
Six software companies - LearnWorlds, Open Social, Social Strata, Bevy, Forumbee and Bettermode - are selling the same quiet promise: stop renting your audience from Facebook and Discord, and build a community you actually keep.

Gravyty, Podia, Khoros, Bevy, Personify and a crowd of rivals all sell the same promise - that your audience is an asset you control. The platforms making that promise keep getting bought, merged and switched off.
The London company behind branded community apps for the Rolling Stones and hundreds of quieter passion groups wants creators to stop renting their audiences from Facebook.