Tatango
| Company type | dot-com company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Short Messaging Service |
| Founded | October, 2007 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | CEO Derek Johnson, Alex Mittelstaedt (Director of Sales) |
| Services | Short Messaging Service |
| Website | tatango.com |
| Footnotes / references Alexa Rank:  79,439 (April 2014[update])[1] | |
Tatango is a U.S. mobile marketing company that specializes in text message marketing (SMS/MMS) services for enterprise type clients.[2][3][4][5]
Tatango's software enables enterprise business clients to build campaigns and engage consumers through text message promotions and alerts and this is open to users in the U.S. and Canada. Tatango is a privately held corporation based in Seattle, WA, with investments from the Seattle Alliance of Angels [6][7]
History
Derek Johnson, the CEO, founded the service originally named NetworkText when at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business. Initially started as a solution for his Fraternity (Delta Upsilon) to communicate with his Fraternity brothers.
Tatango now works with primarily with fortune 500 businesses. Tatango was originally designed to allow groups and organizations to use the service to send text messages to their members, while networkText inserted 30-40 character text ads at the bottom of each text message. The service was free for groups and organizations in collaboration with 4INFO. This was later reviewed in July 26, 2008 and the company started charging a monthly fee to use the service.
Johnson left college and moved to Bellingham where he founded NetworkText with Matt Pelo, who left the company later that year. In 2008, the company was renamed to Tatango, and offices were found. Tatango moved from being a Limited-liability company to a Corporation late in 2008. In October that same year, Tatango launched a voice messaging service,[8] which has since been discontinued.
Tatango acquired HungryThumb in 2012 [9] and Broadtexter [10] the following year. In 2016 Tatango launched the U.S. Short Code Directory.[11][12]
Highlights
- In 2009 Tantago’s CEO makes Top entrepreneur’s list in Business Week’s 2009 Best Young Entrepreneurs list [13]
- Also Mention in Forbes as the Killer app of the 2012 election [14]
Press
Tantago has been featured on TechCrunch,[15] Cnet [16] The Seattle Times [17] and LifeHacker.[18]
Tatango CEO, Derek Johnson has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal in the article [19]
References
- ^ "Tatango.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ^ "filed-ctia-opposition-to-twilio" (PDF). Ctia.
- ^ "Tatango". crunchbase.
- ^ "Tatango launches presidential SMS marketing campaign for Ted Cruz's bid". GeekWire.
- ^ "Maturing Millennial Population Helps Jellystone Park Franchisees Top $100 Million in Revenue for the First Time". Business Wire.
- ^ "Tatango launches presidential SMS marketing campaign for Ted Cruz's bid". GeekWire.
- ^ "Donald Trump's campaign sued over text messages". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Tatango makes sending group voice messages free". CNET.
- ^ "Group text developer Tatango eats up restaurant SMS service HungryThumb". GeekWire.
- ^ "Tatango Acquires Text Message Marketing Platform Broadtexter 02/06/2013". mediapost.
- ^ "Tatango Launches U.S. Short Code Directory". Press Release Rocket.
- ^ "SMS Campaigns Application Provider Tatango". Common Short Codes.
- ^ "Tatango's Johnson makes top entrepreneurs list". BBJ Today.
- ^ "Killer app of the 2012 election". Forbes.com.
- ^ "Tatango Opens Their Group SMS Service To The Public". TechCrunch, September 5, 2008, Greg Kumparak.
- ^ "atango makes sending group voice messages free". Cnet, October 15, 2008, Don Reisinger.
- ^ "Texting simplifies group messages". the Seattle Times, October 15, 2007, Charles Bermant.
- ^ "Tatango Mass-Messages Your Opt-In Friends for Free, LifeHacker". September 7, 2008, Kevin Purdy.
- ^ "What Sneakers Say About Your Soul. Young Workers Rebel Against Standard Business Attire; the Significance of Chuck Taylors". WSJ.