About Meebo

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With over 100 million people sharing over 5 billion messages and 75 million links every month, Meebo is one of the Web's fastest growing social media companies. Founded in September 2005, Meebo enables real-time social interactions with instant messaging and group chat at meebo.com, on mobile, and on partner sites across the Web. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, JAFCO Ventures, Time Warner Investments, and KTB Ventures. Meebo is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Over 200 leading publishers have signed up to use Meebo for their sites. Partners are leveraging Meebo's functionality to provide a safe, private, and brand-friendly approach to real-time social interaction. Partners running Meebo on their sites measure significant increases in user engagement and sharing. Sites that are live today see, on average, over 20% of their US site visitors using the service. Each active user sends approximately 50 IMs per day from the Meebo Bar. Meebo runs ads on the Meebo Bar and shares revenue with partners.

Meebo's approach to advertising gives users a targeted invitation to experience a brand's content. If the user chooses to engage an ad, the ad expands to a rich overlay that can be as large as 900x400 pixels. Brands can target select groups of individuals across meebo.com and Meebo's network of partners, choosing the appropriate age, gender, and interest categories for their products. Key ad metrics for Meebo include 10X higher click rates than typical ads on social media sites, and more than a minute average time spent with the ad content.