SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Akismet, the popular
anti-spam product developed by Automattic, is announcing a
multi-year partnership with Disqus, a comment hosting service for
some of the largest websites and online communities in the
world.
"This multi-year partnership enables the companies to better fight
spam and test out new cutting-edge features."
Akismet will continue to protect Disqus' entire network—which
includes sites like ABC News, Rotten Tomatoes, and The Hill—from
spam, as it has since 2014. This multi-year partnership enables the
companies to better fight spam and test out new cutting-edge
features.
Akismet, which works on any content management system or forum,
is a service that filters spam from comments, trackbacks, and
contact form messages. It is used by approximately 10 million
websites including some of the largest publishers in the world.
Since its inception in 2005, Akismet has detected approximately 525
billion spam comments. It is considered the most accurate and
user-friendly anti-spam software product on the market today.
Akismet's customers include Patreon, Khoros, The Hollywood
Reporter, Deadline, and numerous other mid-market companies and
large enterprises.
Disqus' industry-leading commenting service helps to power an
open and independent web of 4 million publishers and over 2 billion
monthly unique users. Founded in 2007 and acquired by Zeta Global
in 2017, Disqus has focused on helping independent publishers build
audiences through its audience development platform by giving
publishers tools to interact with readers.
Akismet has detected approximately 5 billion spam actions for
Disqus since the companies began working together in 2014.
Akismet's API processes content in real-time, catching spam from
Disqus with a 99% accuracy rate. Unlike spam filters that require
CAPTCHA, Akismet detects spam with a frictionless user
experience.
Steven Stein, President & GM
of Disqus, said, "Akismet is a fundamental part of detecting spam
in comments for all of our publishers, and we've been working with
them for years. We are looking forward to expanding our
partnership in the years to come to discover innovative ways to
better serve our clients."
David Schwister, who is VP of
Distribution Partnerships and Sales for Jetpack and Akismet at
Automattic said, "We are proud to help power Disqus as they provide
best-in-class commenting solutions to some of the best-known brands
on the web. At Automattic, we are passionate about making the web a
better place and we look forward to continuing to collaborate with
Disqus on this important mission."
Learn more about Akismet.
Learn more about Disqus.
ABOUT AUTOMATTIC
Automattic wants to make the web a better place. We're the
company behind products including WordPress.com, WooCommerce,
WordPress VIP, Tumblr, Jetpack, Pocket Casts, and Day One, and
we're a fully distributed company with more than 1,800 employees in
94 countries speaking 118 different languages. Our common goal is
to democratize publishing so that anyone with a story can tell it,
regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they
live in the world. We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority
of our work is available under the GPL. For more information,
please go to automattic.com.
ABOUT DISQUS
Disqus, the web's leading engagement platform, is part of Zeta
Global Holdings Corp. (NYSE: ZETA), a leading data-driven,
cloud-based marketing technology company that empowers enterprises
to acquire, grow, and retain customers. The Zeta Marketing Platform
(the "ZMP") is the largest omnichannel marketing platform with
identity data at its core. The ZMP analyzes billions of structured
and unstructured data points to predict consumer intent by
leveraging sophisticated artificial intelligence to personalize
experiences at scale. Founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, Zeta Global is headquartered in
New York City. For more
information, please go to www.zetaglobal.com.
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