Tag Archives: Marketing

Wise up and get smarter with your data

Most of us can agree that we don’t want our personal data falling into other people’s hands. This may seem like an obvious concept, but with the amount of data we regularly share online, it’s not such an uncommon occurrence that our information is wrongfully passed onto others. In this clever video published by Facebook […]

US schools gain from 5 million free enterprise-grade licenses

We’re really excited by the popularity of our Free for Education program. It’s growing so much that we recently reached the 5 million milestone for the number of free licenses issues. This means that over 1/10 computers in schools, libraries and charities in the US could be protected by our enterprise-grade antivirus for FREE already! […]

Quality not quantity. Spammers you could do hell better than this

In any line of business – and I guess this is not only common sense but also part of any basic “marketing 101” class – you will learn that it’s important to know WHO your customers are.  So I’m surprised that in the spam-sending business the spammers haven’t figured that one out yet. And I […]

Barack Obama … soon the last Blackberry user ?

If you are a smartphone user and take pride in the phone brand you are using (yes, most users do…) you have for sure noticed the 5-day media frenzy over president Barack Obama’s alleged switching from Blackberry to Samsung… that was promptly denied by the White House and of course by Blackberry, as well. Here’s […]

Cute, but deadly. AVAST minions fight Grime!

They might look like funny characters from an animated movie, but the avast! GrimeFighter minions are a deadly force against the grime that accumulates in your computer over time.  This crack team of animated minions brings AVAST users new technology that speeds, tunes up, and extends the lifespans of PCs. avast! GrimeFighter is being launched […]

Cute, but deadly. AVAST minions fight Grime!

They might look like funny characters from an animated movie, but the avast! GrimeFighter minions are a deadly force against the grime that accumulates in your computer over time.  This crack team of animated minions brings AVAST users new technology that speeds, tunes up, and extends the lifespans of PCs. avast! GrimeFighter is being launched […]

Creative recommendations win 10 AVAST users $1000 each

The AVAST recommendation contest brought 145,000 new members to the AVAST Community! More than 20,000 people entered the contest and approximately 10% of those entries were think-out-of-the-box creative submissions! Users from USA, Brazil, Russia, India, France, Spain, Poland, India, Germany and many other countries showed us  their creativity; ideas to spread the word about avast! […]

AVAST expands into the USA (with a little help from our friends!)

AVAST is gearing up to expand further into the US market. With nearly 14 million active avast! Antivirus users in the USA, some would call that a success, but we see it as an opportunity to protect American’s online lives and multiple devices in a bigger way. With the announcement of a new investment in the […]

avast! Free Antivirus is the most popular download of 2013

During the launch of avast! 2014 in October, CEO Vincent Steckler told a group of international journalists, “On all the download sites around the world, this year, through the end of September, we have 143 million downloads. That’s the most downloaded product – period.” After a few more months, the highest profile download site, CNET’s […]