Vox Media
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| Type of business | Private |
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Type of site
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News, Media and blogging |
| Available in | English |
| Traded as | au |
| Founded | August 1, 2002 (as SportsBlogs, Inc.) |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. & New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Area served | International |
| Founder(s) |
Jerome Armstrong Tyler Bleszinski Markos Moulitsas |
| Key people |
Jim Bankoff (Chairman and CEO) Marty Moe (President) |
| Industry | Digital Media |
| Employees | 400 + |
| Website | www |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 800 million+ |
Vox Media is an American multinational digital media company founded on August 1, 2002 by Jerome Armstrong, Tyler Bleszinsky and Markos Moulitsas and based in Washington, D.C. and New York City. It currently runs eight editorial brands: SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Vox and Recode. Vox's brands are built on Chorus, its proprietary content management system.
The company owns and operates its offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, and San Francisco. The network now features over 300 sites with over 400 paid writers.
Vox Media was founded in 2002 as SportsBlogs, Inc., the parent company of the sports blog network SB Nation, by political strategist Jerome Armstrong, freelance writer Tyler Bleszinski, and Markos Moulitsas (creator of Daily Kos). The site was a spin-off and expansion of Tyler Bleszinski's Oakland Athletics blog Athletics Nation, which sought to provide coverage of the team from a fan's perspective. The popularity of the site led to other sports blogs being incorporated.
In 2008, SB Nation hired former AOL executive Jim Bankoff as CEO to assist in its growth. He showed interest in SB Nation's goal of building a network of niche-oriented sports websites. As of February 2009, the SB Nation network contained 185 blogs, and in November 2010, ComScore estimated that the site had attracted 5.8 million unique visitors. The 208 percent increase in unique visitors over November 2009 made SB Nation the fastest-growing sports website the company tracked at the time.
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