Skillshare

Skillshare® Acquires Creator Tooling Start-Up Superpeer to Expand its Suite of Products for Creatives

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Community, Attention, SVP, Knowledge, Acquisition, Mentorship, Student, Marketing, Skillshare, Content, Love, Ecosystem, Live Sessions, Teaching, Tutoring

NEW YORK, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare, the world's largest online learning community for creatives, has completed the acquisition of Superpeer's technology and key assets to expand its marketplace beyond on-demand classes to new services, content, and products that enrich the creator and student experiences.

Key Points: 
  • Superpeer's tools help creators engage with, build, and monetize their communities through 1-on-1s, live streaming, digital products, newsletters, and many other features.
  • "Our students have told us for years that they want new and different ways to engage with their favorite Skillshare teachers.
  • Similarly, our expert teachers are seeking new ways to earn a living from their considerable knowledge and experience.
  • "Unlike other creator tooling products, Skillshare brings the audience to the creator and helps with the cross-pollination of communities across creators.

Creative Learning Platform Skillshare Helps Creative Professionals Maximize the Highly Anticipated Animation App Procreate Dreams™ with New Partnership and Exclusive Content from its Top Teachers

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Friday, February 16, 2024
Marketing, Student, SVP, App Store (iOS/iPadOS), Learning, Top, Content, Creativity, Reproduction, Community, Animation, Software, Skillshare, Partnership, Entertainment

NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare, the world's largest online community for creatives, has teamed up with the new animation app Procreate Dreams™ to develop a customized series of content that teaches students how to use and optimize tools from the highly anticipated animation software.

Key Points: 
  • Each Skillshare teacher brings their own unique style and engages an audience of creative professionals and hobbyists who want to expand their creative skills.
  • "This partnership underscores the powerful synergy between Procreate and Skillshare, both dedicated to bringing creative education and exploration to the fore," comments Alicia Hamilton-Morales, SVP of Content, Community and Marketing with Skillshare.
  • "Together, we aim to empower individuals to explore and enhance their skills with the newly released app, Procreate Dreams.
  • Procreate CMO Nathan Clegg comments, "Procreate Dreams marks a major chapter for both Procreate and the animation industry.

Creative Learning Platform Skillshare Helps Creative Professionals Maximize the Highly Anticipated Animation App Procreate Dreams™ with New Partnership and Exclusive Content from its Top Teachers

Retrieved on: 
Friday, February 16, 2024
Marketing, Student, SVP, App Store (iOS/iPadOS), Learning, Top, Content, Creativity, Reproduction, Community, Animation, Software, Skillshare, Partnership, Entertainment

NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare, the world's largest online community for creatives, has teamed up with the new animation app Procreate Dreams™ to develop a customized series of content that teaches students how to use and optimize tools from the highly anticipated animation software.

Key Points: 
  • Each Skillshare teacher brings their own unique style and engages an audience of creative professionals and hobbyists who want to expand their creative skills.
  • "This partnership underscores the powerful synergy between Procreate and Skillshare, both dedicated to bringing creative education and exploration to the fore," comments Alicia Hamilton-Morales, SVP of Content, Community and Marketing with Skillshare.
  • "Together, we aim to empower individuals to explore and enhance their skills with the newly released app, Procreate Dreams.
  • Procreate CMO Nathan Clegg comments, "Procreate Dreams marks a major chapter for both Procreate and the animation industry.

PlayOn! Sports Announces James Rosenstock as Chief Financial Officer

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Monday, January 29, 2024
Special, Rosenstock, CFO, School, Discovery, Information technology, TMT, Security, Accounting, Sport, EzCater, DTC, B2B, PMO, K-12, SONY, Child, VICE, WWE, Skillshare, PlayOn, Growth, Management

ATLANTA, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PlayOn! Sports, a leading high school media and technology company, today announced the appointment of James "Jay" Rosenstock as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Key Points: 
  • Seasoned financial, operational and strategic leader brings deep media and technology expertise to drive future growth and innovation in K-12 space.
  • Sports, a leading high school media and technology company, today announced the appointment of James "Jay" Rosenstock as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
  • At PlayOn!, Rosenstock will oversee the Accounting, Finance, Tax, M&A, Information Technology and Security and Project Management Office (PMO) departments.
  • Earlier, Rosenstock was instrumental in architecting and operating Discovery's international businesses, where he oversaw Discovery Education International.

Skillshare Continues to Expand Course Offerings, Teaming Up with Meta-Born Musical Artist Teflon Sega to Launch New Course on Virtual Reality and Avatar Creation

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Monday, October 30, 2023
Metaverse, 3D, VR, Social media, Photography, SVP, Spotify, Creativity, Foot, Content, Student, Partnership, Skillshare, Poetry, Community, AI, Video game, Metallica

NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare, the world's largest online community for creatives, today announced their partnership with Metaverse-born and raised musical artist and content creator, Teflon Sega. In this class, Design Your Virtual Persona: Create a VR Avatar with Unreal Engine, Teflon Sega invites users into a virtual world to discover the fundamentals to creating a custom avatar to virtually represent themselves across digital platforms.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare , the world's largest online community for creatives, today announced their partnership with Metaverse-born and raised musical artist and content creator, Teflon Sega.
  • In this class, Design Your Virtual Persona: Create a VR Avatar with Unreal Engine, Teflon Sega invites users into a virtual world to discover the fundamentals to creating a custom avatar to virtually represent themselves across digital platforms.
  • Teflon Sega is a singer, producer and multi-verse native world builder who first  introduced the world to his VR avatar in 2019.
  • Skillshare's vast catalog also includes recently published classes from Joy Cho , Jacob Collier , Morgan Harper Nichols , Joe Ando and more.

IDC MarketScape Names DataGrail a Leader in Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software

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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Data Management, Security, Technology, Mobile, Wireless, Software, Internet, IDC, Software as a service, MyFitnessPal, Privacy, DPIA, Multimedia, Automation, Organization, ICT, DSAR, Risk, Skillshare, Ecosystem, Salesforce, Environment, Online shopping, Cryptocurrency, New Balance, Dexcom

DataGrail , a leading data privacy platform, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software 2023 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49841923, September 2023).

Key Points: 
  • DataGrail , a leading data privacy platform, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software 2023 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49841923, September 2023).
  • The IDC MarketScape study evaluated the data privacy capabilities and innovations among 12 vendors, for both the strengths and challenges.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230907992455/en/
    DataGrail Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software (Graphic: Business Wire)
    IDC MarketScape is the ICT industry's premier vendor assessment tool, providing in-depth quantitative and qualitative technology market assessments of ICT vendors for a wide range of technology markets.
  • According to the IDC MarketScape report, “DataGrail enables efficiencies for its customers to create proactive privacy compliance.

Skillshare Launches New AI Class For Creatives Lead By Former Student Turned Top Teacher, Smitesh Mistry

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Creativity, ChatGPT, AI, Student, Intelligence, Staring, Skillshare, Creative industries

NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare, the world's largest online community for creativity, today unveiled a new class to help creatives use artificial intelligence, Make AI Work for You: Break Creative Block, featuring Skillshare top teacher Smitesh Mistry, a self-taught Illustrator and Videographer.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare , the world's largest online community for creativity, today unveiled a new class to help creatives use artificial intelligence, Make AI Work for You: Break Creative Block , featuring Skillshare top teacher Smitesh Mistry , a self-taught Illustrator and Videographer.
  • Skillshare launches new class Make AI Work for You: Break Creative Block with Smitesh Mistry
    This first-of-its-kind class on Skillshare provides students with a step-by-step guide to leverage AI software to overcome creative challenges.
  • "Every creative, regardless of preferred medium, runs into blocks in their process which can be frustrating but also time consuming.
  • Each class provides a hands-on approach to understanding and utilizing AI in the creative process.

Skillshare and Musical Artist Dom McLennon Team Up to Launch New Series of Classes on Digital Music Production

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Learning, Music, Partnership, Senior, Workflow, Sound, Computer, Photography, Walking, Community, DMP Digital Music Products, Skillshare, Digital audio, Content, Software, Toy, Entertainment, Brockhampton

NEW YORK, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare, the world's largest online community for creatives, today announced that musician, multi-disciplinary artist and Brockhampton member, Dom McLennon is launching a series of classes on digital music production. The three-part series "Digital Music Production: DAW Fundamentals," "Producing Music Like the Pros: Learn to Sample any Sound" and "Music Producer in the Making: Composing and Arranging Your Track" offer an inside look into the music production process and the world of digital audio workstations, or DAWs. Dom's classes are now available exclusively on Skillshare along with thousands of classes on a variety of creative disciplines.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare , the world's largest online community for creatives, today announced that musician, multi-disciplinary artist and Brockhampton member, Dom McLennon is launching a series of classes on digital music production.
  • Dom's classes are now available exclusively on Skillshare along with thousands of classes on a variety of creative disciplines.
  • Dom McLennon's Skillshare classes offer an inside look into the music production process and digital audio workstations.
  • Through the partnership with Skillshare and Dom, and as part of the series launch, $30,000 worth of 1-year Skillshare scholarships will be donated to aspiring creatives.

Skillshare Unveils New Product Features to Motivate and Celebrate Skill Development Across Its More Than 30,000 Creative Focused Classes

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Thursday, March 9, 2023
AI, Motivation, Growth, Learning, Photography, Management, Nursing, Skillshare, Badge

NEW YORK, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skillshare, the world's largest online community for creatives, today announced a series of product enhancements to equip users to set, track and achieve their learning goals across the platform's offering of more than 30,000 classes on a wide range of creative disciplines including graphic design, AI, video editing, painting, illustration and more. The initial rollout of Badges and Class Certificates resulted in an 98 percent increase in users submitting a class project, the strongest shift in user behavior based on a product update the platform has seen since its launch in 2010.

Key Points: 
  • Badges - Badges help users to mark progress and celebrate accomplishments by incorporating an element of gamification to the Skillshare experience.
  • Class Certificates - Certificates are a new way for users to get recognized for their creative accomplishments and share them with others.
  • Members around the world love Skillshare for discovering inspiration, learning new skills, and putting their talents to work in ways they care about.
  • Skillshare's vast catalog also includes recently published classes from Joy Cho , Jacob Collier , Morgan Harper Nichols , Joe Ando and more.

Joy Cho Teams Up with Skillshare To Launch First-Ever Online Course

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Monday, January 9, 2023
Travel, Skillshare, Pinterest, Dream, Internet, Content, Book, Photography, Learning, Creativity, Creative, Creative industries

Joy's class is now available exclusively on Skillshare along with thousands of classes on a variety of creative disciplines.

Key Points: 
  • Joy's class is now available exclusively on Skillshare along with thousands of classes on a variety of creative disciplines.
  • Joy Cho is launching her first-ever online class, "Pitch Please: Attract Brands & Boost Your Creative Business."
  • Joy is the Founder and Creative Director of the lifestyle brand, Oh Joy!
  • Over time it's been remarkable to see how this simple process helped open so many doors throughout my career," said Joy Cho.