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Popular online marketplace opens local platform in Europe

Fiverr is available in over 160 countries, with millions of users

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Popular online marketplace opens local platform in Europe. Source: unsplash.com

Fiverr sets up its office in Berlin, according to Ecommerce News. Israelian platform connects businesses with freelancers offering digital services. Fiverr considers Germany as the key market after the US, enabling German SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises)  and startups to get better access to experts worldwide.

Although working with freelancers and outsourcing services is still something new in Germany, since our market entry at the end of 2018 we have been experiencing a steadily increasing demand on both the freelance and customer side. With the opening of our localized marketplace, we want to make it easy for companies of all sized to outsource individual projects
Peggy de Lange, VP International Expansion of Fiverr

In the Q3 2019 year, the traffic in Germany on the English-speaking Fiverr platform doubled compared to the quarter before. At the same time, the number of sellers and buyers raised by 76% and 81%, respecively.

Fiverr company hasn’t only translated the platform to German but adapted the experience on the buyer side to the culture and needs of its German users as well. Prices are shown in euros, allowing users to pay with Sofort banking and Giropay.

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