June 4, 2025 • 38 mins
Ready to get quizzical? 🧠🍻
In this laugh-out-loud episode of the Tech on Toast Podcast, Chris Fletcher sits down with ✨ Mark Walsh ✨ – the fashion-journo-turned-tech-founder behind Kwizzbit, the interactive quiz platform shaking up the pub game across the globe!
From loading up fashion mags in the 90s to loading quizzes into over 47 countries, Mark’s journey is anything but ordinary. He shares how his love of music, people, and pub culture led to creating Kwizzbit – a platform where anyone can run a full quiz night from their phone. No pens. No paper. No faff. Just proper fun.
In this episode, we chat:
✅ From fashion journalism to hospitality tech
✅ How Rock and Roll Bingo paved the way for Kwizzbit 🎸
✅ Why the smoking ban created opportunity, not chaos
✅ How venues can drive footfall, capture data & boost sales with one smart quiz
✅ What it means to build tech that your mum could actually use 👵📲
✅ Plus: Chris joins a live quiz mid-show (and rates himself a bit too highly)
Mark also shares:
🔧 Why they built Kwizzbit to be plug-and-play
💸 How hospitality venues can try it for £60 for 3 months – unlimited quizzes included!
📺 What’s coming next: Kwizzbit Live and Quizbit Solo (spoiler: it’s big)
Whether you’re a pub operator, restaurant group, hotelier or just nostalgic for those classic quiz nights – this one’s for you.
👉 Try Kwizzbit: www.kwizzbit.com
📲 Follow Mark on LinkedIn: Mark James Walsh
🎯 Explore the Tech on Toast marketplace: www.techontoast.com
💬 As ever, brought to you by our mates at Lightspeed – the platform powering over 165,000 venues to scale at, you guessed it, the speed of light. ☕✨
Tune in, laugh along, and maybe even beat Chris in the quiz (it’s not hard).👇
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
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Welcome to the next episode of Tech and so's podcast.
And today, I'm going to say tonight.
Is it tonight yet? No, This afternoon, I'm
delighted to be joined by Mark Wald, founder and CEO of
Quizbit. Hello.
Hello, how are you? All right mate, and I must say
we've had this, my 4th. As you can tell from my my
introduction, this is my 4th guest today and Mark has been
dressed properly. Have you?
(01:30):
You've gone full tech. I've gone full Mark Zuckerberg.
No socks. No socks.
Box White. Trainers box white trainers the
black T-shirt. I just don't have the jewelry.
And if we'd been back in the daywhen we when I was in Leeds,
we'd be shopping at Arc, wouldn't we?
We would I used to work. There.
Yeah, I remember. I know this.
That's why I brought it up. So before I blither on about you
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and Leeds, tell people who you are and what you do.
Yeah, My name is Mark Walsh. I am the founder and CEO of
Quizbit. We are a live interactive quiz
platform which allows people to quiz anyone on anything from
anywhere, pretty much that. I invented that, developed that
and we have thousands of hospitality venues all over the
UK that use that as their regular pub quiz as long with
(02:13):
other things that we do as well.And you know what, if I've done
my prep properly, I would have just brought along a quiz.
Tell me you've got one. I've got your Liverpool.
I've still got my Liverpool. One Liverpool.
One my son's done it. Yeah, and we've got loads of
different quizzes there. It's a quiz, but it's like the
Netflix of quizzing, if you will, there.
Is you've practiced that? You can tell that this is
staged, there's thousands of quizzes in there for you to do
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and you can actually run an entire quiz night from your
mobile phone. So we can give you guys more of
these to play and. Have you been quizzing all your
life? Well, how did you get to this
point? No, it's a bit of a story and I
won't give you the War and Peaceversion.
It's late. Right as I can.
Yeah, it's very late in the day.Yeah.
I mean, I started life as a journalism, fashion and
journalism. I used to work down in London
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for all the the lads mugs, whichis a completely different
podcast by the way. Yeah, which?
Which ones? I used to work for Maxim, but I
also worked for a guy called James Brown who created Loaded
and we had magazines like Hot Dog and Viz and 40 and Times.
Remember, loaded very well, yes.They were very good.
Before. Was that before the Internet?
Am I being stupid? Or not.
No, we still have the Internet. Only just right.
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But yeah, it was hedonistic to say the least.
But it was also a lot of fun andalso learned a lot actually.
Best decade ever? Best decade ever.
Bring it back, as shall we say. So yes, I did that and moved
back to Leeds, created my own magazine, which aesthetically it
was wonderful, Commercially it was awful.
And then stumble on an idea, or an idea for a game that I'd
always had called Rock'n'roll Bingo, which is bingo with music
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instead of numbers. I created that and that launched
that actually, which is quite analogue, but that became the
fastest great pub game in the UKfor four or five years.
It was, it was a phenomenal journey, it really was.
You're quite the entrepreneur, aren't you?
Did you ever have a proper job? Yeah, well, the magazines was a
proper job. Yeah, but was it was.
It yeah, I used to work in clothes shops when I was
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younger, as we've discussed. Yeah, but that was ARC as well,
so you've been a bit. You're a bit too cool for
school, aren't you? Well, I've definitely been
called worse than too cool for school, but but yeah, done lots
of different stuff. So yeah.
And then effectively, I actuallysold Rock and Robbing in 2015
when I became a dad. Wow.
Still a dad, still the best job in the world, but IA lot of
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people within the hospitality industry were asking us what
we're going to do next. We've had an awful lot of
friends in the hospitality industry who we still speak to
to this day. And quiz bits started life to be
honest, to stop people cheating in pompouses.
That was basically the the the modus of.
All right, so much fun cheating,I think.
There was a few things out there.
There was some really good technical solutions out there,
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but they were very technical, they were very clunky and you
needed to have, you know, certain pieces of kit and you
needed certain pieces of Wi-Fi and also certain pieces of
technical knowledge. So could I create a cloud based
interactive quiz platform that people could use to run their
pub quiz with little to no experience?
Yeah. And so if my mum could run it,
then anyone can run it. So that was what we set out to
do. No offence, Mrs. Walsh.
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No offence Mrs. Walsh, but she can still run a quiz by the way.
And but yeah, it's now been played by over half a million
people now in 47 countries, which is quite a bizarre.
That's pretty cool, Mark. In my Brew Dog studio, I used to
have a little button that made aI did clapping, but I haven't
got one here. If I press it, it might break
it. So I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to do it, but that's that must you must be
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quite proud of that. That's quite of a cool
achievement, right? To be able to roll that stats
out. Yeah, I think so.
I think what we've learned an awful lot of is the challenges
that hospitality faces. And what is cool is getting to
speak to lots of people on a on a regular basis.
And what is very cool is being able to solve problems and work
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with them on certain challenges.And what you kind of get or what
we've got now is something that,in truth, will never be
finished. Yeah.
And but that makes everyday different.
And I think and obviously quizzing is great fun, and
nearly everyone who's listening to this will have done it right,
yeah, or should have done a quizat some point in their lives.
But it's not just for the sake of it, is it?
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There's a reason why people put quizzes on.
There's a commercial benefit, obviously, or meant to be a
commercial benefit behind entertainment or is that what
you were? Yeah.
Is that a bracket you put yourselves in?
Definitely, definitely. I mean, I've, I've been selling
products to the hospitality industry now for almost 15
years, which I know I don't looka day over 21.
That's guys. So rude.
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You beat me to it. It is, yeah.
But but in that there is an awful lot of of challenges that
hospitality faces, no more so than today really.
I think, you know, there's an awful lot of things.
I mean when I. Is it harder today?
I'm yes. I don't.
Know different? I watched Rock'n'roll Bingo in
2007 when The Smoking Man came in and everybody said, you,
Matt, what are you doing? You won't be able to get this
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out there. But for me, every venue that was
out there saying nobody's comingin, we're not going to do
anything about it. There was another 10 that said,
right, we need to do something about this.
We need to drive value. Yeah, that was one of.
Them so they so you know can we then or can I provide a solution
and can our products provide a solution is can we add value
commercially viable price that we'll get bombs on seats.
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I think what's really interesting, the smoking ban you
brought there, for most of the generation that are in tech that
I manage or work with, they probably won't be.
What year was the smoking ban it?
Was 2007. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because I moved to Hard Rock in 2005.
So yeah, it was pretty much strapped.
I was gutted. I smoked, I smoked so much.
It was just so annoying. I'd go outside or wait till we
shut. Is that legal?
I'm not sure. No, I mean, I think I gave up
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about 10 years ago, so. Yeah, so but it but it was a
huge moment in especially in thewetland industry.
Obviously. I mean, he used to make me laugh
the smoking area in the restaurants and he's like, yeah,
I'm in the non-smoking, but the guy next is in smoking.
How's that ever going to work inthe industry and.
I think it came, you know, what came with that was an awful lot
of people saying that hospitality is going to die.
(07:53):
Yeah. No, I remember it entirely.
Gone. Yeah, we're not going to see and
I think you see a lot of that today, you know, and not that
say that, you know, we've got the smoking man coming, but the
challenges that we've got with the rates that people are now
suffering, you know, with the the the increase in minimum wage
and, and you know, we can go on,but still to this day, there is
some amazing entrepreneurial hospitality operators who will
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turn around and we'll take that challenge and we'll hit it head
on. And it's not just the individual
operators. There's the operations teams,
there's the manager states, there's area managers, there's
operations directors. And because people are so
involved in this and so passionate about that industry,
you know, we get to learn a lot from those.
But we can work alongside that to add value and to give them
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something that will drive footfall, which will offer them
data capture, which will offer them the ability to be able to
market and showcase. So, you know, as much as we can
turn around and build these techproducts, what we're doing is
we're building them, you know, clearly or, or aligning that
clearly with the challenges thatpeople have got.
Yeah, no. And and my dad said never wasted
crisis, right? Never ever wasted.
(09:03):
Crisis. So and, and I think out of every
crisis comes some good, you know, or, or comes some, some
product that we may not have seen before.
And that's exactly why was it so?
Is that time when you built it? Was it when you, when you, you
thought, right, I've got to do something to get people back in?
Well, 2007 was smoking was when we created Rock'n'roll Bingo.
That was basically my foray intothe hospital.
First hit. Yes, yes, the the Dangerous
second album. Yeah, I see what you did.
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And Quiz Bit was born in 2017. And as I say, the, the the modus
operandi was to stop people cheating in pub quizzies.
Really. That was a challenge, a tech
challenge. I've never built a tech product.
So to build a tech product without a tech background should
come with a health warning. We got it to a stage when we
first started it, you know, and it was we built something that
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was relatively good. It worked.
It it, it had issues as any early tech product does.
And when COVID hit, the whole point that we needed to address
was that it wouldn't scale. We could only get around about
1000 people in it without it sort of falling over, if you
will. Yeah.
And obviously with hospitality shutting down, what we did was
(10:08):
we switched purely to online, but we switched to online for
hospitality. So we had pubs running their
regular pubs as they would always do on teams using our
software. Gosh it gives me PTSDT but it
doesn't. Just remembering what that was
like, it was crazy, wasn't? It, it was, you know, but again,
like you say, never waste a goodcrisis and not to, to put light
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on what COVID did to businesses and to human beings.
But ultimately we were able to take something and we were able
to invest in the platform and wecan now get over 1,000,000
people in a single game. A million people.
A million people it's crazy yeahso we've yeah we've we've scaled
it out and we we've done becauseof that we're now able to do
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things like quiz bit live, whichis a live broadcasters quiz we
can broadcast straight to venue and we.
I told you didn't know about my holiday.
Did I tell you about the whole thing with the quiz?
Oh, you. So I stay at a Sensitor.
I'm not trying to be a big Ed, but I straight.
Yeah, I stay at Sensitor. It's the one treat we get every
year, right? So I stay at the Sensitor every
year and they have the one thingthe kids, no matter what age
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they've got to they love doing is that quiz at bloody 9:00.
And I'm I'm you know what I'm like, I'm done.
I've had my beers, I'm ready to go bed or party, whatever.
And they want to do the quiz. And it's the most frustrating if
Tui, if you're listening, pleasejust ring this guy up and sort
it out because imagine trying toput probably 300 half cut.
(11:35):
Well, the same as the pub rides,trying to get them on.
And the, the biggest part of thenight is onboarding people onto
the onto the quiz. And they're all like scanning
this car, mate. It's it's it's another level and
it but it makes me think about you.
Last year I was there because we'd met.
I was thinking, I said he could kill this in seconds.
It is and, and, and I mean the, the thing that we're building
out now as well as we were allowing people to create their
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own quizzes as well. So we're, we're building out or
we're, we're expanding on what is our quiz builder.
So you'll be able to create a quiz in under a minute.
So you can create a quiz for yourself, an entire quiz for a
huge audience in under one minute with what we're building
and that's being used an awful, you know, great deal.
But yeah, I mean things like 2 Eholiday parks, hospitality
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venues, restaurants even we've we've put together an always on
solution called Quiz Bit Solo, which is great.
And which is where we can put anentire quiz behind AQR code or a
link. And what we can do is we can
randomise the selection of thosequestions for each user as they
play it and give them a certain amount of time.
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Yeah, so you could sit in a casual High Street dining type
restaurant because I was looking, I was in Elan.
Do you know Elan Elan Cafe? It's not really.
You're not their target customer.
No, maybe not, I don't know. They're they're like big pink
kind of cafes with like like beautiful cakes and everything.
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I'm open to that. It's.
Very Instagramable. Like I went in there for a
meeting and I just felt like I shouldn't be there, right?
OK, yeah, most teenage girls, basically.
And me. OK, didn't.
Didn't feel good so it was a business meeting so don't touch.
Me. But anyway, I went to meet and
the lady in there works for a company called Kate Media, and
they have built these digital almost like tent cards.
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Remember tent cards? Yeah, you're absolutely.
It's a digital tent. They forgot.
They're gonna kill me. But not digital tank.
But they're ordering platforms that sit on the table.
They're a unit. Yeah, but you could play games
on them. Yeah.
And do quizzes on them. I no, you couldn't do quizzes,
but my point is they should. Yeah.
I think it'd be really cool to be able to quiz your customers
on your branding. Two or three questions, you
know, just have a knock. You have some fun with them
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basically. Yeah.
And we can do that with the product.
And what we built with Quiz withSolo is we can, as I say, put an
entire quiz behind. We've just done it with, and I'm
more like to mention this with the guys at Carling.
Yeah. And a media agency called Mars,
and we did a quiz with Carling and the FA and we put 1000 FA
Cup questions, very difficult FACup questions, actually some of
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them in a bank. And what we were able to then do
is we created a competition fromthose thousand questions where,
wherever, whenever somebody scans the QR code to play that
quiz, it will randomly select 12from those questions.
And what you can do is you can play that quiz, you get 5
attempts to try and beat your score.
And then if you win at the end of the week or you win at the
end of the week, or if you're a certain place at the table, then
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the week you can win Premier League.
I think it's Premier League football tickets or football
tickets for the FA Cup. And that's been played over
32,000 times in three weeks, which is great because what you
get there is you get real competition, you get data
capture, but you also get the ability to be able to engage
with an audience wherever they are.
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So we're we're really happy withthat and we're going to be doing
more of that. It may quizzing baffles me
because it's quite a Is it quitea British thing, you think?
I don't know. But it's your numbers.
Every time you quote a number, it's big.
It is, I think. Do you know what I think the
easy thing is? I think quizzing is the same in
Bangladesh as it is in Bognor Regis, right?
So it's like the word. Where you going?
Here we go. But but my point being is, is
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that a quiz is a universally recognised format.
Yeah. What we're not trying to do is
change the wheel. What we're not trying to do is
introduce something, explain it at length and then see if there
is, you know, any engagement there.
What we're giving them is the ability to get straight in and
quiz. And I mean, this is, you know,
not just with solo, with quiz Bit Live and with Quiz bit.
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What it is, again, what we're doing is we're giving operators
and anybody the chance to engagewith their audience and interact
with their audience. But we've got to make it simple.
We've got to make, it's like when you talked about the two
east side of things, you know, the, the login on the onboard
and everything else. You know, we want people to be
able to build quizzes in under aminute.
We want people. Because they get away with it,
right? Because you're Saturn on island,
there's no there's not really a competitor to go to, right?
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You kind of sat there. You're a captive audience.
But I think, yeah, that that that it's like everything in
life now. People are impatient and they
just want to get. On they are, and I think as
well, one of the challenges thatwe saw, and this is one of the
things that I suppose we pride ourselves on, but also something
that we're constantly learning is that if you give a piece of
tech to a pub manager or hospitality manager and you make
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it difficult to use or you make it complicated to set up, or you
have extra hardware to add in straight away what you're doing
there is given a barrier to entry without trying to make
ourselves out to be Amazon, if you will.
Amazon you can go in, you can goand you can pick your product.
You can send your basket and you've paid for it before you've
actually turned around and realised how much it cost.
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With Quiz Beat, you can create aquiz, you can broadcast it to
your audience live, you can playit in your venue.
All that your customers do is scan the QR code, put a name in
and they're in. I, I don't think it's, I, I, I
think comparing to Amazon is theright thing to do because
actually I'm not obviously the breadth of Amazon, you're not
comparing to that. But the, the point you're making
is that actually the simplicity of using Amazon where my mum and
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dad can now shop and all the other people over the pandemic
that would never have got there originally.
I think that that's the ability you want to provide, isn't it?
That that seamless experience. But you have to think.
The minute you start making people think about anything, it
becomes difficult. You've got kids, right?
Yeah. The minute you put a barrier in
front of the, the bedroom's not getting clean, mate.
It's gotta be simple. It's like a gun to the head.
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Do it or I'll kill. You, yeah, they've got, they've
got to be able to scroll or they've got to be able to get to
get on the Xbox pretty quick. I'll give you some PlayStation
vouchers, whatever it might be. But yeah, but you know, but it's
that that seamless ability to beable to connect to a product
like you would a human. Because if in the old days
before there was tech, there would have been a dude walking
around with a pot of pens and the and a handful of paper
putting them out on each table right?
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Used to run them in the Beefeater back in the.
Day, yeah, I mean, we have a a real ethos with what we do is
that you can go to the, we can make it quicker to enter a quiz
bit quiz than it is to go to thebar and get a piece of paper.
Yeah. And that's what we want to be
able to do. So we're not taking away, you
know, through additional elementthat you've got with a pen and
paper quiz. But the other thing that we're
not trying to do with quiz bit is we're not trying to turn
around and replace every quiz that's out there and make it a
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digital quiz. Yeah, you know, you've got
quizzes that have been running for years, Derek, who's done it
for 2 pints, you know, every week who gets 50 people coming
in. We don't want to go in there and
say you need to take that out and put this interrupted.
Yeah, it's choice, isn't it? It's choice and what we can do
with quiz, but is you can run these as a round between your
quiz. You can do a full night of it.
You can do a music round at the end of your quiz, You can pick
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the TNT Sports Champions League quiz, You can turn around and
run a Harry Potter quiz. There's so many different ways
of doing it. I love the idea that you could
sit in the right, you know, and I think these regular type
places like as in I wouldn't normally experience a quiz like
in restaurants or those that youmentioned before.
I love that fact that you could make something because sometimes
I've sat there and thought, you know, I love.
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I would like to speak to you, but I'd much prefer to do, yeah.
Oh look, I've got a new quiz andhere let's just do that.
And genuinely, me and Kerry, we've been together 20 odd
years. You know, having a quiz put in
front of us will enable us to have a better chat sometimes
because you know, we've done most chats.
I mean honestly, if my wife hears the word quiz one.
More time. I can't even imagine.
I mean I. Think you have to stay down in
London, but but yeah, you're absolutely right.
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And, and again, with the word quiz and with the format being
very universal, you know, we canmake any product interactive,
you know, you know, you know, we've got bear mats out there
with QR codes on. We've got, we can put it into an
app, you know, we can put it on a receipt, you know, and it's
having the ability to be able tocreate these things at scale.
And then what you can do with this.
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And this is the one thing that that still surprises me, to be
honest with you, is that people want to prove how much they know
against someone. So me and you sit here as
football fans, if you gave me a Leeds United quiz to do now, we
had to get leads in there. Sorry, we have.
It's fine, we'll do it in a minute.
Then I would sit there and have like, right give me and I would,
I would have a go and I would try and beat my score.
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And and then a lot of the peoplethat I know that are, you know,
Leeds funds of a similar elk would turn around and say, you
know, we'll do that if I gave you a Liverpool.
Yeah. So it's this sort of thing.
And what we do, what never failsto amaze me is how people will
sit there and they will say, I'mnot bothered for the quiz.
I don't want to. And I've seen this.
And then they'll turn around. There'll be a question.
They'll go on you though. Oh my God, that's like the old
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adage of watching television. Where's the QR code?
Can I scan the QR and they'll start playing?
Yeah. And, and again, it comes back
down to this whole making it so accessible and so easy for them
to get in and start doing it andstart using it.
That solves the problem really. So.
No, I, I, you know that that made me laugh because it reminds
me of Christmas from my mum where, you know, you're watching
a game show and like, and she's like, oh, I know, I know, I
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know, I know. Never knows.
It never gets it right, always interrupts other people.
But, you know, but I think there's a, there's something
about that inclusion of a quiz that everybody can have a go
right. And it's, and it's quite nice
because you can get it wrong andnot feel like an idiot.
And I think I remember growing up in pubs like just having the
best times ever doing that. And the best nights were, and
you know, I'm not even sure how much money we made, but it was
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packed. Honestly, I mean literally, you
know, I mean again, what we haveto do as well with what with
what we produce, it has to be commercially valuable for the
venue. So we do things at scale and
that allows us to, to, to cost this, you know, I mean, we've
got, I don't know if I'm all right to mention it, but we've
got it. You go for it.
You're dropping names all over the place.
Doing the sales pitch we have, we have an offer now for any
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hospitality venue or any venue to be honest with you, and they
can have three months worth of the entire Quizbi platform for
60 lbs, which is less than £5 a week to do as many as you want.
Now obviously that's a, a three month offer where you get the
whole, you get the whole platform, the music quiz is
everything that goes in there. And what you're able to do at
the end of that is decide, look,where does it fit within my
business. So for less than £5 a week, you
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can have three months worth of interactive quizzing.
And then what you can do is you can choose to take on the
subscription if you want to do from that.
And even at that, it comes in atless than 1011 LB a week to do
as many as you want. So it's less than a couple of
pints. And the reality is that if you
think about it, most quizzes generally full, right, generally
you get a decent crowd and and you're talking at a minimum 30
Max, I don't know, 3050 people and they're all going to buy a
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drink at least. Yeah, at least Yeah and all.
You're already ahead. It is and, and, and it's what
amazes me as well is where people put these things.
So we've got an auto host feature now because So what you
can do is you can pick from thousands of quizzes and you can
literally we've got AI know, youknow, the guys that startled and
those guys. We integrate with those guys and
you can you can put quiz bit andyou can get quiz bit on any
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screen for that matter. And what you can do is you can
pick a quiz and you can just auto host the whole thing.
So you can do it as a, you know,when you've got a bit down time
in the venue. You can do it before a Champions
League game. You could run a 12 question quiz
at lunchtime, which people take part in.
But again, that comes down to listening and working with
hospitality venues who I've got 1001 different things to do from
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changing a barrel to, you know, sorting out next week's menu.
And that you talked about that fact that you didn't have that
experience of building anything and then you've done it.
How do you feel coming out? I mean, I know as you said, it
never ends. That's the same for our old tech
companies, I think until you exit.
But how does that, how do you feel coming out the other side a
little bit? Because obviously you've built
it, sold it a few Times Now and you're in, you're in the other,
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other end of it. How do I feel?
Or as in what did you learn, I suppose from that experience?
Because, you know, you're a similar age to me, probably.
We think we know everything until we don't know everything.
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what Ilearned.
So I'm how does it make me feel Very tired.
And how? What are?
My slippers. It's, it's very important to
have the right people in the right seats as a business and to
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come back to, you know, what we're building and you know, we
need to make sure that, and I don't mean, you know, the right
people in terms of, you know, just skill set.
You know, they have to be brought into what we're trying
to do. And everyone has to have the
same sort of idea of what we're trying to get to because that
makes life a lot easier. Because what you then do is the
challenges that you face. You're always then looking at
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the the bigger picture. And I feel like you're speaking
from kissing a few frogs potentially.
Yeah, I mean, I felt a lot, you know, you've but but you know,
once you fall over, you can learn so much from all your cuts
and bruises. And what you can do with that is
you can then turn on and take that into what you do.
And that for me, not that I likefalling over and getting cuts
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and bruises is the fascinating part that then allows you to do.
But as long as you keep talking to your customers, as long as
you keep iterating and moving and keep the momentum going,
which is easier said than done on some days, I.
Was going to say, how much do you think you've dined out on
your because you're a lovely guyand I think people obviously
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trust you. How much do you think in the
early days were you dining out on Mark rather than the product?
As in, how much do you feel likeyou've had any allowance?
I like so well, you probably, well, you probably got that I
like talking. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Like I find it hard to say no if.
You put me on the stage in frontof people.
What I like to do is I love feedback.
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I love talking to people. I love listening to what people
have challenges have got. And it doesn't just have to be
hospitality. It can be anything.
I mean, quiz bit is being is played in schools.
It's played, you know, in hotels, in restaurants, in bars,
you know, the solo product that we're now building, you know,
that's got, you know, so many verticals that it can move into.
And. And I think there is part of it
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where my enthusiasm, I think does get attached in part to
what we're trying to do. Yeah, Yeah.
But I think that, you know, likeI say, having people in the
right seats, but the. Well navigated.
Yeah, I think so. I think.
But I enjoy people. I enjoy meeting people, I enjoy
making friends. I enjoy speaking to you.
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You know, I look, I love what you're doing with tech on Toast.
I. Haven't got a clue what I'm
doing with tech on toast. I love what you're doing with
tech on Toast, you know, But you've got you've got people
like, you've got people like Jade who does Compsoc.
Yeah, yeah. And I think that's what's nice
recently about hostility. There's a lot of these little
communities popping up because that's what they are, isn't it?
Yeah. And I actually think good
products are communities. I I see Quizbit as that.
I know you're a product and you're a company.
I get that. But I see it.
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Is it the way people probably, Idon't know enough about your
company to know this, but I imagine that people in interact
with you and want to get involved with you because of who
you are and also what you've built and the fact that it's
such a nice thing to sell. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong in
saying that, but it feels like such a warm thing to sell in
terms of the fact that you're bringing people together.
Yeah, it's like selling food. Like you're kind of bringing
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people together and they're having fun and they're hanging
out with each other and learning.
Yeah. And I think, yeah, I think
you're right. And I think there's, I think
because of there's so many different, you know, we can
attach quiz bit to so many different genres and so many
different verticals. And what you can also do is you
can turn around, you know, and, and, and make them genre
specific. You know, so we had a guy in
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Sheffield not so long ago and hedid a, it was like a Harry
Potter themed quiz. Yeah.
And he, he fair play to him. He was in a student area and he
planned it and we gave him the tech.
He used the Harry Potter quiz which is in the system.
He did 4 rounds. He took 2800 lbs on his bar
taking one night. From a quiz, How much 2008?
£100 Wow. I mean people were getting
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dressed up and coming in and allthis sort of stuff.
You know, we did it. We did come with Brew Dog.
We did a friends quiz across every single.
Oh my God, my Mrs. would love that.
Oh my God, it was amazing. They sold out pretty much every
single venue and. Friends.
I can't hate to interrupt, but friends is such an interesting
concept that you can put that onanytime.
I suppose it again depends on your age, but my son's, 18, who
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loves it, and me and Kerry, whenwe're having dinner, if we can't
find something to watch, we tendto put that on just to cope for
that half an hour or whatever itis.
And not that we can't talk to each other.
It's not running properly. The theme here?
I'm going. To have to get you some more
quizzies then oh. Gosh, she's going to kill me,
but she doesn't listen anyway. Don't worry about it.
So, but it's it that I find thatit's really interesting that
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it's like quizzing, it's comfortable, you know, it's like
an old pair of slippers you can put on and you feel OK.
And I think a lot of people wantthat.
I think a lot of people have hada crap time for a long time.
The world is not very nice and hasn't been for 10 years.
And I think it's getting worse. And I actually think people do
it like coming together when people were worried about the
pub and worried about its existence and still are rightly
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so. One thing the pub can do that
nothing else can do is bring people together in that and kind
of have a giggle, hang out with your old mates, talk about some
serious stuff. Blokes like us probably talk
about the most serious things inthat place, nowhere else.
So, you know, mental health, male problems were and I'm not
dissing the women here. I'm just giving us a moment, you
know, just let us have a moment.So but like the blokes in the
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pub that's, you know, stands itstest of time that it's a it's
and it's a really a good place to be for a lot of people.
It's very important to a lot of people and I think stuff like
quiz bit just solidifies that a little bit more and gives them
the opportunity to do it. I'm not trying to sell your
product. I'm just talking openly.
No, I think. Quizzing.
I think you're right to talk about, you know, men or blokes
or whatever we want to talk about in the cliche that can
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sometimes be seen as, you know, it's blocks down the pub and
it's various other things. But there's a reason.
Why? There is a reason and.
Because she wants to watch. Friends, you know football
midweek, you know Champions League midweek drives people to
pubs. But it's not just about driving
people to pubs, it's where you can go and have some banter and
have some talk about. Yeah, I'd go to meet my one
friend, you know, So, you know, you know, and it's true.
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And I think it's, and I don't want to separate men and women,
but it is like that, you know, we everyone has to have their
place to go. Kerry has her friends as she
goes to sees. Generally they go around to each
other's houses and drink wine orwhatever they do and just slag
me off. But with me, I like to watch
football or do whatever but really don't care about the
football. Probably I just like.
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That's the interesting point as well, because the amount of
conversation that can go on during the football match, you
think that the football match wasn't going?
On yeah. You didn't even watch it?
No. Same.
With this thing, people, that was a do you remember?
And then the questions themselves.
I mean, there is a bit of a science of putting the questions
together when we've got the 35,000 questions in the database
and there's always something that comes up with a quiz where
people go, do you remember The Goonies?
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What a movie that was. I'm an expert on that.
And can you still write your own?
Because one of the best things about the pub quiz was your
name, right? The team name, yes.
So the ability still there to dothat, yes.
You can still. Yeah, I'm going to make.
Have you got the ability to spinup a quiz?
Yeah. Yeah, we'll do my best Steve
Jobs impression here. So you've got over 1000 quizzes
and. You've not only is he dressed
like him? Yeah.
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So basically I don't know where I'm.
Pointing at you can go this. One, Yeah.
So basically that is your Quizbit account.
You can log into your Quizbit account from here.
And what I can do from here? Do you have a mobile phone?
Yeah, right. If you grab your mobile phone.
For me, do I have a mobile? I mean, I know I'm old.
Do you have a mobile phone? So what you've got in here is
thousands of quizzes that you can choose from.
You can build your own. I'm not going to build one for
you now. I'm going to play you a little
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demo quiz. We've got a joonies.
One in here now. So all that you do is that's a
QR code. So all that you do, Chris, is
you scan that QR code for me. This is like live tech on the
podcast. Click Play as a guest at the
bottom and then what you'll do is put your name in and then
we're going to do a quiz with you.
OK, you're on OK, so I've got red men in there.
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I know exactly where you're going with that champions right
OK, I'm going to start the quiz from here.
So while you do as I say withoutgiving you the full tech demo,
this is your host screen. That is your player screen.
I can run an entire quiz night from this thing, but what I'm
going to do is. So in a hostile scenario right
now and this could be on a screen.
It could or it doesn't have to be so.
It could be on the handsets. Absolutely, yes.
See what you've got. People that will basically ping
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up a quiz on their phone. They will walk around the venue,
everyone will scan the QR code and they'll run the entire thing
to the mobile phone. Very cool because what happens
is you'll see the device. Your first question is this,
which US state appears in a bottle of Jack Daniel whiskey?
Tap which one you think it is and click Confirm which ones
you're going to click. So embarrassed you can tell
people what I got. Alabama or Washington, tap which
is think. Click confirm, you click
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Tennessee. You got it right, so you get it
right for you get points for getting right.
You also get points for speed ofanswer, so that's not a bad.
Can I retire now? Start.
No, you've got to keep going, I'm afraid.
Which two of the following were the names of Harry Potter's
parents? OK.
Double points. Tap two of them.
Click Confirm. Lock your answering.
Go. Which of those two were the
names of Harry Potter's parents?Yet no one's looked.
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Look how fast they went there. Answered That was very fast.
Very fast 279. Points say that I'm going to
win. Now I'm really interested to see
if you get this one name the year black and white by Michael
Jackson was 1 Leeds United with the Champions of England and
Aladdin was released in the cinemas.
Now for this Chris, you've got atap in the box type in the full
year and click confirm. You can be one out, two out
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either side you've. Done this before.
Your keypad is on your phone nowWe have gone.
What do you go for? 98. 1992 what it was the old
First Division before became. Was Michael Jackson dead at
night? No, we're still alive at night,
I think. Just maybe.
Oh, was there, oh, wasn't premier.
Didn't you win the premier? Did you ever win the?
Premier. It was the year before the
Premier. League, we've won it 20 times.
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Really. How many times you won the
Champions League, Chris? Six.
Sorry, next question Go on wrongtap the following lyrics in the
law in the audience of what RickCassidy would never do to you.
Feel free to have a sing along. Never going to give me up.
So tap those. I'm really enjoying myself.
Correct order? Good.
Oh, never. Going to make you down, never
going to run around and desert you.
There you go. That's a great question.
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Answers are locked in. Sorry if you're enjoying this on
the podcast A. 157 points. I'm flying Chris there.
Abby Sims, if you're watching, you would leave me close to.
This right, I've got two more questions.
True or false? By weight, the liver is the
largest internal organ. Oh.
Jesus, is that true? My liver or?
That would be something. OK, yes.
I knew that was just you're. On for a good score messing you
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up, right? Your final question is this, who
voiced this character? So I'm going to show you guys
that. I know this.
Who provided the voice for that character?
You got four options. Tap which one you think it is
and confirm your answer. Yeah, because I think a lot of
people go for Will Smith here. They do.
Yeah. Actually, it's, Jen said.
Which I've noticed. Your correct answer, of course,
is Robin Williams. This is not a bad score.
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Yeah, well, I don't know what we're going to.
Do one wrong. The final leaderboard is only
you on it, 954 points. But nationally, so this is a
national quiz. Are you in the top ten?
No, but. What does that mean though?
Those people got 100. Percent, yes.
The national at the minute is. Sad, sad people get out more.
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The New Inn in Little Eaton, your second.
I mean, I've got to be honest, there's one guy here called For
Fox Sake, yes. That's that's a good quiz name,
to be fair. Sad wags.
OK, yeah, we're staying up. So yeah.
Oh my God, look at #1 you need to change your number 1 is.
Yes, that. Yeah, I get that.
Yeah, yeah. Did you do that?
I really, but that's my point I think and the reason I wanted to
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do it on this because to show how much because for a minute
that I actually forgot we were doing a podcast.
Sorry, yeah, no, but I did as well.
I think for me it obviously it'sa tech product and it's
something that needs to be commercialized and people have
got, the customers obviously arealso making their money out of
it by putting these events on. But the point is it's never
going away. Yeah, but it needs to get better
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in terms of intuitive, the fact that what you're doing in terms
of you're bringing it to a new market.
Yeah, cuz the market will change, right?
People get older, people move onand the younger market going to
come through and want to still do this kind of stuff, but in
their way and quickly, which I think you've built, right.
Yeah, again. And what we can do is we can
adapt it for different audiencesand different genres and
different clients and different customers by changing and
adapting the content, you know. So as I say, you know, we've
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just done the FA Cup quiz. We've got sports quizzes going
out soon with TNT Sports. We've got lots of different, you
know, quizzes in there, which isthe one for the Grand National,
you know, So anybody that wants a quiz either on product, in
venue, live auto hosted, you're the man.
I'm doing my best sales. Pitch, I don't care.
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I'm listening. I'm enjoying it.
Yeah, though you can. You can use quiz bit for it but
but ultimately I could say it'llnever be finished.
I just feel for your misses. You keep saying that she she
hears the word quit. I can't imagine do do do kids
play the quiz? So my son is 9 years of age and
he said the other week he said dad and he said this to to me
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and his mom he said dad. I really want the quiz bit low
of graffiti on my wall. Yeah, she's kicking.
You out and what? About the future.
So I mean, what what's, I mean you've obviously you're doing
all this stuff, Carlin, you talked about the sports quizzes
are coming out. What's going to happen or what
would you like to happen or whatis happening?
In the next 12 months, yes. So the quiz builder, we're going
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to improve on the ability for people to be able to build an
entire quiz in under a minute. And what we do want is we want
to, we want to scale that out. Yeah.
And the solo side of things is agreat piece of kit.
And we're going to be introducing that more into the
front end so people can actuallyturn around and do them for
themselves and create their own reporting and everything else.
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There's also going to be reward and recognition coming into all
that thing and lots of stuff. And I think we're we're
developing something that's, as I say, going to grow.
But what we want to do is continue to add value where we
can. Well, I think you are.
And I know some of the we have to do some work with Green King
at the moment actually. And I know you guys, you already
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work. In there, Yeah, we do.
Yeah. Those guys are great.
We love. That so we're doing some work
with them for the more for the tented side.
So obviously quiz bit will have to be at the front of that, but
we're super excited. We don't really have much work
in wet LED world. We met with Nightcap last week.
We did some, we're doing some stuff with them.
So but yeah, very interesting look.
And if the most important question is people want to find
out more about you and where yougot your clothes.
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They could learn all about my fashion sense if they wish.
How do they reach out to you? So you can get us at
quizbit.com, which is spelled kwi, double Z, bit.com and all
your social channels at Quizbit,LinkedIn and all that sort of
stuff. And if you want me, I am Mark
James Walsh on from LinkedIn andMark James Walsh won I.
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Think and were you were there onthe stage?
Were you ever on the stage? I have been on stage.
Because when we did the quiz bit, then you probably did that
quiz master mode, yeah. Professionally, I've never been
on a stage professionally, I think.
You've got a calling my friend. Always unprofessional.
These tables should be turned soyou should do the quiz.
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I mean I'm not being funny, but the quiz bit podcast.
I'd be tuning in every week. Well, funny enough.
Yes, on that. I know you haven't got any time,
but do it anyway. Well, you asked what we were
doing. That is part of one of the plans
that we do. We're going to do more with the
pod. Well, we're going to do some
more quiz bit live. Yeah.
So more live events. So we're going to be
broadcasting live to venues all over the country with Quiz Bit
Live. So you'll be able to soon you'll
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be able to turn on your Quiz Bitaccount, log into Quiz Bit Live
and you're going to be able to play take part in a live game
show. So.
Wow, it's my dream. OK, Lovely to meet you mate.
Thank you for coming all the waydown here in this 95°.
What is it like? It's hot.
It's hot, but it's lovely. I do like London in the Sun.
Yeah, it's a bit minging. No, because I'm not really
dressed for like, Yeah, well, wecan get.
Well, I get to get on the train back to lead, you see, so.
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Are you literally going straightback up?
I'm going to go straight back up.
Yeah. Wow.
OK. Well, thank you very much, mate.
Lovely to see you wait by to thecameras.
Bye. Where are they?
All over the place. All right.
Cheers mate. We'll see you all next week.
Bye. Bye.
Bye.
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Welcome to the next episode of Tech and so's podcast.
And today, I'm going to say tonight.
Is it tonight yet? No, This afternoon, I'm
delighted to be joined by Mark Wald, founder and CEO of
Quizbit. Hello.
Hello, how are you? All right mate, and I must say
we've had this, my 4th. As you can tell from my my
introduction, this is my 4th guest today and Mark has been
dressed properly. Have you?
(01:30):
You've gone full tech. I've gone full Mark Zuckerberg.
No socks. No socks.
Box White. Trainers box white trainers the
black T-shirt. I just don't have the jewelry.
And if we'd been back in the daywhen we when I was in Leeds,
we'd be shopping at Arc, wouldn't we?
We would I used to work. There.
Yeah, I remember. I know this.
That's why I brought it up. So before I blither on about you
(01:50):
and Leeds, tell people who you are and what you do.
Yeah, My name is Mark Walsh. I am the founder and CEO of
Quizbit. We are a live interactive quiz
platform which allows people to quiz anyone on anything from
anywhere, pretty much that. I invented that, developed that
and we have thousands of hospitality venues all over the
UK that use that as their regular pub quiz as long with
(02:13):
other things that we do as well.And you know what, if I've done
my prep properly, I would have just brought along a quiz.
Tell me you've got one. I've got your Liverpool.
I've still got my Liverpool. One Liverpool.
One my son's done it. Yeah, and we've got loads of
different quizzes there. It's a quiz, but it's like the
Netflix of quizzing, if you will, there.
Is you've practiced that? You can tell that this is
staged, there's thousands of quizzes in there for you to do
(02:34):
and you can actually run an entire quiz night from your
mobile phone. So we can give you guys more of
these to play and. Have you been quizzing all your
life? Well, how did you get to this
point? No, it's a bit of a story and I
won't give you the War and Peaceversion.
It's late. Right as I can.
Yeah, it's very late in the day.Yeah.
I mean, I started life as a journalism, fashion and
journalism. I used to work down in London
(02:54):
for all the the lads mugs, whichis a completely different
podcast by the way. Yeah, which?
Which ones? I used to work for Maxim, but I
also worked for a guy called James Brown who created Loaded
and we had magazines like Hot Dog and Viz and 40 and Times.
Remember, loaded very well, yes.They were very good.
Before. Was that before the Internet?
Am I being stupid? Or not.
No, we still have the Internet. Only just right.
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But yeah, it was hedonistic to say the least.
But it was also a lot of fun andalso learned a lot actually.
Best decade ever? Best decade ever.
Bring it back, as shall we say. So yes, I did that and moved
back to Leeds, created my own magazine, which aesthetically it
was wonderful, Commercially it was awful.
And then stumble on an idea, or an idea for a game that I'd
always had called Rock'n'roll Bingo, which is bingo with music
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instead of numbers. I created that and that launched
that actually, which is quite analogue, but that became the
fastest great pub game in the UKfor four or five years.
It was, it was a phenomenal journey, it really was.
You're quite the entrepreneur, aren't you?
Did you ever have a proper job? Yeah, well, the magazines was a
proper job. Yeah, but was it was.
It yeah, I used to work in clothes shops when I was
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younger, as we've discussed. Yeah, but that was ARC as well,
so you've been a bit. You're a bit too cool for
school, aren't you? Well, I've definitely been
called worse than too cool for school, but but yeah, done lots
of different stuff. So yeah.
And then effectively, I actuallysold Rock and Robbing in 2015
when I became a dad. Wow.
Still a dad, still the best job in the world, but IA lot of
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people within the hospitality industry were asking us what
we're going to do next. We've had an awful lot of
friends in the hospitality industry who we still speak to
to this day. And quiz bits started life to be
honest, to stop people cheating in pompouses.
That was basically the the the modus of.
All right, so much fun cheating,I think.
There was a few things out there.
There was some really good technical solutions out there,
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but they were very technical, they were very clunky and you
needed to have, you know, certain pieces of kit and you
needed certain pieces of Wi-Fi and also certain pieces of
technical knowledge. So could I create a cloud based
interactive quiz platform that people could use to run their
pub quiz with little to no experience?
Yeah. And so if my mum could run it,
then anyone can run it. So that was what we set out to
do. No offence, Mrs. Walsh.
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No offence Mrs. Walsh, but she can still run a quiz by the way.
And but yeah, it's now been played by over half a million
people now in 47 countries, which is quite a bizarre.
That's pretty cool, Mark. In my Brew Dog studio, I used to
have a little button that made aI did clapping, but I haven't
got one here. If I press it, it might break
it. So I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to do it, but that's that must you must be
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quite proud of that. That's quite of a cool
achievement, right? To be able to roll that stats
out. Yeah, I think so.
I think what we've learned an awful lot of is the challenges
that hospitality faces. And what is cool is getting to
speak to lots of people on a on a regular basis.
And what is very cool is being able to solve problems and work
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with them on certain challenges.And what you kind of get or what
we've got now is something that,in truth, will never be
finished. Yeah.
And but that makes everyday different.
And I think and obviously quizzing is great fun, and
nearly everyone who's listening to this will have done it right,
yeah, or should have done a quizat some point in their lives.
But it's not just for the sake of it, is it?
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There's a reason why people put quizzes on.
There's a commercial benefit, obviously, or meant to be a
commercial benefit behind entertainment or is that what
you were? Yeah.
Is that a bracket you put yourselves in?
Definitely, definitely. I mean, I've, I've been selling
products to the hospitality industry now for almost 15
years, which I know I don't looka day over 21.
That's guys. So rude.
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You beat me to it. It is, yeah.
But but in that there is an awful lot of of challenges that
hospitality faces, no more so than today really.
I think, you know, there's an awful lot of things.
I mean when I. Is it harder today?
I'm yes. I don't.
Know different? I watched Rock'n'roll Bingo in
2007 when The Smoking Man came in and everybody said, you,
Matt, what are you doing? You won't be able to get this
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out there. But for me, every venue that was
out there saying nobody's comingin, we're not going to do
anything about it. There was another 10 that said,
right, we need to do something about this.
We need to drive value. Yeah, that was one of.
Them so they so you know can we then or can I provide a solution
and can our products provide a solution is can we add value
commercially viable price that we'll get bombs on seats.
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I think what's really interesting, the smoking ban you
brought there, for most of the generation that are in tech that
I manage or work with, they probably won't be.
What year was the smoking ban it?
Was 2007. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because I moved to Hard Rock in 2005.
So yeah, it was pretty much strapped.
I was gutted. I smoked, I smoked so much.
It was just so annoying. I'd go outside or wait till we
shut. Is that legal?
I'm not sure. No, I mean, I think I gave up
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about 10 years ago, so. Yeah, so but it but it was a
huge moment in especially in thewetland industry.
Obviously. I mean, he used to make me laugh
the smoking area in the restaurants and he's like, yeah,
I'm in the non-smoking, but the guy next is in smoking.
How's that ever going to work inthe industry and.
I think it came, you know, what came with that was an awful lot
of people saying that hospitality is going to die.
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Yeah. No, I remember it entirely.
Gone. Yeah, we're not going to see and
I think you see a lot of that today, you know, and not that
say that, you know, we've got the smoking man coming, but the
challenges that we've got with the rates that people are now
suffering, you know, with the the the increase in minimum wage
and, and you know, we can go on,but still to this day, there is
some amazing entrepreneurial hospitality operators who will
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turn around and we'll take that challenge and we'll hit it head
on. And it's not just the individual
operators. There's the operations teams,
there's the manager states, there's area managers, there's
operations directors. And because people are so
involved in this and so passionate about that industry,
you know, we get to learn a lot from those.
But we can work alongside that to add value and to give them
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something that will drive footfall, which will offer them
data capture, which will offer them the ability to be able to
market and showcase. So, you know, as much as we can
turn around and build these techproducts, what we're doing is
we're building them, you know, clearly or, or aligning that
clearly with the challenges thatpeople have got.
Yeah, no. And and my dad said never wasted
crisis, right? Never ever wasted.
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Crisis. So and, and I think out of every
crisis comes some good, you know, or, or comes some, some
product that we may not have seen before.
And that's exactly why was it so?
Is that time when you built it? Was it when you, when you, you
thought, right, I've got to do something to get people back in?
Well, 2007 was smoking was when we created Rock'n'roll Bingo.
That was basically my foray intothe hospital.
First hit. Yes, yes, the the Dangerous
second album. Yeah, I see what you did.
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And Quiz Bit was born in 2017. And as I say, the, the the modus
operandi was to stop people cheating in pub quizzies.
Really. That was a challenge, a tech
challenge. I've never built a tech product.
So to build a tech product without a tech background should
come with a health warning. We got it to a stage when we
first started it, you know, and it was we built something that
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was relatively good. It worked.
It it, it had issues as any early tech product does.
And when COVID hit, the whole point that we needed to address
was that it wouldn't scale. We could only get around about
1000 people in it without it sort of falling over, if you
will. Yeah.
And obviously with hospitality shutting down, what we did was
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we switched purely to online, but we switched to online for
hospitality. So we had pubs running their
regular pubs as they would always do on teams using our
software. Gosh it gives me PTSDT but it
doesn't. Just remembering what that was
like, it was crazy, wasn't? It, it was, you know, but again,
like you say, never waste a goodcrisis and not to, to put light
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on what COVID did to businesses and to human beings.
But ultimately we were able to take something and we were able
to invest in the platform and wecan now get over 1,000,000
people in a single game. A million people.
A million people it's crazy yeahso we've yeah we've we've scaled
it out and we we've done becauseof that we're now able to do
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things like quiz bit live, whichis a live broadcasters quiz we
can broadcast straight to venue and we.
I told you didn't know about my holiday.
Did I tell you about the whole thing with the quiz?
Oh, you. So I stay at a Sensitor.
I'm not trying to be a big Ed, but I straight.
Yeah, I stay at Sensitor. It's the one treat we get every
year, right? So I stay at the Sensitor every
year and they have the one thingthe kids, no matter what age
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they've got to they love doing is that quiz at bloody 9:00.
And I'm I'm you know what I'm like, I'm done.
I've had my beers, I'm ready to go bed or party, whatever.
And they want to do the quiz. And it's the most frustrating if
Tui, if you're listening, pleasejust ring this guy up and sort
it out because imagine trying toput probably 300 half cut.
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Well, the same as the pub rides,trying to get them on.
And the, the biggest part of thenight is onboarding people onto
the onto the quiz. And they're all like scanning
this car, mate. It's it's it's another level and
it but it makes me think about you.
Last year I was there because we'd met.
I was thinking, I said he could kill this in seconds.
It is and, and, and I mean the, the thing that we're building
out now as well as we were allowing people to create their
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own quizzes as well. So we're, we're building out or
we're, we're expanding on what is our quiz builder.
So you'll be able to create a quiz in under a minute.
So you can create a quiz for yourself, an entire quiz for a
huge audience in under one minute with what we're building
and that's being used an awful, you know, great deal.
But yeah, I mean things like 2 Eholiday parks, hospitality
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venues, restaurants even we've we've put together an always on
solution called Quiz Bit Solo, which is great.
And which is where we can put anentire quiz behind AQR code or a
link. And what we can do is we can
randomise the selection of thosequestions for each user as they
play it and give them a certain amount of time.
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Yeah, so you could sit in a casual High Street dining type
restaurant because I was looking, I was in Elan.
Do you know Elan Elan Cafe? It's not really.
You're not their target customer.
No, maybe not, I don't know. They're they're like big pink
kind of cafes with like like beautiful cakes and everything.
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I'm open to that. It's.
Very Instagramable. Like I went in there for a
meeting and I just felt like I shouldn't be there, right?
OK, yeah, most teenage girls, basically.
And me. OK, didn't.
Didn't feel good so it was a business meeting so don't touch.
Me. But anyway, I went to meet and
the lady in there works for a company called Kate Media, and
they have built these digital almost like tent cards.
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Remember tent cards? Yeah, you're absolutely.
It's a digital tent. They forgot.
They're gonna kill me. But not digital tank.
But they're ordering platforms that sit on the table.
They're a unit. Yeah, but you could play games
on them. Yeah.
And do quizzes on them. I no, you couldn't do quizzes,
but my point is they should. Yeah.
I think it'd be really cool to be able to quiz your customers
on your branding. Two or three questions, you
know, just have a knock. You have some fun with them
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basically. Yeah.
And we can do that with the product.
And what we built with Quiz withSolo is we can, as I say, put an
entire quiz behind. We've just done it with, and I'm
more like to mention this with the guys at Carling.
Yeah. And a media agency called Mars,
and we did a quiz with Carling and the FA and we put 1000 FA
Cup questions, very difficult FACup questions, actually some of
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them in a bank. And what we were able to then do
is we created a competition fromthose thousand questions where,
wherever, whenever somebody scans the QR code to play that
quiz, it will randomly select 12from those questions.
And what you can do is you can play that quiz, you get 5
attempts to try and beat your score.
And then if you win at the end of the week or you win at the
end of the week, or if you're a certain place at the table, then
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the week you can win Premier League.
I think it's Premier League football tickets or football
tickets for the FA Cup. And that's been played over
32,000 times in three weeks, which is great because what you
get there is you get real competition, you get data
capture, but you also get the ability to be able to engage
with an audience wherever they are.
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So we're we're really happy withthat and we're going to be doing
more of that. It may quizzing baffles me
because it's quite a Is it quitea British thing, you think?
I don't know. But it's your numbers.
Every time you quote a number, it's big.
It is, I think. Do you know what I think the
easy thing is? I think quizzing is the same in
Bangladesh as it is in Bognor Regis, right?
So it's like the word. Where you going?
Here we go. But but my point being is, is
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that a quiz is a universally recognised format.
Yeah. What we're not trying to do is
change the wheel. What we're not trying to do is
introduce something, explain it at length and then see if there
is, you know, any engagement there.
What we're giving them is the ability to get straight in and
quiz. And I mean, this is, you know,
not just with solo, with quiz Bit Live and with Quiz bit.
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What it is, again, what we're doing is we're giving operators
and anybody the chance to engagewith their audience and interact
with their audience. But we've got to make it simple.
We've got to make, it's like when you talked about the two
east side of things, you know, the, the login on the onboard
and everything else. You know, we want people to be
able to build quizzes in under aminute.
We want people. Because they get away with it,
right? Because you're Saturn on island,
there's no there's not really a competitor to go to, right?
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You kind of sat there. You're a captive audience.
But I think, yeah, that that that it's like everything in
life now. People are impatient and they
just want to get. On they are, and I think as
well, one of the challenges thatwe saw, and this is one of the
things that I suppose we pride ourselves on, but also something
that we're constantly learning is that if you give a piece of
tech to a pub manager or hospitality manager and you make
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it difficult to use or you make it complicated to set up, or you
have extra hardware to add in straight away what you're doing
there is given a barrier to entry without trying to make
ourselves out to be Amazon, if you will.
Amazon you can go in, you can goand you can pick your product.
You can send your basket and you've paid for it before you've
actually turned around and realised how much it cost.
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With Quiz Beat, you can create aquiz, you can broadcast it to
your audience live, you can playit in your venue.
All that your customers do is scan the QR code, put a name in
and they're in. I, I don't think it's, I, I, I
think comparing to Amazon is theright thing to do because
actually I'm not obviously the breadth of Amazon, you're not
comparing to that. But the, the point you're making
is that actually the simplicity of using Amazon where my mum and
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dad can now shop and all the other people over the pandemic
that would never have got there originally.
I think that that's the ability you want to provide, isn't it?
That that seamless experience. But you have to think.
The minute you start making people think about anything, it
becomes difficult. You've got kids, right?
Yeah. The minute you put a barrier in
front of the, the bedroom's not getting clean, mate.
It's gotta be simple. It's like a gun to the head.
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Do it or I'll kill. You, yeah, they've got, they've
got to be able to scroll or they've got to be able to get to
get on the Xbox pretty quick. I'll give you some PlayStation
vouchers, whatever it might be. But yeah, but you know, but it's
that that seamless ability to beable to connect to a product
like you would a human. Because if in the old days
before there was tech, there would have been a dude walking
around with a pot of pens and the and a handful of paper
putting them out on each table right?
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Used to run them in the Beefeater back in the.
Day, yeah, I mean, we have a a real ethos with what we do is
that you can go to the, we can make it quicker to enter a quiz
bit quiz than it is to go to thebar and get a piece of paper.
Yeah. And that's what we want to be
able to do. So we're not taking away, you
know, through additional elementthat you've got with a pen and
paper quiz. But the other thing that we're
not trying to do with quiz bit is we're not trying to turn
around and replace every quiz that's out there and make it a
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digital quiz. Yeah, you know, you've got
quizzes that have been running for years, Derek, who's done it
for 2 pints, you know, every week who gets 50 people coming
in. We don't want to go in there and
say you need to take that out and put this interrupted.
Yeah, it's choice, isn't it? It's choice and what we can do
with quiz, but is you can run these as a round between your
quiz. You can do a full night of it.
You can do a music round at the end of your quiz, You can pick
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the TNT Sports Champions League quiz, You can turn around and
run a Harry Potter quiz. There's so many different ways
of doing it. I love the idea that you could
sit in the right, you know, and I think these regular type
places like as in I wouldn't normally experience a quiz like
in restaurants or those that youmentioned before.
I love that fact that you could make something because sometimes
I've sat there and thought, you know, I love.
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I would like to speak to you, but I'd much prefer to do, yeah.
Oh look, I've got a new quiz andhere let's just do that.
And genuinely, me and Kerry, we've been together 20 odd
years. You know, having a quiz put in
front of us will enable us to have a better chat sometimes
because you know, we've done most chats.
I mean honestly, if my wife hears the word quiz one.
More time. I can't even imagine.
I mean I. Think you have to stay down in
London, but but yeah, you're absolutely right.
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And, and again, with the word quiz and with the format being
very universal, you know, we canmake any product interactive,
you know, you know, you know, we've got bear mats out there
with QR codes on. We've got, we can put it into an
app, you know, we can put it on a receipt, you know, and it's
having the ability to be able tocreate these things at scale.
And then what you can do with this.
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And this is the one thing that that still surprises me, to be
honest with you, is that people want to prove how much they know
against someone. So me and you sit here as
football fans, if you gave me a Leeds United quiz to do now, we
had to get leads in there. Sorry, we have.
It's fine, we'll do it in a minute.
Then I would sit there and have like, right give me and I would,
I would have a go and I would try and beat my score.
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And and then a lot of the peoplethat I know that are, you know,
Leeds funds of a similar elk would turn around and say, you
know, we'll do that if I gave you a Liverpool.
Yeah. So it's this sort of thing.
And what we do, what never failsto amaze me is how people will
sit there and they will say, I'mnot bothered for the quiz.
I don't want to. And I've seen this.
And then they'll turn around. There'll be a question.
They'll go on you though. Oh my God, that's like the old
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adage of watching television. Where's the QR code?
Can I scan the QR and they'll start playing?
Yeah. And, and again, it comes back
down to this whole making it so accessible and so easy for them
to get in and start doing it andstart using it.
That solves the problem really. So.
No, I, I, you know that that made me laugh because it reminds
me of Christmas from my mum where, you know, you're watching
a game show and like, and she's like, oh, I know, I know, I
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know, I know. Never knows.
It never gets it right, always interrupts other people.
But, you know, but I think there's a, there's something
about that inclusion of a quiz that everybody can have a go
right. And it's, and it's quite nice
because you can get it wrong andnot feel like an idiot.
And I think I remember growing up in pubs like just having the
best times ever doing that. And the best nights were, and
you know, I'm not even sure how much money we made, but it was
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packed. Honestly, I mean literally, you
know, I mean again, what we haveto do as well with what with
what we produce, it has to be commercially valuable for the
venue. So we do things at scale and
that allows us to, to, to cost this, you know, I mean, we've
got, I don't know if I'm all right to mention it, but we've
got it. You go for it.
You're dropping names all over the place.
Doing the sales pitch we have, we have an offer now for any
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hospitality venue or any venue to be honest with you, and they
can have three months worth of the entire Quizbi platform for
60 lbs, which is less than £5 a week to do as many as you want.
Now obviously that's a, a three month offer where you get the
whole, you get the whole platform, the music quiz is
everything that goes in there. And what you're able to do at
the end of that is decide, look,where does it fit within my
business. So for less than £5 a week, you
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can have three months worth of interactive quizzing.
And then what you can do is you can choose to take on the
subscription if you want to do from that.
And even at that, it comes in atless than 1011 LB a week to do
as many as you want. So it's less than a couple of
pints. And the reality is that if you
think about it, most quizzes generally full, right, generally
you get a decent crowd and and you're talking at a minimum 30
Max, I don't know, 3050 people and they're all going to buy a
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drink at least. Yeah, at least Yeah and all.
You're already ahead. It is and, and, and it's what
amazes me as well is where people put these things.
So we've got an auto host feature now because So what you
can do is you can pick from thousands of quizzes and you can
literally we've got AI know, youknow, the guys that startled and
those guys. We integrate with those guys and
you can you can put quiz bit andyou can get quiz bit on any
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screen for that matter. And what you can do is you can
pick a quiz and you can just auto host the whole thing.
So you can do it as a, you know,when you've got a bit down time
in the venue. You can do it before a Champions
League game. You could run a 12 question quiz
at lunchtime, which people take part in.
But again, that comes down to listening and working with
hospitality venues who I've got 1001 different things to do from
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changing a barrel to, you know, sorting out next week's menu.
And that you talked about that fact that you didn't have that
experience of building anything and then you've done it.
How do you feel coming out? I mean, I know as you said, it
never ends. That's the same for our old tech
companies, I think until you exit.
But how does that, how do you feel coming out the other side a
little bit? Because obviously you've built
it, sold it a few Times Now and you're in, you're in the other,
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other end of it. How do I feel?
Or as in what did you learn, I suppose from that experience?
Because, you know, you're a similar age to me, probably.
We think we know everything until we don't know everything.
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what Ilearned.
So I'm how does it make me feel Very tired.
And how? What are?
My slippers. It's, it's very important to
have the right people in the right seats as a business and to
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come back to, you know, what we're building and you know, we
need to make sure that, and I don't mean, you know, the right
people in terms of, you know, just skill set.
You know, they have to be brought into what we're trying
to do. And everyone has to have the
same sort of idea of what we're trying to get to because that
makes life a lot easier. Because what you then do is the
challenges that you face. You're always then looking at
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the the bigger picture. And I feel like you're speaking
from kissing a few frogs potentially.
Yeah, I mean, I felt a lot, you know, you've but but you know,
once you fall over, you can learn so much from all your cuts
and bruises. And what you can do with that is
you can then turn on and take that into what you do.
And that for me, not that I likefalling over and getting cuts
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and bruises is the fascinating part that then allows you to do.
But as long as you keep talking to your customers, as long as
you keep iterating and moving and keep the momentum going,
which is easier said than done on some days, I.
Was going to say, how much do you think you've dined out on
your because you're a lovely guyand I think people obviously
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trust you. How much do you think in the
early days were you dining out on Mark rather than the product?
As in, how much do you feel likeyou've had any allowance?
I like so well, you probably, well, you probably got that I
like talking. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Like I find it hard to say no if.
You put me on the stage in frontof people.
What I like to do is I love feedback.
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I love talking to people. I love listening to what people
have challenges have got. And it doesn't just have to be
hospitality. It can be anything.
I mean, quiz bit is being is played in schools.
It's played, you know, in hotels, in restaurants, in bars,
you know, the solo product that we're now building, you know,
that's got, you know, so many verticals that it can move into.
And. And I think there is part of it
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where my enthusiasm, I think does get attached in part to
what we're trying to do. Yeah, Yeah.
But I think that, you know, likeI say, having people in the
right seats, but the. Well navigated.
Yeah, I think so. I think.
But I enjoy people. I enjoy meeting people, I enjoy
making friends. I enjoy speaking to you.
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You know, I look, I love what you're doing with tech on Toast.
I. Haven't got a clue what I'm
doing with tech on toast. I love what you're doing with
tech on Toast, you know, But you've got you've got people
like, you've got people like Jade who does Compsoc.
Yeah, yeah. And I think that's what's nice
recently about hostility. There's a lot of these little
communities popping up because that's what they are, isn't it?
Yeah. And I actually think good
products are communities. I I see Quizbit as that.
I know you're a product and you're a company.
I get that. But I see it.
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Is it the way people probably, Idon't know enough about your
company to know this, but I imagine that people in interact
with you and want to get involved with you because of who
you are and also what you've built and the fact that it's
such a nice thing to sell. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong in
saying that, but it feels like such a warm thing to sell in
terms of the fact that you're bringing people together.
Yeah, it's like selling food. Like you're kind of bringing
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people together and they're having fun and they're hanging
out with each other and learning.
Yeah. And I think, yeah, I think
you're right. And I think there's, I think
because of there's so many different, you know, we can
attach quiz bit to so many different genres and so many
different verticals. And what you can also do is you
can turn around, you know, and, and, and make them genre
specific. You know, so we had a guy in
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Sheffield not so long ago and hedid a, it was like a Harry
Potter themed quiz. Yeah.
And he, he fair play to him. He was in a student area and he
planned it and we gave him the tech.
He used the Harry Potter quiz which is in the system.
He did 4 rounds. He took 2800 lbs on his bar
taking one night. From a quiz, How much 2008?
£100 Wow. I mean people were getting
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dressed up and coming in and allthis sort of stuff.
You know, we did it. We did come with Brew Dog.
We did a friends quiz across every single.
Oh my God, my Mrs. would love that.
Oh my God, it was amazing. They sold out pretty much every
single venue and. Friends.
I can't hate to interrupt, but friends is such an interesting
concept that you can put that onanytime.
I suppose it again depends on your age, but my son's, 18, who
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loves it, and me and Kerry, whenwe're having dinner, if we can't
find something to watch, we tendto put that on just to cope for
that half an hour or whatever itis.
And not that we can't talk to each other.
It's not running properly. The theme here?
I'm going. To have to get you some more
quizzies then oh. Gosh, she's going to kill me,
but she doesn't listen anyway. Don't worry about it.
So, but it's it that I find thatit's really interesting that
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it's like quizzing, it's comfortable, you know, it's like
an old pair of slippers you can put on and you feel OK.
And I think a lot of people wantthat.
I think a lot of people have hada crap time for a long time.
The world is not very nice and hasn't been for 10 years.
And I think it's getting worse. And I actually think people do
it like coming together when people were worried about the
pub and worried about its existence and still are rightly
(28:02):
so. One thing the pub can do that
nothing else can do is bring people together in that and kind
of have a giggle, hang out with your old mates, talk about some
serious stuff. Blokes like us probably talk
about the most serious things inthat place, nowhere else.
So, you know, mental health, male problems were and I'm not
dissing the women here. I'm just giving us a moment, you
know, just let us have a moment.So but like the blokes in the
(28:24):
pub that's, you know, stands itstest of time that it's a it's
and it's a really a good place to be for a lot of people.
It's very important to a lot of people and I think stuff like
quiz bit just solidifies that a little bit more and gives them
the opportunity to do it. I'm not trying to sell your
product. I'm just talking openly.
No, I think. Quizzing.
I think you're right to talk about, you know, men or blokes
or whatever we want to talk about in the cliche that can
(28:45):
sometimes be seen as, you know, it's blocks down the pub and
it's various other things. But there's a reason.
Why? There is a reason and.
Because she wants to watch. Friends, you know football
midweek, you know Champions League midweek drives people to
pubs. But it's not just about driving
people to pubs, it's where you can go and have some banter and
have some talk about. Yeah, I'd go to meet my one
friend, you know, So, you know, you know, and it's true.
(29:07):
And I think it's, and I don't want to separate men and women,
but it is like that, you know, we everyone has to have their
place to go. Kerry has her friends as she
goes to sees. Generally they go around to each
other's houses and drink wine orwhatever they do and just slag
me off. But with me, I like to watch
football or do whatever but really don't care about the
football. Probably I just like.
(29:28):
That's the interesting point as well, because the amount of
conversation that can go on during the football match, you
think that the football match wasn't going?
On yeah. You didn't even watch it?
No. Same.
With this thing, people, that was a do you remember?
And then the questions themselves.
I mean, there is a bit of a science of putting the questions
together when we've got the 35,000 questions in the database
and there's always something that comes up with a quiz where
people go, do you remember The Goonies?
(29:49):
What a movie that was. I'm an expert on that.
And can you still write your own?
Because one of the best things about the pub quiz was your
name, right? The team name, yes.
So the ability still there to dothat, yes.
You can still. Yeah, I'm going to make.
Have you got the ability to spinup a quiz?
Yeah. Yeah, we'll do my best Steve
Jobs impression here. So you've got over 1000 quizzes
and. You've not only is he dressed
like him? Yeah.
(30:10):
So basically I don't know where I'm.
Pointing at you can go this. One, Yeah.
So basically that is your Quizbit account.
You can log into your Quizbit account from here.
And what I can do from here? Do you have a mobile phone?
Yeah, right. If you grab your mobile phone.
For me, do I have a mobile? I mean, I know I'm old.
Do you have a mobile phone? So what you've got in here is
thousands of quizzes that you can choose from.
You can build your own. I'm not going to build one for
you now. I'm going to play you a little
(30:30):
demo quiz. We've got a joonies.
One in here now. So all that you do is that's a
QR code. So all that you do, Chris, is
you scan that QR code for me. This is like live tech on the
podcast. Click Play as a guest at the
bottom and then what you'll do is put your name in and then
we're going to do a quiz with you.
OK, you're on OK, so I've got red men in there.
(30:52):
I know exactly where you're going with that champions right
OK, I'm going to start the quiz from here.
So while you do as I say withoutgiving you the full tech demo,
this is your host screen. That is your player screen.
I can run an entire quiz night from this thing, but what I'm
going to do is. So in a hostile scenario right
now and this could be on a screen.
It could or it doesn't have to be so.
It could be on the handsets. Absolutely, yes.
See what you've got. People that will basically ping
(31:13):
up a quiz on their phone. They will walk around the venue,
everyone will scan the QR code and they'll run the entire thing
to the mobile phone. Very cool because what happens
is you'll see the device. Your first question is this,
which US state appears in a bottle of Jack Daniel whiskey?
Tap which one you think it is and click Confirm which ones
you're going to click. So embarrassed you can tell
people what I got. Alabama or Washington, tap which
is think. Click confirm, you click
(31:37):
Tennessee. You got it right, so you get it
right for you get points for getting right.
You also get points for speed ofanswer, so that's not a bad.
Can I retire now? Start.
No, you've got to keep going, I'm afraid.
Which two of the following were the names of Harry Potter's
parents? OK.
Double points. Tap two of them.
Click Confirm. Lock your answering.
Go. Which of those two were the
names of Harry Potter's parents?Yet no one's looked.
(31:57):
Look how fast they went there. Answered That was very fast.
Very fast 279. Points say that I'm going to
win. Now I'm really interested to see
if you get this one name the year black and white by Michael
Jackson was 1 Leeds United with the Champions of England and
Aladdin was released in the cinemas.
Now for this Chris, you've got atap in the box type in the full
year and click confirm. You can be one out, two out
(32:18):
either side you've. Done this before.
Your keypad is on your phone nowWe have gone.
What do you go for? 98. 1992 what it was the old
First Division before became. Was Michael Jackson dead at
night? No, we're still alive at night,
I think. Just maybe.
Oh, was there, oh, wasn't premier.
Didn't you win the premier? Did you ever win the?
Premier. It was the year before the
Premier. League, we've won it 20 times.
(32:38):
Really. How many times you won the
Champions League, Chris? Six.
Sorry, next question Go on wrongtap the following lyrics in the
law in the audience of what RickCassidy would never do to you.
Feel free to have a sing along. Never going to give me up.
So tap those. I'm really enjoying myself.
Correct order? Good.
Oh, never. Going to make you down, never
going to run around and desert you.
There you go. That's a great question.
(33:00):
Answers are locked in. Sorry if you're enjoying this on
the podcast A. 157 points. I'm flying Chris there.
Abby Sims, if you're watching, you would leave me close to.
This right, I've got two more questions.
True or false? By weight, the liver is the
largest internal organ. Oh.
Jesus, is that true? My liver or?
That would be something. OK, yes.
I knew that was just you're. On for a good score messing you
(33:21):
up, right? Your final question is this, who
voiced this character? So I'm going to show you guys
that. I know this.
Who provided the voice for that character?
You got four options. Tap which one you think it is
and confirm your answer. Yeah, because I think a lot of
people go for Will Smith here. They do.
Yeah. Actually, it's, Jen said.
Which I've noticed. Your correct answer, of course,
is Robin Williams. This is not a bad score.
(33:42):
Yeah, well, I don't know what we're going to.
Do one wrong. The final leaderboard is only
you on it, 954 points. But nationally, so this is a
national quiz. Are you in the top ten?
No, but. What does that mean though?
Those people got 100. Percent, yes.
The national at the minute is. Sad, sad people get out more.
(34:03):
The New Inn in Little Eaton, your second.
I mean, I've got to be honest, there's one guy here called For
Fox Sake, yes. That's that's a good quiz name,
to be fair. Sad wags.
OK, yeah, we're staying up. So yeah.
Oh my God, look at #1 you need to change your number 1 is.
Yes, that. Yeah, I get that.
Yeah, yeah. Did you do that?
I really, but that's my point I think and the reason I wanted to
(34:23):
do it on this because to show how much because for a minute
that I actually forgot we were doing a podcast.
Sorry, yeah, no, but I did as well.
I think for me it obviously it'sa tech product and it's
something that needs to be commercialized and people have
got, the customers obviously arealso making their money out of
it by putting these events on. But the point is it's never
going away. Yeah, but it needs to get better
(34:44):
in terms of intuitive, the fact that what you're doing in terms
of you're bringing it to a new market.
Yeah, cuz the market will change, right?
People get older, people move onand the younger market going to
come through and want to still do this kind of stuff, but in
their way and quickly, which I think you've built, right.
Yeah, again. And what we can do is we can
adapt it for different audiencesand different genres and
different clients and different customers by changing and
adapting the content, you know. So as I say, you know, we've
(35:07):
just done the FA Cup quiz. We've got sports quizzes going
out soon with TNT Sports. We've got lots of different, you
know, quizzes in there, which isthe one for the Grand National,
you know, So anybody that wants a quiz either on product, in
venue, live auto hosted, you're the man.
I'm doing my best sales. Pitch, I don't care.
(35:28):
I'm listening. I'm enjoying it.
Yeah, though you can. You can use quiz bit for it but
but ultimately I could say it'llnever be finished.
I just feel for your misses. You keep saying that she she
hears the word quit. I can't imagine do do do kids
play the quiz? So my son is 9 years of age and
he said the other week he said dad and he said this to to me
(35:50):
and his mom he said dad. I really want the quiz bit low
of graffiti on my wall. Yeah, she's kicking.
You out and what? About the future.
So I mean, what what's, I mean you've obviously you're doing
all this stuff, Carlin, you talked about the sports quizzes
are coming out. What's going to happen or what
would you like to happen or whatis happening?
In the next 12 months, yes. So the quiz builder, we're going
(36:12):
to improve on the ability for people to be able to build an
entire quiz in under a minute. And what we do want is we want
to, we want to scale that out. Yeah.
And the solo side of things is agreat piece of kit.
And we're going to be introducing that more into the
front end so people can actuallyturn around and do them for
themselves and create their own reporting and everything else.
(36:34):
There's also going to be reward and recognition coming into all
that thing and lots of stuff. And I think we're we're
developing something that's, as I say, going to grow.
But what we want to do is continue to add value where we
can. Well, I think you are.
And I know some of the we have to do some work with Green King
at the moment actually. And I know you guys, you already
(36:55):
work. In there, Yeah, we do.
Yeah. Those guys are great.
We love. That so we're doing some work
with them for the more for the tented side.
So obviously quiz bit will have to be at the front of that, but
we're super excited. We don't really have much work
in wet LED world. We met with Nightcap last week.
We did some, we're doing some stuff with them.
So but yeah, very interesting look.
And if the most important question is people want to find
out more about you and where yougot your clothes.
(37:18):
They could learn all about my fashion sense if they wish.
How do they reach out to you? So you can get us at
quizbit.com, which is spelled kwi, double Z, bit.com and all
your social channels at Quizbit,LinkedIn and all that sort of
stuff. And if you want me, I am Mark
James Walsh on from LinkedIn andMark James Walsh won I.
(37:40):
Think and were you were there onthe stage?
Were you ever on the stage? I have been on stage.
Because when we did the quiz bit, then you probably did that
quiz master mode, yeah. Professionally, I've never been
on a stage professionally, I think.
You've got a calling my friend. Always unprofessional.
These tables should be turned soyou should do the quiz.
(38:01):
I mean I'm not being funny, but the quiz bit podcast.
I'd be tuning in every week. Well, funny enough.
Yes, on that. I know you haven't got any time,
but do it anyway. Well, you asked what we were
doing. That is part of one of the plans
that we do. We're going to do more with the
pod. Well, we're going to do some
more quiz bit live. Yeah.
So more live events. So we're going to be
broadcasting live to venues all over the country with Quiz Bit
Live. So you'll be able to soon you'll
(38:22):
be able to turn on your Quiz Bitaccount, log into Quiz Bit Live
and you're going to be able to play take part in a live game
show. So.
Wow, it's my dream. OK, Lovely to meet you mate.
Thank you for coming all the waydown here in this 95°.
What is it like? It's hot.
It's hot, but it's lovely. I do like London in the Sun.
Yeah, it's a bit minging. No, because I'm not really
dressed for like, Yeah, well, wecan get.
Well, I get to get on the train back to lead, you see, so.
(38:44):
Are you literally going straightback up?
I'm going to go straight back up.
Yeah. Wow.
OK. Well, thank you very much, mate.
Lovely to see you wait by to thecameras.
Bye. Where are they?
All over the place. All right.
Cheers mate. We'll see you all next week.
Bye. Bye.
Bye.
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