Back in August, Y Combinator held its summer session demo day, introducing the world to 60 new companies in one of its strongest batches to date. One of these companies, DoubleRecall launched as a platform that enables companies to roll out digital campaigns that actually succeed in prompting users to read an ad, rather than scoff and click elsewhere.
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The idea is to create experiences that are quick enough for users to navigate that they lower the barrier and obnoxiousness level and are targeted and clickable enough for brands to actually make money and potentially avoid using a paywall altogether.
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These results have been intriguing enough that investors are buying into DoubleRecall's strategy, as the startup has announced that it has raised $1.6 million in seed funding. Like the other startup's in YC's summer batch, DoubleRecall was offered $170K from Yuri Milner and SV Angel's Start Fund, as well as Y Combinator. Since then, Digital Garage, Itochu Ventures, Mentor Equity and TEEC Angel have all joined in to bring the round to $1.6 million.
Sure, this model is great, in that it's got the potential for publishers to monetize through an alternative approach, and readers don't have to wrestle with paywalls, but with this slight description, readers may be inclined to see this as a me-too idea very reminiscent of the same strategy that has seen Solve Media attract buzz and venture capital.
DoubleRecall COO Julien Coustaury tells me that the main similarity between Solve and DoubleRecall is that, at some point, a reader has to retype words from text into a textbox. Solve's TYPE-IN platform replaces those fuzzy CAPTCHA words and numbers with a brand message or logo, with an input box. Essentially, they're using input boxes for advertising. DoubleRecall, on the other hand, doesn't want to advertise on the input box, but instead wants to serve some non-branded text readers have to recall, and use that to unlock content.
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Now, there are other  Michael Kors Canada plenty of other location-based deal services (perhaps the most noteworthy is Groupon  Michael Kors Factory Now), but BlockBeacon isn't just about deals. It's also allowing businesses to communicate anything with consumers at  Michael Kors New Yor the moment they're deciding where to go  Michael Kors Handbag ― as co-founder and chairman Joe Marchese put it, BlockBeacon updates should answer the question, Why should a local customer visit your store right now? For example, I just glanced at the featured map for San Francisco, and it was dominated by happy hours, but there were also a message about whether or not I had rummed it up at Smuggler's Cove and another boasting about a restaurant's banh mi sandwiches.
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