The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

The intelligently arranged call inbox shows categories across the top for missed calls, voicemails, recordings, and other types of calls, making it easy to see what may be on your plate. Aircall is a great option in this category. Nextiva separates itself from the pack with its multichannel approach. Do you need a low-cost solution?

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Universal Inbox — Centralize communications from email, SMS, Facebook, Instagram, and live chat in one unified messaging platform. Social Media Integration — Manage Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn posting directly from the platform with scheduling tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

No one wants to be in the latter two categories! Facebook is a great model to use for learning from the past. When Facebook made it possible for developers to create games and other applications around 2007, they only had about 15-20 million uniques per month and they were struggling to figure out how to really grow.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Instead of dividing enterprise automation into those categories, I'll stick to a people-first framing here—because automation is only valuable if it actually helps teams work better. They also aren't exclusive to enterprise-level automation.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

As you type, Wix distills your answers into a site profile, including essential details like your business's category, location, and goals. Wix also offers a unified inbox to consolidate customer messages from Facebook, email, and live chat. You can even use built-in tools to set up a referral program for customers.

media

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). It starts with a category being done poorly, reimagining the experience, creating distinctive products and then constantly messaging this to the market. If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where

sustainability

The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Categorize articles into relevant groups (default categories: U.S., Compile summaries and categories into a final Google Doc report. Retrieve the title and content from each article URL. Summarize each article. world, business, arts, lifestyle, or opinion). Read our Zapier Agents guide to turn your ideas into useful workflows.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Or when you use a social media platform to log in to another app (Facebook login for Candy Crush ringing any bells?), The first number in the code represents the category of the status. It relies on APIs to fetch real-time weather data from meteorological services and deliver it to your device.

development

The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Every other term on this list falls under the umbrella of AI, so it's a pretty fuzzy category to define. It's basically the Facebook parent company's response to OpenAI and Google Gemini, but with one key difference: all the Llama models are freely available for almost anyone to use for research and commercial purposes.

mix-use

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance? Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users? Modern Social Networking: Friendster, MySpace & Facebook. Enter Facebook. History repeats itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). So did the media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too. It sure would put pressure on Google if they had Facebook competing on one side of them for share of users’ time and Amazon flanking them on the other side by providing search to every website out there that might threaten AdSense and even Google’s core search business.

venture capital

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Social, Facebook, and Twitter referral is meaningful. People are starting on Facebook rather than search and this is starting to happen. 41:30-42:00).

capital

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. When we tune into any stream: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc., Thus, we click! And it turns out that we click a lot.

investing

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

It’s why people talk about the PayPal Mafia, the Facebook Mafia, the Salesforce Mafia because these teams eventually want to do it themselves. Offense is spending time thinking about a theme you care about, doing research and then trying to meet every major company in that category. Same objectives.

peer-to-peer

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

VC

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

When businesses want to reach an online customer most effectively, they basically have Facebook and Google to choose from to spend money on, creating a scenario where these platform companies have all the data necessary to pick and choose category winners. Amazon can use purchase data to create new Whole Foods brands and Amazon labels.

education

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I don’t believe it’s hyperbole to say that Twitter and Facebook are truly transformative at a societal level, for example. Sure, that’s a fine category. It’s not all sunshine and candy canes. We are building a lot of stuff now that has no longevity. But next month I’m on to the next one.

transportation

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. If you are an early investor in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Tumblr, GroupOn, LivingSocial, etc. I believe that. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs.

real estate

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The funding round, which is between $75 million to $100 million in size (according to a person familiar with the matter; Unacademy has not disclosed the figure), valued the four-and-a-half-year-old startup at $2 billion, up from about $500 million in February this year when Facebook joined its list of backers, and $1.45

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Consumers’ desire for social engagement while shopping is highlighted by sales within categories. Social shopping is particularly important for categories where consumers seek feedback or recommendations from friends. To maximize this effect, Pinduoduo launched in the fruits and vegetables category.

accelerator

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Or less obvious, imagine Facebook without Sheryl Sandberg. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo!

communities

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The 42-person team is made up of e-commerce leaders from companies such as Amazon, Mercado Libre and Facebook, among others. When we decide to work with a team, it is because we believe they will be the de facto category leader and can become a $1 billion business on their own.”. This is where Merama comes in.

capital

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This class of investors is more diversified across categories plus is investing personal money and therefore feels the hit in assets declines first. VC funding is definitely back from the constipation that was 2009 replete with frothy valuations chasing dreams of the next Facebook, Groupon or Zynga.

entrepreneurs

TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The company’s original focus was around financial services and it counts a large base of customers in that area, but it is also seeing a lot of activity in adjacent industries like insurance, as well as education, retail and other categories Michaeli said. Facebook buys Kustomer for $1B to expand into customer service tools.

education

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights. in the last quarter of 2022.

investing

Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

US retail (which includes categories such as gifts, home goods, groceries, pharmacy goods, apparel, and cosmetics) generated $3.3 The most common example of this phenomenon is in the books category. Similarly, independent establishments in Faire’s core categories have grown from 1.47 trillion of revenue in 2017 2.

accelerator

Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

market by launching in connection with Facebook viral invites? Many folks think of podcasts as its own category. Speaking of SoundCloud, remember Twitter tried to buy them? Remember Amazon bought Audible, for audiobooks? Remember Spotify got its big break in the U.S. Remember Stitcher? Remember Pandora?

media

StartupNation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Although you may be thinking you have your bases covered with the other social media platforms you post on regularly such as Facebook or Twitter, it’s important to go where the consumers are. They’re looking to engage with a memorable story featuring the product with some catchy music and eye-catching effects. Work-life balance priority.

media

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

“We’d previously been working on technology only used by a few people, but since then the P2C category has taken flight and we have caused a serious shift within the market. But that also means there are a number of companies providing services in the same category as Productsup.

strategy

TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Platform changes like iOS 14 or Facebook’s periodic algorithm adjustments will have a bigger impact in the near term on the technical functioning of growth, and these aren’t specifically pandemic-related. Then you’ll get not just an ads manager, but a teacher.

startup

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Series C was led by TCV — the storied investor that has backed giants like Facebook, Airbnb, Netflix, Spotify and Splunk, as well as interesting, up-and-coming e-commerce “plumbing” startups like Spryker, Relex and more. Previous backers One Peak and Project A Ventures also participated.

mix-use

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

In that regard, even Facebook has been pushing the idea of communities and groups, although I’d say, from my own experience, that its more open-ended DNA and sheer size makes keeping those communities focused is a daily chore for admins of those communities.). (In Image Credits: Domestika.

creativity

American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

For the 2024 Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth will accept proposals in the following categories: Hardware Accelerated AI, Generative AI, Tech Led Innovations, Mobile Health Apps, Healthcare Accessibility, and Social Change Solutions. To get breaking news, follow the company on LinkedIn , Facebook and @charmhealth.

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