April 25th, 2013

Chartbeat’s New Dashboard Plugs Publishers’ Video Data Into Their Real-Time Analytics

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Chartbeat is launching what CEO Tony Haile told me has been the big “missing piece” from its real-time analytics product for publishers — a video dashboard.

“And not just missing for us, but largely a missing piece for publishers, too,” he said.

By that, Haile means video data is usually stuck in a separate application, and therefore analyzed completely separately, by a separate team, from… → Read More

July 28th, 2011

Newsbeat Measures The Pulse Of News Sites

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The news never sleeps, which is why news sites like TechCrunch are addicted to realtime information. That addiction extends to the analytical tools news sites use to determine which articles are resonating with people and which ones aren’t. Today, news sites are getting a special flavor of a tool many already use. It’s called Newsbeat. It’s Chartbeat on steroids for news publishers, and it… → Read More

February 13th, 2011

Al Jazeera's Social Revolution (In Realtime)

While you can debate about the exact role of social media, specifically Twitter and Facebook, in Egypt’s revolution, there is no question about its role as a new global media channel. Where once people tuned into CNN to watch governments collapse, this time around they tuned into Al Jazeera on the Web (at least in English speaking countries lie the U.S. where Al Jazeera English is not widely… → Read More

February 3rd, 2011

It's official – GoSquared gets funded to take the fight to Chartbeat

GoSquared, the real-time website analytics startup, has announced that it’s raised an Angel round from Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge, Robert Dighero, and Thomas Jones. That’s the early-stage investor team at White Bear Yard where GoSquared has been resident for some time but it’s only now that the funding is official.

That said, terms remain undisclosed, which is interesting in light of… → Read More

February 3rd, 2011

Geckoboard: "It's Chartbeat For Everything Else"

Businesses live or die on their ability to react to the market in realtime. The faster you can get information, the faster you can make decisions. If you operate a Website, Chartbeat gives you a dashboard that shows you what is happening on your site right now. But what if you could add realtime data from all sorts of services into one place? Then you’d have Geckoboard, which launches publicly… → Read More

January 14th, 2011

Chartbeat Cracks 2 Million Concurrent Users Tracked

It was only last August that Chartbeat passed one million concurrent users tracked across all the sites that use the realtime analytics dashboard. It took 16 months from launch to get there. Now, a mere five months later, Chartbeat has broken through the 2-million user milepost.

Chartbeat is like Google Analytics, but in realtime. It lest you see exactly how many visitors are on any page on… → Read More

August 31st, 2010

Chartbeat Raises $3 Million From Index, Conway, Sacca, Clavier, Lerer, And Dixon

In a short amount of time since its launch in April, 2009 and its redesign a year later, realtime analytics startup Chartbeat has gained an impressive following of more than 2,500 paying corporate customers. All of this was done so far with 5 employees, led by general manager Tony Haile.

Now, the betaworks-incubated company has gained an impressive roster of investors in a $3 million Series A… → Read More

August 31st, 2010

Chartbeat Raises $3 Million From Index, Conway, Sacca, Clavier, Lerer, And Dixon

In a short amount of time since its launch in April, 2009 and its redesign a year later, realtime analytics startup Chartbeat has gained an impressive following of more than 2,500 paying corporate customers. All of this was done so far with 5 employees, led by general manager Tony Haile.

Now, the betaworks-incubated company has gained an impressive roster of investors in a $3 million Series A… → Read More

August 4th, 2010

Chartbeat Breaks The One-Million Mark

If you are not tracking your Website in realtime, you probably don’t know what is happening on your site—or you know too late to do anything about it. The idea behind betaworks startup Chartbeat is simply to give Website owners a realtime dashboard showing what is happening on the site right now.

Chartbeat tracks concurrent visitors, and this week it passed one million concurrent visitors… → Read More

March 22nd, 2010

Pick Up The Realtime Pulse Of Your Website With Chartbeat's New Beta

When betaworks launched chartbeat nearly a year ago, the idea was to create a realtime Google Analytics for Websites. Chartbeat is a dashboard which shows you how many people are on your site right now, where they are coming from, and how engaged they are. Watching realtime stats is even more addictive than Google Analytics because you can put something up on your Website and immediately see the… → Read More

December 14th, 2009

Chartbeat Brings Realtime Analytics to TypePad and DreamHost

If Google Analytics just isn’t fast enough for you, there’s Chartbeat, a betaworks company which provides realtime analytics to Website owners. It gives Website publishers a second-by-second view of the number of visitors on their site, which pages are spiking in popularity, referring sites, as well as alerts on slow load times and server crashes. It is particularly useful for blogs.

Today… → Read More

June 11th, 2009

Betaworks Email To Investors: Read It Here

Famous angel investor Ron Conway’s investment focus on real time startups earned him the moniker “Real Time Ron” by his close friends. But he’s certainly not the only venture capitalist out there focusing on this space.

New York based betaworks, an incubator/VC, is also right in the thick of things. They invested early in Summize and gained a sizable chunk of Twitter stock when that company was → Read More

May 17th, 2009

Jump Into The Stream

Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages. Web companies large and small are embracing this stream. It is not just Twitter. It is Facebook and Friendfeed and AOL and Digg and Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop and… → Read More

April 2nd, 2009

Betaworks Launches Chartbeat To Track Who Is Paying Attention To Your Website Right Now

The default mode for Google Analytics and other Website tracking software often makes you wait an entire day to find out what is happening on your site. There is a 24-hour delay (although this can often be changed in settings). Speed up the feedback loop, and Websites in theory could become even more responsive to traffic and attention peaks or to unexpected sluggishness. Betaworks, John… → Read More