Kickapps News & Articles

There are a lot of community platforms out there and it can get a bit confusing trying to distinguish one from the other. Here’s a brief rundown of some of the popular community platforms on the market today and what I believe makes them unique.

Despite the fear of being thrown rotten tomatoes at, here’s a new acronym: sCMS, which stands for social CMS.

According to KickApps (news, site), they released just that -- an sCMS -- with the new KickApps 5.0 version of the social software development suite.

Are you the type that just uses sites like MTV.co.uk, or are you more one to stare at it and try to figure out what it's running? I could say that it's running Drupal (news, site), which it is, but the answer isn't quite that simple.

We don't need to tell you that social media is where a lot of the action is these days. KickApps (news, site), a social media publishing solution making its way around the Web, recently announced that they exceeded their goals and expectations for *all* business metrics during the first half of 2009.

Specifically, KickApps more than doubled their recurring revenues from their hosted services as compared to 2008. Additionally, the company added over 25,000 new clients during the first half of 2009, nearly 40% of which are reportedly non-U.S. based organizations.

“The demand for our products and services has never been stronger and we’ve seen an accelerated adoption from businesses of all sizes that are looking to KickApps to achieve deeper levels of engagement with, and insight into, their audience, customers and partners,” said Alex Blum, CEO, KickApps. “In a very short period of time, we’ve evolved this industry from where social media was a mere bolt-on to an existing web site experience to it being baseline functionality and one of the most effective and efficient ways in which to grow audience, and develop new revenue streams and online marketing channels.

As for the second half of the year, KickApps plans to continue to expand its solutions for web publishers, media and entertainment companies, Fortune 500 brands and small businesses. With numbers like the ones they've been keeping, we're going to guess that they'll see even more success in the next five months. Keep watch with us here.

KickApps (news, site) offers all kinds of social widgets to help promote and generate awareness for sites.

Now, its Insights Dashboard tool can help you track who your users are and what they want.

Last October, The FeedRoom (news, site), a New York-based provider of Web video and digital media solutions, released v4.0 of its Enterprise Video Platform (EVP), which allows users distribute, upload and manage video across the Web.

Now, with the phenomenal growth in the use of video in social networks, the company has just announced that it has entered into a partnership with Clearspring Technologies that will allow users to bookmark and share video content on social networks and blogs -- with point-and-click tools.

Like your KickApps social media solution? You may like it even more now that they have launched a new app studio to help develop highly customized Flash applications which can include the integration of third party applications.

Sometime it takes too much effort to implement a horizontal document management solution when you have very specific requirements. In this case, a vertical solution makes more sense. Luckily for the Life Sciences vertical, TAKE Solutions has PharmaReady 4.1.

It was just last month, when KickApps kicked off a video deal with Akamai.

Today, the on-demand social media and online video and widget applications provider announced that it has made it “extremely easy” for web publishers to add video advertising to their editorial and user-generated videos using the KickApps Widget and Video Player Studio.

KickApps and Akamai are teaming up to take on video publishing. KickApps brings the ability to create and manage custom video players with excellent social features. Akamai comes in with the ability to easily automate digital distribution systems while providing enterprise-level video distribution. Put them both together, and what results is an app-kicking combination!

Are you running an open source WCM website that needs a little social interactivity? You can get with it KickApps. The SaaS social media solutions provider has been working hard to provide their services to open source content management solutions like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. You can learn all about it at the Linux World Expo in San Francisco next week.

KickApps has expanded the service offering of its on-demand social media platform by partnering with Userplane to add Live Chat, instant messaging and presence awareness functionality.

What do you do after signing big agreements with the likes of UK-based Guinness World Records and Endemol UK? Why you open an office in Europe to service those major clients and a few more. At least that’s what social media platform provider KickApps is doing.

Local television stations need revenue, too. More and more they find themselves in a situation similar to local newspapers — they are losing money as people continue to stream to the Internet for their news.

So they have begun taking measures into their own hands by enlisting KickApps’ application and WorldNow’s consulting to boost their online revenue via user-generated venues and targeting traffic to local businesses.

New York based Kickapps, provider of on demand social media software, has released the latest version of its SaaS application suite. Kickapps 3.0 is designed to ease the deployment of features such as social networking, user generated content (UGC), and programmable video players and widgets.