Legacy.com
| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
| Available in | primarily English |
| Headquarters | Evanston, Illinois, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Stopher Bartol |
| Industry |
Internet Media |
| Slogan(s) | "Where life stories live on" |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 1868 (Global, March 2017[update])
|
| Advertising | Banner ads, promoted links |
| Current status | Active |
Legacy.com is a website founded in 1998, the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked Web sites in the world.
Legacy.com attaches a publicly accessible guest book to most of the obituaries it hosts, which enables anyone with an Internet connection to pay tribute to someone whose obituary appears in one of Legacy.com's affiliate newspapers. Legacy.com now reviews more than 1,000,000 guest book entries each month. About 75 percent of all guest books receive entries. As of 2016, the company was approaching 100 million guest book entries on its site.
The site has been criticized for "expiring" older guest books and requiring payment of a fee to restore access, seen as exploiting the grief of survivors. [1]
Legacy.com is a privately held company based in Evanston, Illinois, with more than 1500 newspaper affiliates in North America, Europe and Australia, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Manchester Evening News. The executive team is currently led by CEO Stopher Bartol.
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