Watercooler

Startup/business
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California, United States
http://watercooler-inc.com

Description

Watercooler aims to make connecting with your friends, family, and other fans of your favorite TV shows or Sports teams more compelling than ever before. By bringing fan communities into the context of your social network, Watercooler enables more engaging sports and TV fan experiences. Fans are able to access Watercooler's FanSection and TVLoop communities no matter where they are on the web: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Hi5, MyYahoo, and TVLoop.com. Over 35 million sports and TV fans have joined Watercooler's fan applications making it the largest online fan community.

Company History
Watercooler was founded by a team of social networking and community software professionals in Mountain View, CA, in 2006. The company has raised a Series A round of financing from Canaan Partners of Menlo Park, CA.

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Bryan Bennett (Sr. Director of Marketing)

Launched our new FanSection sports trivia widgets this week: http://www.fansection.com/. This is the first time that users can take FanSection content off Facebook. on April 17

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Bryan Bennett (Sr. Director of Marketing)

Was rooting for Michigan State, but our 180K UNC fans are buying a ton of championship gear at the FanSection FanShop. So I guess it worked out for the best. on April 06

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Bryan Bennett (Sr. Director of Marketing)

Bracket Challenge app continues to perform. Ended up with 1.6 million total users and well over 1 million completed brackets. Also have sold thousands in tickets and merchandise. on March 30

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Bryan Bennett (Sr. Director of Marketing)

Just blew through 700K total users of our Bracket Challenge app on Facebook. on March 16

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Bryan Bennett (Sr. Director of Marketing)

DMNews posted a great interview with Watercooler CEO Kevin Chou yesterday. Interview focuses on our monetization efforts beyond advertising. So far that includes tickets and apparel. http://tinyurl.com/b6rhnu on March 10

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