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Life & fun · February 1, 2016

Traction - Go Home Clickbait, You're Drunk [Tony Haile, Chartbeat]

Chartbeat's CEO on his (insane?) mission & lumps taken

Traction - Go Home Clickbait, You're Drunk [Tony Haile, Chartbeat] launched on February 1, 2016 with 54 votes, #1,682 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Tony Haile is hell-bent on making it possible for publishers and content marketers to do higher quality work, defeating clickbait once and for all.

We have offices in NYC, San Francisco, and Boston, but we work with founders all over North America. The best way to reach us is through a referral from someone we know or through the contact form below. Today’s guest, Tony Haile, makes me hopeful for the future of all things created for the internet. There’s no denying the sheer creative power of the internet, but too often, it turns into a race to the bottom — more clicks (and therefore more clickbait), more pageviews, more impressions, more ads. When Tony first became CEO of Chartbeat, the analytics startup based in New York City, he faced this massive problem of an internet teeming with clickbait headlines and…from nextview.vc

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