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| Industry | Marketing, Advertising |
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| Founded | London, UK (2007) |
| Founders | Alicia Navarro, Joe Stepniewski |
| Fate | Acquired by Taboola on September 1, 2021 |
| Headquarters | London |
| Products | SkimLinks, Skimlinks Editor Tool, Audiences by Skimlinks |
| Services | In-text Advertising and Marketing, Audiences data platform |
Number of employees | 85 |
| Website | https://skimlinks.com/ |
Skimlinks is a content monetisation platform for online publishers (including editorial sites, forums, bloggers, social networks, and app developers). It specializes in automatically generating affiliate product links from content creators' commerce content, from which the content creators earn money.
The company was founded in London (2007) by Australian co-founders Alicia Navarro and Joe Stepniewski. It has over 62 employees and has raised $24 million in funding as of August 2013.[1][2] It has offices in London and New York City.[3] On October 17, 2013, Skimlinks was announced as a member of Tech City UK's Future Fifty Programme, a government program that supports fast-growing companies with to potentially float in the London Stock Exchange.[4][5] In 2014, Skimlinks drove $625 million in sales for over 20,000 vendors.[6][2]
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