Who we are

We are Social Media Specialists – a unique team of social media communications professionals, interactive ideas people, high-end technical engineers and creative designers.

Beyond these individual skills and experiences, at our core we are a collective of social media advocates and enthusiasts. We understand social media and how to enable and harness it for the benefit of our clients.

Social media has fundamentally transformed the way the world communicates. The democratisation of information and the emergence of easy-to-use data sharing platforms have rewritten the rules on how word-of-mouth is influenced. This profound evolution means that the marketing mix requires a new type of thinking. This is where we come in. Our primary objective is to enable our clients to use social media to achieve measurable business results.

Think of Betapond as a full service Social Media Partner which helps brands to create and maintain engaging social media conversations with their customers and markets.

Meet the senior team

Betapond Senior Team, Declan Kennedy, Conor Ryan, Peter Elger, John Stacey, Stephen Millea, Christian Hughes, Chris Gallagher, Karl Toomey

Our team

Drawn from a diverse range of backgrounds and skill sets, the Betapond team have both the expertise and experience to create cutting edge Social Media solutions for all your marketing objectives.

Declan Kennedy

CEO

Declan leads Betapond's growth to deliver our vision: to make social media mean business.

Richard Delevan

Managing Director

Richard drives business development and marketing and leads key client relationships with brands and agencies to deliver social media ROI.

Conor Ryan

COO

Conor manages the studio and development teams, and is responsible for the delivery and support of live campaigns and digital assets.

Peter Elger

CTO

Peter is the overall technical lead of the Betapond platform and ensures that all technical output is robust, reliable and secure.

John Stacey

Senior Social Technology Developer

John is the lead technical developer across all social media platforms and applications.

Stephen Millea

Creative Director

Stephen is our lead web and mobile designer and is responsible for the design and user experience implementations across all campaigns and digital assets.

Christian Hughes

Social Media Strategic Planner

Christian leads the social media planning and engagement strategies for our clients' campaigns.

Chris Gallagher

Social Technology Developer

Chris is responsible for building Facebook applications and related campaigns, predominantly in Ruby on Rails across all social media platforms.

Karl Toomey

Interactive Creatives

Karl is one of our leading interactive creatives. Karl brings his unique brand of interactive creativity to the Betapond team.

What we do

Betapond delivers integrated social media campaigns. We work with our clients from initial planning and strategy development, right through to campaign development and software implementation. We actively monitor and manage campaigns to ensure maximum results are achieved.

All of our development resources are in-house, which enables us to provide bespoke technical services for any and all social media technology needs. We build high end social media solutions and we also assist clients in migrating and integrating their existing web and mobile systems, sites and applications onto relevant social media platforms. We are experts in Facebook application development.

Betapond is one of the few social media solutions providers globally that offers clients the capability to create, customise and run dynamic Facebook competitions and promotions. Our easy to use, self-service Promo Builder enables brands to directly control an area within their Facebook fan page to create, update and replace promotions and competitions. We also provide a robust and scalable in-house technology platform that runs multilingual Facebook applications across multiple Facebook fan pages.

Some of our work

Betapond some of our sample work, Vodafone, Zoo, RTE 2fm, Mp3 Unsigned, Tourism Ireland, Ahville, Paddy Power, Thomas Crosbie Holdings, MuzuTV, MCD

Clients

We work with a wide variety of clients & agencies in Ireland and abroad. For specific case studies and detailed insights please contact us.

Betapond Tourism Ireland

Tourism Ireland

Use our Facebook Promo Builder to run Facebook promotions & competitions on fan pages in 9 countries with multiple languages. Promotions are used to gain fans and drive social CRM and data capture.

Betapond QuizTable

QuizTable

QuizTable we completely developed a viral quiz game on Facebook and replicated the game as an iPhone application. Launched June 2010.

Betapond Muzu.TV

MUZUTV

We are social media advisers to Muzu.tv. The Facebook app is a bespoke content publishing widget that allows record companies to post Muzu.tv content directly to artists’ Facebook fan pages.

Betapond Paddy Power Last Man Standing

Paddy Power

Use our Facebook fantasy football app to run a free version of their Last Man Standing game. The viral game generates engagement and conversation on Paddy's fan page.

Betapond Discover Ireland

Discover Ireland

A Flash based Facebook game to drive brand awareness of Ireland over St Patricks Day in the UK. Objective was to drive social CRM and data capture.

Betapond Mp3 Unsigned

Mp3 Unsigned

A complete re-brand and rebuild of mp3unsigned.com to move to Jamworld brand. Jamworld is a large and active music community site for unsigned musicians.

Betapond RTE 2fm

RTE 2fm

A full site upgrade and re-brand. Launch June 2010.

Contact Us

Call Us +353 1 9020787

Address:
11 Upper Mount Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.

Call Us +353 51 306259

Address:
ArcLabs, Carriganore,
Cork Road,
Co. Waterford