Deal Brings Complementary Technology, New Clients to Tinypass Platform
NEW YORK – Tinypass, which enables media companies and websites to create new business models, announced the acquisition of Swishu, an advanced paywall and subscriber management technology company. The deal enlarges Tinypass’ footprint in the media space, bringing complementary technology and new clients to the Tinypass platform as well as enhancing its ability to provide publishers and site owners with comprehensive revenue solutions. Swishu founder Nathan Goulding will join Tinypass as Vice President of Product Engineering.
“By joining with Tinypass, we’ll be better able to service this diverse and fast growing demand more effectively than we could as a standalone entity. We are extremely pleased to become part of the Tinypass team.”
Based in New York, Swishu’s client list includes National Review, The Nation, and radio operator Pacific Media Group, among others. As part of Tinypass, Swishu will support the company’s mission of enabling media companies of all sizes – from individual bloggers to major outlets with millions of readers – to implement customized and consumer friendly business models for their digital content.
“The Swishu ethos of making paid content work for both consumers and publishers perfectly matches the Tinypass model,” said Tinypass CEO Trevor Kaufman. “The company’s subscriber management tools, which allow publishers to seamlessly coordinate their physical subscriptions with their digital offerings are particularly complementary to our existing feature set and will be a strong addition to our industry leading product capabilities. It’s a great acquisition for Tinypass as we continue to provide media owners with powerful, transparent and easy to use monetization solutions.”
The Tinypass platform enables ecommerce for content, in which sites exchange premium access for payments, ad views, data, or social sharing. More than 250 media companies, publishers, research firms, education companies and business information providers currently utilize Tinypass to implement revenue strategies. The company recently closed a $3 million funding round and has been growing at a rate of 40 percent on a month-to-month basis.
“Publishers looking to introduce sophisticated paid-content revenue models no longer need to spend the millions of upfront dollars to develop their own solution from the ground up,” said Goulding. “By joining with Tinypass, we’ll be better able to service this diverse and fast growing demand more effectively than we could as a standalone entity. We are extremely pleased to become part of the Tinypass team.”
About Tinypass
Tinypass is an e-commerce platform that allows content creators and media owners to monetize their digital content quickly, powerfully and effectively. Simple to deploy and free to set up, Tinypass brings the functionality of major paywalls and download services to every site on the Internet, and enables a variety of new innovative business models as well. Tinypass currently is enabling content sites of every size – from individual bloggers to multi-national publications with millions of readers — to create sustainable and lucrative business models that are embraced by their users. Tinypass is online at www.tinypass.com.
