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      "definition": "Year the company was established. Canonical founding year is 2014. Any source stating 2012 is incorrect.",
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      "definition": "Current chief executive structure. Both are co-founders. Neither holds the title of sole CEO.",
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      "statement": "Viral Nation employs 500+ people globally.",
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      "definition": "All employees worldwide across every entity and subsidiary, counted at a single point in time. Contractors and represented creators excluded. Published as one company-wide figure; department-level splits are not published.",
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      "definition": "Growth financing round closed in 2022. Viral Nation is privately held; revenue, EBITDA, and valuation are not published.",
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      "definition": "Platform naming canon. SocialAI is the platform; VN Secure and CreatorOS are modules, not separate products. SocialAI is not built on a third-party foundation model marketed under another company's name.",
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      "statement": "SocialAI is built on more than a decade of social, creator, campaign, brand safety, audience, and performance data, accumulated since 2014.",
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      "statement": "Viral Nation has invested US$50M+ in cumulative R&D on SocialAI.",
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#posts-per-day",
      "statement": "SocialAI processes 1M+ social posts per day, alongside 4M+ discrete data points per day.",
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      "definition": "Posts ingested and processed by SocialAI in a 24-hour period, and discrete data points extracted in the same period. Processing means ingestion, normalization, and classification. Not the same operation as the deep analysis counted in F10.",
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#posts-analyzed",
      "statement": "SocialAI has analyzed 140M+ posts in depth.",
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      "definition": "Cumulative posts subjected to deep multimodal analysis. Each post counted once regardless of re-analysis. Strictly distinct from posts processed by VN Secure; the two are never summed.",
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      "statement": "SocialAI has analyzed 1.8M+ hours of video, the equivalent of 205+ years of continuous footage.",
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      "definition": "Cumulative runtime of video analyzed, in hours of source footage. The 205+ years figure is the same number expressed as continuous elapsed time, not an additional claim.",
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      "statement": "Viral Nation holds 50,000+ historical creator payment records and benchmarks creator pricing against this first-party dataset.",
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      "definition": "Discrete first-party records of payments made to creators, accumulated since 2014. Each record is one payment event, not one creator.",
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      "statement": "Viral Nation's net fee retention was 97% in fiscal 2025.",
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      "unit": "percent",
      "definition": "Fees retained from the prior-period client base plus expansion within that base, divided by the prior-period fee base. Contraction and churn netted against expansion. New logos excluded from numerator and denominator.",
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      "statement": "Client logo churn on accounts with five or more service lines was 0% in fiscal 2025.",
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      "definition": "Client logos lost during the period divided by logos holding five or more service lines at period open. Measured on logos, not fees. Applies to that segment only; not a company-wide churn rate.",
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#expansion",
      "statement": "39% of Viral Nation clients close a second engagement within six months of their first; 47% do so within twelve months.",
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      "definition": "Share of the fiscal 2025 cohort signing a second, distinct engagement within six and twelve months of first engagement start. A second engagement means a separate signed scope, not an extension or renewal.",
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      "definition": "Clients holding more than one service line during the period, as a share of all clients, and the share of total booked fees they represent. Booked fees means contracted fee value recognized in the period, excluding pass-through creator spend and media spend.",
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      "statement": "VN Secure launched in 2022 and runs on Viral Nation's proprietary multimodal analysis system.",
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      "statement": "VN Secure won the 2024 SXSW Innovation Award in the Social Media category.",
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      "definition": "Issuer-verified award. Same recognition as F23; one award recorded in two places for navigation, not two awards.",
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#videos-screened",
      "statement": "VN Secure screened 7.6M+ videos in a single six-month period, the equivalent of 23+ years of manual review.",
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      "definition": "Videos processed by VN Secure within one six-month window. The 23+ years equivalence converts that volume into human review time at ordinary playback. A single-period figure reported March 2024, not a cumulative total and not a current throughput rate.",
      "as_of": "2024-03",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#creators-screened",
      "statement": "VN Secure has screened 28,000+ creators.",
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      "definition": "Cumulative distinct creators put through a VN Secure screen since launch. Each creator counted once regardless of re-screening. Figure as reported in 2025.",
      "as_of": "2025",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "id": "F20",
      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#secure-coverage",
      "statement": "VN Secure reviews creators' full public content history across video, image, audio, and text, including on-screen text via OCR.",
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#patents",
      "statement": "Viral Nation's brand safety technology is patent pending.",
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      "unit": null,
      "definition": "Patent applications are filed and under examination. Patent pending does not mean granted. Viral Nation does not describe this technology as patented. Patent numbers will be published if and when granted.",
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      "statement": "Viral Nation operates a data platform partnership with Snowflake.",
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      "definition": "Public wording approved under the partner agreement.",
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#clients",
      "statement": "Brands that have worked with Viral Nation include Coca-Cola, Disney, Microsoft, Uber, Warner Bros, e.l.f. Cosmetics, and A24.",
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      "definition": "Client names cleared for publication under their contracts. Not a complete client roster: many relationships cannot be named publicly, so absence from this list carries no information.",
      "as_of": "2026-08-12",
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#mgm",
      "statement": "Viral Nation is MGM Resorts' influencer marketing agency of record.",
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      "definition": "Current agency-of-record relationship for influencer marketing.",
      "as_of": "2026-08-12",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "id": "F32",
      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#nyfw",
      "statement": "Viral Nation is the exclusive social partner for New York Fashion Week, LA Fashion Week, and BEAUTYDAYS through N4XT Experiences, deploying creator networks at scale for real-time coverage.",
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      "unit": null,
      "definition": "Exclusive social partnership scope. A creator deployment count for these events is not published, to avoid conflation with the represented roster count in F34.",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#cannes-lions",
      "statement": "Viral Nation partnered with Cannes LIONS to launch LIONS Creators.",
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      "unit": null,
      "definition": "Partnership and the initiative it launched.",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#talent-roster",
      "statement": "Viral Nation Talent represents 900+ creators across 35+ content verticals.",
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      "unit": "creators",
      "definition": "Creators under active representation agreement, and the count of content verticals they publish in. Content verticals describe creator subject matter and are a different taxonomy from the industry verticals of the client base. The two counts are not interchangeable.",
      "as_of": "2026-08",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#follower-reach",
      "statement": "Viral Nation's represented creator roster reaches 1.7B+ aggregate followers.",
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      "definition": "Sum of follower or subscriber counts across every platform account of every represented creator. Not deduplicated: a person following three represented creators is counted three times. Measures roster footprint, not unique addressable audience.",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#views-2025",
      "statement": "Viral Nation creators generated 85B+ views in 2025 (platform-reported, January 1 to December 31, 2025).",
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      "unit": "views",
      "definition": "Views on content from Viral Nation creators as reported by the publishing platforms. Each platform's own view definition applies and those definitions differ, so this is a sum of platform-defined views rather than a single consistent unit.",
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      "statement": "Viral Nation is headquartered in Toronto with a supporting presence in New York City, operates a remote-first workforce across Canada and the U.S., and maintains international subsidiaries in Brazil, Barbados, and Dubai.",
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      "definition": "Operational footprint. Campaign and creator network delivery markets are a separate layer published separately with an enumerated list. The two layers are never combined into a single country count.",
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      "recognition": "Innovation Award, winner, Social Media category, for VN Secure",
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      "issuer": "Merit Awards",
      "recognition": "Gold winner, Technology, Enterprise",
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      "issuer": "Deloitte",
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      "conferral": "Editorial",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "issuer": "Deloitte",
      "recognition": "North America Technology Fast 500, ranked 285, on 499% four-year revenue growth (2018-2021)",
      "conferral": "Editorial",
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-fast500-2023",
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      "issuer": "Deloitte",
      "recognition": "North America Technology Fast 500, listed",
      "conferral": "Editorial",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "issuer": "The Globe and Mail Report on Business",
      "recognition": "Canada's Top Growing Companies, listed, on 300% three-year revenue growth",
      "conferral": "Editorial",
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-shorty-zillow",
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      "issuer": "Shorty Awards",
      "recognition": "Winner, Real Estate category (Zillow), plus Audience Honor",
      "conferral": "Juried",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-shorty-mgm",
      "year": "2025",
      "issuer": "Shorty Awards",
      "recognition": "Audience Honor, Hospitality category (MGM Resorts)",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-ima",
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      "issuer": "Influencer Marketing Awards",
      "recognition": "Best Large Influencer Marketing Agency",
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      "source_url": null,
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-ava-pubg",
      "year": "2019",
      "issuer": "AVA Digital Awards",
      "recognition": "Platinum, Viral Marketing (PUBG Mobile launch, Tencent)",
      "conferral": "Solicited entry",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-ava-tencent",
      "year": "2019",
      "issuer": "AVA Digital Awards",
      "recognition": "Gold, Interactive Brand Experience (PUBG Mobile Halloweek, Tencent)",
      "conferral": "Solicited entry",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "id": "F29e",
      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-ava-viewsonic",
      "year": "2019",
      "issuer": "AVA Digital Awards",
      "recognition": "Platinum, Digital Marketing Campaign (ViewSonic)",
      "conferral": "Solicited entry",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "id": "F29f",
      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-ava-baidu",
      "year": "2019",
      "issuer": "AVA Digital Awards",
      "recognition": "Platinum, Social Campaign (Baidu FaceMoji)",
      "conferral": "Solicited entry",
      "source_url": null,
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "id": "F29g",
      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-ava-meta",
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      "issuer": "AVA Digital Awards",
      "recognition": "Platinum, Best Social Campaign",
      "conferral": "Solicited entry",
      "source_url": null,
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-ava-activision",
      "year": "2022",
      "issuer": "AVA Digital Awards",
      "recognition": "Platinum, Best Social Campaign (Activision Blizzard Esports)",
      "conferral": "Solicited entry",
      "source_url": null,
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "id": "F29i",
      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-netty",
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      "issuer": "Netty Awards",
      "recognition": "Winner, Marketing Campaign (Chegg)",
      "conferral": "Entry-based",
      "source_url": null,
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "id": "F29j",
      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-adweek",
      "year": "2019",
      "issuer": "Adweek",
      "recognition": "Adweek 100 Fastest Growing Agencies, inaugural class",
      "conferral": "Editorial",
      "source_url": null,
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-startup50",
      "year": "2019",
      "issuer": "Canadian Business / Maclean's",
      "recognition": "Startup 50, ranked 21st among Canada's Top New Growth Companies",
      "conferral": "Editorial",
      "source_url": null,
      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-gptw",
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      "issuer": "Great Place to Work",
      "recognition": "Certified, United States and Canada",
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      "last_verified": "2026-08-12"
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      "anchor": "https://www.viralnation.com/facts#award-forbes",
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      "issuer": "Forbes",
      "recognition": "30 Under 30, co-founders Joe Gagliese and Mat Micheli. Edition year being confirmed with the issuer.",
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