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irvinenewshq · 2 years
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Meta accepts UK order to promote Giphy after antitrust battle By Reuters
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A brand of Meta Platforms Inc. is seen at its sales space, on the Viva Expertise convention devoted to innovation and startups, at Porte de Versailles exhibition heart in Paris, France June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s competitors regulator has ordered Fb-owner Meta to promote animated-images platform Giphy on Tuesday after a tribunal upheld its view that the acquisition may injury its rivals and take away a possible competitor in promoting. Meta mentioned it will settle for the Competitors and Markets Authority’s (CMA) order to unwind the 2020 deal. “We’re dissatisfied by the CMA’s choice however settle for right now’s ruling as the ultimate phrase on the matter,” a Meta spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “We are going to work carefully with the CMA on divesting Giphy.” The ruling was the primary time a regulator had compelled a U.S. tech large to promote an already acquired firm, and signalled a brand new dedication to scrutinise digital offers. Regulators around the globe have been more and more being proactive in reining in large firms. U.S. antitrust regulators had, earlier in October, filed a lawsuit towards Meta’s acquisition of digital actuality content material maker Inside Limitless Inc, saying it will “are inclined to create a monopoly” available in the market for VR-dedicated health apps. The European Union has been on the forefront of this battle towards tech giants, organising landmark antitrust and privateness guidelines and doling out billions of {dollars} in fines to pressure adjustments of their enterprise fashions. The British regulator had blocked the Giphy deal, valued at a reported $400 million, in November 2021 on considerations that Meta may deny or restrict rivals similar to Snapchat and Twitter entry to Giphy’s GIFs. It was additionally apprehensive in regards to the lack of a possible competitor in show promoting, regardless that Giphy had no presence within the sector in Britain. The CMA had famous that UK customers search for 1 billion GIFs a month on Giphy, and 73% of the time they spend on social media was on Meta’s Fb (NASDAQ:), Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta appealed the ruling, however a tribunal upheld the CMA’s choice on 5 out of six grounds in June. The CMA mentioned it had thought-about new submissions from Meta and Giphy and extra proof for the reason that attraction, however had not modified its view. “This deal would considerably cut back competitors in two markets,” mentioned Stuart McIntosh, chair of an impartial inquiry group. “It has already resulted within the elimination of a possible challenger within the UK show advert market, whereas additionally giving Meta the power to additional enhance its substantial market energy in social media.” “The one manner this may be addressed is by the sale of Giphy,” he added. Originally published at Irvine News HQ
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louistomlinsoncouk · 5 years
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LOUIS TOMLINSON ARCHIVE (ongoing project)
What is it:
this is an archive of pretty much everything (= photos and videos) that’s been posted on Louis/LTHQ/his team’s social media
What you will find:
- starting from 2017, content is split by years & social media platform: instagram (posts, stories, IGTV), twitter and facebook (for some unseens posted before LTHQ was made) - content is HQ/HD (as it can be)  - HQs from photoshoots (as we find them)
What you won’t find:
- music videos/behind the scenes, unless they get removed  - interviews from his promo as solo artist BUT we can provide links & HD videos if needed (you can message us privately) - pap photos - anything that’s not related to Louis’ career
Again, this is an ongoing project, so there might be content missing that we’ll upload asap. And it’ll be updated regularly as new content will be released.
For any suggestion or question our inbox is open!
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lancang · 2 years
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IKONIC | The eSports Celebrity Platform
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hellodmonline · 6 years
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If you want to know how to escape from time poverty you might this video useful. In it I talk about an event I attended in New Jersey last year hosted by some people you should meet. The event was called 10 for 10 and was held at the home HQ of mega successful internet entrepreneur Jay Kubassek. Myself and the other attendees were invited to the event as we had reached a couple of benchmarks in our own internet businesses. Jay, business partner Stuart Ross and their leadership team gave us the benefit of their many years of success in the online space. Time poverty was a common reason for all of us doing what we do. We are all from corporate or business backgrounds where although we had all the trappings of success there was something lacking in our lives - Time freedom. Time poverty is a symptom of modern times and values. If you are ambitious and have big goals then until fairly recently, the only way to reach them was to sacrifice more and more of your precious (and limited) time. This kind of makes the trappings of success pretty lame since you don’t have the time to enjoy them. So much of your time is spent climbing ladders that the really important stuff of life gets pushed aside. The Internet, technology - the digital revolution - now gives us very viable alternatives. Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek have built a platform that makes it step by step simple to leverage the huge opportunity this has given us all. With the appropriate skills we can now make far better use of time using less of it to create more of everything - money, time and freedom. Learn more by signing up for their free introductory video series on the links you’ll find in this video. Thanks for watching! Subscribe for more tips and tutorials on living the internet lifestyle And I do love a good comment if you find this of value! Cheers, Dave Link in video - https://ift.tt/2n7hwo4 ============================================ Subscribe to my channel for more tips, tutorials and content on video, audio, digital marketing and creating more time, financial and location freedom or visit my website on the link below. ========================================­======= Dave Menzies Digital Entrepreneur and Home Business Coach http://davemenzies.com Facebook - https://ift.tt/1XUWLq0 ============================================================================== Disclaimer: Results with any training course or business model cannot be guaranteed and depend entirely on the individual’s efforts and application. Any lifestyle, income and other results mentioned in any of my videos are entirely mine. ============================================================================== Source: https://youtu.be/hWMswFdA2oA
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un-enfant-immature · 5 years
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Facebook’s dodgy defaults face more scrutiny in Europe
Italy’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched proceedings against Facebook for failing to fully inform users about the commercial uses it makes of their data.
At the same time a German court has today upheld a consumer group’s right to challenge the tech giant over data and privacy issues in the national courts.
Lack of transparency
The Italian authority’s action, which could result in a fine of €5 million for Facebook, follows an earlier decision by the regulator, in November 2018 — when it found the company had not been dealing plainly with users about the underlying value exchange involved in signing up to the ‘free’ service, and fined Facebook €5M for failing to properly inform users how their information would be used commercially.
In a press notice about its latest action, the watchdog notes Facebook has removed a claim from its homepage — which had stated that the service ‘is free and always will be’ — but finds users are still not being informed, “with clarity and immediacy”, about how the tech giant monetizes their data.
The Authority had prohibited Facebook from continuing what it dubs “deceptive practice” and ordered it to publish an amending declaration on its homepage in Italy, as well as on the Facebook app and on the personal page of each registered Italian user.
In a statement responding to the watchdog’s latest action, a Facebook spokesperson told us:
We are reviewing the Authority decision. We made changes last year — including to our Terms of Service — to further clarify how Facebook makes money. These changes were part of our ongoing commitment to give people more transparency and control over their information.
Last year Italy’s data protection agency also fined Facebook $1.1M — in that case for privacy violations attached to the Cambridge Analytics data misuse scandal.
Dodgy defaults
In separate but related news, a ruling by a German court today found that Facebook can continue to use the advertising slogan that its service is ‘free and always will be’ — on the grounds that it does not require users to hand over monetary payments in exchange for using the service.
A local consumer rights group, vzbv, had sought to challenge Facebook’s use of the slogan — arguing it’s misleading, given the platform’s harvesting of user data for targeted ads. But the court disagreed.
However that was only one of a number of data protection complaints filed by the group — 26 in all. And the Berlin court found in its favor on a number of other fronts.
Significantly vzbv has won the right to bring data protection related legal challenges within Germany even with the pan-EU General Data Protection Regulation in force — opening the door to strategic litigation by consumer advocacy bodies and privacy rights groups in what is a very pro-privacy market. 
This looks interesting because one of Facebook’s favored legal arguments in a bid to derail privacy challenges at an EU Member State level has been to argue those courts lack jurisdiction — given that its European HQ is sited in Ireland (and GDPR includes provision for a one-stop shop mechanism that pushes cross-border complaints to a lead regulator).
But this ruling looks like it will make it tougher for Facebook to funnel all data and privacy complaints via the heavily backlogged Irish regulator — which has, for example, been sitting on a GDPR complaint over forced consent by adtech giants (including Facebook) since May 2018.
The Berlin court also agreed with vzbv’s argument that Facebook’s privacy settings and T&Cs violate laws around consent — such as a location service being already activated in the Facebook mobile app; and a pre-ticked setting that made users’ profiles indexable by search engines by default
The court also agreed that certain pre-formulated conditions in Facebook’s T&C do not meet the required legal standard — such as a requirement that users agree to their name and profile picture being used “for commercial, sponsored or related content”, and another stipulation that users agree in advance to all future changes to the policy.
Commenting in a statement, Heiko Dünkel from the law enforcement team at vzbv, said: “It is not the first time that Facebook has been convicted of careless handling of its users’ data. The Chamber of Justice has made it clear that consumer advice centers can take action against violations of the GDPR.”
We’ve reached out to Facebook for a response.
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workfromhom · 5 years
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Facebook’s dodgy defaults face more scrutiny in Europe
Italy’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched proceedings against Facebook for failing to fully inform users about the commercial uses it makes of their data.
At the same time a German court has today upheld a consumer group’s right to challenge the tech giant over data and privacy issues in the national courts.
Lack of transparency
The Italian authority’s action, which could result in a fine of €5 million for Facebook, follows an earlier decision by the regulator, in November 2018 — when it found the company had not been dealing plainly with users about the underlying value exchange involved in signing up to the ‘free’ service, and fined Facebook €5M for failing to properly inform users how their information would be used commercially.
In a press notice about its latest action, the watchdog notes Facebook has removed a claim from its homepage — which had stated that the service ‘is free and always will be’ — but finds users are still not being informed, “with clarity and immediacy”, about how the tech giant monetizes their data.
The Authority had prohibited Facebook from continuing what it dubs “deceptive practice” and ordered it to publish an amending declaration on its homepage in Italy, as well as on the Facebook app and on the personal page of each registered Italian user.
In a statement responding to the watchdog’s latest action, a Facebook spokesperson told us:
We are reviewing the Authority decision. We made changes last year — including to our Terms of Service — to further clarify how Facebook makes money. These changes were part of our ongoing commitment to give people more transparency and control over their information.
Last year Italy’s data protection agency also fined Facebook $1.1M — in that case for privacy violations attached to the Cambridge Analytics data misuse scandal.
Dodgy defaults
In separate but related news, a ruling by a German court today found that Facebook can continue to use the advertising slogan that its service is ‘free and always will be’ — on the grounds that it does not require users to hand over monetary payments in exchange for using the service.
A local consumer rights group, vzbv, had sought to challenge Facebook’s use of the slogan — arguing it’s misleading, given the platform’s harvesting of user data for targeted ads. But the court disagreed.
However that was only one of a number of data protection complaints filed by the group — 26 in all. And the Berlin court found in its favor on a number of other fronts.
Significantly vzbv has won the right to bring data protection related legal challenges within Germany even with the pan-EU General Data Protection Regulation in force — opening the door to strategic litigation by consumer advocacy bodies and privacy rights groups in what is a very pro-privacy market. 
This looks interesting because one of Facebook’s favored legal arguments in a bid to derail privacy challenges at an EU Member State level has been to argue those courts lack jurisdiction — given that its European HQ is sited in Ireland (and GDPR includes provision for a one-stop shop mechanism that pushes cross-border complaints to a lead regulator).
But this ruling looks like it will make it tougher for Facebook to funnel all data and privacy complaints via the heavily backlogged Irish regulator — which has, for example, been sitting on a GDPR complaint over forced consent by adtech giants (including Facebook) since May 2018.
The Berlin court also agreed with vzbv’s argument that Facebook’s privacy settings and T&Cs violate laws around consent — such as a location service being already activated in the Facebook mobile app; and a pre-ticked setting that made users’ profiles indexable by search engines by default
The court also agreed that certain pre-formulated conditions in Facebook’s T&C do not meet the required legal standard — such as a requirement that users agree to their name and profile picture being used “for commercial, sponsored or related content”, and another stipulation that users agree in advance to all future changes to the policy.
Commenting in a statement, Heiko Dünkel from the law enforcement team at vzbv, said: “It is not the first time that Facebook has been convicted of careless handling of its users’ data. The Chamber of Justice has made it clear that consumer advice centers can take action against violations of the GDPR.”
We’ve reached out to Facebook for a response.
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krishnaprasad-blog · 6 years
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If the English market is tough for serious players in Indian journalism, keeping the head above the water in the languages is a humongous challenge. So immense, so expensive, and so impossible is the task of attracting readers and viewers, and keeping them engaged with quality content, that nearly nobody is attempting to do it.
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a stand-out exception.
In an arena filled with itsy-bitsy, tits-and-ass, click-bait majors—madly chasing eyeballs with the fake, frothy and frivolous; and conning agencies, advertisers (and themselves) with eye-popping numbers of “uniques”—BBC is an isle of calm. Quietly doing what it does best—journalism—and leaving audiences informed and empowered.
Rupa Jha is head of BBC Languages in India, responsible for content in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and Punjabi. Her mandate: to enhance the “strength, depth, range and quality” of all BBC multimedia output, words mostly alien to bottomline-obsessed managers, in a mad race to the bottom.
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Q: How does BBC as an international broadcaster view the Indian language market?
Rupa Jha: The BBC has been working in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali for more than seven decades. It recently decided to expand its portfolio to realise the potential of a wider language market. Hence, the creation of BBC news services in Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati and Marathi.
Obviously, the language market in India is extremely crowded, with more than 900 TV channels, thousands of websites and hundreds of radio stations, but it struck us that there was a place for a brand known for credibility, trust and a world view; a brand that could challenge the status quo and be a strong counterweight to the rising challenge of fake news and the “echo chamber” effect.
The four new languages services were launched in 2017, following a “digital-first” strategy supported by a partner-based TV presence. It was the biggest expansion of the BBC in India, since the 1940s.  We hired around 150 new staff and created a state-of-the-art production hub, making Delhi the second biggest BBC bureau after Nairobi.
The bureau also houses two new, ultra-modern TV studios, giving our new TV programmes a fresh look and presentation that stands out for high production values and distinctive story telling. We also have five satellite offices where small teams shoot, edit and produce local content at the state level.
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BBC’s “news needs wheel”
Q: What does the Indian language viewer, listener, surfer look for from BBC’s various language services that she doesn’t get from established legacy players?
Rupa Jha: The regional market is dominated by hyper-local content. So the content strategy of the BBC in this market of languages is to make a differentiated offer and become a trusted window for people to understand the place of India in the world.
Original content is at the centre of this strategy with a special focus on serving underserved audiences such as the young and women.
We aim to drive audience growth by expanding our traditional appeal amongst “news connoisseurs” into a wider group of “news nibblers”.
Our research told us that local players tend to focus their news coverage mainly on the “what” and “when” but there is little effort being made to explain the “why”.  This helped us to develop a model we call our “news needs wheel”.
This showed that audiences wanted the BBC to provide perspective and context, together with stories that educate, inspire and offer solutions. We use this model not only to tell international stories but also to help develop narratives on the local by stepping back and looking at the big picture.
Based on our understanding of “news needs”, our content strategy is to decode national/regional stories for all language audiences and help generate an interest in news that is beyond hyperlocal.
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Q: What does BBC do in the languages that Indian media houses can’t, won’t, don’t? How does it approach Bharat?
Rupa Jha: We believe the BBC stands out for its values and principles. BBC editorial guidelines are the same for all operations, whether based in the UK or outside. The DNA of the organisation is our editorial values.
Trust is the foundation of the BBC.
“We are independent, impartial and honest.
“We are truthful and fair in all our dealings.
“We make decisions based on our values, stick by them and take responsibility for them.
“We behave with integrity and do what we say we’re going to do.
“We take pride in that and ensure that we don’t get seduced by a desire to be the first to break news, something that can easily cost your credibility.”
We acknowledge that the BBC in India is not the first port of call for people. Our assumption is that what they do want from us is analysis and explanation of an event.
We have a huge loyal audience in rural India and we ensure that we cater to that segment of society through our editorial agenda. Because of this we have a specific focus on marginalised communities, women, farmers and stories of human rights, development and justice.
A good example is presented by this current election period. We have been running a month of special output called “Reality Check” where the promises made by the political class and those in power is being assessed. We do regular fact-check stories, busting the fake news.
# We have also had special coverage around Muslims in India called “Being Muslim in India” and we cover stories around caste identity regularly.
# We had a season in Marathi called Ambedkar and Me, showcasing stories of successful Dalit entrepreneurs.
# We have featured stories of women from across the country, under the banner “BBCShe”, stories of choices men and women made called “His choice” and “Her choice”.
# We have also committed ourselves to deliver strong contextual coverage of Kashmir—for example, we had a series of stories from the region based around looking at violence through the eyes of children.
# We also have a special focus on tribal issues. Our recent coverage of Pulwama and aftermath is a case in point where we worked hard to ensure neutrality and balance in coverage based on facts.
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Q: It used to be said that Indians looked at and listened to BBC for its credibility. Is that still the case after the growth of homegrown media? How do you achieve this? What are the tell-tale signs of a fake story for you?
Rupa Jha: Yes, of course. Credibility is the tag that has helped us grow in the market. We work hard on the training of all our full-time journalists and stringers to ensure they fully understand our editorial guidelines so that they understand the BBC way of reporting. This training is a continuous process and takes up a significant part of our budget.
We also have a very strong system of editorial checks and balances. All our language services cross-check and triangulate their stories, and also liaise with the London headquarters through a central planning desk which also ensures that there is a flow of news that is checked and verified. We have standing instructions not to run stories unless there are two independent sources or if we have our own direct sources.
On top of all the above principles and practices, we fact-check stories daily, mostly viral stories. We have also invested resources in a lot of “on-the-ground, eye-witness reporting” at a time when other Indian media have been reducing the amount they do.
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Q: As the head of BBC languages in India, what does your work entail, how many people do you lead, how do you go about spotting and farming out stories, what kind of stories do you like, etc?
Rupa Jha: My job is to coordinate and oversee the whole of the BBC languages operation in India and to be a vital link to BBC HQ in London. I directly manage ten Service Leads and make sure staff across services in Delhi are properly managed, recruited and developed. As head, it is my task to ensure that there is a strong, creative culture across the bureau, that every member of staff understands clearly what we are doing and who we are doing it for.
My aim is to ensure all services provide a distinctive offering to the Indian market, with a focus on original and solutions-based journalism, mobile-first content, social media engagement and a mixture of news and near news content. I also have to make sure we are optimising our content on every platform and in each language.
We leverage our strength in international news to report Indian news with a global context, i.e. stories that will compare Indian issues to those in the rest of the world and global stories that are made relevant to an Indian audience. To attract new audiences to the BBC, the new services address diverse content needs of the youth and female audiences and deliver the quality, independent journalism that is lacking in this market.
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Q: There are thousands studying journalism especially in the languages. What would you advise them about the way forward? How can they equip themselves to work for the BBC some day? Can they freelance for you?
Rupa Jha: I feel the language scene in journalism is flourishing. Digital is the way forward, so take the plunge. Whatever format you work in, understand that a good story is a good story. Understanding the eco-system where we operate is vital.
We don’t ONLY look for those who have a degree in journalism. For the BBC that’s not the only consideration because we feel if you are curious and passionate and can tell a good story, you can become a journalist.
It’s a fantastic profession which needs people with courage, imagination and conviction. They can surely freelance for us by sending their CV and work sample to us.
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Photograph: courtesy Rupa Jha
Slides: courtesy WAN-IFRA
News connoisseurs to news nibblers: how BBC is approaching journalism in Indian languages with five words fast disappearing from our ‘bhasha’: trust, credibility, strength, depth, quality If the English market is tough for serious players in Indian journalism, keeping the head above the water in the languages is a humongous challenge. 1,663 more words
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Italy’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched proceedings against Facebook for failing to fully inform users about the commercial uses it makes of their data.
At the same time, a German court has today upheld a consumer group’s right to challenge the tech giant over data and privacy issues in the national courts.
Lack of transparency
The Italian authority’s action, which could result in a fine of €5 million for Facebook, follows an earlier decision by the regulator, in November 2018 — when it found the company had not been dealing plainly with users about the underlying value exchange involved in signing up to the “free” service, and fined Facebook €5 million for failing to properly inform users how their information would be used commercially.
In a press notice about its latest action, the watchdog notes Facebook has removed a claim from its homepage — which had stated that the service “is free and always will be” — but finds users are still not being informed, “with clarity and immediacy” about how the tech giant monetizes their data.
The Authority had prohibited Facebook from continuing what it dubs “deceptive practice” and ordered it to publish an amending declaration on its homepage in Italy, as well as on the Facebook app and on the personal page of each registered Italian user.
In a statement responding to the watchdog’s latest action, a Facebook spokesperson told us:
We are reviewing the Authority decision. We made changes last year — including to our Terms of Service — to further clarify how Facebook makes money. These changes were part of our ongoing commitment to give people more transparency and control over their information.
Last year Italy’s data protection agency also fined Facebook $1.1 million — in that case for privacy violations attached to the Cambridge Analytics data misuse scandal.
Dodgy defaults
In separate but related news, a ruling by a German court today found that Facebook can continue to use the advertising slogan that its service is “free and always will be” — on the grounds that it does not require users to hand over monetary payments in exchange for using the service.
A local consumer rights group, vzbv, had sought to challenge Facebook’s use of the slogan — arguing it’s misleading, given the platform’s harvesting of user data for targeted ads. But the court disagreed.
However, that was only one of a number of data protection complaints filed by the group — 26 in all. And the Berlin court found in its favor on a number of other fronts.
Significantly, vzbv has won the right to bring data protection-related legal challenges within Germany even with the pan-EU General Data Protection Regulation in force — opening the door to strategic litigation by consumer advocacy bodies and privacy rights groups in what is a very pro-privacy market.
This looks interesting because one of Facebook’s favored legal arguments in a bid to derail privacy challenges at an EU Member State level has been to argue those courts lack jurisdiction — given that its European HQ is sited in Ireland (and GDPR includes provision for a one-stop shop mechanism that pushes cross-border complaints to a lead regulator).
But this ruling looks like it will make it tougher for Facebook to funnel all data and privacy complaints via the heavily backlogged Irish regulator — which has, for example, been sitting on a GDPR complaint over forced consent by adtech giants (including Facebook) since May 2018.
The Berlin court also agreed with vzbv’s argument that Facebook’s privacy settings and T&Cs violate laws around consent — such as a location service being already activated in the Facebook mobile app; and a pre-ticked setting that made users’ profiles indexable by search engines by default
The court also agreed that certain pre-formulated conditions in Facebook’s T&C do not meet the required legal standard — such as a requirement that users agree to their name and profile picture being used “for commercial, sponsored or related content,” and another stipulation that users agree in advance to all future changes to the policy.
Commenting in a statement, Heiko Dünkel from the law enforcement team at vzbv, said: “It is not the first time that Facebook has been convicted of careless handling of its users’ data. The Chamber of Justice has made it clear that consumer advice centers can take action against violations of the GDPR.”
We’ve reached out to Facebook for a response.
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sheminecrafts · 5 years
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Facebook’s dodgy defaults face more scrutiny in Europe
Italy’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched proceedings against Facebook for failing to fully inform users about the commercial uses it makes of their data.
At the same time, a German court has today upheld a consumer group’s right to challenge the tech giant over data and privacy issues in the national courts.
Lack of transparency
The Italian authority’s action, which could result in a fine of €5 million for Facebook, follows an earlier decision by the regulator, in November 2018 — when it found the company had not been dealing plainly with users about the underlying value exchange involved in signing up to the “free” service, and fined Facebook €5 million for failing to properly inform users how their information would be used commercially.
In a press notice about its latest action, the watchdog notes Facebook has removed a claim from its homepage — which had stated that the service “is free and always will be” — but finds users are still not being informed, “with clarity and immediacy” about how the tech giant monetizes their data.
The Authority had prohibited Facebook from continuing what it dubs “deceptive practice” and ordered it to publish an amending declaration on its homepage in Italy, as well as on the Facebook app and on the personal page of each registered Italian user.
In a statement responding to the watchdog’s latest action, a Facebook spokesperson told us:
We are reviewing the Authority decision. We made changes last year — including to our Terms of Service — to further clarify how Facebook makes money. These changes were part of our ongoing commitment to give people more transparency and control over their information.
Last year Italy’s data protection agency also fined Facebook $1.1 million — in that case for privacy violations attached to the Cambridge Analytics data misuse scandal.
Dodgy defaults
In separate but related news, a ruling by a German court today found that Facebook can continue to use the advertising slogan that its service is “free and always will be” — on the grounds that it does not require users to hand over monetary payments in exchange for using the service.
A local consumer rights group, vzbv, had sought to challenge Facebook’s use of the slogan — arguing it’s misleading, given the platform’s harvesting of user data for targeted ads. But the court disagreed.
However, that was only one of a number of data protection complaints filed by the group — 26 in all. And the Berlin court found in its favor on a number of other fronts.
Significantly, vzbv has won the right to bring data protection-related legal challenges within Germany even with the pan-EU General Data Protection Regulation in force — opening the door to strategic litigation by consumer advocacy bodies and privacy rights groups in what is a very pro-privacy market.
This looks interesting because one of Facebook’s favored legal arguments in a bid to derail privacy challenges at an EU Member State level has been to argue those courts lack jurisdiction — given that its European HQ is sited in Ireland (and GDPR includes provision for a one-stop shop mechanism that pushes cross-border complaints to a lead regulator).
But this ruling looks like it will make it tougher for Facebook to funnel all data and privacy complaints via the heavily backlogged Irish regulator — which has, for example, been sitting on a GDPR complaint over forced consent by adtech giants (including Facebook) since May 2018.
The Berlin court also agreed with vzbv’s argument that Facebook’s privacy settings and T&Cs violate laws around consent — such as a location service being already activated in the Facebook mobile app; and a pre-ticked setting that made users’ profiles indexable by search engines by default
The court also agreed that certain pre-formulated conditions in Facebook’s T&C do not meet the required legal standard — such as a requirement that users agree to their name and profile picture being used “for commercial, sponsored or related content,” and another stipulation that users agree in advance to all future changes to the policy.
Commenting in a statement, Heiko Dünkel from the law enforcement team at vzbv, said: “It is not the first time that Facebook has been convicted of careless handling of its users’ data. The Chamber of Justice has made it clear that consumer advice centers can take action against violations of the GDPR.”
We’ve reached out to Facebook for a response.
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Is Your Business All Set For 2019?
Is Your Business All Set For 2019?
Small Business
Fiona Killackey
Photo – Annette O’Brien.
Fiona Killackey of My Daily Business Coach. Photo – Annette O’Brien.
Fiona has just released her first eBook, Get It Done: Your Guide to an Awesome Year. Photo – Annette O’Brien.
A workshop with My Daily Business Coach x Natasha Morgan. Photo – Danny Wootton.
  Michelle Obama famously said, ‘If you don’t take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up’. Truth. Another unfortunate fact is that in Australia at least, 60% of businesses will fail in their first three years. The most common reasons? A lack of money followed by a lack of solid planning. Somewhere between the excitement of launching and the genuine fatigue that can come with following through, we lose our sense of control and confidence, spiralling into a state of stress and confusion.
Since launching my consulting business at the end of 2015, I have worked with hundreds of business owners across Australia, the US, UK and NZ as a consultant, coach and teacher. In this time I have witnessed one trait that separates those who have succeeded in building strong businesses from those who struggle to do so: clarity.
Getting clear on who you are, what builds (and kills) your vibe, why you started (and continue to run) your business, which elements make you love your business and what you most want to achieve is crucial in being able to not only experience a great year in business, but actually enjoy the journey too. As a small business owner, when you feel confident and in control, you share that positive mindset with everyone around you — friends, partners, children and, of course, your clients and customers.
The most important result of goal setting is clarity — clarity over who you are, who you serve, where you’re headed and why. I’m all for vision boards and one-word-for-the-year exercises, but I believe practical tips, frameworks and small, consistent actions are what really makes the difference between thinking about what you want to achieve, and actually achieving it.
Cassie Lucas of Firecracker Event scaled her business up, moving to a new HQ in 2018. Photo – Emily Weaving for The Design Files.
Photo – Annette O’Brien.
We also turned to our legendary bookkeeper Line at Counting Clouds for key info around tax time! Photo – Amelia Stanwix for The Design Files.
At its most basic, goal setting can be divided into five core areas, each of which builds on the last to provide a quality plan of action that will benefit both you and your business:
All About You
The first step is to figure out your needs, strengths, weaknesses and skill gaps. While SO much time is spent on your audience, very little is spent on the person at the helm. In this stage you want to be answering the following questions:
– Why did you start your business?
– Are you still as committed? More so? Less so?
– What frustrates you about your business? How might you remove or reduce this in 2019?
– What do you value and are these values reflected in the way your business runs?
– What’s your personality type and what are the areas of strength you need to be pushing more, or the areas of weakness you could potentially upskill in or outsource?
– Which parts of your personality may have held your business back in the past?
All About Them
The next stage is to really dive deep into your audience’s needs and wants. How does your business alleviate their frustrations and improve their life? In this stage you want to be answering the following questions:
– Who are you really speaking with? Do you know them as real people, not just demographics on paper?
– Can you visualise them, i.e., which podcasts they listen to, which celebrities they follow, films that impacted them, mottos they live by? If stuck, check out this mood board as a guide.
– Do you know where they hang out online and offline? Are you regularly connecting with them there?
– Do you understand their mindset and how it changes as they move through The Buyer Cycle (see below) and become more familiar with your brand?
– Do you know their biggest frustrations with your industry and are you alleviating these through your content, customer service and product development?
The Year That Was
You can’t confidently plan for the future, without first revisiting your history. One of the most important stages when goal planning is to reflect on the year just gone. In this stage you want to be answering the following questions:
– What worked? What made you proud of your business? What came naturally?
– What sucked? Which tactics were stressful?
– What skills did you acquire (or fail to acquire)?
– Who supported you?
– Did you work predominantly on urgent or important things?
– What were the key lessons of the year?
– What do you never want to experience again in your business?
The Year That Will Be
This is the stage most people are familiar with, but without doing the three steps prior, it can often turn into a vague collection of ideas, rather than data and experience-driven goals. In this stage you want to be answering the following questions:
– What does an awesome year mean to you?
– If you had to specify each awesome ‘thing’ could you use the formula from X to Y by when to really get specific? (i.e. from $45k end of 2018 to $90k end of 2019)
– What does this look like on a basic 12-month plan?
– What does this look like on a daily, weekly and monthly basis?
– What can you cull?
– Who can support you in achieving these goals?
– What do you need to automate, delegate or eliminate?
– Which marketing channels will you use to connect with people?
– How will you measure their impact on your goals?
– Who or what will keep you accountable?
Tools & People To Help
No business is an island. We all need support to scale sustainably. It’s one thing to plan an awesome year for 2019, quite another to execute and achieve it. Some of the best tools for helping you transform ideas into reality are:
– Mindmeister – a great digital platform to brain dump all your ideas and map out scenarios for 2019
– Asana – a great tool for listing out your smaller steps for each goal along with deadlines
– Use Sixty – a great tool for hiring expert help within hours to assist in website, email, project management or admin set up or development
– Facebook Groups – these can be great to network, find accountability partners or even use as a search engine for customer research
– Pinterest – an excellent tool for visual business owners to map out audience profiles, campaign ideas and branding concepts
– Slack – a useful tool for keeping conversations, emails and documents in one spot to refer to throughout planning and executing a great year.
– 3x wall hanging monthly whiteboards – Great for showing you a quarter at a time i.e. January, February and March. When one-month finishes, simply move the other two along and add in the next month (i.e. the January board becomes April). Easy to visualise your availability and key priorities over the next quarter. And, being a whiteboard, it’s far easier to update than printed calendars.
If you found this story useful, you may wish to check out Fiona’s first eBook, Get It Done: Your Guide to an Awesome Year here.
Fiona Killackey is a business consultant and mentor at My Daily Business Coach. You can sign up to her weekly email here.
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The Moz Year in Review 2017
The Moz Year in Review 2017
Posted by SarahBird
Yay! We’ve traversed another year around the sun. And I’m back with another Moz year-in-review post that promises to be as boring as its predecessors. Reading it feels like being locked in your tin can space capsule through lightyears of empty space. If you’re a little odd and like this kind of thing, do please continue.
Before we begin our odyssey, I invite you to check out previous reports: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012. Transparency is a Moz core value. Putting detailed financial and customer data on the blog is one of the ways we live our values. We’re a little weird like that.
Okay spacepeople: take your protein pills and put your helmets on.
Launch to your favorite parts:
Part 1: TL;DR Commencing countdown, engines on
Part 2: SO MANY wins Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
Part 3: Customer metrics You've really made the grade
Part 4: Financial performance And the stars look very different today
Part 5: Inside Moz HQ The papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Part 6: Into the future I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Part 1: TL;DR
Commencing countdown, engines on
What a year! 2017 was a time of doing new things differently — new teams, new goals, and new ways of operating. I’m so proud of Mozzers; they can do anything. If I’m sent to a far-off space colony, I want them with me.
In spite of (and because of!) all this change, we grew revenue and became significantly EBITDA and cash flow positive. Nice! We have a nice economic engine primed and ready to make some more big investments in 2018. Stay tuned.
These positive results were not from one single thing. Rather, iterative product and operations improvements helped improve both our top and bottom line. Plus, we made a bunch of longer-term investments that don’t show up yet in the 2017 report but will bear fruit in 2018 and beyond.
Part 2: Ch-ch-ch... Changes!
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
Here’s a little more detail on some of the changes I talked about.
We launched Keywords By Site, relaunched our crawler (a major technical undertaking), sunsetted two products (content and Followerwonk), built a bunch of new developer tools and standardized on some dev frameworks, and improved our local data distribution network. Check out Adam Feldstein’s post for a lot more detail on our 2017 major product accomplishments!
We’ve got another exciting launch on the way, too. We’ve invested a ton of blood, sweat, and tears into it during 2017 and can’t wait to share it with everyone.
All of these changes support our 2016 strategy of “more wood behind fewer arrows.” We choose to focus our energy on being the best place to learn and do SEO. Our mission is to simplify SEO for everyone through software, education, and community.
For those of you worried about Followerwonk, it’s going to okay. Better than okay. Our beloved “Work Dad” Marc Mims is now the proud father of Followerwonk! Marc’s dedication to the success of Followerwonk has never wavered over the many, many years he’s been building and maintaining it. We already miss his compassion, humor, and bike stories around the Mozplex. We wish him and Followerwonk the best! We bought that product because we loved it then; we love it even now. Sadly, though, it never quite fit with our mission as well as we'd hoped.
We created new programs to help people get the SEO help that’s right for them. We completely rebuilt our SEO Learning Center with fresh educational content. There’s a brand-new SEO podcast, MozPod, for you to check out.
We also began experimenting with and are now expanding SEO training workshops delivered by experts we trust and admire. I’m so excited about this because it’s a new way for Moz to have impact; it’s personal, live, interactive, and immediate in a way that most of our SEO education work can’t be. We won’t stop doing free, scalable education. It’s core to our beliefs. But it is fun to deliver custom, live training sessions in the mix too.
Many of our accomplishments are behind the scenes, and will deliver long-term positive impact.
Our investments in retiring tech debt, improving monitoring, investing in our development platforms, and nurturing our engineering culture have resulted in the most stable and performant software in Moz history. Our hard work and ingenuity is paying off in resilient and performant software.
We’ve also rebuilt most of our customer stack: new Salesforce implementation, HubSpot launch, new internal data warehouse, new CMS (Craft), Segment.io, and more! Phew! That’s a lot! In Q1 2018, we started with Terminus for Account-Based Marketing, and partnered with third-party data vendors, like Full Contact, to supplement our data warehouse. These big changes are going to set us up really well for the years ahead. And we’ve got more internal tools launching soon!
We are on a roll with internal improvements and momentum.
Part 3: Customer metrics
You've really made the grade
We could ship and launch until our circuits go dead, but at the end of the day all our work is in service of meeting your needs.
We know you can hear us! You’re following us now more than ever before.
Part 4: Financial performance
And the stars look very different today
Check out the infographic view of our data barf.
I’m proud of what we accomplished in 2017, especially considering the incredible amount of change in strategy and team structure. More revenue while spending less = magic! Also, the economic strength we’ve built will allow us to place some nice-sized bets this year. Boom!
We made $47.4 million in GAAP revenue in 2017, an increase of 11% from 2016.
We brought our over all expenses way down in 2017. Cost of Revenue increased slightly to $11.8 million. We reduced operating expenses aggressively. Curious on what we spend on, and trends? Check out this breakdown of our major expenses (OpEx and Cost of Revenue) as a percentage of annual revenue:
We generated cash, positive EBITDA, and for the first time in recent Moz history, we were positive net income.
That’s quite a turnaround from 2016, in which we closed the year negative EBITDA of $5.7 million! We flipped EBITDA! We have adopted a cash-flow-neutral-to-positive operating philosophy right now to be ready for some future investments. We may decide to go cash flow negative again to fund further growth.
Part 5: Inside Moz HQ
The papers want to know whose shirts you wear
So, who is behind the wheel here?
We ended 2017 with roughly the same number of Mozzers as we began. It was a conscious choice to remain approximately headcount neutral in 2017; we only opened up new positions after ensuring rigorous conversations took place around the business need for the role. This discipline is hard to live under, but we like the results. We’re working smarter, and getting more rigorous in our decision-making.
Let me be clear: WE ARE HIRING! These are just 5 of our currently open positions:
DevOps Engineer
Sr. Platform Software Engineer
Backend Engineer - C++
Fullstack Engineer - JavaScript/Node
Chief Marketing Officer
See more at our Careers page!
Here’s where we need YOU: Moz is committed to bringing more women into tech. There is a dire lack of diversity in the technology industry. This past year we added 6% more women to the company overall and 9% to engineering specifically. We must and will do better. We need more women in engineering and leadership roles here. Check out those jobs above and join the team!
Moz partners with some fantastic organizations focused on getting more women into the tech pipeline. Ada Academy, Year Up, Ignite Worldwide, and Techbridge all encourage women and girls to pursue STEM careers early in their lives. Our newest partner, Unloop, enables people who have been in prison to develop skills and succeed in careers in tech. It is our responsibility to ensure that all people have opportunity and access to participate in STEM fields.
Generosity comes in many forms. One way in which we support the generosity of Mozzers is to match charitable donations to 501c3 organizations by 150%.
We also donated our space 35 times to various organizations in the community requesting to use the Mozplex as a venue for their meetups. Check our our event brochure and take a 360 tour of the Mozplex!
Mozzers also donate a ton of time to causes they are passionate about. We also offer a very discounted price for nonprofits that we’re happy many folks take advantage of. We’re passionate about communities and helping folks.
Moz partnered with Halo Partners to provide professional coaching to all employees. 54 Mozzers received coaching. 27 Mozzers used this benefit for the first time! I’m a huge believer in coaching and training. Beginner’s mind is how we grow and become the best versions of ourselves.
Through it all, we made sure to have some fun. Moz offers a Paid Paid Vacation benefit, reimbursing employees $3k per year in vacation costs. Yes, that’s right. You get your regular pay, plus another $3k a year to spend on your trip! It’s bonkers!
Mozzers visited 6 of the 7 continents last year!
We also had 7 Mozling babies last year. Luv those babies.
Part 6: Into the future
I think my spaceship knows which way to go
2017 was a strengthening year for Moz. We went through a lot of change and made some important investments. Mozzers are dynamic, helpful, smart, and hardworking. They have a service orientation and build for the long term. The investments we made in 2017 will bear fruit in the years ahead. And we’re poised to make some ambitious moves in the coming months.
While I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished, I believe we have higher mountains still to climb. We have had triumphs and tribulations, heartbreaks and happy dances. These many years later, the SEO industry is healthy, growing, and dynamic. Many organizations are still struggling with basic web presence, let alone thoughtful SEO strategy. Moz is still teensy-tiny compared to the opportunity. I believe the opportunity for SEO expertise is vast.
I want to close on a note of gratitude.
First, a bunch of folks helped pull together the metrics for our 2017 report, and I am deeply grateful for their help. This post is kind of a bear! Thank you Jess, Felicia, Christian, Kevin, Susan, Michael, Jeremy, and anyone else who pulled data and helped get this post off the ground!
Second, thank you to this community. It’s because of you that we are here. This community would be nothing if it wasn’t for your care, attention, and feedback. We will continue to work hard to make your work lives more enjoyable and successful. We want to be your favorite resource for doing great SEO. If we’re not there yet, trust that we will keep working to be. Thank you for the opportunity to serve.
Gratitude also to David Bowie for inspiring this post and so much more. We miss you. <3
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If you want to know how to escape from time poverty you might this video useful. In it I talk about an event I attended in New Jersey last year hosted by some people you should meet. The event was called 10 for 10 and was held at the home HQ of mega successful internet entrepreneur Jay Kubassek. Myself and the other attendees were invited to the event as we had reached a couple of benchmarks in our own internet businesses. Jay, business partner Stuart Ross and their leadership team gave us the benefit of their many years of success in the online space. Time poverty was a common reason for all of us doing what we do. We are all from corporate or business backgrounds where although we had all the trappings of success there was something lacking in our lives - Time freedom. Time poverty is a symptom of modern times and values. If you are ambitious and have big goals then until fairly recently, the only way to reach them was to sacrifice more and more of your precious (and limited) time. This kind of makes the trappings of success pretty lame since you don’t have the time to enjoy them. So much of your time is spent climbing ladders that the really important stuff of life gets pushed aside. The Internet, technology - the digital revolution - now gives us very viable alternatives. Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek have built a platform that makes it step by step simple to leverage the huge opportunity this has given us all. With the appropriate skills we can now make far better use of time using less of it to create more of everything - money, time and freedom. Learn more by signing up for their free introductory video series on the links you’ll find in this video. Thanks for watching! Subscribe for more tips and tutorials on living the internet lifestyle And I do love a good comment if you find this of value! Cheers, Dave Link in video - https://ift.tt/2n7hwo4 ============================================ Subscribe to my channel for more tips, tutorials and content on video, audio, digital marketing and creating more time, financial and location freedom or visit my website on the link below. ========================================­======= Dave Menzies Digital Entrepreneur and Home Business Coach http://davemenzies.com Facebook - https://ift.tt/1XUWLq0 ============================================================================== Disclaimer: Results with any training course or business model cannot be guaranteed and depend entirely on the individual’s efforts and application. Any lifestyle, income and other results mentioned in any of my videos are entirely mine. ============================================================================== Source: https://youtu.be/hWMswFdA2oA by Dave Menzies
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endenogatai · 5 years
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Facebook’s dodgy defaults face more scrutiny in Europe
Italy’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched proceedings against Facebook for failing to fully inform users about the commercial uses it makes of their data.
At the same time a German court has today upheld a consumer group’s right to challenge the tech giant over data and privacy issues in the national courts.
Lack of transparency
The Italian authority’s action, which could result in a fine of €5 million for Facebook, follows an earlier decision by the regulator, in November 2018 — when it found the company had not been dealing plainly with users about the underlying value exchange involved in signing up to the ‘free’ service, and fined Facebook €5M for failing to properly inform users how their information would be used commercially.
In a press notice about its latest action, the watchdog notes Facebook has removed a claim from its homepage — which had stated that the service ‘is free and always will be’ — but finds users are still not being informed, “with clarity and immediacy”, about how the tech giant monetizes their data.
The Authority had prohibited Facebook from continuing what it dubs “deceptive practice” and ordered it to publish an amending declaration on its homepage in Italy, as well as on the Facebook app and on the personal page of each registered Italian user.
In a statement responding to the watchdog’s latest action, a Facebook spokesperson told us:
We are reviewing the Authority decision. We made changes last year — including to our Terms of Service — to further clarify how Facebook makes money. These changes were part of our ongoing commitment to give people more transparency and control over their information.
Last year Italy’s data protection agency also fined Facebook $1.1M — in that case for privacy violations attached to the Cambridge Analytics data misuse scandal.
Dodgy defaults
In separate but related news, a ruling by a German court today found that Facebook can continue to use the advertising slogan that its service is ‘free and always will be’ — on the grounds that it does not require users to hand over monetary payments in exchange for using the service.
A local consumer rights group, vzbv, had sought to challenge Facebook’s use of the slogan — arguing it’s misleading, given the platform’s harvesting of user data for targeted ads. But the court disagreed.
However that was only one of a number of data protection complaints filed by the group — 26 in all. And the Berlin court found in its favor on a number of other fronts.
Significantly vzbv has won the right to bring data protection related legal challenges within Germany even with the pan-EU General Data Protection Regulation in force — opening the door to strategic litigation by consumer advocacy bodies and privacy rights groups in what is a very pro-privacy market. 
This looks interesting because one of Facebook’s favored legal arguments in a bid to derail privacy challenges at an EU Member State level has been to argue those courts lack jurisdiction — given that its European HQ is sited in Ireland (and GDPR includes provision for a one-stop shop mechanism that pushes cross-border complaints to a lead regulator).
But this ruling looks like it will make it tougher for Facebook to funnel all data and privacy complaints via the heavily backlogged Irish regulator — which has, for example, been sitting on a GDPR complaint over forced consent by adtech giants (including Facebook) since May 2018.
The Berlin court also agreed with vzbv’s argument that Facebook’s privacy settings and T&Cs violate laws around consent — such as a location service being already activated in the Facebook mobile app; and a pre-ticked setting that made users’ profiles indexable by search engines by default
The court also agreed that certain pre-formulated conditions in Facebook’s T&C do not meet the required legal standard — such as a requirement that users agree to their name and profile picture being used “for commercial, sponsored or related content”, and another stipulation that users agree in advance to all future changes to the policy.
Commenting in a statement, Heiko Dünkel from the law enforcement team at vzbv, said: “It is not the first time that Facebook has been convicted of careless handling of its users’ data. The Chamber of Justice has made it clear that consumer advice centers can take action against violations of the GDPR.”
We’ve reached out to Facebook for a response.
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The Moz Year in Review 2017
Posted by SarahBird
Yay! We’ve traversed another year around the sun. And I’m back with another Moz year-in-review post that promises to be as boring as its predecessors. Reading it feels like being locked in your tin can space capsule through lightyears of empty space. If you’re a little odd and like this kind of thing, do please continue.
Before we begin our odyssey, I invite you to check out previous reports: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012. Transparency is a Moz core value. Putting detailed financial and customer data on the blog is one of the ways we live our values. We’re a little weird like that.
Okay spacepeople: take your protein pills and put your helmets on.
Launch to your favorite parts:
Part 1: TL;DR Commencing countdown, engines on
Part 2: SO MANY wins Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
Part 3: Customer metrics You've really made the grade
Part 4: Financial performance And the stars look very different today
Part 5: Inside Moz HQ The papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Part 6: Into the future I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Part 1: TL;DR
Commencing countdown, engines on
What a year! 2017 was a time of doing new things differently — new teams, new goals, and new ways of operating. I’m so proud of Mozzers; they can do anything. If I’m sent to a far-off space colony, I want them with me.
In spite of (and because of!) all this change, we grew revenue and became significantly EBITDA and cash flow positive. Nice! We have a nice economic engine primed and ready to make some more big investments in 2018. Stay tuned.
These positive results were not from one single thing. Rather, iterative product and operations improvements helped improve both our top and bottom line. Plus, we made a bunch of longer-term investments that don’t show up yet in the 2017 report but will bear fruit in 2018 and beyond.
Part 2: Ch-ch-ch... Changes!
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
Here’s a little more detail on some of the changes I talked about.
We launched Keywords By Site, relaunched our crawler (a major technical undertaking), sunsetted two products (content and Followerwonk), built a bunch of new developer tools and standardized on some dev frameworks, and improved our local data distribution network. Check out Adam Feldstein’s post for a lot more detail on our 2017 major product accomplishments!
We’ve got another exciting launch on the way, too. We’ve invested a ton of blood, sweat, and tears into it during 2017 and can’t wait to share it with everyone.
All of these changes support our 2016 strategy of “more wood behind fewer arrows.” We choose to focus our energy on being the best place to learn and do SEO. Our mission is to simplify SEO for everyone through software, education, and community.
For those of you worried about Followerwonk, it’s going to okay. Better than okay. Our beloved “Work Dad” Marc Mims is now the proud father of Followerwonk! Marc’s dedication to the success of Followerwonk has never wavered over the many, many years he’s been building and maintaining it. We already miss his compassion, humor, and bike stories around the Mozplex. We wish him and Followerwonk the best! We bought that product because we loved it then; we love it even now. Sadly, though, it never quite fit with our mission as well as we'd hoped.
We created new programs to help people get the SEO help that’s right for them. We completely rebuilt our SEO Learning Center with fresh educational content. There’s a brand-new SEO podcast, MozPod, for you to check out.
We also began experimenting with and are now expanding SEO training workshops delivered by experts we trust and admire. I’m so excited about this because it’s a new way for Moz to have impact; it’s personal, live, interactive, and immediate in a way that most of our SEO education work can’t be. We won’t stop doing free, scalable education. It’s core to our beliefs. But it is fun to deliver custom, live training sessions in the mix too.
Many of our accomplishments are behind the scenes, and will deliver long-term positive impact.
Our investments in retiring tech debt, improving monitoring, investing in our development platforms, and nurturing our engineering culture have resulted in the most stable and performant software in Moz history. Our hard work and ingenuity is paying off in resilient and performant software.
We’ve also rebuilt most of our customer stack: new Salesforce implementation, HubSpot launch, new internal data warehouse, new CMS (Craft), Segment.io, and more! Phew! That’s a lot! In Q1 2018, we started with Terminus for Account-Based Marketing, and partnered with third-party data vendors, like Full Contact, to supplement our data warehouse. These big changes are going to set us up really well for the years ahead. And we’ve got more internal tools launching soon!
We are on a roll with internal improvements and momentum.
Part 3: Customer metrics
You've really made the grade
We could ship and launch until our circuits go dead, but at the end of the day all our work is in service of meeting your needs.
We know you can hear us! You’re following us now more than ever before.
Part 4: Financial performance
And the stars look very different today
Check out the infographic view of our data barf.
I’m proud of what we accomplished in 2017, especially considering the incredible amount of change in strategy and team structure. More revenue while spending less = magic! Also, the economic strength we’ve built will allow us to place some nice-sized bets this year. Boom!
We made $47.4 million in GAAP revenue in 2017, an increase of 11% from 2016.
We brought our over all expenses way down in 2017. Cost of Revenue increased slightly to $11.8 million. We reduced operating expenses aggressively. Curious on what we spend on, and trends? Check out this breakdown of our major expenses (OpEx and Cost of Revenue) as a percentage of annual revenue:
We generated cash, positive EBITDA, and for the first time in recent Moz history, we were positive net income.
That’s quite a turnaround from 2016, in which we closed the year negative EBITDA of $5.7 million! We flipped EBITDA! We have adopted a cash-flow-neutral-to-positive operating philosophy right now to be ready for some future investments. We may decide to go cash flow negative again to fund further growth.
Part 5: Inside Moz HQ
The papers want to know whose shirts you wear
So, who is behind the wheel here?
We ended 2017 with roughly the same number of Mozzers as we began. It was a conscious choice to remain approximately headcount neutral in 2017; we only opened up new positions after ensuring rigorous conversations took place around the business need for the role. This discipline is hard to live under, but we like the results. We’re working smarter, and getting more rigorous in our decision-making.
Let me be clear: WE ARE HIRING! These are just 5 of our currently open positions:
DevOps Engineer
Sr. Platform Software Engineer
Backend Engineer - C++
Fullstack Engineer - JavaScript/Node
Chief Marketing Officer
See more at our Careers page!
Here’s where we need YOU: Moz is committed to bringing more women into tech. There is a dire lack of diversity in the technology industry. This past year we added 6% more women to the company overall and 9% to engineering specifically. We must and will do better. We need more women in engineering and leadership roles here. Check out those jobs above and join the team!
Moz partners with some fantastic organizations focused on getting more women into the tech pipeline. Ada Academy, Year Up, Ignite Worldwide, and Techbridge all encourage women and girls to pursue STEM careers early in their lives. Our newest partner, Unloop, enables people who have been in prison to develop skills and succeed in careers in tech. It is our responsibility to ensure that all people have opportunity and access to participate in STEM fields.
Generosity comes in many forms. One way in which we support the generosity of Mozzers is to match charitable donations to 501c3 organizations by 150%.
We also donated our space 35 times to various organizations in the community requesting to use the Mozplex as a venue for their meetups. Check our our event brochure and take a 360 tour of the Mozplex!
Mozzers also donate a ton of time to causes they are passionate about. We also offer a very discounted price for nonprofits that we’re happy many folks take advantage of. We’re passionate about communities and helping folks.
Moz partnered with Halo Partners to provide professional coaching to all employees. 54 Mozzers received coaching. 27 Mozzers used this benefit for the first time! I’m a huge believer in coaching and training. Beginner’s mind is how we grow and become the best versions of ourselves.
Through it all, we made sure to have some fun. Moz offers a Paid Paid Vacation benefit, reimbursing employees $3k per year in vacation costs. Yes, that’s right. You get your regular pay, plus another $3k a year to spend on your trip! It’s bonkers!
Mozzers visited 6 of the 7 continents last year!
We also had 7 Mozling babies last year. Luv those babies.
Part 6: Into the future
I think my spaceship knows which way to go
2017 was a strengthening year for Moz. We went through a lot of change and made some important investments. Mozzers are dynamic, helpful, smart, and hardworking. They have a service orientation and build for the long term. The investments we made in 2017 will bear fruit in the years ahead. And we’re poised to make some ambitious moves in the coming months.
While I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished, I believe we have higher mountains still to climb. We have had triumphs and tribulations, heartbreaks and happy dances. These many years later, the SEO industry is healthy, growing, and dynamic. Many organizations are still struggling with basic web presence, let alone thoughtful SEO strategy. Moz is still teensy-tiny compared to the opportunity. I believe the opportunity for SEO expertise is vast.
I want to close on a note of gratitude.
First, a bunch of folks helped pull together the metrics for our 2017 report, and I am deeply grateful for their help. This post is kind of a bear! Thank you Jess, Felicia, Christian, Kevin, Susan, Michael, Jeremy, and anyone else who pulled data and helped get this post off the ground!
Second, thank you to this community. It’s because of you that we are here. This community would be nothing if it wasn’t for your care, attention, and feedback. We will continue to work hard to make your work lives more enjoyable and successful. We want to be your favorite resource for doing great SEO. If we’re not there yet, trust that we will keep working to be. Thank you for the opportunity to serve.
Gratitude also to David Bowie for inspiring this post and so much more. We miss you. <3
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tracisimpson · 7 years
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The Moz Year in Review 2017
Posted by SarahBird
Yay! We’ve traversed another year around the sun. And I’m back with another Moz year-in-review post that promises to be as boring as its predecessors. Reading it feels like being locked in your tin can space capsule through lightyears of empty space. If you’re a little odd and like this kind of thing, do please continue.
Before we begin our odyssey, I invite you to check out previous reports: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012. Transparency is a Moz core value. Putting detailed financial and customer data on the blog is one of the ways we live our values. We’re a little weird like that.
Okay spacepeople: take your protein pills and put your helmets on.
Launch to your favorite parts:
Part 1: TL;DR Commencing countdown, engines on
Part 2: SO MANY wins Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
Part 3: Customer metrics You've really made the grade
Part 4: Financial performance And the stars look very different today
Part 5: Inside Moz HQ The papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Part 6: Into the future I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Part 1: TL;DR
Commencing countdown, engines on
What a year! 2017 was a time of doing new things differently — new teams, new goals, and new ways of operating. I’m so proud of Mozzers; they can do anything. If I’m sent to a far-off space colony, I want them with me.
In spite of (and because of!) all this change, we grew revenue and became significantly EBITDA and cash flow positive. Nice! We have a nice economic engine primed and ready to make some more big investments in 2018. Stay tuned.
These positive results were not from one single thing. Rather, iterative product and operations improvements helped improve both our top and bottom line. Plus, we made a bunch of longer-term investments that don’t show up yet in the 2017 report but will bear fruit in 2018 and beyond.
Part 2: Ch-ch-ch... Changes!
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
Here’s a little more detail on some of the changes I talked about.
We launched Keywords By Site, relaunched our crawler (a major technical undertaking), sunsetted two products (content and Followerwonk), built a bunch of new developer tools and standardized on some dev frameworks, and improved our local data distribution network. Check out Adam Feldstein’s post for a lot more detail on our 2017 major product accomplishments!
We’ve got another exciting launch on the way, too. We’ve invested a ton of blood, sweat, and tears into it during 2017 and can’t wait to share it with everyone.
All of these changes support our 2016 strategy of “more wood behind fewer arrows.” We choose to focus our energy on being the best place to learn and do SEO. Our mission is to simplify SEO for everyone through software, education, and community.
For those of you worried about Followerwonk, it’s going to okay. Better than okay. Our beloved “Work Dad” Marc Mims is now the proud father of Followerwonk! Marc’s dedication to the success of Followerwonk has never wavered over the many, many years he’s been building and maintaining it. We already miss his compassion, humor, and bike stories around the Mozplex. We wish him and Followerwonk the best! We bought that product because we loved it then; we love it even now. Sadly, though, it never quite fit with our mission as well as we'd hoped.
We created new programs to help people get the SEO help that’s right for them. We completely rebuilt our SEO Learning Center with fresh educational content. There’s a brand-new SEO podcast, MozPod, for you to check out.
We also began experimenting with and are now expanding SEO training workshops delivered by experts we trust and admire. I’m so excited about this because it’s a new way for Moz to have impact; it’s personal, live, interactive, and immediate in a way that most of our SEO education work can’t be. We won’t stop doing free, scalable education. It’s core to our beliefs. But it is fun to deliver custom, live training sessions in the mix too.
Many of our accomplishments are behind the scenes, and will deliver long-term positive impact.
Our investments in retiring tech debt, improving monitoring, investing in our development platforms, and nurturing our engineering culture have resulted in the most stable and performant software in Moz history. Our hard work and ingenuity is paying off in resilient and performant software.
We’ve also rebuilt most of our customer stack: new Salesforce implementation, HubSpot launch, new internal data warehouse, new CMS (Craft), Segment.io, and more! Phew! That’s a lot! In Q1 2018, we started with Terminus for Account-Based Marketing, and partnered with third-party data vendors, like Full Contact, to supplement our data warehouse. These big changes are going to set us up really well for the years ahead. And we’ve got more internal tools launching soon!
We are on a roll with internal improvements and momentum.
Part 3: Customer metrics
You've really made the grade
We could ship and launch until our circuits go dead, but at the end of the day all our work is in service of meeting your needs.
We know you can hear us! You’re following us now more than ever before.
Part 4: Financial performance
And the stars look very different today
Check out the infographic view of our data barf.
I’m proud of what we accomplished in 2017, especially considering the incredible amount of change in strategy and team structure. More revenue while spending less = magic! Also, the economic strength we’ve built will allow us to place some nice-sized bets this year. Boom!
We made $47.4 million in GAAP revenue in 2017, an increase of 11% from 2016.
We brought our over all expenses way down in 2017. Cost of Revenue increased slightly to $11.8 million. We reduced operating expenses aggressively. Curious on what we spend on, and trends? Check out this breakdown of our major expenses (OpEx and Cost of Revenue) as a percentage of annual revenue:
We generated cash, positive EBITDA, and for the first time in recent Moz history, we were positive net income.
That’s quite a turnaround from 2016, in which we closed the year negative EBITDA of $5.7 million! We flipped EBITDA! We have adopted a cash-flow-neutral-to-positive operating philosophy right now to be ready for some future investments. We may decide to go cash flow negative again to fund further growth.
Part 5: Inside Moz HQ
The papers want to know whose shirts you wear
So, who is behind the wheel here?
We ended 2017 with roughly the same number of Mozzers as we began. It was a conscious choice to remain approximately headcount neutral in 2017; we only opened up new positions after ensuring rigorous conversations took place around the business need for the role. This discipline is hard to live under, but we like the results. We’re working smarter, and getting more rigorous in our decision-making.
Let me be clear: WE ARE HIRING! These are just 5 of our currently open positions:
DevOps Engineer
Sr. Platform Software Engineer
Backend Engineer - C++
Fullstack Engineer - JavaScript/Node
Chief Marketing Officer
See more at our Careers page!
Here’s where we need YOU: Moz is committed to bringing more women into tech. There is a dire lack of diversity in the technology industry. This past year we added 6% more women to the company overall and 9% to engineering specifically. We must and will do better. We need more women in engineering and leadership roles here. Check out those jobs above and join the team!
Moz partners with some fantastic organizations focused on getting more women into the tech pipeline. Ada Academy, Year Up, Ignite Worldwide, and Techbridge all encourage women and girls to pursue STEM careers early in their lives. Our newest partner, Unloop, enables people who have been in prison to develop skills and succeed in careers in tech. It is our responsibility to ensure that all people have opportunity and access to participate in STEM fields.
Generosity comes in many forms. One way in which we support the generosity of Mozzers is to match charitable donations to 501c3 organizations by 150%.
We also donated our space 35 times to various organizations in the community requesting to use the Mozplex as a venue for their meetups. Check our our event brochure and take a 360 tour of the Mozplex!
Mozzers also donate a ton of time to causes they are passionate about. We also offer a very discounted price for nonprofits that we’re happy many folks take advantage of. We’re passionate about communities and helping folks.
Moz partnered with Halo Partners to provide professional coaching to all employees. 54 Mozzers received coaching. 27 Mozzers used this benefit for the first time! I’m a huge believer in coaching and training. Beginner’s mind is how we grow and become the best versions of ourselves.
Through it all, we made sure to have some fun. Moz offers a Paid Paid Vacation benefit, reimbursing employees $3k per year in vacation costs. Yes, that’s right. You get your regular pay, plus another $3k a year to spend on your trip! It’s bonkers!
Mozzers visited 6 of the 7 continents last year!
We also had 7 Mozling babies last year. Luv those babies.
Part 6: Into the future
I think my spaceship knows which way to go
2017 was a strengthening year for Moz. We went through a lot of change and made some important investments. Mozzers are dynamic, helpful, smart, and hardworking. They have a service orientation and build for the long term. The investments we made in 2017 will bear fruit in the years ahead. And we’re poised to make some ambitious moves in the coming months.
While I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished, I believe we have higher mountains still to climb. We have had triumphs and tribulations, heartbreaks and happy dances. These many years later, the SEO industry is healthy, growing, and dynamic. Many organizations are still struggling with basic web presence, let alone thoughtful SEO strategy. Moz is still teensy-tiny compared to the opportunity. I believe the opportunity for SEO expertise is vast.
I want to close on a note of gratitude.
First, a bunch of folks helped pull together the metrics for our 2017 report, and I am deeply grateful for their help. This post is kind of a bear! Thank you Jess, Felicia, Christian, Kevin, Susan, Michael, Jeremy, and anyone else who pulled data and helped get this post off the ground!
Second, thank you to this community. It’s because of you that we are here. This community would be nothing if it wasn’t for your care, attention, and feedback. We will continue to work hard to make your work lives more enjoyable and successful. We want to be your favorite resource for doing great SEO. If we’re not there yet, trust that we will keep working to be. Thank you for the opportunity to serve.
Gratitude also to David Bowie for inspiring this post and so much more. We miss you. <3
Sign up for The Moz Top 10, a semimonthly mailer updating you on the top ten hottest pieces of SEO news, tips, and rad links uncovered by the Moz team. Think of it as your exclusive digest of stuff you don't have time to hunt down but want to read!
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lawrenceseitz22 · 7 years
Text
The Moz Year in Review 2017
Posted by SarahBird
Yay! We’ve traversed another year around the sun. And I’m back with another Moz year-in-review post that promises to be as boring as its predecessors. Reading it feels like being locked in your tin can space capsule through lightyears of empty space. If you’re a little odd and like this kind of thing, do please continue.
Before we begin our odyssey, I invite you to check out previous reports: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012. Transparency is a Moz core value. Putting detailed financial and customer data on the blog is one of the ways we live our values. We’re a little weird like that.
Okay spacepeople: take your protein pills and put your helmets on.
Launch to your favorite parts:
Part 1: TL;DR Commencing countdown, engines on
Part 2: SO MANY wins Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
Part 3: Customer metrics You've really made the grade
Part 4: Financial performance And the stars look very different today
Part 5: Inside Moz HQ The papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Part 6: Into the future I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Part 1: TL;DR
Commencing countdown, engines on
What a year! 2017 was a time of doing new things differently — new teams, new goals, and new ways of operating. I’m so proud of Mozzers; they can do anything. If I’m sent to a far-off space colony, I want them with me.
In spite of (and because of!) all this change, we grew revenue and became significantly EBITDA and cash flow positive. Nice! We have a nice economic engine primed and ready to make some more big investments in 2018. Stay tuned.
These positive results were not from one single thing. Rather, iterative product and operations improvements helped improve both our top and bottom line. Plus, we made a bunch of longer-term investments that don’t show up yet in the 2017 report but will bear fruit in 2018 and beyond.
Part 2: Ch-ch-ch... Changes!
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
Here’s a little more detail on some of the changes I talked about.
We launched Keywords By Site, relaunched our crawler (a major technical undertaking), sunsetted two products (content and Followerwonk), built a bunch of new developer tools and standardized on some dev frameworks, and improved our local data distribution network. Check out Adam Feldstein’s post for a lot more detail on our 2017 major product accomplishments!
We’ve got another exciting launch on the way, too. We’ve invested a ton of blood, sweat, and tears into it during 2017 and can’t wait to share it with everyone.
All of these changes support our 2016 strategy of “more wood behind fewer arrows.” We choose to focus our energy on being the best place to learn and do SEO. Our mission is to simplify SEO for everyone through software, education, and community.
For those of you worried about Followerwonk, it’s going to okay. Better than okay. Our beloved “Work Dad” Marc Mims is now the proud father of Followerwonk! Marc’s dedication to the success of Followerwonk has never wavered over the many, many years he’s been building and maintaining it. We already miss his compassion, humor, and bike stories around the Mozplex. We wish him and Followerwonk the best! We bought that product because we loved it then; we love it even now. Sadly, though, it never quite fit with our mission as well as we'd hoped.
We created new programs to help people get the SEO help that’s right for them. We completely rebuilt our SEO Learning Center with fresh educational content. There’s a brand-new SEO podcast, MozPod, for you to check out.
We also began experimenting with and are now expanding SEO training workshops delivered by experts we trust and admire. I’m so excited about this because it’s a new way for Moz to have impact; it’s personal, live, interactive, and immediate in a way that most of our SEO education work can’t be. We won’t stop doing free, scalable education. It’s core to our beliefs. But it is fun to deliver custom, live training sessions in the mix too.
Many of our accomplishments are behind the scenes, and will deliver long-term positive impact.
Our investments in retiring tech debt, improving monitoring, investing in our development platforms, and nurturing our engineering culture have resulted in the most stable and performant software in Moz history. Our hard work and ingenuity is paying off in resilient and performant software.
We’ve also rebuilt most of our customer stack: new Salesforce implementation, HubSpot launch, new internal data warehouse, new CMS (Craft), Segment.io, and more! Phew! That’s a lot! In Q1 2018, we started with Terminus for Account-Based Marketing, and partnered with third-party data vendors, like Full Contact, to supplement our data warehouse. These big changes are going to set us up really well for the years ahead. And we’ve got more internal tools launching soon!
We are on a roll with internal improvements and momentum.
Part 3: Customer metrics
You've really made the grade
We could ship and launch until our circuits go dead, but at the end of the day all our work is in service of meeting your needs.
We know you can hear us! You’re following us now more than ever before.
Part 4: Financial performance
And the stars look very different today
Check out the infographic view of our data barf.
I’m proud of what we accomplished in 2017, especially considering the incredible amount of change in strategy and team structure. More revenue while spending less = magic! Also, the economic strength we’ve built will allow us to place some nice-sized bets this year. Boom!
We made $47.4 million in GAAP revenue in 2017, an increase of 11% from 2016.
We brought our over all expenses way down in 2017. Cost of Revenue increased slightly to $11.8 million. We reduced operating expenses aggressively. Curious on what we spend on, and trends? Check out this breakdown of our major expenses (OpEx and Cost of Revenue) as a percentage of annual revenue:
We generated cash, positive EBITDA, and for the first time in recent Moz history, we were positive net income.
That’s quite a turnaround from 2016, in which we closed the year negative EBITDA of $5.7 million! We flipped EBITDA! We have adopted a cash-flow-neutral-to-positive operating philosophy right now to be ready for some future investments. We may decide to go cash flow negative again to fund further growth.
Part 5: Inside Moz HQ
The papers want to know whose shirts you wear
So, who is behind the wheel here?
We ended 2017 with roughly the same number of Mozzers as we began. It was a conscious choice to remain approximately headcount neutral in 2017; we only opened up new positions after ensuring rigorous conversations took place around the business need for the role. This discipline is hard to live under, but we like the results. We’re working smarter, and getting more rigorous in our decision-making.
Let me be clear: WE ARE HIRING! These are just 5 of our currently open positions:
DevOps Engineer
Sr. Platform Software Engineer
Backend Engineer - C++
Fullstack Engineer - JavaScript/Node
Chief Marketing Officer
See more at our Careers page!
Here’s where we need YOU: Moz is committed to bringing more women into tech. There is a dire lack of diversity in the technology industry. This past year we added 6% more women to the company overall and 9% to engineering specifically. We must and will do better. We need more women in engineering and leadership roles here. Check out those jobs above and join the team!
Moz partners with some fantastic organizations focused on getting more women into the tech pipeline. Ada Academy, Year Up, Ignite Worldwide, and Techbridge all encourage women and girls to pursue STEM careers early in their lives. Our newest partner, Unloop, enables people who have been in prison to develop skills and succeed in careers in tech. It is our responsibility to ensure that all people have opportunity and access to participate in STEM fields.
Generosity comes in many forms. One way in which we support the generosity of Mozzers is to match charitable donations to 501c3 organizations by 150%.
We also donated our space 35 times to various organizations in the community requesting to use the Mozplex as a venue for their meetups. Check our our event brochure and take a 360 tour of the Mozplex!
Mozzers also donate a ton of time to causes they are passionate about. We also offer a very discounted price for nonprofits that we’re happy many folks take advantage of. We’re passionate about communities and helping folks.
Moz partnered with Halo Partners to provide professional coaching to all employees. 54 Mozzers received coaching. 27 Mozzers used this benefit for the first time! I’m a huge believer in coaching and training. Beginner’s mind is how we grow and become the best versions of ourselves.
Through it all, we made sure to have some fun. Moz offers a Paid Paid Vacation benefit, reimbursing employees $3k per year in vacation costs. Yes, that’s right. You get your regular pay, plus another $3k a year to spend on your trip! It’s bonkers!
Mozzers visited 6 of the 7 continents last year!
We also had 7 Mozling babies last year. Luv those babies.
Part 6: Into the future
I think my spaceship knows which way to go
2017 was a strengthening year for Moz. We went through a lot of change and made some important investments. Mozzers are dynamic, helpful, smart, and hardworking. They have a service orientation and build for the long term. The investments we made in 2017 will bear fruit in the years ahead. And we’re poised to make some ambitious moves in the coming months.
While I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished, I believe we have higher mountains still to climb. We have had triumphs and tribulations, heartbreaks and happy dances. These many years later, the SEO industry is healthy, growing, and dynamic. Many organizations are still struggling with basic web presence, let alone thoughtful SEO strategy. Moz is still teensy-tiny compared to the opportunity. I believe the opportunity for SEO expertise is vast.
I want to close on a note of gratitude.
First, a bunch of folks helped pull together the metrics for our 2017 report, and I am deeply grateful for their help. This post is kind of a bear! Thank you Jess, Felicia, Christian, Kevin, Susan, Michael, Jeremy, and anyone else who pulled data and helped get this post off the ground!
Second, thank you to this community. It’s because of you that we are here. This community would be nothing if it wasn’t for your care, attention, and feedback. We will continue to work hard to make your work lives more enjoyable and successful. We want to be your favorite resource for doing great SEO. If we’re not there yet, trust that we will keep working to be. Thank you for the opportunity to serve.
Gratitude also to David Bowie for inspiring this post and so much more. We miss you. <3
Sign up for The Moz Top 10, a semimonthly mailer updating you on the top ten hottest pieces of SEO news, tips, and rad links uncovered by the Moz team. Think of it as your exclusive digest of stuff you don't have time to hunt down but want to read!
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