Press Coverage – Squarespace

Martin Scorsese Makes His Super Bowl Directing Debut for Squarespace

Eleanor Mayer — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:28:00 +0000

Squarespace tapped Martin Scorsese to direct the brand’s 10th Super Bowl commercial, David Lee, Squarespace’s chief creative officer, told Ad Age. It marks Scorsese’s directing debut in a Super Bowl commercial.

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6 Ace Photogs Shared a Single Roll of Film for Squarespace

Eleanor Mayer — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:30:00 +0000

One roll of film with 36 exposures shared among six photographers.

Such was the setup for a new campaign from Squarespace. Six world-renown photogs—Steve McCurry, Olivia Arthur, Sabiha Çimen, Bruce Gilden, William Keo and Jacob Aue Sobol—accepted the challenge.

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Squarespace Adds Payments to Serve the Needs of ‘Long Tail’ eCommerce Sellers

Eleanor Mayer — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:09:00 +0000

Dan Chandre, Squarespace vice president, head of Acuity and payments, told Karen Webster that a key to connecting merchants with his firm’s platform lies with payments.

And to that end, Squarespace’s taking on the mantle of payments facilitator.

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At its 20th anniversary, Squarespace unveils new tools for entrepreneurs

Eleanor Mayer — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:08:00 +0000

Back in 2003, sitting in his University of Maryland dorm room, Anthony Casalena began building the web-hosting platform that would become Squarespace.

Soon, Squarespace was advertising as a place to build websites, host photo albums, and publish blogs—all with no coding required. As the web has evolved from a network of deskbound PCs to today’s world of smartphones and tablets, Squarespace has also shifted, focusing for a time on creators hosting portfolios, and now on small businesses in need of an e-commerce solution.

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How Squarespace Found Its Edge

Eleanor Mayer — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:07:00 +0000

Ask a creative where they would most like to work, and it’s unlikely they’ll wax lyrical about their passion for website builders. A leading agency would be nice, or perhaps a boutique studio. If it has to be a brand, then a consumer behemoth like Apple or Nike will do. Yet by investing in design and storytelling, Squarespace, a website builder, has become an unlikely hotbed of creativity.

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The best designs of 2023 from companies with enduring impact

Eleanor Mayer — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:13:00 +0000

The Enduring Impact: 15+ Years in Business category of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards recognizes products, projects, or services by companies that have been in business more than 15 years. This year’s winner, Squarespace’s Icons 01: Björk, is a partnership between Squarespace and Björk to create a gorgeous, immersive website for the singer’s latest album, Fossora, which has been transformed into a template that other users can borrow.

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Squarespace Courses launches to let entrepreneurs monetise online learning

Eleanor Mayer — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:17:00 +0000

Squarespace has unveiled its new Squarespace Courses platform, which aims to help entrepreneurs in turning their knowledge and expertise into a new income stream. Squarespace Courses allows business owners and experts in their field to create an online course that can be monetised.

Squarespace Gets Meta Again By Exploring Dual Identities of Beef Star Joseph Lee

Eleanor Mayer — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:11:00 +0000

Squarespace captured attention earlier this year with a Super Bowl ad starring an army of more Adam Drivers than viewers could count. The Emmy-nominated campaign got even more meta with a behind-the-scenes video in which multiple versions of the actor clashed with each other on set.

Now the brand is building on that quirky concept with a new spot featuring Beef star Joseph Lee, who talks with himself about his dual identities as performer and painter.

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Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena has some ideas

Eleanor Mayer — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:19:00 +0000

Today, I’m talking to Anthony Casalena, the founder and CEO of Squarespace, the ubiquitous web hosting and design company. If you’re a podcast listener, you’ve heard a Squarespace ad.

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House of Fun: Inside the In-House Creative Flow

Eleanor Mayer — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:21:00 +0000

The in-house scene has exploded, bringing a new dynamic to the relationship between marketing, creative, media and production - unlocking a host of new challenges and opportunities. Each in-house agency set up is as unique as the brand it’s serving. Many thought it was a trend the industry would outlive, but has it become a true evolution of marketing practice thanks to huge advancements in technology, a new remote workforce, and a need to blend creative thinking with commerce? We sit down with leaders of in-house and external agencies to discuss the difference in culture, creativity and growth of these models in 2023 and beyond.

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Alphabet Selling Google Domains Assets to Squarespace

Eleanor Mayer — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:22:00 +0000

Alphabet Inc. is winding down its Google Domains business and selling its assets to Squarespace Inc., according to a statement Thursday.

Squarespace is acquiring the assets associated with the business for about $180 million, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked to not be identified because the financial details of the transaction aren’t public.

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Squarespace CEO on Leveraging AI Into Website Building

Eleanor Mayer — Fri, 12 May 2023 17:42:00 +0000

Squarespace CEO and founder Anthony Casalena joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss the company's mission to serve small businesses and creators, and how they are incorporating AI and large language models into their products.

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Campaign Trail: Squarespace showcases how it makes anything possible

Eleanor Mayer — Fri, 12 May 2023 17:40:00 +0000

In Squarespace’s latest Super Bowl ad, multiples of actor Adam Driver approached a singularity created by the tech platform, a website that makes websites. The high-concept spot aimed to cut through the noise of the big game but also left more work for future brand campaigns.

Gen Z really wants a phone break. Baby boomers? Not so much

Eleanor Mayer — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:39:00 +0000

Gen Z might be known as digital natives, but baby boomers are actually less willing to take breaks from their digital devices.

That’s according to a new study by Squarespace, the website-building company, which surveyed 4,000 adults in the United States, Canada, U.K., and Australia about their digital behavior.

Squarespace in-house creative team launches Australian brand campaign

Eleanor Mayer — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:37:00 +0000

Squarespace has launched a new Australian brand campaign, building on the website and ecommerce platform’s “Everything to Sell Anything” platform.

How to start monetising your online content if you’re not sure where to start

Eleanor Mayer — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:35:00 +0000

Despite not even existing as an option less than two decades ago, producing and monetising online content has fast become an exciting and lucrative way to build a digital business. The only problem? Knowing where to start.

Squarespace's DIY Agency Aims to Cater to a New Wave of Creators

Eleanor Mayer — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:34:00 +0000

As chief creative officer of Squarespace for the past decade, David Lee has witnessed several stages in its evolution. He was there in the early days when the platform was still a “scrappy” startup building upon founder Anthony Casalena’s original elevator pitch when he launched it from his dorm room in 2003: “a website that makes websites.”

The 10 most innovative companies in retail for 2023

Eleanor Mayer — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:40:00 +0000

The pandemic was a turbulent time for retail. Stores shuttered for long stretches and consumer shopping habits changed drastically. But some brands took the opportunity to reimagine what a store could be. Over the last year, we’ve seen much of their creativity come to life.

Watch Adam Driver star in Squarespace Super Bowl ad

Eleanor Mayer — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:42:00 +0000

Get a preview of actor Adam Driver in hilarious meta ad for Squarespace’s Super Bowl commercial.

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How Anthony Casalena Took Squarespace From a Dorm Room to the Stock Exchange

Eleanor Mayer — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:38:00 +0000

Nearly twenty years ago, Anthony Casalena was a student at the University of Maryland who wanted to build himself a website. Finding no easy platform in the market, he created his own. Today, Squarespace is an all-in-one website building and e-commerce platform used by more than 4.2 million people. Anthony worked as a team of one for the first few years but now has over 1,800 employees, having taken Squarespace public in 2021. Here, Anthony shares how he got his idea off the ground with a $30,000 investment in servers and Google AdWords, why it still feels surreal to see a Squarespace ad at the Super Bowl, and how running a public company is completely different from what he expected.