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Websiteaboutecho.com
Blogaboutecho.com/blog
Twitter@echoenabled
CategoryEnterprise
Phone(888) GO-REALTIME (467-3258)
Emailsales@aboutecho.com
Employees35
Founded2007
DescriptionReal-time Web Platform

Offices

United States
USA

People

Co-founder, CEO
Co-founder, CTO
Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer
Senior Vice President, Customer Strategy and Product Marketing

Former People

VP of Marketing

Acquisitions

SezWho, 3/09
HaloScan, 7/08

Funding

TOTAL $4.8M
FUNDING TOTAL $4.8M
Series A, 8/07
The Entrepreneurs' Fund III
$1.2M
Series B, 10/08
Altos Ventures
The Entrepreneurs' Fund III
$3.6M

Competitors

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Echo

Echo provides a real-time platform that enables the rapid implementation and scale of applications for social TV, social music, social news, social sports and social commerce. Brands can leverage the Echo platform to transform their static websites into real-time experiences that significantly boost website traffic, increase user engagement, and drive more revenue. A leader in the space, Echo currently serves over 1 billion streams per month for brands including ABC, AMC Networks, ESPN, NBC News, NASDAQ, Sony, The Washington Post, Universal Music Group, USA Network and WWE. To learn more, visit www.aboutecho.com.

Recent Milestones

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    Echo — Echo, the first and largest real-time web platform provider, is honored to announce that it has been awarded “Best White Label Solution” at the Social TV Awards. This culminates an astonishing year of revenue growth for the company, having increased total (7/25/12)
    Posted 7/25/12 at 11:59am via yahoo.com
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    Echo — Echo Announces Record Quarter with 86% Revenue Growth Y/Y (5/22/12)
    Posted 5/22/12 at 4:46am via aboutecho.com
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    Echo added Kristin Hersant as VP of Marketing. (12/1/11)
    Posted 12/6/11 at 2:32pm
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    Echo — Launch of StreamServer - the evolution of the real-time web (2/8/11)
    Posted 2/15/11 at 10:48am via pitchengine.com
  • Handshake
    Echo acquired SezWho. (3/5/09)
    Posted 3/17/09 at 11:28am via techcrunch.com
  • Dollar
    Echo received $3.6M in Series B funding. (10/14/08)
    Posted 10/14/08 at 10:34am via techcrunch.com
  • Handshake
    Echo acquired HaloScan. (7/8/08)
    Posted 7/10/08 at 1:51pm via paidcontent.org
  • Dollar
    Echo received $1.2M in Series A funding. (8/1/07)
    Posted 8/9/07 at 1:42am via techcrunch.com
  • Check
    Echo added Khris Loux as Co-founder, CEO.
    Posted 8/9/07 at 1:40am
  • Check
    Echo added Chris Saad as Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer.
    Posted 10/14/08 at 12:08pm
  • Check
    Echo added Lev Walkin as Co-founder, CTO.
    Posted 8/9/07 at 1:41am

Videos

Above:

Robert Scoble Interviews Echo CEO Khris Loux about the Real-time Web

Added: 8/6/12

Screenshots

Echo screenshot
Above: Echo Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 9/16/12

Products

Custom Applications
Lifestreams
Live Blogging
Real-time Comments
Real-time Forums
Real-time Polling
Social Chatter
Social Log-in & Sharing
StreamServer

Traffic Analytics

Quantcast

Livegraph

Compete

Aboutecho

Sources

  1. Comment Consolidation: JS-Kit Acquires SezWho (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. JS-KIT Acquires Blog Comment System Haloscan (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  3. techcrunch.com [edit]
  4. Widget Maker JS-Kit Closes $3.6 Million Series B Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. pitchengine.com [edit]
    Echo Announces Record Quarter with 86% Revenue Growth Y/Y (aboutecho.com) [edit]
    Echo Wins 2012 Social TV Award for Best White Label Solution (news.yahoo.com) [edit]
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