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Blasting News. The Social Journalism Revolution. Andrea Manfredi, Founder and CEO | NOAH, London 11th November 2016

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Blasting News. The Social Journalism Revolution.

Andrea Manfredi, Founder and CEO | NOAH, London 11th November 2016

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From the past. The industrial model.

Old Journalism: Centralized. Oligarchic. Nepotistic.

“The Guardian may have to slash costs by

more than 60% to survive.

The company has burned through another £48

million in cash since April this year”.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-guardian-talks-google-and-facebook-2016-10

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To the future. The Social model.

New Journalism: Popular. Democratic. Meritocratic.

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The revolution is here.

• News are produced by delocalized, freelance

contributors (Blasters).

• Blasters are paid based on number of visitors.

Made by the People.

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• Every single news is fact-checked and curated by:

• a technology layer, and

• a quality team of professionals (Senior Blasters).

Curated by professionals.

2

• Each news is distributed by its own creators.

• The best news are distributed by Social Blasters, a

global team of 700+ digital influencers selected

through applications and interviews.

Huge social media power.

3

• All the core processes are managed by technology:

e.g., homepages are handled by a patent-pending

technology without human intervention.

• 40% of the team is IT/tech focused.

A tech platform, not an old-style publisher.

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Blasting News represents new journalism – the first global, social news magazine.

A tech platform connecting top writers with engaged audiences.

5

29

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92

6,0

21,0

36,0

51,0

66,0

81,0

96,0

Jan2015

Oct2015

Oct2016

Nov

Global Monthly Unique on-site Visitors, millions

Extraordinary growth.

Blasting News is the first global, social magazine based on Sharing Economy principles.

Started up in 2013, Blasting News is now reporting news globally.Launched in mid-2013, Blasting News has reached 86m Monthly Unique

on-site Visitors in October, and it has an early projection to 92m in November.

Source: Google Analytics, internal data, unless stated otherwise: (1) Alexa Ranking. (2) comScore; (3) Buzzsumo.

3x unique users

in 1 year

170° most read

website in the

world. (1)

2° largest news

magazine in

Brazil. (2)

120M+ video

views per

month.

700+ shares

on FB per

news.(3)

Key data

2,000+ active

writers

per month.

21,000+ news

published

per month.

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Extraordinary growth vs. best-in-class new-media players.

Source: Google Analytics, internal data, market data. https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital-media-news/

Best-in-class new media players, Monthly Unique Readers, millions

TIME FROM

START UP (years)

60

20

0

1 5 6 7+432

(launched mid-2013)

40

(launched in 2012)

(launched in 2006) (launched

in 2005)

Monthly Unique

Visitors, M

Blasting News is growing faster than any of the

best-in-class new-media players…

“NBCUniversal is doubling its bet by

investing another $200m on BuzzFeed”.

(October 20, 2016)

“Funding from media giant in media

players in 2016 is on pace to reach a new

high of $4.5B” from $3.4B in 2015.

“Venture Capitalists are Bullish on News:

Funding to Media / Fat Content Startups

Jumps” 5x in the US.

.. in a market where

everybody wants to be.

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A global approach.

Blasting News has a truly global approach:

6 offices, 34 national editions – news in 25 languages, readers in 5 continents.

South

America: 52M

A Global Presence.

For a Global Coverage.

Singapore,

starting up

North

America: 13M

New York,

since 07/2016

APAC:

starting up

Europe:

27M

San Paulo,

since 09/2015

London

(HQ)

UK France

Spain

US Brazil

Italy

Source: Projections on Google Analytics November 2016 data

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28,3%

35,3%

17,1%

8,8%

7,4%

3,0%

0% 20% 40%

18-24

25-34

35-44

45-54

55-64

65+

74%

21%

4%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

17%

41%

18%24%

0%

20%

40%

60%

Search Engine Social -

Standard Blasters

Social -

Social Blasters

Direct/Other

70%

15%7% 4% 3%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

Entertainment

& Lifestyle

News

& Local

Business

& Politics

Tech

& Culture

Sport

40%

60%

Interest

Source: Google Analytics, internal data, October 2016 data

Age

64%

Millennials

Gender

Source

Device

70% love

Lifestyle

74%

Mobile

60%

Female

Visit site from

different sources.

The readers.

Blasting News readers are valuable (64% Millennials, 60% Female)

and engaged from different sources.

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Key Financials and HR.

€6.3m €10.0m

Break

EvenPositive

34 55

Run rate revenues

EBITDA

FTE

NOW IN 6 MONTHS

€3.1m

Negative

27

6 MONTHS AGO

Source: Internal data, NOW = October 2016

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Our vision of the next future.

WHERE WE ARE GOINGWHERE WE ARE

CommunityAudienceRegistered

usersKey operational

metric

Based on dataProgrammaticSelf-

provisioningAdvertising

Voice Chat-botGoogle/FBDistribution Direct

Video,

Live & VRSocial News AudioContent Premium

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