39 Best Social News Companies and Startups in the UK

4 years ago

This article showcases some of the most popular players operating in the Social News space. Our analysts selected these companies because they excel in one of the following categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Market Position
    • Market domination
    • Market leader
    • Strong market competitor

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SEMRush.

This list may include both state and private ventures providing the most value within the Social News industry.

Top Social News Companies


BBC

BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.

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IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum is the flagship magazine and website of the IEEE.

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Teamtalk

Teamtalk is an online platform that provides Football news, gossip, live scores, fixtures, betting, and more.

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Dexerto

Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.

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UKTV

UKTV is a multi-channel broadcaster, jointly owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive.

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CNW Group

CNW Group provides newswire and webcast services in Canada and internationally.

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Full Fact

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking charity in the U.K.

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GoSocial

GoSocial is a website that provides a daily news, gossip and funny stories from around the world.

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Splash News

Splash is the leading independent entertainment news and picture agency in America. Splash brings the hottest, most up-to-date Hollywood

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy is an online media platform that covers the latest digital television and programming news from the U.K.

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Lawyer Monthly

Lawyer Monthly is a news website and monthly legal publication with content that is entirely defined by the significant legal news.

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Shoutout UK

A multi-award winning independent news network and course provider that aims to get more young people into and discussing politics.

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Minute Media

Minute Media is a digital media company that offers a platform specializing in content and advertising solutions.

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AINews

AINews is an artificial intelligence group that focuses on business intelligence, machine learning, and chatbots.

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Laboratory News

Laboratory News is the leading scientific magazine that specializes in science news, features, products and more.

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Newslines

Newslines is a crowdsourced news search engine

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CoinJournal

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Ethereum News With A Focus On Journalistic Integrity

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loomi.ai

Loomi is an Intelligent Assistant platform for organising and prioritising user’s connected world.

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Bazaar Daily UK

Bazaar Daily (UK) is the British counterpart to Bazaar Daily News, a massive online news agency founded by Sultan H. Khane II.

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Fake news guard

If you could use AI to detect fake news among the thousands of bits of information.

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Tech.London

Tech.London is the most comprehensive guide to the startup community, events & jobs in London

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Socialwise

SaaS

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ViralMash

ViralMash is an entertainment website.

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Live For Football

Live For Football is a vertical social network co-owned by the people that make the content that matters most to fans

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LiveTube

The world’s first Curated Live Video Platform.

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AfricanPhotos Magazine

AfricanPhotos Magazine is a digital media company delivering news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of Africans.

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Lumi Social News

Personalized mobile news and stories, built around an efficient recommendations engine and a powerful social layer

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PolskaHD TV

PolskaHD.TV is a TV channels company for educational channels and entertainment destinations for fans of the latest shows.

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Existent

Existent is a social media platform committed to the development of creative quality-providing businesses.

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NewsSocial

NewsSocial is an online platform for topical and underground issues, and the open & organised exchange of news, ideas & discussions.

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Xtreamr

Xtreamr is a live video technology that enables broadcasters, brands and event coordinators to create interactive formats on TV and digital.

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IPB Communications

IPB Communications is a Media & news company.

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Laser Buddy

Laser Buddy features online news related to national, political, entertainment, business and health from other agencies and newspapers.

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Red Box New Media

RED BOX is the kind of digital creative agency that provides website design, motion graphics, branding, digital marketing.

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Ripl News

Ripl News is kind of social network, designed to crowdsource journalism and democratise the news.

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Cognitive Health Check

News and information about cognitive health

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Bricking News

Bricking News is a news and media company that offers audio news from articles of the Independent and Agence France-Presse.

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BEAM

Personal and public social-based content distribution and curation.

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Matt Navarra Media

Consultancy

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