Crowdynews is a SaaS platform founded after witnessing social media coverage of a plane crash. It aggregates and filters social media content related to news articles to provide a blended editorial and crowd perspective in real-time. The platform automates collection from sources like tweets, blogs and videos using AI/NLP. It aims to increase reader engagement for publishers by supplementing articles with social commentary. Crowdynews works with publishers and charges on a CPM basis for its services to blend social and traditional news.
3. Crowdynews
January 15, 2009
@highfours: I just watched a plane crash
into the hudson river in manhattan
Eye witness accounts of US Airways flight 1549
crashing into the Hudson River inspired
Crowdynews
Social has disrupted the news cycle
Goes viral faster than traditional news
5. Crowdynews Explanimation
Fully automated
Starting point: AI / NLP analyzes
articles and fines relevant social
media content
Criteria adjust automatically as the
story develops
Fall back to whitelisted content
smaller articles
Keeps archived articles fresh by
continuously showing the latest
social comments
11. Crowdynews Globally scalable from get go
Technically: CDN
Functionally: ease of use, multilingual; active in 25+ languages
Sales: network of agents
12. Crowdynews Process stages
Two starting points:
analysis article
whitelists
Collect social media
messages
Select
Rank
Filter
Publish
14. Crowdynews Breaking Burner
Combines tweets, blogs, short FB
posts, photos, RSS and videos
all into a single content module
Displays each category of
content in a comprehensive
social media view
Creates a fully-automated full-
page version.
15. Crowdynews Amplifinder
Starting point: white list of experts
on topic (or geo in this case)
Resolves all URLs tweeted by
experts
Ranks all links by popularity on
Twitter
Publish & circle back
Social Media as a starting point and
ranking mechanism for Web
content
16. Crowdynews Today
Social media has transformed the way people receive and understand news
Todays cutting-edge stories blend the editorial perspective with the crowd
perspective
Crowdynews is a SaaS platform that gathers and filters the most relevant
social media content and posts these in real-time next to topical, popular
stories
17. Crowdynews Business model
Reader expects relevant content
Goal for publisher: higher engagement, by
increasing traffic
longer time on site (social content = engaging)
more page views per visit
increasing interaction (likes, RTs etc.)
Publisher pays Crowdynews on CPM basis
directly
through an ad; supplied by us or by publisher
21. Crowdynews Organization
History: pioneering, small core team intrinsically motivated to innovate and to get
this product on the market, ultimately (too?) flexible
Now: Professionalize, processes, large team, stay innovative, listen to the market,
maintain flexibility
22. Crowdynews Goals
Staying ahead of the game
Beating the competition
Innovating, dont wait to finish
things
Listening to the customer
Translating macro / market
knowledge
Partnering, building a relationship,
were in this together
23. Crowdynews Millennials contribute to news
More people are contributing to news by taking photos and videos with their mobile devices
27. Crowdynews Goals
Platform thinking
Intuitivity / ease of use / multilingual
Data drivenness / proof of added value / engagement
28. Crowdynews Phasing
1. Social Media, and online news form two separate worlds
2. Standing next to each other - by means of Crowdynews
3. Living together - by means of Crowdynews
4. Converging, further integration and interaction
5. More and more part of primary processes
6. Full integration, dissolving of borders, full merger
by means of...youve guessed it ;) :)