What It Does: Digital and print publisher
Mission: Dotdash Meredith will deliver intent-driven media at a scale never seen before.
Size & Presence: 870+ employees working across all of its locations.
Founded in 1996 as The Mining Company, the site was launched on April 21, 1997, by Scott Kurnit, owner of General Internet, Bill Day, and a group of other entrepreneurs in New York City. The original goal was to maintain 1,800 topic areas, but after five years of operation, this number was reduced to around 700.
The company changed its name to "About Inc.", and the website address from "miningco.com" to "about.com" in May 1999.[8] The company was acquired by Primedia, Inc. in 2000 through a deal valued at US$690 million, whereby Primedia swapped 45.2 million shares for About, Inc.'s 18.1 million shares. At the time of the acquisition announcement, About Inc. was measured at US$133 million in cash and no debt (Sept. 30, 2000), while the Media Metrix company tallied 21 million unique monthly visitors—making it the seventh-most-visited "network of sites" at the time—a network of over 700 topic sites, sorted into 36 areas and 50,000 subjects, and approximately 4,000 advertisers.
On February 4, 2020, Dotdash announced the acquisition of TreeHugger and Mother Nature Network. In June, Dotdash was named Digiday's Publisher of the Year in Digiday's Media Awards 2020. Spruce won for Best User Experience and CEO Neil Vogel won Executive of the Year. On September 22, Dotdash announced that it acquired Simply Recipes and Serious Eats from Fexy Media.
On October 6, 2021, Dotdash announced the acquisition of Meredith's magazine and other non-broadcast assets for $2.7 billion, forming a new entity called Dotdash Meredith. The transaction was finalized on December 1.
Our brands are committed to anti-racism, building diverse teams, producing inclusive content, and holding themselves accountable to public diversity and inclusion pledges. We created our Anti-Racism Pledge in response to the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, our country’s cultural reckoning of racial justice and civil rights for Black lives, and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and brown individuals.
In 2021, continued violence against Black lives and the rise in physical assault, verbal harassment, and other discriminatory acts against Asian Americans, unfortunately, reminded us that systematic racism continues to oppress and harm the lives of all BIPOC individuals. It has always been unacceptable, but until our public pledge, we did not play an active role in the fight against it.
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