A startup that assists small businesses in optimizing their advertising budgets, and helps them create more profitable ad campaigns

48

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies optimize their Instagram advertising campaigns.

47

3 years ago

An online platform that tracks and analyzes the performance of online video ads. It aims to provide a tool to help digital video advertising companies better understand their customers.

46

3 years ago

A platform for media and brands to grow their audience and grow their revenue. The startup is building a platform for brands to get more attention for their content by making it easier for people to share and consume it — and for brands to pay for advertising.

46

3 years ago

A tool for building sales strategy to determine how to best coordinate advertising, marketing and sales. The startup is pitching to companies that sell a single product and want to be able to increase sales by targeting different groups of customers at various times of the year.

45

3 years ago

A startup that wants to make in-app advertising as easy as giving your Facebook or Twitter password.

45

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform that allows social media influencers to build a brand using video. The company has already launched a free advertising service that helps influencers make money through ad revenue shared with the platform.

45

2 years ago

A startup for 3D printing designs. The startup capitalizes on the advertising and marketing revenue that 3D printers generate, allowing people to design and sell their own products.

45

2 years ago

A self-service, self-managed service for e-book libraries, allowing users to catalog, digitize, and sell their books. The startup is hiring for a CTO and COO to help it negotiate advertising deals and build a customer base.

45

2 years ago

A platform for Bitcoin micropayments, allowing users to send small amounts of money to content creators or to take advantage of a free trial for a new app. The company also wants to help publishers monetize their content with advertising.

44

2 years ago

A product that helps companies with marketing and advertising, allowing them to capture the attention of their customers as they’re shopping online.

43

2 years ago

A social network for folks over 50, offering a variety of community and networking benefits, with a business model based on advertising.

42

3 years ago

An “end-to-end video platform for marketers”, with a focus on “native video advertising”. It’s sort of like competing with LinkedIn, but with video.

41

5 years ago

iewhut is building a marketplace for influencers. The startup connects brands with influencers, who vouch for products in native advertising format. So far they have over 1,000 influencers and their homepage has over 1,600,000 followers.

40

2 years ago

A new way to host and manage your website. Brands can build sites on the service, and then monetize them by selling advertising within the sites.

40

3 years ago

A company that’s building software for advertising agencies, providing them with a “360-degree view” of the ad campaigns that companies are running. In other words, it’s a tool for ad agencies to see what Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Twitter ads their clients are running in real time.

39

3 years ago

This startup is helping smaller companies and individuals better understand the impact of their advertising spending. The startup has a product called "Advertising Metrics", which helps advertisers understand the impact of their ad spend.

39

2 years ago

A new startup that’s launching a business-to-business marketplace for digital advertising. AdXchange is intended to bring more transparency to digital ad buys and help advertisers target their campaigns more accurately.

38

3 years ago

Expanding on their existing work in the digital advertising industry, this startup wants to help brands increase their ROI on digital advertising by helping them maximize the leads generated from different ad formats. They’re working with brands like Macy’s, Nissan, and Allergan to increase their online sales.

37

2 years ago

This startup is building a game like Farmville for advertising-related products. The game works much like it does on Farmville, as you build a farm and connect with people who are also building farms to make money for what you grow and sell.

36

2 years ago

A native advertising platform for content publishers. The company wants to make native advertising that is native to the platform.

33

2 years ago

A platform to help companies manage and engage their customers on Facebook and Instagram. Companies can pay for advertising or follow along with their customers' content in their business pages.

32

2 years ago

Threadless is an online marketplace for T-shirts, with a focus on “hope, innovation, and independent artists.” It’s a direct-to-consumer effort that doesn’t have any advertising, but instead relies on an algorithm to match buyers and sellers.

31

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to bring the same kind of advertising tools that have become standard for desktop to mobile, and allow marketers to bid and test ads in real time

29

2 years ago

An ad platform for apps. The company is a Facebook-focused startup that wants to help other developers make money off of advertising via the social network.

29

2 years ago

A startup that gathers information on the mobile devices of consumers and helps companies determine the best possible advertising to buy.

28

2 years ago

“A data-driven advertising platform that brings together all of a company’s customer data and makes it accessible at the advertiser’s fingertips.”

27

2 years ago

A tool for managing and monetizing your Twitter and Facebook accounts. The startup plans to re-launch this year with a focus on helping people publish professional content and pay for advertising.

26

2 years ago

A company that makes money for other businesses by offering a service that allows them to identify and send targeted advertising to their customers.

26

2 years ago

A platform that will let retailers and brands purchase advertising space on their websites across the globe.

25

2 years ago

A standard for advertising that allows advertisers to buy video ads that run in real-time.

24

2 years ago

A digital service for advertising agencies, with a focus on creative ideas and workflows. It’s pitched as a competitor to all the other “ad tech” startups out there

23

2 years ago

A business intelligence platform for small businesses. The startup wants to make it easier for small businesses to use A/B testing, which they say is the best way to test advertising and marketing campaigns.

23

2 years ago

This startup is building a new model for digital advertising that focuses on improving the user experience. They want to build a product that allows companies to run digital ads that can be turned off by users, and turn them on only when they want.

20

2 years ago

This startup wants to get more people to eat healthier, and is focusing on three main areas: food aggregation, food delivery, and brand advertising.

17

2 years ago

A tool that helps companies run employee-paid advertising campaigns. The company says it has helped over 60 companies to raise around $1.5 million in company-paid ads.

17

2 years ago

A company that helps brands get in front of their target audience, allowing them to run highly targeted advertising campaigns.

16

2 years ago

The startup wants to help people earn money by pairing them with brands and products for video-style reviews. Each video review will be streamed online, and they are also looking to target influencers with an advertising strategy.

16

2 years ago

A company that provides software for secure direct-to-consumer classified advertising on a website called snapmarket.

15

2 years ago

A team of four people, based out of Philadelphia, that wants to make in-game advertising in mobile games easier and more profitable

13

5 years ago

Idea: An automated platform for “in-app” marketing and advertising. Essentially, the startup lets brands advertise inside of other apps, and then track whether those ads successfully inspired users to install the sponsored app.

12

5 years ago

Idea: A way to buy TV advertising through Facebook Messenger

11

2 years ago

A tool that tests the quality of online advertising and helps companies customize their ad campaigns.

11

5 years ago

A startup that provides targeted advertising opportunities for businesses through a large database of local businesses and customers’ social media profiles. The startup aims to reduce advertising costs and increase ROI for businesses.

10

9 days ago

A platform that automates compliance checks for freelance creators on social media, ensuring brand deals meet advertising regulations.

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