- Christian Owens
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Christian Owens Born June 8, 1994
Corby, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom[1]Nationality English Website christianowens.com Christian Owens (born Christian Bailey Owens, June 8, 1994) is an English Internet entrepreneur. He founded the internet advertising network Branchr, in January 2009.[2] Owens attended Brooke Weston until age 16.
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Media Coverage
In August 2010, Christian was mentioned in British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail[1] and Internet weblog Gizmodo[3] following his announcement of earning $1,000,000 USD in revenue.
Career
Christian Bailey Owens started his first business, Mac Bundle Box, at 14.
Building upon previous successful ventures from companies like MacHeist, Owens bundled various Apple Mac applications and utilities to form one package to be available for a short time at a discount. Mac Bundle Box is alleged to have taken £700,000 in revenue since launching in 2008. Some of it going to the Developers. Christian Owens then launched his own pay-per-click internet marketing service named Branchr. Co-Founded with Entrepreneur Mark Bao .In 2011 Owens revealed on his Twitter social networking account that Branchr had shut down due to issues with advertisers using stolen credit cards on the network.[4].
In the summer of 2010 Owens began a new venture, VoteBundle that allowed potential customers to vote on what would be included in the bundle. The VoteBundle venture was acclaimed by the Apple community.[5] VoteBundle launched, and was the first democratic bundle of its type.[6]
After a number of miscellaneous projects, in December 2010, Owens started an expanding Mac Bundle Box with SwoopGrid an ad platform for Mac application deals. SwoopGrid makes certified traffic statistics publicly available via the analytics website Quantcast; these reports show that around a million people viewed the website monthly at its peak. This number has now dropped to under 5,000.[7]
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References
- ^ a b [1] Christian Owens, schoolboy entrepreneur, making millions.
- ^ [2] Branchr CrunchBase
- ^ [3] How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero, Steve Jobs
- ^ http://twitter.com/#!/the_dream/status/50143984584114176
- ^ http://www.macworld.com/article/152828/2010/07/votebundle.html
- ^ http://www.macworld.com/article/152828/2010/07/votebundle.html
- ^ http://www.quantcast.com/p-05JT0Gad0g_vs
Categories:- 1994 births
- Living people
- Businesspeople in software
- British Internet personalities
- English businesspeople
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