Gigya is a widget tracking service company.  Gigya also provides widget distribution and monetization services.  As of last month, Gigya’s clients reached 150 million unique widget users worldwide.  Gigya has just announced that they have raised $11 million in Series C funding, led by DAG Ventures.  This is a preemptive round of funding as the terms may be subject to change.  Gigya raised it’s Series B round of funding about 7 months ago.

CNET made a great point about how Gigya may see some tough times ahead with the new Facebook redesign.  A majority of the applications got kicked to the curb when Facebook put all of them in a tab called Boxes.  With Facebook’s old design, the widgets had prominent online real estate space: the Facebook profile.

Some of Gigya’s top clients include Oh!, CNET, Eyeblaster, Sprint, Levi’s, Meebo, RockYou!, DoubleClick, MTV, FOX, Toyota, Sony, JibJab, Crackle, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Glogster, TinyPic, Disney, Gydget, Walmart, Sprout, and NewsGator.  Last year Gigya announced that they have released a new feature called Socialize.  Socialize allows publishers to add social graphs and features into websites. 

“Social networks, personalized homepages and search engines are becoming platforms for external content. Essentially they [are] becoming the way that consumers organize their Internet experience. All sites are making their content available for publishing elsewhere and widgets are a great way to package and keep control of the content published elsewhere.”
-Universal McCann February 2008 Trend Market report

Gigya is a widget tracking service company. Gigya also makes it easy to increase widget distribution and provides monetization solutions to their clients. As of March 2008, the company reached 120 million unique widget users worldwide and 44 million unique U.S.-based users according to a comScore report.

“We are delighted with the findings in the most recent comScore report because they highlight the scale Gigya has so quickly achieved,” stated Rooly Eliezerov, Co-founder/President of Gigya Inc. “We made our widget distribution technology available just one year ago, and we are now the technology of choice for more than a thousand publishers and advertisers. The comScore numbers provide further confirmation that we are a major force in the widget space.”

Gigya advertisers include Sprint, Wal-Mart, Unilever, Disney, VH1, Levi’s, and Kimberly-Clark. Gigya partners include EyeWonder, EA, RockYou!, Webshots, Snapvine, and Doubleclick.