Piczo
San Francisco, California | |
Key people | Christofer Båge (CEO of current Piczo owner PMGcom Publishing AB),[2] Mattias Miksche (board member, PMGcom Publishing AB),[2] Daniel Lövquist (board member, PMGcom Publishing AB)[2] |
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Website | piczo |
Piczo was a social networking and blogging website for teens. It was founded in 2003 by Jim Conning in
In March 2009, Piczo was acquired by Stardoll (Stardoll AB with CEO Mattias Miksche).[3] After the acquisition Piczo was led by Stardoll's CEO Mattias Miksche and his Stardoll team.[3]
In September 2012, Piczo.com was acquired by Posh Media Group (PMGcom Publishing AB with CEO Christofer Båge).
In November 2012, Piczo.com shut down.
Their eponymous service, also called Piczo (Piczo.com), was an online photo website builder and community, which was for the generation of free advertising-supported websites. Launched in 2005 Piczo allowed users to add images, text, guestbooks, message boxes, videos, music and other content to their site using plain text and
Popularity
Piczo saw around 10 million unique visitors a month. While primarily offering services in English and German, Piczo was also available in French, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Japanese, and Korean BETA versions.
The service was very popular with a teenage audience in Britain, much like
References
- ^ Jim Conning LinkedIn profile
- ^ a b c "Befattningshavare - PMGcom Publishing AB". allabolag.se. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ a b Mark Sweney. "Social networking sites Piczo and Stardoll merge operations". the Guardian. Retrieved 7 January 2016.