AddToAny
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| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
Type of site | Social bookmarking |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Founded | March 2006 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | AddToAny |
| Founder(s) | Pat Diven II |
| URL | www.addtoany.com |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | March 2006 |
| Current status | Active |
AddToAny is a universal sharing platform founded by Pat Diven II that can be integrated into a website by use of a web widget or plugin. Once installed, visitors to the website can share or save an item using a variety of services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email, and over 100 other services.[2] AddToAny makes money by selling anonymous aggregate sharing data to advertisers.[3]
Official plugins are available for open source content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, and hosted content management systems such as WordPress.com, Blogger (service), Tumblr and TypePad. Having received over 8.6 million downloads, the AddToAny plugin is one of the most popular WordPress plugins and the most installed sharing plugin for WordPress.[4] On Drupal, the AddToAny module is actively used on over 41,000 Drupal sites and is the most actively used sharing module on Drupal sites.[5]
AddToAny also provides browser extensions for end-users to share the web page they are browsing to any service.[6][7]
History
- March 2006, launched as the first all-inclusive web page sharing, bookmarking, and web feed subscription tool.[2]
- 2009, launched the Chrome extension.[6]
- July 2011, acquired by social commerce site Lockerz.[8]
- June 2013, reacquired by Pat Diven II, AddToAny's original founder.[3][9]
- November 2014, launched the Joomla extension.[10]
- March 2017, launched the Firefox extension.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Addtoany.com Site Info". Alexa.
- ^ a b "AddToAny CrunchBase Profile". TechCrunch.
- ^ a b "AddToAny's founder buys company back from Lockerz 2 years after acquisition". VentureBeat.
- ^ "WordPress Plugins Directory".
- ^ "Usage statistics for AddToAny Share/Bookmark Button".
- ^ a b "AddToAny: Share Anywhere". chrome.google.com. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
- ^ a b "AddToAny: Share Anywhere – Add-ons for Firefox". addons.mozilla.org.
- ^ "Lockerz Acquires AddToAny". TechCrunch Profile.
- ^ "Diven Reacquires AddToAny from Lockerz". TechCrunch.
- ^ "AddToAny Share Buttons, by AddToAny - Joomla Extension Directory". extensions.joomla.org. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
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