23 May 2013 07:00
News Release - RNS Reach
Peter Gabriel's CueSongs and award-winning crowdfunding platform MarketInvoice get the s-commerce bug
Latest businesses to sign up to blur Partners program
blur Group, the company that's reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com, today announced the latest innovative online businesses to join its partner program.
CueSongs, the one-stop music licensing hub for online and digital media backed by Peter Gabriel, and MarketInvoice, the crowdfunding platform that won City AM's 2012 most innovative business award, are now offering their products to nearly 30,000 Exchange users through blur's b2b App Center.
Philip Letts, blur Group CEO commented on the latest partners: "blur Group's partner program is designed for innovative businesses to use blur's 3.0 platform to bring new products to Exchange users. Today we've nearly 30,000 businesses on the Exchange, growing at just under 1,000 per month and this is a big draw for businesses like CueSongs and MarketInvoice to start joining the s-commerce revolution."
CueSongs is an ideal solution for the creative businesses on the Exchange as it lets them
find and license music from both established and emerging artists for their productions while MarketInvoice provides a marketplace for invoices that are overdue, helping cashflow and debt financing to support small business growth.
"blur Group and s-commerce is changing the $2tn+ global services industry and now our partners are delivering products to provide further innovation to s-commerce adopters with complementary products, all accessible through the unified 3.0 platform."
For further information, please contact:
blur (Group) plc | investors.blurgroup.com |
Philip Letts, CEO/ Dorothy Mead, Head of Marketing | Tel: +44 20 3176 0548 |
N+1 Singer | |
Shaun Dobson / Matt Thomas | Tel: +44 20 7496 3000 |
Newgate Threadneedle | |
Caroline Evans-Jones/ Josh Royston/ Hilary Millar | Tel: +44 20 7653 9850 |
Yellow Jersey | |
Philip Ranger | Tel: +44 7768 534641 |
About blur (Group) plc
blur Group is a technology company reinventing how businesses do commerce at blurgroup.com. Its Global Services Exchange delivers services differently: a new way to buy, manage and pay for core services. Nearly 30,000 businesses in 141 countries have adopted this s-commerce platform and changed the way they work.
blur Group (BLUR) is a public company headquartered in the UK with offices in the US and Europe. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market. blur was founded in January 2006 and launched in alpha in 2007 with the full, formal launch of the Global Services Exchange in January 2010. At that time, just over three briefs per month were submitted. Now 100 briefs per month from companies like Broadridge, Coral, eBay, Exceed, HCA, Momentive, Red Commerce, the Financial Times, Berlitz, Butlins, GE Healthcare and Tyco are received. Over the same time, average brief value has grown from approximately $1,500 in 2010 to $10,800 in Q1 2013.
Today, more than 1,900 briefs have been submitted with a combined brief value of over $25 million. These briefs have come from the US, UK, Europe, Africa and Asia with over 26,000 expert service providers on eight exchanges responding to them.