About the company

Location:

Stage: 1.0 (formal launch)
Funding history:

- Date: 11/2008, Series C: $14.0M
Investors: North Atlantic Capital, Softbank, Spark Capital, Prism Ventures and Jarl Mohn, former CEO of Liberty Digital, Inc.. Source: press release

- Date: 08/2007, Series B: $11.0M (post valuation: $0.0M).
Investors: Prism VentureWorks, Softbank Capital and Spark Capital.. Source: peHub

- Date: 06/2006, Series A: $6.0M (post valuation: $0.0M).
Investors: Prism VentureWorks and Spark Capital.. Source: DWMedia

Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/a7

Profile creation: February 21, 2007
Last updated: April 09, 2007

KickApps

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New York, United States
http://www.kickapps.com

KickApps is a hosted platform that allows webmasters to quickly and easily deploy user-generated content and social networking functionality directly on their websites.

US traffic of KickApps

US traffic of www.kickapps.com

Range:
1m
1y

The number of people visiting a site.

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The number of visits made to a site. A person can only be counted as one person in a month, but can make multiple site visits.

The total time spent on a domain as a percentage of the total time spent online by all U.S. internet users.

The number of minutes an average visitor spends on a site during each visit.

The number of pages an average person views on each visit to a domain.

Worldwide traffic of KickApps

Worldwide traffic for the website www.kickapps.com

Feedback and testimonials

Russ Whitman February 26, 2008
KickApps has a good idea here, delivering a significant value add to 2nd and 3rd tier websites. I've played around with the functionality and it looks pretty easy to leverage.

I'm not sure how Alex can back up the concept of significantly increasing traffic to a KickApps enabled site - that assumes that either more people will come to the enhanced site or people will come more often - or both. I get the latter, but not sure what increase a site would have from its existing users - 1.5 X? I'd love to see some case studies or metrics to back this "Selling Point" up.

That said, if you want to add some cool features to your site for some screen real estate and a little dev time, this is a great service. I wonder if it scales?
Bambi Francisco July 25, 2007
More media companies are integrating social networking features to their sites. KickApps, which provides a hosted social network platform, announced this week that it signed on BET Networks, Scripps, HBO-Cinemax and VIBE magazine.