By Stephanie Kwak

In an environment where much of what we blog and tweet can be traced back to powerful media sources, it’s important to keep up & make sure that the information we write and talk about is original, well curated, and readily available to new readers.

Content curation  service LOUD3R — which includes a network of sites like GLITT3R, NEW3R, and GRIND3R — has just come out with their Curation Platform. The platform allows editors to fine tune and monitor their content streams.  It’s a way of exposing your content to larger audiences, audiences who are hungry for quality, timely digital content ….

Read Full Review: Curating Content With LOUD3R

Company: LOUD3R Inc.

Industry: Software, Internet

Location(s): New York, NY; Chicago, IL; San Francisco/Bay Area, CA; Los Angeles, CA

Overview:

Are you looking to drive sales at the intersection of media and technology?  Do you get all your news online? Are you convinced marketers need to move beyond traditional ads to engage with their customers?

LOUD3R’s content discovery, curation and publishing platform gives publishers and marketers simple tools to quickly add high quality content to their sites, apps and social media.  ReadWriteWeb thinks our product is “dripping with cool features” and “one of the most cutting edge services in this emerging market.”  Our list of top publisher and marketer clients includes New York Daily News, Fox Broadcasting, Tribune Media and U.S. News, among others.

Make a name for yourself in a high-growth segment of online media.  Make good money and have fun in the process.  Make your career LOUD3R.

Description:

The Manager/Director Sales (title based on experience) will be responsible for selling LOUD3R’s leading content curation platform to publishers and marketers (agencies, brands). This role requires enterprise sales and strategy expertise, strong business development and consulting skills, and key industry relationships. Your primary responsibility will be to develop and execute a pipeline of new business partnerships, generating sales. Typical customers will be large premium online publishers, advertising and marketing agencies and marketing departments at major brands. We are hiring sales professionals in several major markets.

Responsibilities:

* Prospect, negotiate, and close new business deals with online publishers (both traditional and web-only), portals, marketing services agencies (advertising, PR) and brands.

* Engage at high frequency and availability with clients via phone, email, and presentations, both remotely and in-person.

* Provide leadership in post-sales activities to ensure that customers’ needs and requirements are met.

* Continue to build strong customer relationships in order to ensure renewals and follow on opportunities.

* Participate in industry events and conferences.

* Track and manage sales pipeline and account activities.
Qualifications:

* 3-6+ years of relevant experience (minimum 2-3 years in technology and/or online media). Enterprise software and/or media or marketing solutions experience is a huge plus.

* Strong list of executive contacts at, and extensive experience working with, major publishers and marketers.

* Strong understanding of digital media, online publishing and internet advertising.

* Previous experience with a SaaS company or digital media company a plus.

* Experience in enterprise consultative selling processes for revenue-generating deals.

* Significant relationship management, post-sales consulting, and up-selling/cross-selling experience.

* Driven, smart, proactive, entrepreneurial and at ease with uncertainty and rapid change.

* Independent self starter, while being open to direction and guidance.

* Bachelor’s degree.

Compensation:

Commission

Equity bonus upon achieving targets

To Apply:

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@loud3r.com

To learn more about how leading publishers and brands are making their sites LOUD3R, visit http://loud3r.com

The article highlights the control and usability of the platform, and features positive feedback from top clients who say it:

• Resulted in “millions of page views the site would not have generated otherwise”
• Helps PR teams determine “what people like and don’t like”
• Has the agility and technology to “monitor a wide variety of sources…and automatically collect and collate the most interesting commentary from around the web about our shows”
• Provides a seamless way to “pull [content] in and automatically repost links to the best stuff on Facebook and Twitter”

With positive feedback coming from both tech insiders and clients, we think our day couldn’t get much better.

Check out the full article here: LOUD3R Platform Combines Curation and Automation

Instant Content.  Effortlessly curated.

Completely Redesigned LOUD3R Curation Platform Advances Online Publishing Technology

This month we are proud to announce the launch of our new Curation Platform — the first and only enterprise-level content solution that lets editors dynamically tune content streams in real-time…

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By Marisa Peacock

New Update, More Engagement

LOUD3R’s platform, which is known for synthesizing news, blogs, photos, videos and social media on any topic, has been enhanced with features designed to give publishers more flexibility and control over their brand. The new version offers minute-by-minute content monitoring, including blogs, news feeds and social media, as well as a fully integrated Twitter management suite, which can be used to identify and engage with influential Twitter users….

Read More: LOUD3R Updates It’s Publishing Platform, Content Streams Stand Out.

He says the new drool-worthy platform is:

• “Dripping with cool features“
• Full of “easy-to-understand interfaces“
• Composed of “features that any curation tool could benefit from” and
• “One of the most cutting edge services in this emerging market“

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!

Read the full review: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/loud3r_publisher_curation_service.php

PASADENA, Calif., June 28 /PRNewswire/ — LOUD3R, a technology company that provides publishers and marketers with a comprehensive platform for discovering, curating and publishing the most relevant, real-time content, today announced the launch of its new LOUD3R Curation Platform which features the ability to customize and curate content feeds in real-time.  Today’s announcement makes the new platform — already in use by LOUD3R’s clients including the New York Daily News, Tribune Media Group, Fox Broadcasting Company and several other leading online marketers — available to the market at large.

“Other content solution technologies only offer static, one-size-fits-all aggregated feeds of content,” said Lowell Goss, CEO of LOUD3R.  ”Our new platform provides speed, scale, and quality and gives publishers genuine editorial flexibility. The LOUD3R Curation Platform also offers robust tools that empower editors and marketers and let them add their own point of view, voice and brand, which are the keys to dynamic content curation.”

In addition to a streamlined interface and intuitive user experience, the LOUD3R Curation Platform offers up-to-the-minute monitoring of topical content streams of news, blogs, photos, videos and Twitter, and provides complete flexibility for adding original content to the stream.  A Twitter management suite comes standard with the platform, and helps make sense of the tweet stream, identifies influential Twitter users and simplifies direct engagement with them.  Content streams curated through the platform are easily published to websites, apps and social media.

LOUD3R secured more than $3 million in financing earlier this year. Since then, the company has been developing new content curation technology and plans to introduce additional products throughout the year. In addition, the company recently launched partnerships with Tribune Media Group to power its hyperlocal ChicagoNow site, and with the New York Daily News to power its online Travel and World Cup 2010 sections.

“The New York Daily News was able to create new content-rich sections — like our World Cup and Travel pages — quickly and with very few resources; and that wouldn’t have been possible without LOUD3R,” said Steve Lynas, Senior Vice President, New York Daily News Digital. “Our editors can approve, endorse or supplement content sections in only minutes a day using the LOUD3R Curation Platform.”

About LOUD3R

LOUD3R’s content discovery, curation and publishing platform gives publishers and marketers simple tools to quickly add high quality content to their sites, apps and social media at a low cost. With more than 120,000 topics curated from more than 340,000 sources across the web, LOUD3R delivers the best real-time content. Founded in 2008, LOUD3R is based in Pasadena, Calif. and is led by former Google, MTV, MySpace and Yahoo! executives. To learn more about how leading publishers and brands are making their sites LOUD3R, visit www.loud3r.com.

Useful Links

Homepage: www.loud3r.com

LOUD3R News: www.blog.loud3r.com

Press Contact

press@loud3r.com

1. Does the solution deliver a comprehensive view of the topic to the reader? A comprehensive view includes Tweets, Blog posts, News articles, Photos and Videos.
2. Does the solution effectively improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the reading experience?

At Loud3r we have been tackling this problem for almost three years. Our platform addresses the needs of three important actors. Here’s how we’ve defined their primary goals.

• Publisher – Increase monetization by increasing engagement and improving distribution.
• Curator – Build a brand through selection and commentary of cool and relevant content.
• Reader – Consume a rich and relevant stream of content using my choice of device, time and format.

So what are the tangible things Loud3r does to deliver great curated content to readers via our publishing partners?

Track concepts, not just keywords. The software needs to be able to accurately place Robert Smith of the Cure in a different bucket than Robert Smith, Rep NH. There are a number of methods to accomplish this, but consumers should not be expected to do the grunt work of disambiguation.

Ranking by relevancy. Despite Google’s massive search engine prowess the Alerts product is simply a list of keyword matches. This does not tell the user what’s happening and important for a given topic. The output of the engine has to order the results by relevancy and not just by time. A user needs to be able to glance at the stream and know what’s really important.

Curation tools. Editors and users need to be able to take a list of candidate stories and share, comment and publish the ones that really stand out.

Source quality/relevance. A key component of story relevancy is an awareness of the quality and authority of a source. Google uses Pagerank for search. What’s the equivalent for news where linking behavior is slower than news churn?

Deduplicating. There’s not very much unique content produced every day. I know that seems like heresy, but 90+% of the content is simply sharing, reposting and duplication. A usable content stream hides the exact and near duplicates.

Breadth. News is no longer concentrated. An RSS reader or Twitter lists creates a very narrow view of the world. Loud3r tracks over 300K sources, plus Twitter.

Anyone looking for great travel tips and deals should check out Daily News Travel, which Rob Dominguez blogs for and curates using LOUD3R’s platform.

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