Crowd Analyzer – Dubai-based social media monitoring platform acquires TaskSpotting

Image details: from left, Ahmed Saad, CEO & Co-founder, Crowd Analyzer with Dirk Stevens, CEO & Co-founder, TaskSpotting; Credits: Wamda

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▸ Crowd Analyzer is a partner company of Wamda
▸ The acquisition of TaskSpotting will allow Crowd Analyzer to complement its offering to clients


Dubai-based Crowd Analyzer, a partner company of Wamda yesterday announced that it has acquired the Dubai-based activation platform TaskSpotting.

Through this acquisition, both companies will be able to form a bigger avenue for clients to help them assimilate a wider understanding of their brands and utilise taskSpotting’s tools to directly reach and empower their audience.

The TaskSpotting team will be fully integrated within the Crowd Analyzer team and co-founder and CEO Dirk Stevens will join Crowd Analyzer as commercial officers. Crowd Analyzer closed $3.5 million Series A round back in November 2019.

Talking about the acquisition, Ahmed Saad, co-founder & CEO of Crowd Analyzer said…

“The acquisition of TaskSpotting is a promising step towards our vision of empowering brands with a comprehensive service portfolio that not only allows them to listen to and understand how they’re being perceived on social media, but also implement and activate the peer to peer content to better improve their brand positioning,”

About Crowd Analyzer

Founded in 2014 by Ahmed Saad (CEO) and Bahaa Galal (CTO), Crowd Analyzer is the first fully automated social web monitoring platform that analyses publicly available data on social media platforms and news websites to provide up-to-date insights to clients wanting to stay updated with the latest trends and digital conversations happening.

About TaskSpotting

Also founded in 2014 by Dirk Stevens (CEO), George Mikaelian (COO), Karim Aly, Walid Sherif, the Dubai-based startup helps brands optimise their positioning by activating their audiences across 14 markets.


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M Haseeb
M Haseeb

Founder of LAFFAZ Media. A tech enthusiast, digital marketer and critical thinker. Has worked with over 50 startups across India and UAE for building their digital marketing strategies.

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