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Piccing browser button turns any picture into a shopping catalog
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There is innovation happening, blurring the line in the sand between social and commerce. Hybrids each with their own unique spin: Piccing (my company) with a global membership of 75 million lets you buy what you “picc” in an image or something like it...
Piccing surpasses rows at 800% YoY rate
Piccing said it has surpassed a milestone of more than 50 million members.
Piccing enables consumers to “picc” an image, picc up to five items within the image, comparison shop piccs in real-time, and buy their piccs directly online.
The Piccing platform has grown from six million members in January 2014 to more than 50 million members in just one year, a growth rate of more than 800 percent year-on-year. Piccing members have also picced and curated hundreds of millions of items, generating nearly 250 million click-outs. The Piccing Android app is available for download on Google Play for smartphones running Android 4.0 or higher.
Every week, it seems as though there's a new leader in the race to nail social shopping. This week, Piccing made another play for the lead, announcing that it has reached 50 million members—way up from the 6 million members it had in January 2014— in addition to launching the Piccing app for Android. Piccing lets app users "picc" an image to shop, and view comparison items located by the tech behind the platform. The startup reports over 250 million "click outs" to major e-retailers likes ShopBop and Zappos.
(German) Piccing bringt Android App auf den Markt
Die Social-Shopping-Plattform – bei der Mitglieder ihre Lieblingsprodukte in Bildern mit einem „Picc” markieren und in Echtzeit ähnliche Produkte vorgeschlagen bekommen – launcht ihre Android App. Somit weitet das Start-Up seine Mobile Reichweite massiv aus. Ab jetzt steht den meisten der mehr als 41 Millionen Smartphone Nutzern in Deutschland das innovative Shopping-Erlebnis zur Verfügung. Bisher hatten nur die knapp 21 Prozent der iOS Smartphone User die Möglichkeit auch von unterwegs uneingeschränkt in einem der knapp 340 Piccing-Partnershops einzukaufen. Jetzt können das auch die 71 Prozent der Smartphone-Besitzer mit dem Google Betriebssystem.
Das Social-Shopping-Portal Piccing hat in der Vergangenheit ein rasantes Wachstum verzeichnet. Um seine mobile Reichweite weiter auszubauen, launcht das Start-up jetzt eine Android App.
(Spanish) Piccing o lo que es lo mismo, el “matrimonio” formado por social commerce y fotografía, desembarca en Android
En la que ha sido hasta ahora su casa, el sistema operativo para móviles iOS, Piccing estaba teniendo muchísimo éxito. Por eso, esta plataforma fotográfica de social commerce ha decidido extender también sus tentáculos a Android.
A través de Piccing los usuarios tienen la posibilidad de subir, marcar y compartir fotografías. Mediante las fotos subidas a esta plataforma, los miembros de esta comunidad fotográfica se recomiendan localizaciones, tendencias de moda, productos de estilo de vida, restaurantes y bares.
(German) Fotoplattform Piccing startet Android App
Das Social-Shopping-Portal Piccing hat in der Vergangenheit ein rasantes Wachstum verzeichnet. Um seine mobile Reichweite weiter auszubauen, launcht das Start-up jetzt eine Android App
Social shopping app Piccing picks up $3.6M
Several ventures, including Google, Pinterest, Amazon’s Firefly, Slyce, even Wanelo, are all working on getting to this spot, where users see something they like, post it, and then, buy it. Buying it is where the money is, of course, and it may be just a matter of smoothing out the technology and perfecting the usability to get everyone there.
Piccing, the Zurich-headquartered ‘social-shopping’ platform, has secured new funding. It’s raised a $3.62 million Series A round from undisclosed investors — money it will use to fuel its international launch, which kicked off earlier this week.
The company’s web and iOS app lets users upload or bookmark images — the latter, Pinterest-style — wherein they can add up to five hotspots tied to items found in each image, thereby helping to make those images ‘shoppable’. Or another way to think of it is as a form of curation, with users encouraged to categorise and share images.
(German) Piccing wächst auf zehn Millionen Mitglieder
Die Mitgliederzahl von Piccing steigt rasant: Mehr als zehn Millionen Registrierungen zählt die Fotosharing-Community, die nun auch die ersten Namen von Partnershops nennt.
Social Inspiration Platform Piccing Reaches 6 Million Users
The new photo sharing platform that is sweeping the nation is called Piccing.com. The site which began as a small web-start up now boasts a huge 6 million users and doesn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon.
Bilder nicht nur teilen, sondern auch Produkte darauf markieren und direkt zum Shop gelangen - das ist Piccing. Das US-Startup kommt nach Deutschland.
Piccing has raised $1 million for its social image sharing platform. The South Africa-based company lets users post pictures of things that inspire them, along the lines of Pinterest. It has 1.2 million visitors a month. This round was led by undisclosed investors.