About
Pop Up Archive makes sound searchable. SoundCloud users upload 12 hours of audio every minute, and YouTube users are ten times more active. But there's one fundamental problem: you can't search within that media. And when you can't search media, it's hard to monetize. Using speech-to-text software built for specific industries, we enable customers like NPR, KQED, Princeton, Stanford to find, reuse, and monetize their audio data. Rich media search enables accessibility, search engine optimization, and advertising opportunities. By adding a text layer to audio and video, Pop Up Archive exposes hidden value in media. We process thousands of hours of sound and provide a developer-friendly API and widgets for common content management platforms like WordPress. Traction: 59% revenue growth month-over-month since late 2013 launch. $172K run rate and 90% customer retention. Dozens of enterprise SaaS customers pay one-time setup fees and become lifetime customers for monthly services.