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The Most Valuable Ad on Campus Is a Student With 30 Seconds
MarkitAds spent years selling the familiar machinery of modern marketing. Then it found a harder-to-fake unit of attention: one student, one conversation, one verified signup.
Poly Reps puts a paycheck behind the campus welcome
Cal Poly’s student ambassadors spent decades introducing strangers to university life. Paying them changes who can afford to do the introducing.
The UCLA tour guide who used to be in the tour group
UCLA Engineering Ambassadors put current students in charge of the introduction. Between the buildings and the questions, prospective engineers get a glimpse of who they might become.
Unibuddy Built the Wrong Product Twice - Then Universities Gave It a 500-Campus Playbook
The edtech started with a high-school dashboard, tried to build its own marketplace, and kept hearing one awkward question: where is the traffic? Its answer - live inside university websites - turned a student chat idea into an enterprise enrollment platform.