It may have started life as a tool for editors to validate user-generated content for editorial stories but, following its acquisition<\/a> by News Corp, Storyful<\/a> is also being set to work for advertisers’ commercial goals.<\/p>\n “We saw a social radar,” News Corp. video SVP Rahul Chopra<\/a> tells Beet.TV in this video, ” – tell us what you\u2019re looking to find and Storyful will scour the entire social web to find out the most valuable content.<\/p>\n “As you look at the process for which we (use Storyful to) find content,\u00a0there is a product stack sitting there that we\u2019re process of potentially looking to bring to market\u00a0that would put that intelligence in the hands of brands<\/a>, agencies and creative types, to discover content in the same way we do.”<\/p>\n Chopra said Storyful is “100% being run as a standalone entity” within News Corp.<\/p>\n