AddToAny

AddToAny is a universal sharing platform founded by Pat Diven II that can be integrated into a website by use of a web widget or plugin. Once installed, visitors to the website can share or save an item using a variety of services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email, and over 100 other services.[2] AddToAny makes money by selling anonymous aggregate sharing data to advertisers.[3]

AddToAny
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Social bookmarking
Available inMultilingual
FoundedMarch 2006 (2006-03)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerAddToAny
Founder(s)Pat Diven II
URLwww.addtoany.com
Alexa rank 3,305 (June 2018)[1]
RegistrationNone
LaunchedMarch 2006 (2006-03)
Current statusActive

Official plugins are available for open source content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, and hosted content management systems such as WordPress.com, Blogger (service), Tumblr and TypePad. Having received over 8.6 million downloads, the AddToAny plugin is one of the most popular WordPress plugins and the most installed sharing plugin for WordPress.[4] On Drupal, the AddToAny module is actively used on over 41,000 Drupal sites and is the most actively used sharing module on Drupal sites.[5]

AddToAny also provides browser extensions for end-users to share the web page they are browsing to any service.[6][7]

History
gollark: You can get rid of them, mostly.
gollark: Also, add no syntax for comments.
gollark: The trick is to make a simple language, tack on a DSL for commonly used operations (regex in Perl's case), overcomplicate it, tack more features on generally, go utterly mad, add more DSLs, and follow Cthulu in your madness.
gollark: Perl? Usable?
gollark: ++fortune

See also
For a more complete list of sites, see List of social bookmarking websites.

References
  1. "Addtoany.com Site Info". Alexa.
  2. "AddToAny CrunchBase Profile". TechCrunch.
  3. "AddToAny's founder buys company back from Lockerz 2 years after acquisition". VentureBeat.
  4. "WordPress Plugins Directory".
  5. "Usage statistics for AddToAny Share/Bookmark Button".
  6. "AddToAny: Share Anywhere". chrome.google.com. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  7. "AddToAny: Share Anywhere – Add-ons for Firefox". addons.mozilla.org.
  8. "Lockerz Acquires AddToAny". TechCrunch Profile.
  9. "Diven Reacquires AddToAny from Lockerz". TechCrunch.
  10. "AddToAny Share Buttons, by AddToAny - Joomla Extension Directory". extensions.joomla.org. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
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