Articles written by Tony Haile

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Looking Forward: Announcing John Saroff as CEO of Chartbeat

In April 2009, John Borthwick asked me to join a fledgling Betaworks company created by the wonderful Billy Chasen. For the first year there were just two of us trying to…

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Culture

Welcome to the Chartbeat Board, Betsy Morgan

Today, I’m thrilled to finally announce that Betsy Morgan, former CEO of The Huffington Post and most recently CEO of TheBlaze, is joining the Chartbeat Board of Directors.I say finally…

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Partnering with Moat : Moving the Attention Economy Forward Faster, Together

An advantage of working at Chartbeat is that one has no shortage of data from which to derive insight. Our growth over the last year has meant we now track…

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Power in an Open Web: Chartbeat and the Google AMP Project

The refrain is that when it comes to mobile the open web has had its moment and just can’t compete in a world of apps. While apps and the content…

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Two New Products, Two New Partners, $15M New Dollars

Last month, Chartbeat celebrated its sixth anniversary. Over those six years, we’ve worked with thousands of incredible partners; raised $15.5 million in venture capital; committed code to GitHub 72,000 times;…

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Chartbeat, HealthCare.gov, and Personal Information

Over the last couple of days, there has been a lot of talk about data privacy and specifically HealthCare.gov passing personal information (e.g., age, zip code, income) to third-party data…

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On the Facebook News Feed Algorithm Changes and Why Short-Form Content Will Be Just Fine

Facebook announced today that is is making some changes to its News Feed algorithm to combat clickbait. Primarily, the social network will be looking at how much time people spend…

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Funding News: Investing in the Future of the Media Industry

I’m excited to announce that Chartbeat has accepted $3.1m in additional funding led by existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Index Ventures with participation from Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Freestyle Capital,…

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Important Note to Our Clients: Chartbeat Phishing Attack

This week, Chartbeat was subject to a phishing attack as part of an ongoing campaign from the Syrian Electronic Army that recently affected Outbrain, SocialFlow, and a number of other sites.Let me…

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Press

Chartbeat: The Next Generation

Three years ago this month, Chartbeat launched at the web 2.0 summit. Today Chartbeat is beating under the hood of sites across 37 countries and takes the pulse of around…

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Post-mortem of today’s DNS outage

For those who might not have been following or affected, chartbeat just suffered, and is recovering from, a major DNS failure that affected our users’ dashboards. I wanted to give…

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When Mubarak met the Internet

We watched in awe as Al Jazeera helped to topple a dictator in Egypt. Chartbeat was behind the scenes powering the analytics and dealing with the flood as millions came…

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