Daily Kos
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Type of site
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Political blog |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Kos Media, LLC |
| Created by | Markos Moulitsas |
| Slogan(s) | News * Community * Action |
| Website | DailyKos.com |
| Alexa rank |
 1,324 (9 March 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | May 26, 2002 |
| Current status | Active |
Daily Kos /ˈkoʊs/ is an outlet for American political blogging. It functions as a discussion forum and group blog for a variety of netroots activists whose efforts are primarily directed toward influencing and strengthening progressive policies and candidates. Additionally, the site features a participatory political encyclopedia ("DKosopedia"), glossaries, and other content.
Daily Kos was founded by Markos Moulitsas (Kos from the last syllable of his first name, his nickname while in the military) in 2002. In 2007, its parent company, Kos Media, LLC, began a fellowship program to help fund a new generation of progressive activists. About a dozen contributing editors provide content for the site, with three to four new editors being chosen from the Daily Kos community every year.
As of September 2014, Daily Kos had an average weekday traffic of hundreds of thousands of visits. It is financially sustained by advertising, with Google AdSense and Blogads. The ads focus mostly on activist causes, media, and political candidates. The site also offers an ad-free subscription to members.
In 2009, Time magazine listed Daily Kos in its "Most Overrated Blogs" section due to the loss of its mission fighting the "oppressive and war-crazed" Republican administration during Democrat Barack Obama's presidency.Time magazine readers named Daily Kos the second best blog. The website ran on the Scoop content management system until 2011 when it moved to its own custom content management system referred to as "DK 4.0".
Moulitsas and a small group of select contributors post directly to the front page; other users can post "diaries", the titles of which appear on the front page in reverse chronological order, with special attention and longer display time for those diaries highly recommended by other users. The other major source of content is the comments posted in response to front page entries and diaries. Comments for popular or controversial diaries or front page articles can run into the thousands.
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