Working with the publishing and adtech industries since 2011, Marfeel is a Google Certified Publishing Partner, an official member of IAB Spain South Africa and France, Prebid.org, BVDW, and is a major code contributor to the Google AMP open-source project. With headquarters in Barcelona and offices in New York and Bogota, Marfeel's platform serves over 1 billion sessions per month. The company was founded in Barcelona in 2011 by Xavi Beumala, and Juan Margenat, with the two also acting as the company's executives. Marfeel has been acknowledged as one of the Top 100 European startups for 2015 by Wired. and one of Spain's Top 50 most promising startups by Emprendedores Magazine in 2016 In 2018 and 2019, Marfeel was included in the Inc 5000 list as one of the fastest growing private companies, and was one of 3 Spanish companies in the Financial Times 1000 fastest growing European companies. History Marfeel was established in 2011 in Barcelona by Xavi Beumala, and Juan Margenat; Beumala was an Adobe employee, while Margenat was a civil engineer active in Barcelona's startup scene. Shortly after its establishment, Marfeel was a competitor at The TechCrunch Barcelona Meetup, a competition it eventually won. Prior to requesting its first funding, the company was accepted in two startup accelerators: Wayra, Telefónica's's accelerator and SeedRocket. The initial idea came as Beumala noticed that most websites, when displayed in mobile devices or tablets, offered a rather impractical duplicate of their desktop version. Beumala and Margenat, both avid technology fans, thought that they could combine these interests to create a business solution to the problem. In February 2016, Marfeel has become an official collaborator on Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project, simplifying the new solution's publisher implementation process and allowing deep linking into publisher's own mobile properties, directly from search engine results. In April 2016, TechCrunch announced Marfeel's full support for Facebook's newly-launched Instant Articles, providing a mobile publishing format that enables news publishers to distribute articles to Facebook's app, loading and displaying content significantly faster than the standard mobile web, within Facebook itself. Marfeel customer websites are fully Instant Articles- enabled and optimized. In April 2016, Marfeel was named a Gartner's Cool VendorCool Vendors in Mobile Marketing, 2016 in Mobile Marketing, 2016, recognizing the company's 360 mobile solution for content publishers as innovative, Impactful Intriguing.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In November 2019, Google awarded Marfeel the 2019 Innovation Award at their annual Google Certified Publisher Partner Summit for MarfeelPush, an automated, AI-driven push notification system for publishers. In May 2020, The Drum awarded Marfeel as the Best Overall Technology for Programmatic Trading, thanks to their work with publisher partner Euronews.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Marfeel is also known for hosting industry events such as Convergence New York and TechXPublisher Talks, featuring key players in the tech and media worlds, including Google, Complex, Leaf Group, Refinery 29, and Digiday. Services Marfeel has developed a multi-faceted platform that creates a highly-performant mobile website for online publications, optimizing the traffic, engagement, and monetization of their website. The publisher's website is automatically converted and their content adjusted in order to be user-friendly and allow easier reading, resulting in optimized monetization through mobile advertising. A result of easier reading is an increase in reading time and page views by users, which results in an increase of advertisement revenue for publishers. The platform utilizes programmatic advertising technology and Real-time bidding to facilitate higher revenue through its platform. Marfeel's platform looks and feels like a mobile app, but it isn't one. Instead, it works within the browser and the websites' users do not have to download it. This is also what's known as a Progressive Web App, a term coined by Google to "build better experiences across devices and contexts within a single codebase". Marfeel also gives full control of the mobile experience so that publishers can make whatever changes they feel are necessary with a suite of tools. Technology such as LeroyMarfeel gives publishers who are not tech-savvy the tools to change the website look feel, add analytics providers, modify ad positions and providers, and deliver push notifications. For more advanced changes, Marfeel has opened up their source code for full-stack developer teams. The Marfeel platform allows publishers to build without limits and deploy without downtime.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Marfeel was recommended by Google as a supplier of website display optimization, thus becoming the first Spanish startup to be certified by Google for a mobile design solution. Well known clients of Marfeel include The Washington Times, DMG Media Ireland, El Confidencial, The South African, Proceso.mx, and 01net. References%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% External links Official Website
 The company was founded in Barcelona in 2011 by Xavi Beumala, and Juan Margenat, with the two also acting as the company's executives. History Marfeel was established in 2011 in Barcelona by Xavi Beumala, and Juan Margenat; Beumala was an Adobe employee, while Margenat was a civil engineer active in Barcelona's startup scene. Shortly after its establishment, Marfeel was a competitor at The TechCrunch Barcelona Meetup, a competition it eventually won. Prior to requesting its first funding, the company was accepted in two startup accelerators: Wayra, Telefónica's's accelerator and SeedRocket. The initial idea came as Beumala noticed that most websites, when displayed in mobile devices or tablets, offered a rather impractical duplicate of their desktop version. Beumala and Margenat, both avid technology fans, thought that they could combine these interests to create a business solution to the problem. In April 2016, TechCrunch announced Marfeel's full support for Facebook's newly-launched Instant Articles, providing a mobile publishing format that enables news publishers to distribute articles to Facebook's app, loading and displaying content significantly faster than the standard mobile web, within Facebook itself. Marfeel customer websites are fully Instant Articles- enabled and optimized. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Services Marfeel has developed a platform that creates a mobile website for online publications, optimizing the traffic, engagement, and monetization of their website. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% References
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Working with the publishing and adtech industries since 2011, Marfeel is a Google Certified Publishing Partner, an official member of IAB Spain South Africa and France, Prebid.org, BVDW, and is a major code contributor to the Google AMP open-source project. With headquarters in Barcelona and offices in New York and Bogota, Marfeel's platform serves over 1 billion sessions per month.
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In November 2019, Google awarded Marfeel the 2019 Innovation Award at their annual Google Certified Publisher Partner Summit for MarfeelPush, an automated, AI-driven push notification system for publishers.
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In May 2020, The Drum awarded Marfeel as the Best Overall Technology for Programmatic Trading, thanks to their work with publisher partner Euronews.
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The publisher's website is automatically converted and their content adjusted in order to be user-friendly and allow easier reading, resulting in optimized monetization through mobile advertising. A result of easier reading is an increase in reading time and page views by users, which results in an increase of advertisement revenue for publishers. The platform utilizes programmatic advertising technology and Real-time bidding to facilitate higher revenue through its platform. Marfeel's platform looks and feels like a mobile app, but it isn't one. Instead, it works within the browser and the websites' users do not have to download it. This is also what's known as a Progressive Web App, a term coined by Google to "build better experiences across devices and contexts within a single codebase".
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Marfeel also gives full control of the mobile experience so that publishers can make whatever changes they feel are necessary with a suite of tools. Technology such as LeroyMarfeel gives publishers who are not tech-savvy the tools to change the website look
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Marfeel was recommended by Google as a supplier of website display optimization, thus becoming the first Spanish startup to be certified by Google for a mobile design solution. Well known clients of Marfeel include The Washington Times, DMG Media Ireland, El Confidencial, The South African, Proceso.mx, and 01net.
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