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A startup that brings together and organizes the 1.5 million pieces of content that people publish on Instagram each month.
518
8 months ago
A way to let people write books online, without an agent or publisher.
497
1 year ago
A platform that helps designers collaborate on projects and publish their work online. The startup is currently in a beta phase, and has built a large audience that has helped it refine its design process.
358
2 years ago
A platform for small businesses to publish, organize, and send their blog posts directly to their subscribers’ inboxes.
230
1 year ago
A startup that helps brands and developers build mobile video games. Their platform easily integrates with existing games and offers a suite of tools for onboarding, publishing, and monetizing.
200
2 years ago
A startup that uses AI to identify fraudulent ads, bolstering security for publishers.
198
2 years ago
A startup that helps publishers sell ads to people in their target demographic.
196
2 years ago
This startup is looking to replace the whole process of writing a paper from a researcher to publishing it in peer reviewed journals, using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
191
2 years ago
A startup that wants to help large publishers create “smart content” for their newsletters, building in-house tools for writers and editors.
189
2 years ago
A free SaaS service to help build a brand. Independent artists can use the app to generate custom content to promote their work, and publishers can use it to sell books and merchandise. The app is designed to be simple and intuitive.
182
2 years ago
A platform for creative people to collaborate, post, and publish designs, images, and video.
175
3 months ago
A German startup that’s building a library of public domain content for publishers to help them better understand their audience.
166
3 years ago
This startup wants to connect people who are making music with a marketplace for publishing.
159
3 years ago
A tools for music producers and artists to record, mix, and publish their songs.
157
3 years ago
An online platform for salespeople to self-publish content, and for buyers to find content that they are looking for.
157
3 years ago
A set of tools for publishing and managing digital media like video and audio.
156
2 years ago
A company that provides fact-checking and verification services to publishers and media companies
153
3 years ago
A software platform for publishing academic papers and hosting conferences, designed for scientists, researchers, and students.
152
3 years ago
A monthly subscription service that allows app publishers to get more money from advertisers.
151
3 years ago
A startup that works with publishers and aggregators to help them track and monetize their website traffic.
150
3 years ago
An API that can help publishers send out targeted emails to their subscribers.
149
3 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.
149
3 years ago
A new way for people to connect with a local author, connecting publishers and authors in order to help local authors earn more.
149
3 years ago
A platform that lets publishers monetize video and stop people from uploading copyrighted content.
148
2 years ago
A platform for book publishers to sell and distribute books to buyers.
148
1 year ago
A SaaS platform that allows anyone to create, publish and promote content in a simple and effective manner. Users can publish their content, then share it across social media, email and messaging services.
148
1 year ago
This startup is writing an app that makes it easy for people to record videos of themselves playing video games and publish them to YouTube.
148
3 years ago
The startup is building a cloud-based platform where people can build and publish their own apps for any mobile platform, with a focus on Android.
146
3 years ago
An adtech startup that provides a way for publishers to target users based on their browsing history, to help them understand their behavior and improve their ad content.
145
3 years ago
A platform that lets publishers create and sell custom content based on their subscribers’ interests.
145
3 years ago
An SDK for automatically creating, updating, and publishing content to social media.
145
3 years ago
A next-gen ad-tech company that’s building a content-targeting tool for online publishers.
144
3 years ago
A software product that helps publishers track social media traffic.
144
3 years ago
A platform for running and publishing community-driven events, such as hackathons and meetups.
142
3 years ago
A software company that helps publishers and e-commerce sites manage all their content in a single, unified system.
142
3 years ago
Web-based technology for managing and publishing content across all of a business’s digital channels.
141
3 years ago
This is a startup that wants to help people “build on top of the internet,” with a platform that enables anyone to publish products and content at scale.
141
3 years ago
A “non-profit” that helps people tell their stories and finds them a publisher or platform that will promote them.
139
1 year ago
An on-demand software company that helps publishers distribute content via direct selling and third-party platforms. It’s targeting the small business market, but will also be expanding into research, and wants to take on the business of direct selling.
139
1 year ago
The startup is building an AI platform to help brands and publishers better understand how users interact with their content, and how content affects their purchase decisions.
138
3 years ago
A company that helps businesses start their own blog, with tools for handling content creation, editing, and publishing, including a content management system.
137
3 years ago
A startup that helps online publishers generate revenue by allowing them to create targeted ads based on the content they are reading
136
3 years ago
A group of publications that allow users to create personalized editions. Previously called “my publisher”, the startup is currently focused on personalizing a magazine subscription.
135
3 months ago
A startup for people to earn a living by writing content for brands and publishers. People who write for brands often don’t get paid much. Desire is a platform that puts people into revenue share programs, allowing writers to earn $7,500 per article.
134
3 years ago
A startup for book authors, publishers, and fans to help them get their books into libraries.
132
3 years ago
A chat-based recruitment platform for recruiters that allows them to manage and publish their job boards, and manage the conversations that take place on them.
132
2 years ago
A startup that aims to make it easier for newsrooms, news publishers, and TV channels to collaborate on sharing content and distribute video. They focus on sharing video content, and do so in a way that Twitter and Facebook can’t.
132
1 year ago
A startup to help students create and publish online portfolios, and connect to employers and institutions.
132
3 years ago
A consumer-facing platform that enables publishers to curate content for users with the goal of increasing interaction with content and driving more revenue for publishers.
131
3 years ago
A blockchain-based payment platform for digital content. The startup wants to replace the current system of content being bought and sold with a new one that’s decentralized, with long-term protection for the content and payment for publishers.
131
3 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.
129
3 years ago
A platform that makes it easy for authors to build their own websites from scratch, selling their content to publishers and charging them per view or per download. The startup is also working on a platform to run e-commerce stores.
128
3 years ago
Decentralized social network where people can get paid to publish stories. The startup is open source and free to use, and the founder says it has a "small amount of daily active users."
128
3 years ago
A book publisher. The company plans to publish books in the style of Harry Potter, which will include a “magical” performance.
128
3 years ago
A company that helps publishers sell their content through ads. The company says it has built an automated software system to help advertisers find the best content for their brands.
127
3 years ago
A platform for creating and publishing video content with multiple channels. The startup, which was founded in August, is building on the video-sharing platform LIV. It lets users create and publish video content via a combination of Instagram and Facebook.
126
1 year ago
This startup is building a tool that helps publishers and advertisers monitor, analyze, and target their content. The startup says their platform has a lot of market research behind it.
126
3 years ago
A platform that helps build and scale communities. It’s a collaboration tool for teams to publish and share their ideas.
125
2 years ago
This is a startup making it easier for digital publishers to build interactive content.
125
2 years ago
Indiagames is a venture backed company that is building technology to help Indian game developers and publishers grow their market.
125
3 years ago
A company that’s building tools for non-profit organizations to track and publish donations and donors, as well as tools for those organizations to track and publish their own press.
124
2 years ago
A platform that lets you create a personal blog or journal, write posts, and publish them on your own website, and share them with friends and family.
124
3 years ago
A SaaS platform that takes the pain out of doing things like setting up a blog, managing a mailing list, and publishing content online.
123
1 year ago
A platform for creating and publishing podcasts, automatic transcribed interviews, and other audio-only content, made for consumption on Apple’s podcast player iRadio.
123
3 years ago
A software startup that wants to create a way to automatically package and publish videos on social media in a way that doesn’t require extensive video editing.
122
1 year ago
A startup that turns your blog post or story into a video and helps you publish it to social media.
122
3 years ago
The startup's goal is to help build an open platform for publishing and sharing data between developers and scientists. They want to build a new experience for scientists to learn about the data they have, so they can get it into the hands of a broader developer community.
120
1 year ago
This company is building a platform for sharing and publishing photos to social media networks. Users can pick from a range of examples and edit them until they’re just right. It’s an effective way to share photos, with some of the backgrounds and imagery being quite striking.
120
3 years ago
A social network for bloggers, publishers, and readers to keep in touch and share content.
117
3 months ago
A decentralized network where people can vote on content, and publishers can charge for access to their content.
117
3 years ago
America’s digital magazine is a digital magazine that is central to its mission is to cover the changing landscape of the media industry, and how technology is affecting it. Since February 2014, it has published a new issue every other Thursday and has a print-on-demand model, so subscribers receive their copy directly.
116
3 years ago
A book publisher for emerging authors.
116
2 years ago
A program that helps people trade in their old textbooks for credits to buy new ones. The startup is working with publishers to get its new textbooks a little cheaper than new ones.
116
3 years ago
A tool that allows people to create, edit, and manage their own podcasts. It’s a tool for podcasters and anyone else who wants a place to publish audio content.
114
2 years ago
A startup that helps journalists publish content without going through Facebook’s “disengagement” process
112
2 years ago
A platform for books, movies, games, and TV shows to be sold online. They’re a startup of a publishing company, who are using it to build their digital catalog.
112
9 months ago
A platform for restaurants to publish and manage recipes, photos, etc.
112
2 years ago
An API for managing a video distribution, with plans to integrate with the YouTube publishing platform and other video-sharing sites.
111
2 years ago
An online publisher for local news, Newburgh Free Press has been around since 2014.
111
2 years ago
Startup that’s building a platform for creating tools for publishers to manage their brands and products. It’s like a platform for brands to set up their own Facebook pages, but for e-commerce.
111
1 year ago
A platform that helps you share and curate content from multiple publishers in real time. The startup's main goal is to help publishers and brands sell more stuff.
111
3 years ago
A software platform for publishers to create, share, and monetize digital magazines. The company is a digital media company and content platform service provider.
110
3 years ago
A blockchain-based platform to power collaborative research. The startup is building a platform that allows researchers to share data and research findings and get results published so that other researchers can build on the work.
110
3 years ago
A digital-only media company that publishes content and films for the YouTube generation. The company says its mission is to “empower creators” and “make life better for the next generation of influencers”.
110
10 months ago
A company that helps people photograph and publish their lives online with the goal of making them more relatable.
110
3 years ago
An API platform for digital publishers to connect their content to Google, Facebook and Apple News.
109
2 years ago
A piece of software that helps brands and publishers buy ads that will be shown to people who are at the same exact location as the person watching the ad.
109
2 years ago
"This list of startups is a non-exhaustive collection of the best companies funded by YC. It's not intended to be a comprehensive list of all startups funded by YC. Regardless, we'll be publishing additional startups funded by YC at a later date."
109
10 months ago
A real estate-focused website that allows brokers to publish homes for sale.
108
2 years ago
d.i.s.e. is building a visual editor for creating and publishing content on the web.
106
3 years ago
This is a SaaS application with a question and answer format that allows people to talk about ideas and their progress. The startup wants to build out a content management platform to help people publish their work.
105
2 years ago
A digital platform that allows employees to write and publish content and get paid for it. The startup is looking to launch in a few countries in South East Asia.
105
2 years ago
A team that’s building a platform to publish and sell educational content for students in the US.
104
1 year ago
A startup that publishes and sells books, publishing three a month on topics like business and finance.
104
2 years ago
This is a tool that helps journalists and reporters publish their work on Medium. It’s meant to help journalists write the same stories over and over again.
103
2 years ago
A startup that wants to help reduce the cost of creating and publishing original video content by using Adobe’s technology.
101
3 years ago
A way for publishers to advertise a collection of content, not just one article. The startup has raised $1.6 million in seed funding.
100
11 months ago
Ticket sales for anime conventions and concerts, with a focus on anime conventions. The startup works with publishers and artists to build events, and has already hosted events at Anime Expo, Tokyo’s Anime Digital Expo, and Anime Boston.
99
10 months ago
A video game where users build a virtual city and help determine its fate from within the game. While other games have used this format before, the most successful example is Clash of Clans, which has over 1 billion monthly active users. It’s a familiar model, with the startup working with major publishers like Disney and Warner Bros. to reach that audience.
99
10 months ago
A platform that lets publishers crowdsource video reviews on YouTube.
99
1 year ago
A tool to help content marketers and publishers plan, create and publish content, based on a universal content calendar.
98
1 year ago
A way to make it easier for businesses to write and publish content, without the need to build a website and worry about SEO.
98
2 years ago
A startup that’s building a new kind of ad network for digital publishers. The startup aims to make publishers’ ad businesses more valuable by integrating their ad products with their own.
97
2 years ago
A startup that wants to make it easy for anyone to publish content, whether it be text, photos, or video.
96
2 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.
93
2 years ago
A company that provides a platform for artists to share their work and connect with fans. They currently have over 400 artists, and plan to announce a partnership with a major US publisher in the coming weeks.
92
1 year ago
A platform to build, publish and share content, connecting all the right players in the supply chain.
92
2 years ago
"FastCo" lists the top startups in the world every year. The list is based on revenue, but also factors in the startup's presence on other "fast-growing" lists, including those published by "Forbes", "Inc." and "Forbes Europe".
91
2 years ago
A web and mobile platform for quick, simple content management. The platform is built on the company’s main product, Stream. The startup says they have 13,000 publishers signed up.
91
2 years ago
A company that wants to make it easier for publishers to keep track of their subscribers. Currently, publishers need to pay for a service to keep track of their subscribers and for them to be included in a report.
90
2 years ago
A publisher of educational videos on topics like “how to become a leader”, “how to solve common problems”, and “how to be confident”. The startup is building a video library that can be rented for $50 or subscribed to per month.
90
2 years ago
This startup is building a digital asset manager for publishers, designed to help them manage their catalogue of books in a centralized, digital format.
89
2 years ago
A tool for book authors to manage their digital publishing, from editing to royalties, live chat, and more.
88
2 years ago
This startup is building an app that allows speakers and presenters to publish and sell their presentations offline — and to do so on their own terms.
88
2 years ago
A startup that wants to be the go-to service for creating branded video and digital publishing for enterprises. The company recently raised a Series A led by Collaborative Fund.
87
3 years ago
A company that makes it easier for businesses to publish and manage their URLs, which are often a pain point in running a company.
86
2 years ago
A company that provides a platform for publishing short videos to YouTube, Facebook, and beyond.
86
1 year ago
A SaaS platform that allows users to create videos for their businesses. The platform makes it easy for businesses to design, edit, and publish their videos.
86
2 years ago
A cloud-based content platform for creators in collaboration with the National Digital Publishing Center.
85
11 months ago
A startup tackling the problem of “fake news” and misinformation, which it says is a growing problem that is costing the industry billions of dollars. It’s a “quality control service” that allows news publishers to verify sources, and is currently being tested in the UK.
85
10 months ago
A company that makes a software tool for publishing video content with live video commentary.
85
3 months ago
A social platform for publishers to host content in a more collaborative and social way.
85
2 years ago
An AI-powered marketing tool for content publishers. The startup says it helps publishers manage their social media marketing efforts and track marketing ROI.
83
2 years ago
This article was originally published at TechCrunch.
83
1 year ago
A publishing platform for the world’s top brands that allows them to create branded iOS app experiences. Branded apps are those which have full access to the app’s functionality, enabling brands to create exclusive experiences for their customers.
83
2 years ago
A software platform that empowers customers and businesses to create and publish data and statistics easily and quickly.
82
2 years ago
A book publishing platform by the founders of Medium, which has raised $23.5M to date. The company wants to automate book publishing, and focus on short books.
81
2 years ago
A startup for third-party data and insights for publishers, which provides data on things like which news publishers have the most pageviews, most shares, etc.
81
8 months ago
A way to publish a content-rich mobile app with minimal development time.
81
2 years ago
The startup has built a software platform that lets its customers create, manage, and publish road-side signs in multiple languages. The company, which was founded in 2012, has raised $4.5 million in funding, including a $1.5 million investment from Digital Garage in August 2017.
80
1 year ago
A startup that wants to help authors with their manuscripts. It’s working with 15 publishers, and is in the business of helping them create a coherent story.
80
1 year ago
A tool for creating and publishing online courses, with the goal of simplifying the way the world learns.
80
2 years ago
A “pure adtech” solution for publishers, allowing them to sell video inventory across various online platforms.
79
2 years ago
A digital marketing platform for influencers, publishers, and brands.
79
10 months ago
A startup that’s building a book publishing platform that supports writers, publishers, and readers by giving them a way to store and give access to their documents online.
79
8 months ago
A startup that’s building a platform for digital advertising. It allows publishers to create campaigns and track performance.
79
6 months ago
A company that helps music licensing agencies and publishers find new ways to make money off their catalogs.
79
1 year ago
A startup that provides a platform for users to publish, organize, and share all kinds of files. The startup is aiming to use a mobile app to help rebuild a fragmented world of file sharing and content.
77
2 years ago
A startup that makes it easy to publish content and photos and other media to a variety of social networks.
76
2 years ago
A startup that wants to make it easier for musicians to publish and sell their music without having to make major changes to their current workflow.
75
1 year ago
This startup wants to build a “one-stop-shop” for publishers, letting them set up a website, create an email list, and start monetizing their traffic.
75
1 year ago
A startup that wants to make more work for people by replacing the physical backbone of book publishing with technology. The company has declined to give specific details of its business.
74
2 years ago
This startup is building a platform for teachers to build their own learning resources and organize them on their own. The startup wants to build a set of tools for teachers that make it easy to build, publish and share their own learning materials.
73
2 years ago
A “programmatic” ad platform that changes the way ads are bought and sold, letting companies create ads in real-time, without having to have an existing relationship with a publisher. The startup has raised $4.3 million to date, and has plans for an IPO in the next year.
72
2 years ago
A platform that connects content creators to publishers, making it easier to find and sell content.
72
1 year ago
A startup that allows people to publish their wine drinking habits and ratings.
72
1 year ago
A platform that allows you to build a portfolio of projects that they will publish once they are complete.
72
10 months ago
A software company that makes it easy for people to write and publish books, ebooks, and articles using a drag-and-drop authoring interface.
72
2 years ago
A platform for connecting readers to products and creators. The company says it’s currently in talks with publishers, and has letters of intent from five publishers to launch the product in the next few weeks.
71
2 years ago
The book was published on July 17, 2011, and made the New York Times Best Seller list on July 22, 2011, and remained on the list for two weeks.
71
2 years ago
A web-based platform for musicians to publish their work, including lyrics, music videos, and merchandise. The startup is building an online community to help musicians connect with fans.
71
2 years ago
This is a book publisher that helps authors make money from their work, by selling digital and physical copies to readers, then compensating authors with royalty payments on each sale.
70
1 year ago
A video start-up that helps content creators sell their video creations. The company helps the creator pick and edit their video, and then the creator uses an API to provide the video to publishers who want it.
68
2 years ago
The company is building a platform that uses algorithms to make it easier for people to syndicate their content across the web, connecting creators to publishers.
67
1 year ago
Building a platform to support freelance writers and publishers, where writers can make money by writing for others, and publishers can profit from selling their content.
65
1 year ago
A tool that lets people share their location data with others. The startup is now working on a version that allows people to share their location data with brands and publishers looking to advertise.
65
1 year ago
A platform for news and information to be written, edited, and published by its users.
65
1 year ago
An online platform for people to buy, sell, donate, and recommend used books. The startup is focused on books that have not been published yet, but are already available as ebooks.
65
11 months ago
The startup is building a platform for digital publishing, allowing people to create and publish their own digital magazines.
65
2 years ago
A tool for quick and easy content curation for B2B companies. The product includes a collection of templates and frames and functions for creating/publishing content on the platform.
64
1 year ago
An online media publishing tool for creating and curating videos for social media and targeted website traffic. The startup wants to make it easier to create and distribute visuals for any social media platform.
64
1 year ago
An ad network for the ad tech industry. The startup is working to make the industry more efficient and more profitable. They’re hoping it will work with publishers as well as advertisers.
64
1 year ago
A blockchain-powered video platform for publishers, allowing them to monetize their content. The startup’s platform is built on the Ethereum blockchain, with a native token called the Vibe Coin.
63
1 year ago
A platform that helps people publish and distribute music and art.
63
11 months ago
A SaaS company that helps publishers distribute their content, with a product that allows companies to create their own branded versions of popular sites like reddit, upworthy and Hacker News.
63
8 months ago
A platform that allows anyone to build their own website. The company aims to simplify the process of publishing a website by allowing anyone to use their templates and launch a site in 15 minutes.
63
2 years ago
A digital advertising platform that serves as an intermediary between publishers and advertisers. The startup takes a 30% commission from ads sold.
62
2 years ago
A recent engineering graduate who landed his first job at Airbnb after dropping out of college. He’s building a startup that helps homeowners manage the process of selling their homes after leaving their landlords. Clients work with Clew to clean out their homes, give professional photos, publish their listing online, and receive bids.
62
1 year ago
A startup that helps you publish content in the form of webinars, slide decks, and other forms of content
61
1 year ago
An ad platform that uses AI to help publishers sell their inventory. The company is hoping to compete with the likes of
61
1 year ago
A company that lets companies publish their best practices as courses on their website.
60
1 year ago
An online publishing tool for indie musicians, allowing them to easily create and distribute their music via the web.
60
8 months ago
A platform that helps users build and publish their own web-based apps. The startup is aiming to offer tools for experienced web developers to build apps that are more easily accessible than the average Github project.
60
1 year ago
The startup helps publishers make their ads more effective by allowing them to target consumers by product, location, and lifestyle. The startup is based on a system they built for their own use, and is launching an open beta in February of 2019.
59
1 year ago
A “cloud-based global network of journalists” to help local newsrooms publish faster and more cheaply by connecting them to international partners.
58
1 year ago
A tool to help build and publish documentation and documentation in a web-based application.
58
1 year ago
A platform for the sale and distribution of e-books, currently in private beta. The startup provides a suite of tools for publishers, including marketing and distribution.
58
1 year ago
This startup helps publishers monetize their content through a crowdfunding program.
58
11 months ago
A network for journalism and politics. The startup is trying to convince news organizations to use a newswire that others can read and republish.
58
1 year ago
“A game-centric ad network for publishers and brands”, with a focus on games.
57
1 year ago
A startup that wants to replace the traditional paywall with an algorithmically curated one that increases revenue for publishers. The startup wants to make subscriptions better, both financially and socially.
57
1 year ago
A tool for publishers to build a custom e-commerce platform to sell ads across their channels.
57
9 months ago
A platform that enables you to get paid for your content, such as blog posts, videos, photos, etc. from their website, blog, and social media accounts, providing an avenue for publishers to get paid for their content.
57
1 year ago
One of the few publishers that takes a look at the big picture of the web, New York Times Magazine looks at the major tech trends of the coming year.
56
6 months ago
A product that allows publishers to make their content more discoverable to users.
56
1 year ago
A software platform that helps purveyors of web content (like publishers) sell their inventory to advertisers.
55
1 year ago
This startup is building a platform to let developers build and publish routes to drones, so they can be driven by people.
55
1 year ago
A startup building a platform to track and publish the results of medical research.
55
1 year ago
A platform for book publishing, providing a system for authors to manage their careers, manage their books, and interact with each other.
55
1 year ago
A startup that allows users to quickly and easily create, edit and publish content, currently focused on travel.
55
1 year ago
A company that hopes to help developers collect and manage their email lists. It’s a “one-stop-shop” for building, managing and publishing email lists, and let’s you test the effectiveness of various email campaigns.
54
1 year ago
A platform for web publishers to monetize videos, with a focus on both the video production and monetization processes.
53
1 year ago
A startup that helps users publish photos and videos directly to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
53
8 months ago
A tool for book publishers to make the process of digitizing their books easier.
53
1 year ago
A digital asset management tool for publishers, allowing them to manage, track and curate their digital assets.
52
1 year ago
A startup for organizing your books, helping you find what you’re looking for, and automatically shipping them to you as soon as they are published.
52
1 year ago
The company is building a tool for publishers to track their traffic and find the most effective places to advertise.
51
1 year ago
Libra is building a platform to help over 100,000 publishers and digital publishers increase their revenue by a whopping 90% by helping them convert subscribers into customers. Libra’s founders say that the average revenue per user is around $10, and the service wants to help them grow that to $50.
51
1 year ago
This startup is building a content delivery network for clearing the clutter of ad blockers for publishers.
51
7 months ago
A tool for publishing photos, videos, and text to social media.
51
1 year ago
An advertising company that provides a platform for publishers, brands and non-profits to advertise on social media platforms.
50
1 year ago
A tool for users to create and manage unique, customizable, animated GIFs by picking from a set of templates. The GIFs are then published to social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
50
1 year ago
A digital distribution platform for publishers. The startup houses ad inventory for publishers who want to sell ads on their website, and pays publishers a cut of the revenue each month based on how many ads the publisher sells
50
1 year ago
This startup is building an ad platform for video games, to help game publishers, platforms, and advertisers reach a more engaged audience.
50
6 months ago
The idea is to make a chatbot that can help you create your own meme. The resulting memes are published on a website that has over 1.5 million monthly unique visitors.
50
1 year ago
A program that allows individuals to pay for the services of a licensed freelance designer, in advance. The startup takes care of everything from design to publishing on the web.
48
1 year ago
A “self-service digital advertising platform” that helps publishers and advertisers work together to realize their own campaigns.
48
8 months ago
A startup that enables you to pay what you want for a digital magazine (think e-zines) without having to go to a publisher.
48
7 months ago
Short for “mobile-first content”, this startup aims to use AI to publish information like news and content on social media that is tailored to each user and their context.
48
1 year ago
A browser-based ad network, designed for publishers who don’t have time to manage their own ads.
47
1 year ago
A startup that’s trying to expand the AdSense network so publishers have access to more ad inventory. As an advertiser, you’d be able to select from a variety of ad sizes and formats to maximize your campaigns.
47
8 months ago
A new publishing platform for startups, allowing them to build and launch their own newsletters without a lot of the traditional setup and maintenance of a traditional email newsletter.
45
9 months ago
A free, unlimited, ad-free way to publish a blog in a standard HTML format, using an open source blogging platform.
44
1 year ago
A SaaS platform for creating, managing, and selling e-books. The startup wants to make publishing easier, and by working with publishers, it can make the process more profitable.
43
1 year ago
A platform that helps brands and agencies publish content on Instagram. The app lets brands create e-books, videos, interviews and more.
43
1 year ago
A “virtual personal assistant” that helps you write, edit, and publish content.
43
1 year ago
A startup building a visual analytics dashboard for publishers, analyzing their data and showing the health of their website or blog.
42
1 year ago
A startup that enables small business owners to develop and publish their apps.
42
8 months ago
A game studio that makes mobile games. The startup is looking to build a new publishing model for mobile games, one that incentivizes players to engage in social-driven gameplay.
42
2 months ago
A technology platform that allows you to build a website using any combination of content from any combination of sites, and publish it to your own website for free.
42
1 year ago
A piece of content-marketing software for publishers to buy and sell ads. As a niche player in the space, the startup has to compete with the likes of the Google DoubleClick AdExchange and Facebook Ads Manager.
41
1 year ago
A startup that helps the software industry get up to speed with the newest trends. The startup provides a platform for companies to build and publish app prototypes, with a focus on business use cases.
41
1 year ago
A startup that wants to provide AI-powered software to help keep track of and manage your online content — which is probably a lot of things, but probably also doesn’t mean “the copyright for everything you’ve ever published”.
41
1 year ago
A new way to create and sell ebooks — through a subscription model. Publishers can offer “memberships” for $10 a month and get access to a repository of 1,000 different books. There’s a title, author, and a description of the book, as well as a collection of images. They plan to launch in the fall of 2019.
41
11 months ago
A platform for people to write about their careers and books and share their writing with others. Self-published authors get paid for their work, and readers gain access to the work of other writers.
41
11 months ago
A tool to help companies and publishers make sense of data they receive from social media platforms, as well as manage their own data. The startup is an open-source toolset that helps users analyze, visualize and transact their data.
41
5 months 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.
41
8 months ago
Platform that allows users to create and publish music and videos for free. The company combines the ability to create, discover and find new artists with the potential to reach millions of users.
40
3 years ago
Idea: A software-as-a-service that helps publishers manage their presence on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
39
1 year ago
A solution for publishers who want to both improve their ad revenue and make it easier to manage their inventory.
39
1 year ago
A crowdsourced news publisher for lifestyle coverage.
39
1 year ago
A startup that offers a membership service that allows users to get access to premium content and events from exclusive publishers. The service allows members to get one-to-one meetings with publishers, which they then can discuss their needs and preferences with the publisher.
39
7 months ago
A tool for education and research that allows users to publish their research and get feedback. The company is offering a free version with a revenue share deal.
39
1 year ago
A tool for finding and keeping up with the most useful and relevant content on the web. Envato’s editor-in-chief, Jellyvision, says it’s another tool for publishers to find and share the best content in a very crowded space. The startup is funded by the venture capital firm Ycombinator and aims to be a one-stop-shop for tools, content and plugins.
37
1 year ago
A way for people to test their writing skills before sending them off to a publisher or agent. The startups’ writing samples can be sent to “writers of interest” that can rate it, and then the writer can see what changes he/she needs to make.
36
1 year ago
A platform for creating and distributing “white papers” that summarize research, but aren’t bound by the limitations of traditional academic publishing.
36
1 year ago
A tool that helps authors self-publish their books
36
6 months ago
This startup is building a place for people to publish their thoughts, articles and videos on their Instagram account.
35
11 months ago
A platform for publishing and curating content in a publishing platform that looks and feels like Medium, but is optimized for mobile.
33
7 months ago
A startup where users can submit, discuss and vote on the best movie, TV show, and book covers. Users can also rate the movies and TV shows, and the top movies and books are then shared with film studios, book publishers, and publishers of comic books.
33
6 months ago
A platform for publishing and sharing news, blogs and articles through a private, personalized RSS feed.
32
1 year ago
A platform that helps publishers sell their content to advertisers. The startup wants to give publishers a new way to monetize their content by allowing them to create a new revenue source — ads.
31
2 months ago
A tool for journalists, writers, and publishers to manage their workflows and track those of their contributors.
31
7 months ago
"Philadelphia Tech News" is a weekly digital newsletter that covers the startup scene in Philadelphia and the greater Delaware Valley. The newsletter is published every Wednesday at noon.
30
1 month ago
A digital newsroom for the media company, providing editing and publishing tools for journalists to create and share stories.
30
5 months ago
A platform that helps publishers manage their payments and sales across mobile and desktop. The company is focused on taking out the friction in cross-platform payments and growing “mobile commerce”.
29
3 years ago
Idea: A tool for salespeople to track and report on any company-related content they are publishing. The startup is trying to replace spreadsheets and other tools salespeople have been using to track their content.
28
7 months ago
A network of small independent artists and publishers who sell their work on a “per-click” basis.
27
2 months ago
This startup is building a way for brands to publish content on their websites in a way that’s native to the platform.
27
6 months ago
A native advertising platform for content publishers. The company wants to make native advertising that is native to the platform.
26
3 years ago
Idea: A startup for organizing and publishing video interviews with people on the internet, initially for people who are doing YC interviews before Demo Day.
24
11 months ago
An earlier version of the startup, called Viglink, helped websites with affiliate links generate revenue. It was acquired by the company Pagefair in September. Viglink is now a separate company, and Pagefair has changed how it charges for the affiliate marketplace. It’s also trying to make it easier for advertisers to buy links directly from publishers.
24
2 months ago
A platform that enables publishers to quickly scale their user base by connecting their website with user data from Facebook.
24
2 months ago
A software company that helps publishers and brands deal with the challenge of embedding videos on their sites.
24
5 months ago
A company that makes a product that helps publishers gather data on their readership, using tools like Google Analytics and Facebook Insights to analyze sales.
23
3 years ago
Idea: A SaaS business that wants to help companies create and publish data-driven web content. The startup wants to make it easier and more efficient for companies to publish content on the web.
21
5 months ago
A computer science professor’s startup that lets students create, edit and share videos. The startup lets users publish videos to YouTube, Facebook and other video platforms.
21
2 months 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.
21
2 months ago
A platform to help people self-publish e-books.
21
1 month ago
A platform for developing and publishing mobile games. The startup is taking pre-orders for a $50
21
1 month ago
A startup that’s building a “digital library for the world”, enabling any device to access the world’s books and publishing content from the world’s writers.
21
2 months ago
A platform designed for building and publishing 3D content, supporting content creators, and customers, in a format that can be embedded and used in web, mobile and VR.
20
2 months ago
A tool for educators to create and publish digital textbooks.
19
4 months ago
A digital assistant for book publishers that is designed to “engage readers as they read”. This is a big goal for the startup, which has been trying to build a platform for readers to interact with books and books to interact with readers.
18
2 months ago
This is a startup that helps brands and publishers track and understand the performance of their audiences on social media.
18
22 days ago
Web-based video analytics for brands and publishers, with a focus on improving TV and film content.
18
2 months ago
This is a startup that aims to help you build a movie, TV show, or book trailer on your own timeline and publish it to platforms such as Amazon, Netflix, or iTunes.
17
1 month ago
A startup that allows users to create and publish a virtual “book” of story ideas, which they can then delegate to creative professionals to turn into a reality. Upload your idea, and it’s instantly available to a team of creatives around the world.
17
4 months ago
An ad tech company that helps digital agencies and mobile publishers track users across multiple websites by creating a single code that can be used on all those properties.
16
15 days ago
A 1500 square foot, affordable home design studio, along with an online catalog of affordably designed homes. In addition to the online catalog, they also publish a monthly print magazine.
16
4 months ago
A platform for journalists to create, schedule and publish their own newsletters and newsletters to their readership. The company says the app is for "digital publishers who want to reach their audiences, not just with text but with imagery and video to tell their stories."
15
3 years ago
Idea: Rollup is building a cloud-based solution for authors to publish and sell interactive books. It allows authors to create games, quizzes, and other interactive elements that let readers take a deeper dive into the stories.
14
2 months ago
A startup that helps you pick from a bunch of books, or from a personalized reading list, based on your interests. Once you’ve picked a book, it’ll send you a notification when it’s been published.
14
1 month ago
This startup provides an API for publishers to upload news articles into a centralized repository so that they can be shared by other users.
13
10 days ago
A software platform for delivering content to an audience. The company hopes to simplify the process of creating and distributing content, making it more efficient for brands and publishers to use.
11
24 days ago
In November 2018, "Return of Kings" founder Daryush Valizadeh, known as Roosh V, was banned from entry to the United Kingdom. Valizadeh published an article in "Return of Kings", titled "How to Stop Rape" which suggests that women are more likely to be raped if they stay in their home countries rather than moving to the United States or Europe. This article has been criticized by people as being misogynistic and conservative.
9
7 days ago
A tool for building and publishing Instagram stories that are then shared with other social media platforms. The tool turns a user’s camera feed into a story that they can share with other platforms.
9
3 years ago
xtractor is a platform for helping publishers convert their subscriptions into recurring revenue, which is often more profitable. xtractor’s pitch is hyperfocused on their customers’ business needs, like improving reader retention and increasing subscription and recurring revenue.
6
19 days ago
A startup that’s building an API for content creators to produce and publish their own unique content on the platform. The app also includes a marketplace where users can access others’ content.
6
22 days ago
This is a content-management platform for online publications. The company aims to help publishers manage content for different platforms.
5
3 years ago
Idea: A startup that wants to help people build and manage their own online magazines. The startup enables magazine publishers to set up paywalls around specific issues.
4
3 years ago
Idea: A Professional Publishing Platform
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3 years ago
Idea: A proprietary mobile-first ad platform for publishers
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3 years ago
Idea: A publishing tool for digital magazines
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3 years ago
Idea: A new edition of the classic novel “The Little Prince”, translated into Arabic The publisher says that it’s sold $15,000 worth of ebooks already with a plan to get to $100
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3 years ago
Idea: Creating a product that helps online publishers make more money from subscription models.
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