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Founder name(s):
Rick Waghorn
Company:
Addiply
Website:
http://www.addiply.com
Proposition:
The digital equivalent of placing a postcard in a Post Office; dropping a business card in a chip shop. Hyper-local, hyper-targetted web advertising that will empower the next generation of local media start-ups.

Addiply



Attempting to beat one of the most successful companies in the world at its own game may seem risky, but Addiply, which is challenging Google's AdWords and AdSense for their online advertising crown, is already having some success: now that it's in the final stages of integration with the Guardian's new hyper-local web service, GuardianLocal, it is also being trialled by 22 of Trinity Mirror's local newspaper sites. Not bad for a business which was run from the profits of another website after it was refused funding by NESTA after the government innovation agency said Addiply's offering was 'beyond our area of expertise and experience'.

  • Making use of the move towards hyperlocal news
  • Secured deals with Guardian and Trinity Mirror
  • Simplifying hyperlocal advertising