| Status | Acquired by AOL on 4/08 for $25M1 |
| Website | sphere.com |
| Blog | sphere.wordpress.com |
| Category | Web |
| Address |
Pier 38 San Francisco, CA, 94107 USA |
| Employees | 11 |
| Founded | 6/05 |
| Total | $3.5M |
| Series A, 4/05 2 Radar Partners True Ventures Winton Partners David Mahoney Scott Kurnit Vince Vannelli William Randolph Hearst III Kevin Compton Doug Mackenzie | $500k |
| Series B, 5/06 3 Hearst Corporation Trident Capital | $3M |
Sphere provides contextually relevant content tools that make connections between text, video, photos and ads. Sphere is currently integrated into over 60,000 leading sites and is live on over 2 Billion monthly article pages across the web.
Sphere’s core technology is a patent-pending process utilizing Sphere’s proprietary Content Genome.™ The Content Genome™ was developed specifically to deliver high-precision, low-cost (automated) related content delivery in dynamic online publishing and news environments. Unlike other solutions, the Content Genome™ does not require a taxonomy or training — Sphere can index any text artifacts, or media with associated text, and generate related content out of the box. Integration time on the publishers’ side is minimal, and no additional meta-data is required.
Sphere has a broad range of partners including A-list publishers, micro-publishers (i.e., BIG blogs like TechCrunch) and Blogs. Sphere is best known for their Sphere Related Content Widget but they have a broad product suite on Embedded Link applications.
| Contextual Buzz Clouds |
| Contextual Embedded Links |
| Contextual Embedded Video |
| Contextual RSS Links |
| Contextual Widget |
| Sphere |
