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Newsweek

A video about a dad attempting to get customers to try a new app “he’s worked so hard on” has gone viral on TikTok, where it got 8.5 million views at the time of this writing. A message overlaid on the clip posted from the TikTok account @argonavigation read: “Help blow up my dad’s boating app, he’s worked so hard on it and just wants people to try it out.

Independent

A father’s new navigation app, Argo, has soared to the top of the US App Store charts after his daughter helped it go viral on TikTok. Earlier this week, Argo’s official TikTok account shared a video of its owner, Jeff Foulk, at the Chicago boat show. In the clip, Jeff’s daughter Megan asked viewers to help her father’s navigation app for boaters go viral. “Help blow up dads boating app,” she wrote in the text over the video.

The Washington Post

For three days, Megan Foulk watched thousands of people walk by her father, Jeff, without a glance. Jeff Foulk had traveled to Chicago to advertise his marine navigation app for iPhones and Androids, but few people stopped at his booth. Feeling sorry for him, Megan secretly recorded onlookers ignoring her 62-year-old dad as he tried to distribute pamphlets.

CBS Mornings

Welcome back to CBS Mornings. Time to bring you some of the stories that are talk of our very low coffee table this morning. Nate is up first. All right, my “Talk of the Table” is a daughter stepping in and stepping up to help her father achieve the success that she says he deserves. I love this. Megan Foulk posted this video of her dad Jeff unsuccessfully trying to hand out pamphlets for his boat navigation app at a boat show earlier this month. She wrote, “Help blow up my dad’s boating app.”

CNN Business

Make my dad famous’: A daughter’s quest to showcase her dad’s artwork. Jeff Foulk’s free boating navigation app, Argo, soared to the top of Apple’s navigation apps chart after his daughter’s viral TikTok video promoting it gained more than 20M views.

CNN

Jeff Foulk’s free boating navigation app, Argo, soared to the top of Apple’s navigation apps chart after his daughter’s viral TikTok video promoting it gained more than 20M views.

The New York Times

His Boating App Needed a Boost. His Daughter’s TikTok Audience Came Through. Jeff Foulk spent years working on Argo Navigation, a GPS app for boats. After a TikTok video, it became one of the App Store’s most popular products. Jeff Foulk spent four years creating his version of the perfect boating app. By his own estimation, he spends 80 to 100 percent of his time retooling and reimagining the GPS app, Argo Navigation. He made it easy to use. He color-coded routes based on depth.

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