Klout

Awards

2012: Advertising and Marketing

Fast Company

We’re All Celebrities Now: Can Micro-Endorsements Become The New Klout Perk?

A startup called SocialRank has a new idea about how brands can find and reward the social media users who are most important to them.

Fast Company

Klout Is Reportedly Being Acquired For At Least $100 Million

Re/code reports the offer from Lithium Technologies is “in the low nine figures.”

Fast Company

With New Content-Sharing Platform, Klout Wants To Be More Than A Score

The social metrics company wants you back.

Fast Company

Klout’s New App Cinch Is Like Quora, But More Social

Klout tries to score your social media influence, but now it’s also trying to leverage its users’ expertise to answer questions. Like, er, Quora.

Fast Company

Quora Introduces A New Top Writers Program As A Hat Tip To Its Most Valuable Contributors

The new feature lets users easily identify the Q&A site’s cream-of-the-crop contributors.

Fast Company

Would You Pay To Discover Social Influencers?

A new breed of Klout-like startups are trying to make a business out of searching for people, not things.

Fast Company

Microsoft’s Bing Gets Klout

The game of influence just got a boost. Bing users will now start seeing experts’ Klout scores, and Bing will give search data to the social influence measurer to help with accuracy.

Fast Company

If You’re Interested In Influence, Social Scoring Is Of Historic Importance

While it’s easy, and maybe trendy, to hate on it, Klout and its peers are becoming legitimate channels for indexing and connecting with word-of-mouth influencers.

Fast Company

Klout Gets An Algorithm And Interface Overhaul

Klout, that score-keeper of online activity, has announced changes to the way it calculates and displays scores and rankings.

Fast Company

The Rise And Rise Of Influence

Remember when you looked to TV and newspaper ads to tell you what to buy? Me neither.

Ideas

See Just How Much Of A City’s Land Is Used For Parking Spaces

Ideas

These Expandable Kids’ Clothes Are Designed To Grow Six Sizes

Ideas

These Posters Explain How To Help Stop Islamophobic Attacks In Public

Entertainment

This Donald Trump Jr. Headline Had All Of Twitter Making The Exact “Same” Joke

Entertainment

RZA And Chipotle Are Bringing Beats (But Not Beets) To Your Lunch

Entertainment

How Guillermo del Toro’s New Film Is And Isn’t Like M. Night Shyamalan’s “Lady in the Water”

Co.Design

Cities

This California Ghost City Is A Monument To Bad Planning

Product

MIT Can See What You’re Eating For Dinner

Product

This Glove Translates Sign Language Into Speech

Fast Company

Leadership

“We Had The Wrong Goal Initially”: Pinterest’s Diversity Chief Adjusts Course

Ideas

See Just How Much Of A City’s Land Is Used For Parking Spaces

Entertainment

Klout

Stories about Klout

We’re All Celebrities Now: Can Micro-Endorsements Become The New Klout Perk?

A startup called SocialRank has a new idea about how brands can find and reward the social media users who are most important to them.

Klout Is Reportedly Being Acquired For At Least $100 Million

Re/code reports the offer from Lithium Technologies is “in the low nine figures.”

With New Content-Sharing Platform, Klout Wants To Be More Than A Score

The social metrics company wants you back.

Klout’s New App Cinch Is Like Quora, But More Social

Klout tries to score your social media influence, but now it’s also trying to leverage its users’ expertise to answer questions. Like, er, Quora.

Quora Introduces A New Top Writers Program As A Hat Tip To Its Most Valuable Contributors

The new feature lets users easily identify the Q&A site’s cream-of-the-crop contributors.

Would You Pay To Discover Social Influencers?

A new breed of Klout-like startups are trying to make a business out of searching for people, not things.

Microsoft’s Bing Gets Klout

The game of influence just got a boost. Bing users will now start seeing experts’ Klout scores, and Bing will give search data to the social influence measurer to help with accuracy.

If You’re Interested In Influence, Social Scoring Is Of Historic Importance

While it’s easy, and maybe trendy, to hate on it, Klout and its peers are becoming legitimate channels for indexing and connecting with word-of-mouth influencers.

Klout Gets An Algorithm And Interface Overhaul

Klout, that score-keeper of online activity, has announced changes to the way it calculates and displays scores and rankings.

The Rise And Rise Of Influence

Remember when you looked to TV and newspaper ads to tell you what to buy? Me neither.

Ideas

See Just How Much Of A City’s Land Is Used For Parking Spaces

These Expandable Kids’ Clothes Are Designed To Grow Six Sizes

These Posters Explain How To Help Stop Islamophobic Attacks In Public

Entertainment

This Donald Trump Jr. Headline Had All Of Twitter Making The Exact “Same” Joke

RZA And Chipotle Are Bringing Beats (But Not Beets) To Your Lunch

How Guillermo del Toro’s New Film Is And Isn’t Like M. Night Shyamalan’s “Lady in the Water”

Co.Design

This California Ghost City Is A Monument To Bad Planning

MIT Can See What You’re Eating For Dinner

This Glove Translates Sign Language Into Speech

Fast Company

“We Had The Wrong Goal Initially”: Pinterest’s Diversity Chief Adjusts Course

See Just How Much Of A City’s Land Is Used For Parking Spaces

This Donald Trump Jr. Headline Had All Of Twitter Making The Exact “Same” Joke