Rantic
| Rantic Marketing | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Web address |
www |
Type of site | Social media marketing |
| Registration | No |
| Available in | English |
| Owners |
"Jacob" "Juice" "Jerry" "Alexander" "Kamaruzaman" |
| Launched | 2012 |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| Current status | Active |
Rantic.com (formerly SocialVEVO and Swenzy) is a social media marketing website that sells fake "likes", followers, views and web traffic.[1][2]
Background
Rantic.com was registered in 2014[3] by a group of internet marketers. The group also has used the names SocialVEVO and Swenzy.[4] During an interview with Vocativ, one of the five people claiming to be a founder said the online business was created by "Jacob, Jerry, Juice, Alexander and Kamaruzaman".[5] The website sells "fake account" services for social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook, a potential violation of these sites' terms of service.[6]
In April 2015, a Facebook engineer said the site's effort to crack down on the "small problem", coupled with an effort to help pages gain authentic followers instead, had shut down most of the fake "like" sellers.[7] Rantic called itself one of fewer than a dozen such companies remaining,[8] and has promised to refill any "likes" or followers lost to account sweeps by site operators.[6]
See also
- Viral Marketing
- Social media marketing
- Ghost followers
References
- ↑ Griffin, Andrew (March 6, 2015). "Facebook purges 'Likes', with pages' fan counts expected to plunge". The Independent.
- ↑ Bilton, Nick (April 20, 2014). "Friends, and Influence, for Sale Online". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Whois search results". Go Daddy. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ↑ Alfonso, Fernando III (September 24, 2014). "The serial hoax artists behind ...". The Daily Dot. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ↑ Markowitz, Eric (December 9, 2014). "This guy claims to be the mastermind ...". Vocativ. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rodriguez, Salvador (December 11, 2014). "Instagram Could Delete Up To 10 Million Accounts". International Business Times. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ↑ Huseyin Kerem Cevahir (April 17, 2015). "Breaking New Ground In the Fight Against Fake Likes". Facebook for business. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
- ↑ Griffin, Andrew (April 20, 2015). "Facebook fake like sellers destroyed by site’s efforts to clean up pages". The Independent. Retrieved April 21, 2015.