200 Social Networks at Linqia!

If you shoot for the moon and miss you land amongst the stars. 6 months ago we shot for the moon and today at 18:43 we hit our target exactly welcoming our 200th social network. Who was the 200th social network to register? An Austrian Social Network Uboot.com!!

Over the past 6 months, our team has extensively identified, sought introductions and approached over 300 Social Networks. We've interviewed a vast majority of our registered Social Networks to gain deeper insights into their needs and how we could best serve them. We typically spoke to the founder or business development executive who enthusiastically responded to questions around their business model, what worked, what didn't work and their needs. 95% of all Social Networks expressed a need to attract new members, fulfill on their Business Model (or even create one) and increase engagement amongst registered members.

We'd like to feature 3 Social Network who registered to Linqia today. Our team was beyond excitement leading into the afternoon realizing we could achieve our target of 200. Our supporters twittered like crazy to spread the word which enabled us to increase registrations from 195 networks to 200 within one day!

The lucky #200 is Uboot.com! Uboot is one of Europe’s largest and oldest mobile communities for young people accessing both internet and mobile. With more than 6 million registered members, it’s a meeting point for young people to enjoy conversations and meet online to share photos, videos and more. Marlis Rumler, the CEO, actually shared with us that Uboot.com is one of Europe’s oldest German speaking Social Networks, founded in 1999.

Lucky #199 is MyMusic.de. A German community founded by professional community builders Ekaabo, whose CEO Marco Ripanti is highly active in the community scene with Yiid and Communipedia. MyMusic is Germany's answer to MySpace where members share their passions like music, artists, DJ´s, or dancers, or even going to the same clubs and discos.

Position #3 is proudly held by AgencyScoop. Registered as number 198, its a US based professional network for the advertising industry with over 20,000 members from the creative, account, and production scene. AgencyScoop's CEO Jason Culbertson, having been in the advertising for many years, was able to grow the network exclusively through word of mouth to 20.000 members in six months. It´s a “Must Be“ place for people in advertising to find advice, access opportunities and receive insights to boost their careers.

By mid afternoon, we achieved our target of 200. Our fellow colleague Edwina Dendler with her ever-analytic outlook posted on yammer ... “We now have a marketplace with 200 networks and over 377 million members. Did you realize that we reach more members than Facebook does?“...

Let´s see what the future brings :-)

We're extremely excited for every social network and mega niche community who forms part of the 200! Thank you for your support!