Press
If you would like to know more about us, please email us at michael@whoseview.com , or visit our blog at www.whoseview.com/customer-reviews
If you are a publisher and wish to publish review content within your offline or online publication, please email michael@whoseview.com.
Recent Awards
- Winner Best Listing Website 2010 Golden Spider Awards (Nov 2010)
- Winner Best Indigenous Website 2009 Golden Spider Awards (Nov 2009)
- Shortlisted in 3 Categories at the Irish Web Awards (Oct 2009)
- Pigsback Enterprise Award Runner Up (April 2009)
- Intertrade Ireland Recognition Award (Oct 2008)
- Shortlisted at the Eircom Innovation Competition (April 2008)
Partners
Enterprise Ireland - www.enterprise-ireland.com
To date www.whoseview.com has received Category 1 funding from Enterprise Ireland in the form of a Feasibility Study and Mentoring Service. Brian Davitt, the experienced Marketer and Mentor, has been assigned to WhoseView.com under the Enterprise Ireland Mentoring Program.
Atlantic Bridge Ventures (ABV) - www.abven.com
ABV have taken a minority shareholding and are represented on the board of WhoseView.com.
Lightbox Digital Ltd - www.lightbox.ie
The 2007 multiple Golden Spider Award winner, Lightbox, are both developing and designing www.whoseview.com and are key partners in helping us create a leading social search and mobile proposition.
Recent Press
- Business & Finance "Ones to Watch" - Sept 1st 2010
"The goal is to continue to build the member base and reviews, with a target of 200,000 monthly unique visitors and 20,000 reviews set for December 2010......"
- RTE Business News - July 9th 2010
"With 100,000 unique visitors a month now visiting WhoseView, adding the six UK cities generates the possibility to expand the knowledge of individuals trying to find top-rated local services..."
- Tech Central - July 9th 2010
"WhoseView.ie, the social review based website that allows users to review locations in Dublin, Cork and Galway has expanded to cover six cities in the UK. WhoseView.co.uk is now available in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh....."
- Irish Independent - April 22nd 2010
"WhoseView.ie is a subscription site with a difference; the difference being that you can only get the special offers by spending 'points'....."
- Irish Independent (Weekend Magazine) - April 17th 2010
Things to do section; "Lets your fingers do the walking on WhoseView.ie, Ireland's fastest growing customer review website"
- Cmypitch.ie - December 4th 2009
"Whoseview.ie won the best indigenous website at the Golden Spider Awards. Helen McCarthy tells us about her fundraising and why she believes her high hopes are justified....."
- Bizstartup.ie - November 27th 2009
"A website less than half a year old, Whoseview.ie took the title of Best New Indigenous Website 2009 at the 13th Golden Spiders Awards recently...."
- Sunday Business Post - November 22nd 2009
WhoseView on winning the Best Indigenous Website at the 2009 Golden Spider Awards;
"One of the judges, Eamonn Fallon, chief executive of Daft.ie, said sites were judged on design, speed, accessibility, breadth of content, business model, innovation, user generated content and social features. Sites like whoseview.ie, pix.ie and muzu.tv are all excellent examples of sites that are executing well in this area."
- Sunday Business Post - November 15th 2009
"Start-up social review website Whoseview.ie has raised €120,000 in seed capital from an angel investor and Enterprise Ireland....."
- Silicon Republic - August 11th 2009
"The search facility has a useful predictive search and the entire interface is fast and clean. The locations of the top 5 results of a search appear on the Google map to the right of the results....."
- KillerStartups.com - August 10th 2009
"Nowadays, consumers trust recommendations by other customer more than any other medium. That is one of the characteristics of the social web, and one of the most prominent developments whoseview has brought along..."
- The Tuesday Push - July 31st 2009
"The search facility has a useful predictive search and the entire interface is fast and clean"


