| Website | conduit.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 1-866-338-1306 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1/05 |
| Description | Toolbar development for websites |
| Total | $9.8M |
| Series A, 7/06 | $1.8M |
| Series B, 1/08 Benchmark Capital | $8M |
Conduit provides an on-demand website syndication platform that allows Web publishers to create community toolbars for their websites.
Toolbars can have any number of custom searches, RSS feeds, gadgets, podcasts, etc. allowing publishers to syndicate their content directly to the subscriber’s browser. Although it is designed for any size website and can is used by individual bloggers as well as medium and large web publishers, such as Habbo, Answers.com, GreenPeace International, and Major League Baseball. The TechCrunch CrunchBar was also created on the Conduit platform.
Conduit was founded in January of 2005, and since then has grown to more than 30 million users in 180 countries.
| Website | conduit.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | July 1, 2005 |
| Tags | toolbar-creator |
Conduit.com is another way for website designers to increase their site exposure as well as increase the loyalty of their current viewers. Their free service allows a company to customize a toolbar to adhere to features of their own website, news, and other applications. Due to their monetizing of the search box on the toolbar, the service is spywear and adwear free. Conduit claims to increase user’s website activity 3-5 extra clicks per user per day.
