We Heart It
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| Available in | English, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Indonesian, Greek, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Thai, Finnish, Norwegian, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more |
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| Headquarters | San Francisco |
| Created by | Fabio Giolito |
| Website | weheartit |
| Users | 45 million |
| Launched | 2008 |
| Current status | active |
We Heart It is an image-based social network for inspiring images. We Heart It describes itself as "A home for your inspiration" and a place to "Organize and share the things you love." Users can collect (or "heart") their favorite images to share with friends and organize into collections. Users can access the site through a web browser or We Heart It's iOS and Android mobile apps.
We Heart It was founded in 2008 by Fabio Giolito, a native of Brazil. He started the site as a side project around the idea of "hearting" photos and saving them for sharing with friends. What started as a tool for himself and friends, the product grew organically from there. When growth began to surge, Fabio brought on co-founder Bruno Zanchet to help focus on infrastructure. The two took on some seed funding and the site became an incorporated business in California in 2011.
We Heart It was incorporated in the United States in 2011. Its headquarters are located in San Francisco and has a team of 25 employees.
As of June 2013, We Heart It raised $8 million in Series A funding from White Oak and IDG Ventures.
As of February 2014, We Heart It ranks 754 in Alexa's global traffic rank.
In May 2014, We Heart It rolled out mobile advertising in the app.
As of January 2016, We Heart It announced a video content partnership with Popular TV.
As of June 2016, We Heart It formed a strategic partnership with influencer marketing company The Blu Market, led by co-CEOs Steven Forkosh and Jonas Brothers singer Kevin Jonas, in hopes of attracting more users and advertisers.
We Heart It is a visual platform that supports still images, animated GIFs, and video.
It offers follow icons, live widgets, and share buttons for users who want to incorporate We Heart It on their website or blog.
We Heart It is known for its positive community, since there are no features for commenting, users feel more comfortable posting content since it will not receive negative comments as it might on other social networks.
In June 2015, an Apple Watch app was released.
In December 2015, the companion app Easel was released. With Easel, users can create custom images with quotes, filters, and colors to share on We Heart It or other social media apps.
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