2. THE PROBLEM
Everyday routine
5 hours
Social networking
40 minutes every day
and growing*
— Why not combine?
Sources: Harward Men’s Health Watch, The Radicati Group
3. THE SOLUTION
THE TALKING SOCIAL NETWORK
Voice-based platform
Stay tuned when your eyes are busy
Smooth
Users 30 sec messages uninterrupted Followers
bubs stream listen like
radio
11. R&D COMPONENT
THE TALKING
SOCIAL NETWORK
• User voice authentication: security for business accounts;
• Sound content browser
• Control through voice commands
• Sound playback speed boost without distorting the narrator s
voice pitch
• GSM-Internet gateway
• Audio data voice search
• Modules for embedding Hubbub-powered sound content to web
pages
Goal: 100% sound interface
13. BUSINESS MODEL
1. Freemium: unbundled + Business accounts
2. Contextual advertising
14. MARKET & COMPETITION
Vacant niche on $10,4B and 1,43B users social media market
You listen to real people You listen to robots You listen to robots
Full social interaction: Limited social interaction: No social interaction
record, follow, comment, you can answer texts and
share, access profiles, comment tweets via voice-to-
bridge to facebook and text engine
twitter, etc.
Language-independent Language-dependent Language-dependent
Intergrates external No external sound stream Intergrates external music
music stream integration stream
Sources: eMarketer, Research and Markets, Crunchbase
15. Launched at The Next Web, 27 April 2012
4000+ accounts at 20 June 2012
$ 500k raised in seed round
OBJECTIVES
1 million accounts:
9 month after Series A
7 million accounts:
end of 2014