| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.04.2019 | 12 things personal trainers always tell beginners | Small victories can lead to big progress.
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Every personal trainer has their own set of guidelines for their clients.
Fitness trainers oversee their client's physical progress, but will also offer health tips to h... |
| 13.12.2018 | Sovrn acquires VigLink to expand its publisher monetization platform | Sovrn recently raised $25 million in new funding with the goal of expanding beyond the adtech business through acquisitions. Now it’s announcing the first of those deals: It’s acquiring affiliate marketing company VigLink.
Sovrn first launc... |
| 09.08.2015 | Recently Launched Jet.com Suspected of Some Shady Business | Newly launched online marketplace Jet.com promises members steep discounts (cheaper than retailers like Amazon or Wal Mart) on items purchased on their site in exchange for a $50 a year membership. They also offer a program called Jet Anywh... |
| 26.01.2015 | Amazon Pilots Visual, Mobile-Only Affiliate Product To Rival Skimlinks and VigLink | Amazon is testing a new service that could help it and its publishing partners drive more traffic (and, importantly, purchases) from customers on mobile devices. The pilot software is called ‘Mobile Popover’, and it is a mobile-only rival t... |
| 28.11.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/28/14 | Yik Yak, Elance-oDesk, Mobilize, Tiger Pistol, Appear Here, Jumia, SimilarWeb, Geenapp, Rete+Pay
Seed stage
Mobilize, a cloud-based community management solution startup, raised $1.2M in seed funding in a round led by Hillsven Capital, with... |
| 25.11.2014 | VigLink Acquires LinkSmart; Raises $2M in Series C Round | VigLink, a San Francisco, CA-based platform on which site-to-site clicks are priced bought, and sold, raised an additional $2m in Series C funding.
It added to the $18m first tranche of the Series C funding round announced in June 2014 (rea... |
| 25.11.2014 | VigLink Acquires Content Promotion Startup LinkSmart, Adds Another $2M In Funding | VigLink just announced that it’s acquiring Boulder, Colo.-based startup LinkSmart.
Aside from the obvious connection of having “link” in both company names, VigLink founder and CEO Oliver Roup pointed to LinkSmart’s focus on helping online ... |
| 13.06.2014 | VigLink Raises $18M More To Help Publishers Make Money From Affiliate Links | Automated affiliate linking company VigLink is announcing that it has raised $18 million in Series C funding.
The goal of VigLink, as well as competitors like Skimlinks, is to make the affiliate linking process (where publishers get paid by... |
| 13.06.2014 | VigLink Announces $18M Financing |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Leading platform for content-driven commerce, today announced it has raised $18 million in a Series C financing.
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| 13.06.2014 | VigLink Raises $18M in Series C Financing | VigLink, a San Francisco, CA-based platform for content-driven commerce, raised $18m in Series C financing.
The round was led by RRE Ventures with participation from existing investors Google Ventures, Emergence Capital, First Round Capital... |
| 13.06.2014 | VigLink helps monetize ad links, raises $18M more | Three years after its first round of funding, automated affiliate linking company VigLink has scored $18 million in series C funding.
The company automates the affiliate linking process, making it easier for publishers to get paid when nati... |
| 09.08.2013 | Skimlinks Acquires InvisibleHand Product And Team, Forward Gains Stake | Skimlinks, a platform which allows publishers full control over affiliate links and content monetization, has acquired InvisibleHand for an undisclosed sum. The latter has become a significant player in the realm of real-time e-commerce pro... |
| 13.06.2013 | VigLink’s Affiliate Links Get More Up-To-Date (And Lucrative) With A New Link Optimizer | VigLink is announcing an update to its VigLink Convert product that should help affiliate links stay up-to-date.
The company promises to make publishers more money through affiliate links, i.e., links to online merchants that can earn a com... |
| 02.06.2013 | Mobile app monetization: Think business model, not ads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Oliver Roup is the CEO and founder of VigLink.
According to statistics released from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, mobile adverti... |
| 02.06.2013 | Mobile app monetization: Think business model, not ads | Oliver Roup is the CEO and founder of VigLink.
According to statistics released from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, mobile advertising spend rose to $3.4 billion in 2012, up 111 percent from the prior year’s record levels, and mobile a... |
| 28.05.2013 | Blog Monetization Service Skyscraper Comes Out Of Closed Beta, Adds VigLink Integration & WordPress Plugin | Skyscraper launched last year as a pretty straightforward blog advertising service with a focus on helping bloggers make money through direct ad sales. That’s still a main part of its business, and it is currently serving up more than 1.5 m... |
| 02.05.2013 | In the Wake Of Funding, Skimlinks Launches New Products To Face Off Opposition | Last month Skimlinks, the platform that allows publishers full control over affiliate links and content monetization, completed a growth financing round led by Greycroft Partners and others, while expanding into Asia. This month it has new ... |
| 20.11.2012 | Skimlinks Competitor YieldKit Raises $750,000 From Sedo Founder And HackFwd | YieldKit assigns affiliate links to over 20 million product offers on keywords, like product names, advertiser names and general keywords. Not unlike the Skimlinks and VigLink model, it then converts existing product links into affiliate li... |
| 26.10.2012 | In-Text Commerce Startup Cemmerce Raises Another $500K | Cemmerce, an Israeli startup helping publishers monetize through affiliate linking, has raised $500,000 in new funding.
The round comes from digital holding company Navitrio. The firm, which also offers its portfolio companies office space ... |
| 09.10.2012 | Tech recruiting is ruthless! Here’s how tiny startups can bait the perfect engineer | This is a guest post by tech recruiter Megan Hopkins
Recently, all of us at my company, VigLink, signed a birthday card for one of our engineers. While this might sound like pretty standard office culture, this engineer wasn’t in the office... |
| 27.06.2012 | Former DailyCandy CEO Launches Link Management Startup LinkSmart, Raises $4.7M | You may not think much about the links that punctuate nearly every piece of online content (including this one), but Pete Sheinbaum, the founder and CEO of a new startup called LinkSmart, says they present an untapped opportunity.
“The text... |
| 14.03.2012 | Fabhunter: The new visual bookmarking startup with big dreams | Tastemakers. Trendsetters. Fashionistas. Fabhunter aims to become a nexus where these fashion aficionados collide.
Launched in January of this year, Fabhunter is a new “social fashion discovery engine” that relies on user generated content ... |
| 14.03.2012 | Fabhunter: The new visual bookmarking startup with big dreams | Tastemakers. Trendsetters. Fashionistas. Fabhunter aims to become a nexus where these fashion aficionados collide.
Launched in January of this year, Fabhunter is a new “social fashion discovery engine” that relies on user generated content... |
| 08.02.2012 | Skimlinks is the real story behind Pinterest’s success | I love it when a startup I’ve been covering for literally years suddenly finds itself in the spotlight, and for the right reasons. In this case, Skimlinks, originally from London but now with a growing US base, has been revealed as powering... |
| 17.11.2011 | VigLink Debuts LinkWeaver To Help Publishers Monetize Outbound Clicks | VigLink, a startup that helps publishers and bloggers monetize their outbound traffic, is debuting LinkWeaver, a new technology which detects product and merchant references within content on web pages and allows website publishers to embed... |
| 11.11.2011 | Skimlinks skims $4.5 million to help bloggers earn cash (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Skimlinks automatically converts product referenc... |
| 11.11.2011 | Skimlinks skims $4.5 million to help bloggers earn cash (exclusive) | Skimlinks automatically converts product references in blog posts into affiliate sales links. The London startup just closed a funding round of $4.5 led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, the investment arm of media giant Bertelsmann... |
| 07.06.2011 | VigLink Aims to Turn Links Into Gold—But Will the Golden State Force the Company Out? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In the spring of 2009, when former Microsoft engineer Oliver Roup was finishing his second year at Harvard Business School, he entered the idea for his future company, VigLink... |
| 06.06.2011 | Amazon tax: Helping or hurting California? | The bill will force Amazon to collect sales tax, but will likely drive out jobs and businesses
Is Amazon fighting an uphill battle against states? Last week, the California state Assembly approved AB 155, also known as the “Amazon tax” bill... |
| 09.05.2011 | How to estimate market size | There's a lot of confusion about how to estimate it
As an entrepreneur, your time is a very valuable asset. It takes as much time and effort to build a business whether you’re attacking a small market or a big one. But the rewards for succe... |
| 11.03.2011 | 4 Tech Companies That Raised Venture Capital Today: Which One Is Poised to Change Our World? (Poll) | Today’s round-up shows a variety of companies that raised funding. We’ve got a site to make running a music business more efficient, software to secure our identities as we shop online, a digital advertising network that uses social analyti... |
| 11.03.2011 | VigLink Raises $5.4 Million | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
VigLink, a San Francisco startup that helps website owners track outgoing traffic—that is, “outclicks” that can drive affiliate commissions—announced yesterday that it has col... |
| 11.03.2011 | VigLink Completes $5.4M Series B Financing | VigLink, a San Francisco, CA-based automated affiliate marketing provider, has completed a $5.4m Series B financing.
The round was led by Emergence Capital, with participation from existing investors Google Ventures and First Round Capital.... |
| 10.03.2011 | VigLink Raises Another $5.4 Million To Help Publishers Monetize Outbound Clicks | VigLink, a startup that helps publishers and bloggers monetize their outbound traffic, has closed a $5.4 million Series B funding round led by Emergence Capital, with participation from existing investors Google Ventures and First Round Cap... |
| 05.02.2011 | Please Read: A Personal Appeal TO Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Hunter Walk who spends way too much time researching 1980s hair metal bands on Wikipedia. His obsession with Wikipedia is unrelated to his day job leading the consumer product team at YouTube.
Wikipedi... |
| 03.08.2010 | VigLink Grabs Wheel at DrivingRevenue | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Francisco based VigLink, a maker of automated affiliate marketing software for Web publishers, said yesterday that it has acquired Chicago-based competitor DrivingRevenue.... |
| 02.08.2010 | Affiliate link startups team up: VigLink acquires DrivingRevenue | VigLink, a Google Ventures-backed startup that helps publishers make money off their product links, just announced that it’s has acquired its competitor DrivingRevenue.com.
San Francisco-based VigLink isn’t sharing the price or other deal d... |
| 03.05.2010 | Google Ventures Pulls Back the Veil: Deals in San Diego, Boston, Dallas, and Silicon Valley | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Just over two years ago, Google decided to get into the venture capital game, setting up a fund to invest in promising startups in much the same way that Silicon Valley VC fir... |
| 30.04.2010 | Posterous Starts Automatically Inserting Affiliate Links Into Sites, Forgets To Tell Users | We’ve been tracking super-simple publishing service Posterous for quite a while now, and for the most part they’ve turned us into big fans. Unfortunately, they’ve just committed a fairly serious blunder. In a post earlier today, one Postero... |
| 12.01.2010 | Automatic Affiliate-Link Insertion Service Gets Google Backing | Any web developer knows that it’s a lack of universal standards that can make designing and maintaining a web site unbearable. Startup venture VigLink says it’s here to handle at least one consistent issue – keeping affiliate link programs ... |
| 12.01.2010 | VigLink raises $800k from allstar investors | Company helps publishers monetize hyperlinks without thinking. Is this the next AdSense?
When Google Ventures, First Round, Reid Hoffman and a hefty collection of angel investors all participate in a seed round of less than $1 million, you ... |
| 12.01.2010 | VigLink Raises $800K To Take Hassle Out Of Affiliate Programs | Most online publishers are at least vaguely familiar with affiliate programs, which can help them generate revenue from the stores and products they link to. Unfortunately, actually managing accounts with these programs can be a bit of a pa... |
