April 24th, 2012

Fan Wars: Former Google Biz Dev Head David Dowd Becomes VP Of Social Marketer FanBridge

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Right now there’s a cutthroat battle between social marketing platforms to represent the world’s biggest brands. In hopes of seducing dollars from offline and clients from competitors, social marketing platform FanBridge has just hired former Buddy Media’s GM of lifestyle brands David Dowd. Previously the head of branded content biz dev for Google, his experience courting fashion, retail, luxury… → Read More

September 26th, 2011

Fan Management Platform FanBridge Launches Email Digest For Brands To Curate Popular Social Content

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Fan “relationship management” service FanBridge is launching a new feature today, called the “Social Digest,” which gives influencers and brands a way to stay in touch with their fans and followers. The Social Digest automatically curates the most popular social content in an email digest distributed to fans on a weekly basis.

FanBridge, which has raised funding from SoftTech VC, Lowercase… → Read More

January 18th, 2011

With $2 Million In Fresh Funding, FanBridge Buys DamnTheRadio

Fan “relationship management” service FanBridge recently closed a $2 million Series A financing and already completed its first acquisition of Facebook fan management startup Damntheradio. Super angels Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC), Chris Sacca (Lowercase Capital Capital), and Dave McClure seeded FanBridge with $350,000 in March, 2009. They are all back in this $2 million round via SoftTech VC… → Read More