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Wildfire, a division of Google

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Wildfire, acquired by Google in 2012, is the global leader in social media marketing software, with over 21,000 paying customers worldwide, including 30 of the world’s 50 most valuable brands. Wildfire’s Social Marketing Suite combines best-of-breed social promotion and advertising software, robust mobile and desktop page management, messaging and sophisticated real-time analytics in one complete platform. Wildfire’s powerful and intuitive software allows creative marketers and non-technical managers alike to create social campaigns and pages, communicate with their social audience and measure social media performance.

Brands and agencies such as Facebook, Virgin, Amazon, Target and Ogilvy as well as thousands of small businesses use the Wildfire platform to engage with audiences on major social networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter. The only social media marketing company to receive an investment from Facebook’s fbFund, Wildfire has offices in California, Chicago, New York, London, Paris, Munich, and Singapore. For more information, visit www.wildfireapp.com.

Recent Milestones

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  Wildfire, a division of Google — Google acquires Wildfire. (8/15/12)
  Posted 9/17/12 at 12:21pm via techcrunch.com
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  Wildfire, a division of Google was acquired by Google for $350M. (7/31/12)
  Posted 7/31/12 at 6:53pm via techcrunch.com
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added Stayce Kavanaugh as UI Engineer. (1/19/12)
  Posted 3/21/12 at 9:07am
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  Wildfire, a division of Google received $10M in Series B funding. (12/1/11)
  Posted 3/21/12 at 6:53am
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added Emily Eberhard Pereira as Director of Marketing Communications and PR. (10/1/11)
  Posted 8/6/12 at 7:39pm
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added John Dais as VP, Corporate Controller. (8/1/10)
  Posted 1/3/13 at 4:57pm
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  Wildfire, a division of Google received $4M in Series A funding. (4/26/10)
  Posted 4/26/10 at 9:13am via techcrunch.com
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added Ben Arnon as VP of Global Brand Partnerships. (2/1/10)
  Posted 4/15/13 at 2:52am
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added Joshua Valdez as Director of Business Operations & Strategy. (1/1/10)
  Posted 8/2/12 at 6:45am
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added Derek Draper as VP of Sales & Client Services. (7/1/09)
  Posted 8/2/12 at 6:45am
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  Wildfire, a division of Google received $100k in Seed funding. (6/1/09)
  Posted 11/30/09 at 9:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added Dave McClure as Advisor/Investor. (6/1/09)
  Posted 4/28/10 at 10:51am
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  Wildfire, a division of Google received () in Grant funding. (12/1/08)
  Posted 12/22/09 at 3:27pm
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added Tom Rikert as Director of Product Management.
  Posted 3/28/12 at 2:48pm
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added Victoria Ransom as Founder & CEO.
  Posted 10/15/08 at 12:53pm
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  Wildfire, a division of Google added Alain Chuard as Founder & Head of Product Management.
  Posted 10/15/08 at 12:53pm

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Sources

1. Google Acquires Wildfire, Will Now Sell Facebook And Twitter Marketing Services [Update: $350M Price] (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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Google Slaps $100M Golden Handcuffs on Wildfire to Retain Employees after $350M Acquisition (techcrunch.com) [edit]

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