LTK

The Last Word: How LTK’s Amber Venz Box Launched Her $2B Company with $236

Dallas-based LTK helped create the creator economy when it launched in 2011, launching a new category that monetized Instagram and allowed lifestyle creators to become entrepreneurs. It was valued at $2 billion just 10 years later. But when Venz Box first started the company, she had only $236 in her bank account, according to Fortune Magazine.
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Dallas-Based LTK Launches Social Media Advertising for Brands
by | Mar 31, 2023
The new LTK Boost advertising solution lets brands amplify creator collaboration content directly from the creator’s social media handles. The Dallas-based global creator marketing platform says that will lead to "higher engagement and conversion."
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Shopping Platform LTK Hires First Chief People Officer
by | Nov 18, 2022
LTK has influencer retail operations on five continents and recently expanded its presence into new markets. The company continues to aggressively expand its operations to accelerate the growth of its three-sided marketplace focused on creators, brands, and shoppers.
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The Last Word: Amber Venz Box on Adding Virtual Storefront Checkout to the LTK App
Today Bloomberg reported that LTK is now allowing users to buy from influencer-curated virtual storefronts on LTK's app. Box's company has added in-app checkout to leverage the fact that influencers use the platform to make their videos and photos "shoppable."
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Gig Wage Hires LTK Founding Member to Lead the Launch of Its First Consumer Product

by | Dec 20, 2021
It's been dubbed the creator economy, freelancer economy, gig economy, independent economy—but to Gig Wage, it's just becoming the economy. In 2022 the Dallas-based fintech will be hyperfocused on its next phase of growth in a booming industry in need of its seamless, reliable banking platform. Kristen Blum, the new senior director of strategic brand initiatives, will be at the center of that.
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Dallas-Based Creator Economy Pioneer LTK Raises $300M from SoftBank
by | Nov 22, 2021
The investment values LTK, formerly rewardStyle, at $2 billion. The fashion-forward tech innovator plans to use the capital to rapidly grow its team and accelerate its multifaceted, influencer-driven marketplace for creators, brands, and shoppers.
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Industry Veteran Joins rewardStyle to Lead Coveted LIKEtoKNOW.it App to Exponential Growth
by | Sep 16, 2020
Catherine “Kit” Ulrich, the former CPO of WeightWatchers and Shutterstock and the youngest-ever CPO of a publicly traded company, is the new general manager of rewardStyle's fast-growing influencer-driven consumer shopping app.
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Dallas-Based rewardStyle Expands Its Billion-Dollar LIKEtoKNOW.it App With Video Shopping
by | Sep 10, 2020
The influencer-driven LIKEtoKNOW.it app is rewardStyle's fastest-growing product. 5,000 retailers—from Chanel to Walmart and Adidas to Ulta—were integrated in the new LTK Shopping Video feature at launch.
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