Meet the Herd: Say Hello to Cam

By: Alexandra Rugh, Product Marketing Associate

Before Cam Mullen became Yik Yak’s Lead Community Developer, he was actually our first official intern! 

In March of 2014, an enthusiastic college student from Vanderbilt contacted us when he saw on Twitter that we were looking for interns. Brooks and Tyler could tell that he was really passionate about the app, so they hired him right away. Cam graduated that May and moved to Atlanta to continue his internship and was eventually offered a full-time gig a few months later. 

Cam’s innate ability to befriend just about everyone he meets is one of the many reasons he’s such a GREAT community developer. From building our campus rep program from the ground up, to developing partnerships with both online and real life communities, to organizing events at college campuses around the world, Yik Yak just wouldn’t be where it is today without this guy.

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Week In Review: Peek Recap from September 4th

By: Nikki Hope, Creative Content Associate

Can you believe it’s finally September? Summer is officially over & we’re diving head first into fall - the season of Pumpkin Spice Lattes & Presidential Primaries, because who doesn’t put those two things together?

Speaking of POTUS, last week there was a major mic drop moment forcing a merge in the political & entertainment worlds. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that Kanye West announced that he intends to run for President of the United States in the year 2020.

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Escape to Everest: Win & Woo

By: Sharon Oh, Marketing Associate 

Life can be fast-paced. It seems like summer just started, but here we are now, back at school for the fall semester already. It’s important to slow down, step away, and not let the whirlwind of responsibilities, assignments, and deadlines weigh you down. That’s where music comes in. 

We are excited to bring you our monthly guest mix series Escape to Everest, the perfect getaway from all that life will hurl at you.

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Week In Review: Peek Recap from August 28th

By: Robert Simms, Creative Content Associate

Drones are wicked cool. Paper airplanes are also wicked cool. LET’S COMBINE EM! That’s exactly what a few scientists did. Their product retails for about 50 bucks and can fly around 10 minutes on a full charge. You can attach a little camera to the front to get a live scope-out of what your plane sees, which definitely won’t be abused right?

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Week In Review: Peek Recap from August 21st

By: Robert Simms, Creative Content Associate

As I sat on my couch on Sunday, I tried to recall every purchase over $50 that I have made so far in 2015. Among what I could remember were things like dinners, a new TV, tickets to an Atlanta Braves game. Things like that. After thinking for a while, I grew confident that the purchase I made Sunday afternoon was by far the best of the year. What did I purchase? I bought WWE Summer Slam on pay-per-view.

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