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As the holiday season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and those who have helped to shape our business through a pandemic.  

Before we look back at some of the highlights of the past year, we’d like to acknowledge the turbulence of 2020 and thank our team, our stakeholders and our community for their continued support through one of the toughest years the world has seen.  

To commemorate five years of Go1, we decided to work with the award winning organisation Design Studio to take a look at our brand and ensure it reflected our rapid growth and culture.  

Design Studio has worked with Air BnB, Oberlo, Hello Fresh and many more reputable brands, so we knew we would be in great hands. With two awards for the design of the rebrand (Bronze at the Transform awards for best education brand, and Distinction (gold) at AGDA for illustration), we are excited to see where it can take us! Our teams collaborated for the below result:

‘”The new brand identity feels like home. It provides us with a new ability to reflect our personality and capability in everything that we do, not constrained by the past. Our rapid growth into new customer areas, markets and products means that we can now reflect that diversity of offering simply and effectively.” 

Go1 Reveals New Brand Identity With New Features in Conjunction With Five-Year Anniversary 

Go1 has featured regularly in the press over the course of this year. Here’s a round up of some of the top stories! 

Go1 raises US$40m after remote learning activity triples 

AirTree writes one of its biggest cheques for one that got away 

Australia’s top 10 startups of 2020, revealed 

Microsoft partners with Brisbane startup Go1 for Teams integration 

Queensland Government teams up with global provider to deliver “Netflix for training” 

Go1 named one of LPI’s Top 15 Highest Performing Learning Technology Providers for 2020-21 
 


Throughout the year, we’ve partnered with many businesses to help them improve the way they deliver and manage their employee training. 

The Westpac Group partnered with Go1 to help address the issues that brokers are facing in the finance broking space, and to provide a consistent method of training to the industry. 

We teamed up Metro Trains to help provide more professional development opportunities for their staff and create a culture of learning.  

We also helped SeaLink keep their team members engaged and learning throughout the COVID-19 period. 

We provided the National Trades Union Congress (NUTC) in Singapore a learning hub to expand their knowledge and horizons throughout the year as well as help Singapore stay competitive ensuring their workers stay employable for life. 

Working with Oliver Agency, we were able to provide a solution that provided a broad range of learning content, covering compliance and soft skills.  

We look forward to sharing more customer stories with you in the new year, so you can see first-hand how Go1 is helping companies to deliver improved learning to their teams. 

At Go1 we believe in bringing the learning community together so that we can all share our knowledge and help everyone to improve the way that they learn and train their team.  

This year has proved a little more difficult to bring people together, so we combatted this through ensuring that the community still had a place to band together!  

Our webinars included a plethora of industry leaders, guest speakers, and thought leaders - catch up on our past webinars here. 

We'll be bringing you more exciting webinars in the new year and invite you to get involved in the conversation. 

At Go1, we partner with the world’s top training providers, to bring you up-to-date specialist training for your industry. This year was no exception!  

Meet some of our latest partners below: 

Blokepedia is a social enterprise that works alongside businesses to deliver workplace training, events and online services that empower and support men to optimise their social, emotional and physical health. 

Blinkist offers 15-20 minute summaries of thousands of non-fiction books. They have 150 titles in their library on topics from Mindset to Jay-Z. Blinks can be read or listened to (the audio starts automatically).

Emberin are pioneers in diversity and inclusion training. With decades of experience delivering blended learning, Emberin has award-winning programs that follow the scientific approach of staged learning, repetition, and taking action, to truly embed learnings.  

This year, we’re proud to say that Go1 Premium has grown to include more than 82,000 courses and over 200 providers!  

Thank you for reading and sharing our highlights from the year – it's been a big one and we're looking forward to an even bigger 2021. 

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers, partners, readers and followers for your ongoing support throughout the year.  

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We are pleased to announce that the Go1 Content Hub is now available to evaluate and purchase on SAP® App Center, the digital marketplace for SAP partner offerings. 

We've developed a pre-built connector for the SuccessFactors’ Open Content Network (OCN) so that Go1 learning content can be delivered directly to the SuccessFactors Learning Management System (LMS).

More than 100,000 courses can now be discovered using the Go1 Content Hub and instantly pushed into a customer’s SAP SuccessFactors solution. The Go1/SAP integration also supports single sign on to ensure learners accessing content can do so securely and seamlessly.

“As a world-leading provider of Human Capital Management software, SuccessFactors is a logical platform for Go1 to integrate with. The SAP SuccessFactors OCN integration allows organisations to now seamlessly access the world’s largest learning library and deliver training from more than 200 of the world’s best providers through a single solution. We're excited for the journey ahead and can’t wait to help ease the burden facing organisations who aim to deliver great training to their employees,” Basem Emera, Go1 Head of Partnerships, said.

Find, try, and buy SAP partner solutions digitally at www.sapappcenter.com.

At SAP App Center, businesses can discover approximately 1,600 innovative partner solutions that integrate with and extend SAP solutions. There, customers can find the SAP-validated partner apps they need to grow their business and for each purchase made, SAP will plant a tree. 

Learn more about the Go1 x SAP SuccessFactors integration

SAP SuccessFactors is the global provider of cloud-based Human Experience Management (HXM) software. Their HR application suite integrates onboarding, social business and collaboration tools, a learning management system (LMS), performance management, recruiting software, applicant tracking software, succession planning, talent management, and HR analytics to deliver business strategy alignment, team execution, and maximum people performance to organisations of all sizes across more than 60 industries, in over 200 countries and territories. 

Go1 makes it easy for organisations to learn, with the world's most comprehensive online library of learning resources. Go1 pulls the world’s top online learning providers into one place, delivering all the learning an organisation needs in a single solution. With over 1.5 million learners - and growing - Go1 is a world leader in online learning.

Go1 has raised over US$80 million in total funding from investors including M12 - Microsoft’s venture fund, SEEK, Madrona Venture Group, Salesforce Ventures, Shark Tank investor Steve Baxter and Oxford University. To learn more about Go1, visit www.go1.com.

By integrating with SAP SuccessFactors OCN, the Go1 Content Hub now delivers a seamless content experience to customers.

Go1 Content Hub now available to try and buy on SAP® App Center 

Go1 is proud to be named as one of LPI’s Top 15 Highest Performing Learning Technology Providers for 2020-21. Established in 1995, the Learning and Performance Institute is a self-governing professional body for global workplace learning professionals and organisations. (LPI 2020)

Edmund Monk, CEO, LPI, said: "Learning technology providers operate in a highly competitive space - they must ensure their products are accessible, stable, high-performing, compliant, scalable, and rich with reporting functionality.”

So what does achieving the LPI accreditation mean for organisations?

“LPI accreditation validates their commitment to providing the best technologies, as well as their dedication to staff development, market relevance and business performance. The 15 organisations have a clear roadmap by which to build their capability and adapt their strategy for continual success. They demonstrate a strong customer value proposition and have a corporate culture that instils confidence throughout sales and marketing, to delivery and after-sales support,” Monk explains.

"Prospective and existing customers can be assured that these 15 organisations will provide the highest quality of service and the best user experience. They are trusted business partners, acting always in the best interests of their clients and, as such, fully endorsed by the LPI."

For Go1, being accredited by LPI means building a larger awareness in the UK market for a globally scaled product. 

As Ollie Browning, Go1’s Head of Sales EMEA, said, “we are delighted to have been recognised by the LPI as one of their Top 15 Highest Performing Learning Technology Providers and to sit alongside such great organisations. Getting external validation from an organisation with a global view of the market is rewarding for all the team at Go1 working hard every day.”

Go1 named one of LPI’s Top 15 Highest Performing Learning Technology Providers for 2020-21

We are extremely excited to be at number 6 of the Top Australian Startups named by LinkedIn. 

This is the third consecutive year that Go1 joins some phenomenal businesses in the list. 

“At Go1.com we’re humbled to be named alongside such great Australian companies. At a time where the world is undergoing immense change, startups are shaping and creating the jobs and industries of tomorrow,” says Vu Tran, Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist of Go1.

The list is released every year, compiled by LinkedIn’s editorial team who work hard to spotlight rapidly growing companies. They utilize proprietary LinkedIn data and the expertise of their global editorial team to pinpoint companies that have high platform engagement, high employee engagement, and attract top talent through LinkedIn. 

This year, LinkedIn utilised data from January to July 2020 to ensure that it captured startups that were resilient through COVID. 

Chris Eigeland, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer said:

“We're honoured to be included on this list of amazing Australian startups that are transforming industries, in the middle of a challenging and changing economic environment. As an organisation focused on learning in the context of the 'new normal' for professional development and work life, we're proud to be supporting the Australian workforce.” 

Go1 is working hard to ensure that employee mental health and wellbeing are its core focus through the COVID period and beyond. Teams have been forced to move away from office environments, and Go1 has enabled the People and Culture team and Leadership team to foster personal and professional growth through remote working. 

It’s key that all employees are comfortable and have the resources that they need to do their jobs from their homes. With the prominent return to office date potentially in the next few months, we are ensuring our team’s health and safety is at the forefront, as we move towards a more flexible working environment.

Go1 makes it easy for organisations to learn, with the world's most comprehensive online library of learning resources. Go1 pulls the world’s top online learning providers into one place, delivering all the learning an organization needs in a single solution. With over 1.5 million learners – and growing – Go1 is a world leader in online learning.

Go1.com has raised over US$80 million in total funding from investors including M12 - Microsoft’s venture fund, Madrona Venture Group, SEEK, Salesforce Ventures, Shark Tank investor Steve Baxter and Oxford University. 

Go1 named #6 in LinkedIn's 2020 Top Startups in Australia

In the same way that the internet has changed the way in which we consume music and entertainment, advancements in technology continue to impact the way in which we learn. 

Thanks to the internet, the scope of education has far outgrown the bounds of a physical classroom or training room. Schools, universities and organisations now expect learning to be adaptive and delivered in the flow of work, catered specifically to their students or employees. 

At the same time, learners now expect to be able to access and consume learning content, at their own pace, and on their own device. 

We are seeing the eLearning industry continue to transform, both from a format and a delivery perspective. And it’s an exciting time. 

The evolution of subscription-based streaming for learning

There’s no doubt that streaming through apps and devices has become the new norm, whether you’re listening to music, watching a movie, or learning something new.

Over time, we’ve seen the evolution of music move from physical products, in the form of records, cassette tapes and CDs, to digital streaming. 

Spotify, amongst other players, realised that consumers wanted more of an uncapped music experience - and a flat subscription fee was the answer. For musicians, Spotify provided an easy way to upload their music, increase their audience, and get paid a percentage each time their song was played. To date, the Spotify platform has paid artists over $2 billion in royalties.

We are now seeing a similar trend across the learning industry, with more learning content being created and delivered in digital format. In this way, the subscription based streaming model is set to play a key role in the future of learning. 

How subscription-based streaming works for creators

Just as the convenience and flexibility of streaming is benefitting learners, subscription based streaming can also provide great opportunities for learning content creators. 

To understand the benefits of subscription based streaming for content creators, it can be helpful to turn once again to the parallels of the music industry. 

Let’s look at Spotify’s payment model. Here, D.A. Wallach explains how Spotify pays artists:

"People need to transition from unit-based thinking to consumption-based thinking in terms of royalties. We feel the metric of success should be based on how many people are listening to your music over a period of years, as opposed to looking at how many units are shipping in one week. 

People are used to seeing big numbers from a unit-based model, but that's really front loading what is happening. Comparing iTunes sales with Spotify payments over a two month period of time is not a great way to look at things. What we are trying to create is a system in which you earn royalties forever for good music, and the time horizon is simply different than what folks are familiar with now.”

We believe GO1 Premium, as a subscription based streaming model, delivers similar benefits for creators of digital learning content.

The benefits of GO1 Premium for learning content creators 

So how does the GO1 payment model work to support creators of digital learning content?

By becoming part of GO1 Premium, we can help content creators reach a larger, more engaged audience. As a GO1 Content Partner, you have the potential to reach millions of learners, while establishing a recurring income. 

Our model is pretty straight forward. We aggregate our subscription revenue and pay out royalties based on a pro rata share, in accordance with the popularity of a piece of content. 

If your content accounts for 1% of the total number of minutes consumed per month, you will get 1% of total subscription revenue, multiplied by your individual revenue share percentage. 

GO1 Premium also connects creators of digital learning content with the largest names in technology. Recently, we launched our integration with Microsoft Teams and have also partnered with names like D2L and Saba to provide content to their customers. 

This means that companies can integrate with your content more seamlessly throughout their own ecosystem, resulting in even more reach for you as a Content Partner and higher remuneration outcomes.  

We feel this has far greater earning potential for you, the creator, versus that of a one-off purchase model. 

Have more questions about the GO1 model? We’d love to hear from you. 

Just as the convenience and flexibility of streaming is benefitting learners, subscription based streaming can also provide great opportunities for learning content creators. Learn more about how the GO1 payment model works to support creators of digital learning content.

The benefits of subscription based streaming for learning content creators

At Go1 we believe in the power of learning and we’re dedicated to helping organisations provide the best professional development opportunities to their teams. 

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised over US$40 million in a Series C funding round, enabling us to continue supporting more organisations in keeping employees learning and developing. 

As part of the round we welcome new investors including Madrona Venture Group and Salesforce Ventures who joined alongside existing investors, SEEK, M12, and Our Innovation Fund. 

Since founding the business in 2015, we’ve seen more businesses understand the importance of investing in skilling and training for their teams. Recently, we’ve seen more organisations than ever turn to online training for these needs. 

Our model of partnering with content creators around the world has allowed companies to do that, supporting employees across a broad range of roles and industries to stay connected to their learning and development. 

With user engagement more than tripling over the last year, we’ve been pleased and humbled to be able to play a growing role in assisting businesses and employees in navigating the new reality of remote working. 

We’ll be using this funding round to further improve our product and continue to scale our team. 

This funding will also enable us to expand our content provider partner network, allowing us to offer even more courses to learners and further enabling companies to empower their employees through learning. 

Additionally, we will double down on relationships with global platform partners, enabling more learners to access Go1's content library in a variety of ways, through an ever-growing list of platforms and partnerships.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our current customers and partners for their incredible support and for joining us on this journey. We could not have done this without you. 

As a result of the funding, there’ll be more exciting things happening at Go1 in the near future - so stay tuned! 

Go1 raises over US$40 million in Series C funding

The world of learning looks very different today to what it did a mere 3 months ago. University campuses are closed, home-schooling is widespread, and most face to face corporate training is cancelled. As a result, educators and content providers need to adapt how they produce content to be is easily accessible to learners online, while still delivering effective learning outcomes. 

One tool that can help with this transition is How Too – an online software product that gives people with no background in learning and digital design the power to make great digital learning content. 

The tool is easy to brand, provides full access to an integrated How Too media library of contemporary photos and hand-drawn media, as well as gives users the facility to upload their own media for the digital learning modules they create. How Too allows the inclusion of videos, audio, images and immersive interactions to best engage the learner and help them unlock their potential. 

Meet How Too

How Too was created and developed by Savv-e, Australia’s leading digital learning agency, with the goal of putting best practice digital learning creation within the grasp of everyone, whether or not they have a background in education or instructional design skills and experience.

With over 20 years in the eLearning industry, co-founders Lisa Vincent and Jenny Barltrop are excited by the opportunities How Too is bringing. 

“There are plenty of tools out there that help you create nice looking content and interactivity,” says Jenny. “But if that content doesn’t hit the mark in terms of what the learner really needs to think, feel and do to get their job done, there’s really no point.”

In addition to this, the tool is the only online learning development software that meets WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility standards for the use of the product and the courses created from it. 

“While taking accessibility precautions is a good business move, simply put it is just the right thing to do. We are proud to have created a tool that looks out for everyone and makes sure they are able to participate in all technologies and designs,” says Lisa.

During this period of physical displacement, when online learning is an absolute necessity, institutions and organisations need to be more prepared than ever to create digital learning experiences based on frameworks which are well-researched and guaranteed to be effective for the learner. To this end, all How Too templates are pre-designed learning experiences that are beautiful and widely accessible. 

To find out more about How Too and how it can help your organisation create engaging online learning content, sign up for a free 14-day trial here. 

This blog post is thanks to our friends at How Too, who are helping educators and organisations turn their content into engaging online experiences through proven (and beautiful!) digital learning templates. 

Today’s blog post is thanks to our friends at How Too, who are helping educators and organisations turn their content into engaging online experiences through proven (and beautiful!) digital learning templates.

When face-to-face is cancelled: turning your content into engaging online learning

At Go1, we make it easy for businesses to train their staff, with the world’s largest online library of compliance and professional development training.

During this current period of uncertainty, economic challenges and changing work patterns, we believe it’s particularly important for small businesses to have the opportunity to train and upskill their workforce. 

In light of this, we’re very happy to be working with the Western Australia Government’s Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) to support small businesses and their teams through the delivery of free online learning and professional development.

As Go1 co-founder Vu Tran says, “small business plays a crucial role in the state’s economic functioning and will play a pivotal role in Western Australia’s recovery post COVID-19.”

“With many employees now working from home, remote learning is an excellent way to keep team members engaged and focused on their ongoing growth and development.”

Through our work with SBDC, WA small businesses will now have free access to their own learning portal, preloaded with over 70,000 courses ranging from accounting and IT skills through to mental health and personal wellbeing training.

accessible 24/7 – take them at a time to suit to you

Interested to learn more and get started? 

Access your learning portal now from the SBDC website - portals are available free of charge to all Western Australian small businesses until June 30 2020.  

We’re very happy to be working with the Western Australia Government’s Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) to support small businesses and their teams through the delivery of free online learning and professional development.

Go1 offers free online learning to all WA Small Businesses until June 30

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the Go1 Learning app for Microsoft Teams! 

We have heard many requests to be able to more easily access learning content within Microsoft Teams, where learners are spending a lot of their time. The new Go1 Learning app brings learning content directly into Microsoft Teams, enabling individuals to find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from within Teams.

We’ve seen a tremendous amount of excitement when previewing this new app to our customers. We hope that in these times where remote learning has become a necessity for many, that you enjoy this new app to improve ease of access and learner engagement for learning content!

GO1 Microsoft Teams app, for businesses

The app can pull in learning resources from Teams files, your computer, web links, your learning management system, and Go1’s extensive library of learning resources. The Go1 app also supports interactive content formats like SCORM, AICC, and xAPI.

Organizations can tailor the learning resources that are visible in different teams. With learning resources easily accessible and conversations around learning resources only a click away, organizations can deliver an amazing learning experience, whatever that learning might be.

To learn more about the Go1 app for Teams, visit go1.com/teams-corporate (for businesses) or go1.com/teams-edu (for educational institutions). Questions can be directed to support@go1.com.

If you are a learning management system or content provider, Go1 would love to speak with you about being a part of this new learning experience. Please reach out to theteamsteam@go1.com for more information. 

Announcing the launch of the Go1 Learning app for Microsoft Teams

Each year, on 8 March, we observe International Women’s Day across the world.

For many, it’s a day to celebrate the social, political and cultural achievements of women all over the world. For others, it’s an important call-to-action to continue pushing for gender equality and a reminder to reflect on what’s been achieved - and what work still needs to be done. 

Many people believe that gender equality has already been achieved. However, this is unfortunately not the case. In fact, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, gender parity will not be attained for another 99.5 years. This means that’s it’s very unlikely we’ll see gender equality achieved within our own lifetimes. 

It’s really important to realise that gender equality improves things for everyone. For society as a whole. 

As the Global Gender Gap Report 2020 says, “gender parity has a fundamental bearing on whether or not economies and societies thrive. Developing and deploying one-half of the world’s available talent has a huge bearing on the growth, competitiveness and future-readiness of economies and businesses worldwide.“

Let’s pause and think about that. Gender equality is essential for economies and communities to thrive. 

So where do we get started, to work towards that goal as a collective?

Accelerating gender equality in the workplace

One of the key areas in which we still see a lack of gender equality is in the workforce. 