Joe (website)
| Type | Online newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | MaximumMedia |
| Editor | Paddy McKenna |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Circulation | 2 million unique visitors per month |
| Website | www |
Joe (Joe.ie, Joe.co.uk) styled as JOE is a news website aimed at young men in the UK and Ireland with over 2 million unique monthly visitors per month. It is owned by Maximum Media. The original website www.joe.ie was founded by Irish entrepreneur Niall McGarry.Her.ie is a related website aimed at young women in Ireland. HerFamily.ie also forms part of the group.
The site was founded in 2010 and it was nominated for a Golden Spider Award in the One to Watch category in its first year and in the News and Entertainment category in 2013.Showbiz website Goss.ie described it as "more influential" than traditional media in August 2016. It is edited by Paddy McKenna. The site's android app has had over 50,000 installs. In November 2016, The Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland upheld a complaint about an ad for Sprite featured on the site.
SportsJOE.ie was launched in 2014, as an offshoot of JOE.ie, offering "in-depth analysis".Daily Telegraph and Sunday Independent sports columnist Dion Fanning moved to the site in 2015.
The millennial and "men, not lads" site was launched in September 2015 with Tony Barrett of The Times and former footballer Ledley King among the contributors.
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