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Diply

Diply is a viral content publisher founded in 2013 in London, Ontario by Taylor Ablitt, Dean Elkholy and Gary Manning, under the parent company GoViral. Built on packaging and distributing curated content through social feeds, it reached the top 100 websites worldwide at its peak.

MediaLondon, OntarioFounded 2013diply.com
78Msocial followers across Diply's accounts (TechTO stage 2019-02)TechTO MarketingTO stage 2019-02
1.1M vs 185Ksocial engagements on two packagings of the same story — Dunlop's argument for packagingTechTO MarketingTO stage 2019-02

The people

Gabe DunlopChief Operating Officer · 1 TechTO talk
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Taylor AblittCo-founder & CEOprofile coming
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Dean ElkholyCo-founderprofile coming
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Gary ManningCo-founderprofile coming

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About

Diply launched in November 2013 out of London, Ontario as a social-first publisher: content curated and packaged for the way people share on Facebook, distributed through social feeds rather than a homepage. It grew fast enough to be described as the fastest-growing website in internet history at the time, ranked among the top 100 sites worldwide and top 20 in Canada, and averaged more than 20 million page views a day by 2017. Its parent company is GoViral, based across London, Toronto and New York. Gabe Dunlop, who led content, gave the MarketingTO talk in February 2019 with two arguments: curation is creation, and packaging wins. He showed two versions of the same story — a zoo naming a cockroach after your ex — where one drew 1.1 million social engagements and the other 185,000 from an account with 6 million followers, and said the difference was entirely how it was packaged. He put Diply's social following at around 78 million and its output at roughly a thousand new creative pieces.

Backers

GoViral, Diply's parent company, has appeared in BDC Capital's venture portfolio. No round sizes were confirmed here.

Some figures are founder-stated, not independently confirmed

Quick answers

What is Diply?

A social-first content publisher: curated and packaged stories, images and video distributed mainly through social feeds rather than a destination homepage. Its parent company is GoViral.

Where is Diply based?

It started in London, Ontario in 2013; GoViral has operated across London, Toronto and New York.

What was Diply's argument about content?

Gabe Dunlop told MarketingTO in February 2019 that curation is creation and packaging decides reach — the same story packaged two ways drew 1.1 million engagements versus 185,000.

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