Stories that connect you to who you really are

You are more than selfies and glamour. You got ideas, dreams, worries and everything in between. When we share our real lives through stories we understand ourselves and the world around us, we see each other as humans, and connect in new ways. Duckling is a new app that help you share, compassionate stories.

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Become a storyteller

The product:

Real documentary stories challenge your worldview. It’s so much more than a status update. Learn to tell compassionate stories from the real world, grow an audience, get access to interviews with influencers and make it a job you get paid to do. All in an app that fun and simple to use.

Become a storyteller

  • On Duckling, you express the real you and interview real people about real things. You do it with mini-documentaries, made with audio, images, and text as easy as Instagram and TikTok.

  • In Duckling academy you can find tutorials, tips, and tricks from professional documentarists and journalists. Complete lessons to unlock premium features and earn badges.

  • The best Duckling storytellers get access to interviews with YouTubers, rockstars, politicians, and other influencers.

Build an audience

  • On Duckling, you can connect with friends, but it’s also easy to find like-minded people from around the world that share your interest or challenge your view of things in a positive way.

  • The best stories on Duckling get featured by influencers and media to reach thousands of people.

  • We believe there is room for hope and trust in a world full of turmoil and polarization. A massive part of Duckling is battling fake news and harassment. Respectful, constructive dialogue is the foundation of democracy and humanity.

Make it a job

  • When people view your stories and remix your content you earn royalties. All content on Duckling are minted as NFTs with smart contracts that automate the payment of royalties

  • On Duckling, you 100% own and control everything you create, unlike social media, where you give the content rights away.

  • Help us moderate stories and earn rewards and income doing it. If you help promote the valuable things and weed out the bad stuff you contribute to a better community, and we reward that.

Duckling creates storytelling workshops on schools

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Book a workshop

We are offering storytelling workshops on high schools, where we teach students documentary storytelling, journalism, and media literacy. Let us know if you are interested.

Setting stories free with blockchain

The secret sauce:

At Duckling, we are building the next big thing in documentary storytelling. In doing that, we need to rethink five central elements of media: Creation, ownership, monetization, discovery, and moderation.

Part of this is about human collaboration. But a large part is also about the right technology. The emergence of Blockchain, NFTs, and the rest of the Web3 infrastructure was the answer to our vision for the Duckling technology stack.

Blockchain allows us to create a decentralized media network where people across the globe collaborate on interactive stories, where their own their stories, and where we monetize them together. A place where a community of thoughtful humans assisted by algorithms helps surface the insightful stories and weed out the fake stuff.

Our purpose:

We help teenagers learn the value of compassionate documentary storytelling, so they can create a healthy media future, and make better sense of themselves and the world around them. We do this with an app, a academy and workshops on schools. We believe in facts, respect, debate and compassion wrapped in great digital stories, and see a need for platforms that help promote this in an age dominated by social media. Duckling is a startup based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kamilla Gamborg Isaksen
Founder & Editor-In-Chief
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Le Gammeltoft
Advisor & Storyteller
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Bjarke Calvin, Founder & CEO

Bjarke Calvin
Founder & CEO
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