The website's co-founder Siobhan Freegard blamed a "toxic combination of marketing, media and peer pressure".

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Last year, over half of brand communications was peer-to-peer, through earned media rather than paid media.

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New media, most recently social media and peer-to-peer (P2P), offer ways for people to process transactions like payments that historically have required extensive intermediation by banks.

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