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Are you using social media to market your website or to create relationships within your niche?

In this post, you are going to discover seven new social networks, that you can use to promote yourself and build new connections.

Some of them are brand new while some others are a little more known.

Aside from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube or LinkedIn, be sure to take a look at these social platforms and hurry to register your name or brand.

You don’t want to lose the chance to jump on the next social media trend!

Here are the 7 new websites to consider.

 

1. Ello

Simplicity, beauty, transparency and a “virtual place” where whatever it is published is not drawn for online advertising.

This is, in a nutshell, the manifesto of Ello, a social network similar to Facebook (but perhaps even more to Google Plus), and very minimal.

At first glance, I think it’s hard to understand how to orient and interact in a fun way with other users.

The “noise” section offers a caldron of random posts (Pinterest syle), which makes Ello, at this time, a mix of things already seen.

Pros: start from scratch with a new “Facebook”.

Cons: how will they keep the platform ads-free and prosper?

Ello is invitation-only. Hit me if you need an invite code.

 

2. This

“This” looks minimal like Ello.

It claims to be the best place to find entertainment, art and journalism news on the web.

Still in beta, you need an invitation to join.

Ask friends if they are already into it, or add your email to database to receive an invitation when the public beta will be launched.

I’m still waiting for an invite to register.

 

3. Shots

“A fun place to meet people“, that’s Shots motto.

It’s a social platform (mobile only) you can use to meet other people through the selfie!

In fact, the structure is in all respects similar to Instagram, but focused on selfies though.

The app is super usable and intuitive and it would be an excellent social media for those fashion bloggers, for example, who want to pierce the internet with their image.

You can just upload live images from the front camera of your smartphone and it’s aimed at a “teenager” target.

About 1 million downloads, at this time, with 75% of female users under 24 and used by several celebrities.

Pros: excellent user experience and a well-defined target.

Cons: what will happen when selfie won’t be popular anymore?

 

4. Pheed

“A place to express yourself.”

Pheed is mobile app that allows you to upload text, photos, video and live broadcasts.

A novelty compared to other social media is the fact that on Pheed you can earn money online.

Well, yes: you can request a fee ranging from $1.99 to $34.99 to allow users to access your content.

Screenshot of monetization option on Pheed

It’s an interesting social where combination of potential quality content and monetization meet.

Pros: if you will truly find “excellent” content, it could be an interesting place to enjoy quality information in any field.

Cons: will it become popular?

 

 

5. Medium

Of all the social media listed, Medium is perhaps the best known.

It offers a list of recommended content (top stories and staff picks) in a minimal graphic, very light and airy.

It collects content from very influential authors, because at first it was addressed (by invitation only) to popular writers and “thinkers”.

Since one year, it opened the doors to everyone and is, in effect, a particularly trendy alternative to Tumblr and WordPress.

Pros: it ranks “higher” as quality content than Tumblr, for example.

Cons: it risks to being a “mere instrument”, used especially by writers or professional journalists.

 

6. Chirp

Chirp focuses solely on the sounds.

I find it very original!

Basically, you can register your “chirp” : a phrase, a special offer if you have a shop or a photo, accompanied by an audio caption.

Your “chirp” will be collected from users who are nearby, as long as they chirp activated.

Pros: great tool for local marketing, implemented in real time.

Cons: not so popular. Will it ever spread?

 

7. Tsu

Born this fall, Tsu got 1 million users through word of mouth in a little over a month.

Tsu focuses on the generation of valuable content from members, encouraging them through a very strong message: 90% of advertising revenue is distributed among its users!

To join Tsu right now you need an invitation: just visit my profile to register.

The goal of Tsu is to generate a solid network of users, rewarding people for being “social” and influential in terms of relationships.

Be sure to take advantage of this “social wealth” when joining Tsu.

Pros: users are strongly encouraged to publish their best content. You can make money by just using Tsu.

Cons: it slips into the vast sea of the social platforms used just for publishing content.

Important note: TSU was taken down on August 2016.

 

Conclusion

Hope these resources will help you increase your connections online, while marketing you and your content.

 

And you, are you already on these social networks?

Please connect with me and leave your thoughts in the comments below, thanks!

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Comments

  1. Hey Erik,
    Wow! These platforms keep coming up every single day or what?

    I signed up to Tsu but did not really use it 😉 One thing I know is the more platforms you join, the more less productive you become. There should be a maximum I think.

    I just requested for an invitation on ello. Will be trying that one out.

    Thanks for bringing these platforms to our notice man.

    hope you are ready for a wonderful week ahead

  2. Hi Erik,

    I never heard about all these new social networks till now, i heard about Ello i think but i am not sure, i want to try some of them, any way thank you for sharing about budding social networks, may be some of them go viral.

  3. You are absolutely right. I have not heard about these social networks before. Thanks for providing this wonderful information. I am going to bookmark this page definitely

  4. Hello Erik Sir,
    Thank you so much for this awesome post.
    Actually I am familiar with only three from this list.
    Yeah, as you said, Medium is more familiar to me. And I have heard about Tsu and Ello a bit. All others are new to me.
    Let’s see how these beat the existing social network giants.
    Thanks again for the post sir.
    Regards,
    Rahul

  5. Perhaps I’m getting old but I’ve never heard of any of these sites. But if we learned anything about social media, overnight a site can sky rocket from going viral. I remember when Facebook started getting popular, my e-mail was spammed daily from friend invites…. I was one of the last people to join the site, and I’m glad I did it’s an amazing income stream for traffic and sales

  6. Hi Erik,

    Awesome post indeed! Jam-packed with lots of information 🙂

    Honestly speaking, I’ve just heard of 3-4 from this list, the rest I heard for the first time and would be checking them in a while. But the point being, how active can we remain on all of these…lol…I would be lost just in these new ones if I were to sign up for them. I am glad you mentioned the pros and cons of each one, which helps for sure.

    Ana Hoffman was kind enough to send me an invite for Ello once she joined, though I’ve yet to check it our fully, and even Tsu I’ve got people asking me to join, just not got down to it so far, though heard a lot of positive reviews about it. Some people are really earning well from it, though they are also very active there, which is what brings in the money, isn’t it?

    Ah….I need to take a break from the ABC and start off with a little of these, especially Medium as you recommend it.

    Thanks for sharing this with us, and good to see our Ahaians in full swing here! Have a nice week ahead 🙂

  7. Hey Erik,

    These social networks are really COMPLETELY new to me!

    WOW. They are amazing. Gonna try them!

    Thanks for sharing such useful stuff with us! 🙂

    • Sure. I will.

      Can you please tell, which social plugin are you using in the right side bar widget?

      Thanks!

  8. Chai….although have never heard any of the list before now that I know them I think I should try some out and see how people are using them.
    thanks for sharing

  9. Hi Erik!

    Wow! Except Ello, I have did not have any info on the other social networks….until now.

    I just stick to a few of them which appeal more to me and to my audience. More the number of such platforms you join, the difficult it becomes to manage them. We do however have a few tools that unify most of the popular social media platforms so that you can access them from under one roof.

    Thanks for the informative post.

  10. Hey Erik!

    I’ve heard of a few of these before but not the others. I haven’t signed up for any of them (and probably won’t, to be honest) but some of these are very interesting and I’ll have to follow them.

    If any of them actually takes off, I suppose I’ll have to say that I heard them from you first, huh?

    These are certainly interesting and I wish I had time to at least give them a look, but I just managed to cut out a lot of time I spent on social media by purchasing HootSuite. Last thing I need is to get sucked into a bunch of new networks, LOL.

    Still, nice to hear about them though. Thanks Erik!
    – James

    • Quite amazing list of social networking sites…. I think i have to extend my potential… Nice

  11. Thanks for sharing this list. I personally like Medium and Tsu. medium is good to write posts and gain traffic and Tsu I started using today and it also seems good to me.

    Keep doing good work!

  12. Hi Erik,

    You’re right I have not heard of these before, although some of them sound interesting. Seems like you’re on the cutting edge.

    Shots is too funny. Should’ve know it would just be a matter of time before selfies would become an essential part of a social media platform.

    ~Lea

  13. Erik: I will check out Medium in more detail. Have you written published posts on the site? I have registered on Ello, but I am not sure that I will be active there. Ivan W. introduced me to Tsu. The business idea sounds interesting. I heard about Pheed many years ago, and thought it sounded like a fad. I have heard about This, Shots, and Chirp

  14. Hi Erik! Thanks for listing all this social neteorking sites here but its not that i don’t about them. Now coming to the point, i am trying to get into Ello from last 1 month but got no invites from anyhwere.. Please can you invite me to Ello.

    Regards!

    Shahbaz

    • Hey Erik… Thank you so much man got my invite. I had just lost hope on this but thank you very much!

      Hail to the moment i came across this post of yours. 🙂

      Kudos to you!

  15. Hey Erik,

    Wow, it seems like social media sites are just popping up all over the place. Other than Ello and Tsu, I haven’t heard of these others.

    Not sure if I’m going to sign up for all of these though. But they are interesting. I know I received an invitation for Tsu but haven’t signed up yet.

    I’ll have to do more research before I make any decisions about these other platforms.

    – Andrew

  16. Hello,

    Before couple days I used only Facebook social website and note have other social website information but today after reading your article found 7 social sharing website.

    Thanks to share this post with us!

    Have a nice day!

    Regards,
    Pinki Chaurasia

  17. Hello Erik,

    This is an awesome post at social networking. I agree with you. Really good resource and very well written and described with supporting pictures. Read many posts on this topic but it is one of the most complete of them.

    Great job and thanks for the share:)

    Thank you,

  18. Hi Erik,

    You did a awesome job. I am really unaware about all these networks till reading your post. Now I got some insight about other additional social networks and really very happy about that. You are doing a amazing job honestly. Continue writing new things like this. Thanks a ton!!!

  19. It’s a beginning of new way of monetization. As we have seen that tsu allows you to monetize your account, similar to tsu lots of new social networks are coming which opens the door of new way of monetization. Thanks for sharing, informative guide it was.

  20. Wow… 7 new social media.
    BTW I know only two of them. 1) Ello and 2) Tsu
    Still I didn’t join Ello I just heard that name few months ago. I use tsu but I didn’t use it so much.
    Other 5 social media are too new for me. Even I didn’t heard their names. 😛

    Thanks for notified me for this new social media sites.
    Hope you have a great weekend Erik 🙂

  21. Hi Erik
    First Of All ,
    This is Very Very Interesting Tutorial , New Social Networking , Information , Really Great Points , and Wonderful ideas , i agree with you ,
    i am Really inspire Your Article , Really Great Work ,
    These social networks are really COMPLETELY new to me!

    WOW. They are amazing. Gonna try them!
    Thank You very Very Much For Sharing me ,
    Have a Great Ahead ,

    regard
    Jassica

  22. Hi,

    Great post. I totally agree to your points before your post I no heard about social networks.
    But found your post I known 7 new social networks like as Ello, shots and pheed etc. I have bookmark this page for future.

    Thanks for posting.

  23. OMG, I am aware only about two out of the list, Ello and Tsu. However, I am not using any of them but do have an account over ello.

    Great list. I will surely do check out all of these new social networks and try to start using them.

    Thanks for this awesome list Erik.

  24. Hi Erik Sir,

    This is an amazing list of social networks. I don’t know how I missed to leave my comment in this post, Atish shared your post today and I immediately headed over here.

    I know Ello, Tsu and medium and unaware of such a great list of networks to connect with the people of same wavelength.

    Time is my biggest constraint and thus limiting my social presence.

    Have a great rest of the week 🙂

  26. Hey Erik,

    Thanks for sharing these with us. I assume there will always be new social platforms popping up trying to eventually beat out some of the more popular ones. Just like most things, they all eventually fall by the wayside at one point or another right! These are coming on the scene just hoping to have enough of a following to swoop in and take the lead.

    I don’t use my mobile that much so I definitely wouldn’t join the ones where it’s an app access only. That’s why I don’t have an Instagram account. I know, I’m so old school it’s pathetic. LOL!!!

    I won’t be trying any of these though, I can barely keep up with the ones I’m currently on but they’re good to know about at least. When someone mentions their name I can’t play dumb now!

    Have a great week.

    ~Adrienne

  27. Hi Erik,

    Well packed and given the information for us. This quiet interesting list to know about of new pop up in social media world. Ello – Started loving it, awaited for long time and received the invitation to join in it. I eventually see that there is a lot on conspiracy between that Ello will beat Facebook, what do you think of that ?

    Tsu – I remember I got some dollars by referring some colleagues :D. The rise and fall of some social media app is always quite often, but we as Blogger need to adhere which tool that makes us benefit form our business. It always a time changing game

    Thanks for your list and I came to know some of them

    Siva

  28. Hey Erik,

    You’re right. I’ve heard a lot about Tsu from many bloggers in the past couple of months. I guess, it’s time now to give it a try !

    Dheeraj

  29. Hi Erik,

    I have to make a confession. I have not heard of any of them. Perhaps I am like Adrienne, old school or perhaps I have been hiding in a cave.

    I did check three of the ones you mentioned and ended up reading an long article on Medium, which basically talked about blogging perhaps joining the dinosaurs. How depressing.

    The one that caught my attention is Tsu. I like the idea of income sharing. Reminds me of Squidoo before they went all uppity, forgetting that it was us, the squids that made them famous.

    I will have to hit you for an invite to Tsu, which I’ll do after I finish this comment.

    Nice share, Erik.

  31. Hi Erik,

    Internet is ocean of social media network. There are lots of social media sites, and it is difficult to follow them. But thanks to give information of some other social media network. Which are effective to increase some connections and traffic.
    But seriously I thanked you to tell about Tsu. A new kind of social network which increases the connection as well income.
    I’ll try this first to start some income 🙂

  32. Didn’t know about most of them… Hope These new site’s will help me lot to increase my social media marketing business… Thank you.. 🙂

  33. I really don’t know these Social Networks and now love to join these social networks and i want to experience and love to interact with the people.

  34. Great list of social networking sites man. I am pretty sure, my circles got extended more after using these social bookmarking sites.

  35. I Really don’t know about these social networks thank you so much for your kind Post.

  37. Nice list of new social media networks from where new bloggers can get traffic.

    • No I tried TSU for my first video I uploaded on youtube about 2 months ago now it ranks first postion in google search as well as youtube for specific keyword

  38. What a Great news Erik. I never hear about these social before. Shots is best social for meet people and enjoy a lot.
    thanks.

  39. Hello Erik,

    I am using Facebook for years. But now, these new social networks can also helpful for promotion.

    Anyhow, Thanks for posting this info.

  40. Hey Erik,

    Thanks for share great list of social network recently i used one social site Ello…. today i will try others social sites also

  41. I am familiar with the Ello, But you have great list here. And These could be the next big thing of course!!

    We can use these for our promotions too!! Thanks again for the awesome list of new Social Networks.

  42. Hello Sir

    Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful article on New Social Networks. Almost all of them are new to me and i have never heard about them. I am going to explore more about them and will surely give them a try.

    Once again thanks for sharing

  43. O thanks for sharing, i never knew their are any such social networks apart from the facebook,twitter i will surely give them a try.

  44. I dont know why. But u just gained a new daily reader. Awesome post you got there

  45. Hello Erik,
    Most of the bloggers prefer using conventional social media platforms like Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter. though they are effective still but as time progresses, we need to find out more ways for promotion. I use Medium on a regular basis but was unaware of Ello, This and Shots. I will definitely try them out. Thanks for the information.

  46. Hey Erik thanks for this share…. i knew about TSU but didn’t have idea about the others… Thanks for letting us Know.

  47. I could not know about those social media networks which you have described in your post.

    Thanks for sharing those new social networks. But I have a question, can I share my blog post through those new networks for driving web traffic?

  48. Hi Erik,

    So nice to see your valuable content on new social network. I knew about ello before i landed here but all other is new to me. I am very happy to see the feature of this new social sharing sites. Specially on shots and chirp where one is special for selfie and another one is for sound.

    Thank you for your valuable content.
    Kind Regards
    Yasin Rishad

  49. Wow! Except Ello, I have did not have any info on the other social networks….until now.
    I just stick to a few of them which appeal more to me and to my audience. More the number of such platforms you join, the difficult it becomes to manage them. We do however have a few tools that unify most of the popular social media platforms so that you can access them from under one roof.

  50. Hi Erik, I like the sound of Medium which is a bit like tumblr, I’ll give that a try after leaving this comment. I have used Tsu before, I posted a couple of bits, but I’ve lost the login details.

  51. Thanks erik for this amazing information, the title is truth. I never hear about these social networks, but now I am aware and know there pros cons thanks to you for this information. One other question ! is these social network have any influence on blog or website to rank?

  53. Hi Erik, Great share I must say. I found this post on one of my Facebook group and the post title forced to visit this post. Wasn’t familiar with most of the social networks you shared here and I have bookmarked this one for my future references !

    Thanks a lot again, Erik.

    Regards,
    Vipin Mishra

  54. That is awesome and informative post. Must try social networks. These will become popular in future for sure,

  55. This was one of the best informational article about social networks 🙂

  56. Great list Erik. I have heard of Medium.com. Now, time to checkout Ello – even if it seems like I’m late to the party.

  61. I never went to this site, but I would surely like to explore this new social networking site. thanks for your information and gaudiness.

  62. I liked the Ello Social Network Site. Nice platform to connect with People of Different Professions and check their Work too

    Regards

    Sai

  63. Really surprising list. All the mentioned social networking sites except medium were completely unknown to me. Saved all the names for future reference. Good job Erik!