Dogtown Media Returns to INC. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for 2nd Year in a Row

Started in 1982, the prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing companies in the United States has become the hallmark of entrepreneurial success. The illustrious Inc. 5000 ranks privately held and independent American companies based on their percentage revenue growth over a three-year period. To many of the nation’s top entrepreneurs, inclusion on the […]

How to Go From Struggling Startup to the Inc. 500 List: A B2B Growth Show Special

It may be true that nothing worth anything comes easy. But just because success takes some hard work doesn’t mean you can’t work smarter. Marc Fischer, our CEO, got to discuss how Dogtown Media employed this exact strategy in a recent episode of the “B2B Growth Show” podcast. Check out the whole thing here! The Early […]

Buying Music Rights May Be Facebook’s Ticket to Beat YouTube

As app developers know, Mark Zuckerberg will not rest until Facebook is a one-stop online media powerhouse. So how is Facebook going to beat YouTube, one of its biggest rivals for our attention spans (not to mention advertising dollars)? In addition to its new video tab Watch, the platform is trying to broker a deal […]

Dogtown Media Earns INC. 5000 Ranking: Fastest Growing Companies in America

Since its founding in 1979, the magazine Inc. has chronicled all the major developments in American entrepreneurship. It has often been ahead of the curve; in 1981, it was the first magazine to feature Steve Jobs on the cover, claiming that he “changed business forever” (that definitely checks out). As app developers probably already know, […]

Spotify Picked Up Ten Million Subscribers Since March

Chances are, most app developers do not need to be sold on Spotify. With its massive catalog, wonderfully curated playlists, and high quality audio, the reigning champ of streaming music services has already captured a healthy share of the market. The Napster days of sketchy pirating may not be totally over, but services like Spotify […]

Amazon Sheds Profits to Fuel Its Incredible Expansion

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos got the opportunity to be the richest man in the world for a brief period of time this Thursday. As Amazon shares hit a record high of $1,083.31 yesterday, he pushed ahead of Bill Gates for a little while, before the shares took a 3.2% tumble in after hours […]

Google Continues Its Seemingly Impossible Growth Streak

The sheer scale of Google’s operations continues to boggle the minds of Android app developers. Nobody thinks of the behemoth as just a search engine anymore — even the most tech illiterate among us know that the company’s vast operations extend into every facet of tech imaginable: mobile, research, life sciences, investment, and beyond. Google […]

Walmart Grows E-Commerce Wing with Pending Bonobos Purchase

Walmart may be the number one retailer in the world overall, but it lags far behind Amazon in online sales — and as anyone who’s paying any attention knows, the future is in e-commerce. Amazon’s exponential rise seems unstoppable; the company captured more than half of all online sales growth in 2016. It is finding […]

Amazon Aims to Conquer New Markets with Physical Stores

Last week, one of Amazon Prime Air’s drones dropped off a small box of sunscreen at an exclusive robotics conference in Palm Springs. The package was small, but the shipment itself was huge: it was the company’s first public drone delivery on U.S. soil. We are now well on our way to a future where […]