🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 101 Top English Social Media Startups & Firms

August 14, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best English Social Media companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Social Media industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top English Social Media Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

TradingView

TradingView

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The social network powering independent traders and investors

Culture Trip

Culture Trip

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Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core

Culture Trip

Takumi

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Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.

Culture Trip

GSMA

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The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.

Culture Trip

SuperAwesome

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SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.

Culture Trip

busuu

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busuu is one of the world’s leading mobile apps for language learning – we break down language barriers!

Culture Trip

M&C Saatchi

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M&C Saatchi is founded on the principle of Brutal Simplicity.

Culture Trip

Sofar Sounds

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Sofar Sounds is a global community hosting curated, secret performances in more than 400 cities around the world.

Culture Trip

Croud

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Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics

Culture Trip

Social Chain

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Social Chain a social media marketing agency.

Culture Trip

Echobox

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Echobox is the leading AI-driven social media platform for publishers.

Culture Trip

Triptease

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Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.

Culture Trip

Admix

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Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising

Culture Trip

Unruly

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Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.

Culture Trip

Vidsy

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Vidsy helps global brands create effective video ads, efficiently and consistently across digital.

Culture Trip

REPX

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Committed to building a global Reputation Marketplace through the marketing and sale of innovative retail and financial products

Culture Trip

Uhive

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Uhive is a social network that lets users socialize, interact, and find people across the world while earning its own digital currency.

Culture Trip

Cinesite

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Cinesite is one of the largest and most creative visual effects companies in the world.

Culture Trip

ITV

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ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.

Culture Trip

SmartFocus

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SmartFocus empowers you to deliver omni-channel marketing campaigns with true personalization.

Culture Trip

ContentCal

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B2B SaaS Content Marketing Platform

Culture Trip

Mediatonic Games

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Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.

Culture Trip

Mana

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Share what you love with 1:1 sessions and live classes. Inspire dedicated followers who fund your work.

Culture Trip

ASOS

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Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.

Culture Trip

Codec

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We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.

Culture Trip

Proactive

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Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.

Culture Trip

Newsflare

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Newsflare is an online marketplace for user generated video content.

Culture Trip

Tailify

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Tailify provides a one-stop-shop for Influencers & Brands by offering high technological solutions.

Culture Trip

Audiense

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Audiense is a develops delivering unique consumer insight and engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies.

Culture Trip

TalkLife

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The Social Network That Saves Lives

Culture Trip

SoPost

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SoPost helps brands drive product sampling online, better than it has ever been done before.

Culture Trip

Her

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Her is a dating application for lesbians, bisexual and bi-curious women, allowing users to connect with each other and their community.

Culture Trip

Coniq

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Coniq is the Total Customer Engagement Company.

Culture Trip

ATG Media

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ATG Media offers an online portal that enables users to browse catalogues for fine art, antique and collectable auctions.

Culture Trip

Ayima

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Ayima is a specialist Search consultancy focused on ROI, data analysis and brand development.

Culture Trip

Edge

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The fastest, smartest, easiest influencer management platform.

Culture Trip

Influencer

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Word Of Mouth Redefined.® Run by Creators, for Creators.

Culture Trip

Bookmate

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Bookmate is mobile story-on-the-go subscription service providing convenient access to ebooks, audiobooks and other long-form content

Culture Trip

RealSport

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RealSport gives the best fans in the world a voice on the sports they love. 0% clickbait. 0% fake news. 0% pop-ups. 100% original.

Culture Trip

Lobster

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Lobster is a platform which enables brands, agencies and the media to licence visual content directly from social media users.

Culture Trip

The Ocean Bottle

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Social enterprise tackling ocean-bound plastic

Culture Trip

Youth Business International

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Youth Business International helps young people to start and grow their own business and create employment.

Culture Trip

Nuji

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Nuji is a marketplace to discover the Internet’s best fashion and lifestyle products.

Culture Trip

Sportlobster

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Sportlobster was born out of the frustration that sports fans face in having to visit multiple sites or download multiple apps.

Culture Trip

Howbout

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The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.

Culture Trip

Rise Art

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Rise Art enables users to discover and access original art works from galleries and museums.

Culture Trip

BeeLiked Media Ltd

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An interactive content platform for brands to engage their digital audience, build first-party data and drive sales

Culture Trip

EXTREME

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Brand led entertainment company with over 20 million connected fans, operating accross adventure parks, events, media and mobile network.

Culture Trip

Planable

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Planable is the command centre for social media teams to work together on content.

Culture Trip

SonicJobs

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#1 blue-collar career app, supporting candidates through their job-seeking journey and helping them build their future.

Culture Trip

Miappi

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Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.

Culture Trip

OZ, US

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A leading tech company energizing live events and bringing communities together through out of this world experiences.

Culture Trip

NOT JUST A LABEL

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NOT JUST A LABEL (NJAL) IS THE WORLD’S LEADING DESIGNER PLATFORM FOR SHOWCASING AND NURTURING TODAY’S PIONEERS IN CONTEMPORARY FASHION

Culture Trip

Lightful

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A developing social media and tech tools for the charity sector startup.

Culture Trip

Driftrock

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Driftrock helps brands find their audience online, using data from around the web to power better targeted, more timely Social Media Ads.

Culture Trip

Linkdex

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Linkdex offers a SaaS-based platform unifying search, social, PR and content channels.

Culture Trip

Bazaar Daily UK

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

Culture Trip

WAYN

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WAYN is a travel and lifestyle-based social network enabling users to meet like-minded people.

Buzzbike

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Buzzbike is a London based subscription service offering a stunning 3-speed city bike, an award winning lock, free repairs, theft protection, rider events and app to track your rides! Your wheels your way for one monthly fee, cancel anytime.

Culture Trip

Glow Digital Media

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Glow Machine is an ad tech platform for creating, improving and understanding Facebook and Twitter Ad campaigns.

Culture Trip

PeerIndex

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Social influence analytics platform

Culture Trip

Everyman Media Group

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Everyman is an independent cinema group in terms of cinema venues, screens and admissions.

Culture Trip

GoBubble

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GoBubble builds safer, healthier and kinder digital communities.

Culture Trip

MyMiniFactory

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MyMiniFactory is an online open platform for desktop 3D printable files shared by professional 3D designers.

Culture Trip

Bigballs Media

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Bigballs Media is the world’s largest independent digital football media business.

Culture Trip

Flavourworks

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Flavourworks is a computer entertainment in order to bring unique and innovative experiences to broad audiences.

Culture Trip

Ubooker

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Booking Platform for High-End Professional Models and Quality Vetted Clients WORLDWIDE. Transparency, Low Fees, Fast Payments

Culture Trip

True Royalty Tv

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True Royalty Tv is a channel dedicated to all things Royal.

Culture Trip

TheySay

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TheySay is a sentiment analysis firm developing a platform that uses a linguistic approach interpreting sentiments computationally.

Culture Trip

PlayMob

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Playmob is the gaming engagement platform for brands with purpose.

Culture Trip

PlayJam

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PlayJam develops TV games played in connected TVs, the web, social networks, and mobile devices.

Culture Trip

Woto

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Woto provides a free publishing tool. to create and share contents.

Culture Trip

Shopcade

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Shopcade is a leader in media commerce, now part of Lagardère Active (media group).

Culture Trip

Digital Marketing Agency CHANGES

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Digital marketing agency that served 11 companies from ForbesGlobal2000

Culture Trip

Inspire Me World

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Inspire Me World is a fan to fan community platform that connects global fans with each other based on mutual interests.

Culture Trip

Moneymailme

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Moneymailme is a mobile application that enables its users to receive and transfer payments with others.

Culture Trip

Shoppar

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Generate digital content for Social Media advertising that performs

Culture Trip

mediacom

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MediaCom is one of the world’s leading media agencies.

Culture Trip

Captini

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Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.

Culture Trip

Crowd Reactive Ltd

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Crowd Reactive Ltd operates a web-based application for event organizers.

Culture Trip

Mendeley

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Mendeley is an academic social network and program that enables users to collaborate online, and discover, manage and share research papers.

Culture Trip

Great British Chefs

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Great British Chefs premium food publisher with 1.3m social followers. We have 3,500 recipes from Britain’s and Italy’s Greatest Chefs.

Culture Trip

eDrinks

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A Social Digital Currency for Drinks

Culture Trip

Infabode

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Infabode is the home of information for the Real Estate industry

Culture Trip

Brandnew IO

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Brandnew is a self-service Content Creator platform for brands and agencies. Manage all your influential Creators in one place.

Culture Trip

Jellyfish

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Jellyfish works as a digital platform, supporting and drives digital transformation by providing strategy, technology, and training.

Culture Trip

Chirp Birding

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Chirp Birding, Connecting the World’s Birders

Culture Trip

Crowdmix

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Connecting the world through music. The app where bands, fans and brands collide.

Culture Trip

Qutee.com

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Intelligent comments & data platform

Culture Trip

Hungly

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The “Pinnacle” of Social Media Marketing providing the entire solution for digital marketing needs.

Culture Trip

Samba Networks

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User first advertising for the new economy. Samba is the leader in user first mobile video formats for brand advertising

Culture Trip

Streetlife

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streetlife.com is a local social network that helps British people connect with nearby residents, groups, organizations, and businesses.

Culture Trip

Xperience Plus

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X+ is the first extended-reality framework allowing companies and content creators to create 5 senses experiences

Culture Trip

Crowdholding

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Crowdholding connects the crowd with entrepreneurs, allowing you to give feedback and ideas for future revenue.

Culture Trip

SoAmpli

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SoAmpli enables sales teams to sell more.

ckbk

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ckbk is the ultimate digital subscription service for cooks.

Culture Trip

EventsTag

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We are EventsTag, pioneers of experiential technology.

Culture Trip

Movellas

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Movellas is a social and interactive community for teenagers to read, write, and share their stories.

Culture Trip

Badoo

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Badoo is a dating-focused social network, allowing users to chat, make friends and share interests.

Culture Trip

Firefly Experience (Firef.ly)

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Illuminating Journeys. Firef.ly is a mobile app which distils trip planning, guiding and journalling into a beautiful experience.

Culture Trip

dunnhumby

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dunnhumby is a U.K.-based company that helps retailers and brands analyze data in order to improve customer experiences and build loyalties.

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