Travis Bernard
Travis Bernard is the Director of Audience Development at TechCrunch. He specializes in audience development, web analytics, social media strategy, social media analytics, social media advertising, brand marketing, and business development. In 2014 he joined the TechCrunch team as a Senior Manager tasked with leading social media strategy and audience development efforts. By early 2016, he was promoted to Director of Audience Development for TechCrunch.
Travis has spent most of his career working for advertising and marketing agencies, but in 2013 he joined AOL as a member of the Audience Development team within AOL Analytics. For over a year, Travis helped AOL’s editorial sites use social media and a data-driven strategy to increase website traffic and grow audience reach.
Travis is originally from Maryland, and he graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
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The biggest problem with Snapchat’s geofilter product
Snapchat’s current geofilter product is a nightmare for event managers, brands, and any commercial business because anyone can coat-tail or hijack the space. Let’s say you’re holding a political rally at City Hall, and you want to buy a geofilter for the augmented Snapchat space at the event. When you go to purchase it from Snapchat, your plan gets rejected. Why? Someone… Read More
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The 25 most memorable quotes from Disrupt SF 2016
Disrupt SF had an amazing lineup of speakers from Marc Andreessen to Steph Curry. Weren’t able to catch every second? The TechCrunch social team has compiled the 25 best quotes from the event. Read More
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Exclusive: Deleted scenes from HBO’s Silicon Valley
Before Mike Judge took the stage at Disrupt SF today, the crowd was treated with 4 minutes of deleted scenes from the most recent season of HBO’s Silicon Valley. There are some fun extra cuts from the famous “spaces vs. tabs” scene and the Pied Piper jacket segment, plus tons of new one-liners from Jared. Take a look at these exclusive scenes true fans of the show… Read More
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How to watch Disrupt SF 2016
Everyone has a different preference for how to watch Disrupt, so we’re giving you tons of options. Here’s what’s on deck for the show. Read More
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The Fluance RT81 is a high quality entry-level turntable at a bargain price
The RT81 is a higher end, entry-level turntable. It will cost you a little bit more than some of the $100 plastic entry-level turntables out there, but it’s much higher quality both in terms of appearance and sound quality. Read More
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30 memorable quotes from Disrupt NY 2016
Disrupt NY 2016 was full of fascinating panels on everything from dating apps to cybersecurity. Weren’t able to catch every second? The TechCrunch social media team has compiled the best of the best from the event. Enjoy! Read More
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Watch our short video recaps of Disrupt NY 2016
Disrupt NY 2016 has come to an end, and our video team put together three short videos that summarize each day of the event. Read More
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TechCrunch Disrupt NY will be the first major media conference to stream on Facebook Live in full
We’re excited to announce that we’re using Facebook Live to make Disrupt NY the first major media conference live streamed in its entirety — with TV-quality production — on Facebook. Delivering a real-time video feed of Disrupt to TechCrunch’s more than 2 million Facebook fans is a first for all of us and we can’t wait to see what happens. Read More
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Buy a Disrupt NY ticket, get a free Amazon Echo
Disrupt NY is right around the corner, and to build excitement for the event we’re giving away some swag. Starting today, the first 30 people that buy tickets for Disrupt NY will receive a free Amazon Echo Read More
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TechCrunch launches a personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger
We’re excited to announce the launch of the first cross-platform and personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger. The bot is part of Facebook’s “Agents for Messenger” program revealed at F8, and it will help our readers get the news they want from us in a more conversational way. Read More
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11 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week
This week, Tesla unveiled a brand new model, Oculus Rift shipped, Snapchat saw a major upgrade and the Apple vs. FBI case came to a close. These are this week’s top tech stories you don’t want to miss. Read More
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13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week
It was a busy week filled with tall things Apple, GCP NEXT, and Y Combinator Winter Demo Day. Next week we’ll have coverage of Microsoft Build, Tesla’s unveiling, and more. Until then, here are the top stories of the week. Read More
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Trax & Wax is a vinyl subscription service for those craving that fresh, underground dance sound
Launched this week, London-based startup Trax & Wax is the first vinyl subscription service focused on sub-genres within dance music. It works with the most prominent distributors of dance music including Rush Hour, Clone, Syncrophone and Word & Sound to select a personalized monthly “box” of 12″ records. Read More
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11 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week
From self-tying shoes and an algorithmic feed on Instagram to Playstation VR and Spoonrocket shutting down, here are eleven stories you don’t want to miss this week. Read More
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Check out the new AI-powered TechCrunch news bot on Telegram messenger
We’re excited to announce the launch of our first artificial intelligence-powered news bot on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram. We teamed up with Chatfuel to build the bot, and after a month of development we’re thrilled to show it off to the world. If you are already on Telegram, you can check out the bot by following this link (or search for… Read More
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Crosley’s First Direct Drive Turntable Doesn’t Disappoint
The Crosley C200 is a great turntable, and I highly recommend checking it out it if you are in the market for a new record player. The design is great, the price is fair, it’s easy to set up, and it sounds wonderful. Read More
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Here’s What It’s Like To Set Up An On-Demand Geofilter On Snapchat
Yesterday Snapchat opened up a new revenue stream in the form of on-demand geofilters. The new on-demand geofilters let anyone pay Snapchat to create and distribute a custom filter in a specific area for a set time. We wanted to see how quick and easy it was to launch a custom filter, so we decided to create one at TechCrunch HQ in San Francisco. Here’s what the process was like. Read More
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The Return Of Technics Is Symbolic, But Will Anyone Actually Buy Them?
The Technics SL-1200 turntable might be the most important piece of DJ equipment ever created. Hip-hop and modern dance music wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for this iconic device. Although the original SL-1200 might not be the best turntable ever created, the updated and improved SL-1200 MK2 is by far the most popular turntable for resale on sites like eBay and Craigslist. DJs… Read More
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The 13 Best Bluetooth Speakers And Audio Gizmos For Music Lovers
Music lovers can only get so many copies of Adele’s 25 over the holidays before they start to have a tough time faking smiles. Below are a few of my favorite Bluetooth speaker selections from 2015, as well as some of the top music gizmos chosen by our resident social media guru (and fellow music lover) Travis. Whether you’re looking for hardware, music subscriptions or just a… Read More
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