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IAC is an interactive media and advertising company operating at scale in the search, local, and personal spaces... our mission is to harness the power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for people all over the world.

  • Ranked by Fortune magazine’s annual standing of the world’s most admired companies in the Internet Services & Retailing sector for many years, IAC’s network of sites has over 1.2 billion total monthly visits and 3.6 billion page views per month†
  • With over 269.3 million unique monthly users, IAC would rank as the 9th largest site network in the world†

SEARCH

ASK.COM

  • Founded in 1996, acquired by IAC in July 2005 and headquartered in Oakland, CA, Ask.com is a pioneer in internet search; it was introduced as Ask Jeeves in 1997 and then relaunched as Ask.com in 2006; In July 2010, Ask.com launched a newly - designed Q&A service which combines the power of search with the insight of a live user community.
  • Ask.com has approximately 239.3 million unique monthly users globally*
  • In September 2001, Ask.com acquired Teoma Technologies, Inc., a search technology that has become the core of the Ask search engine
  • In May 2008, Ask.com acquired Lexico, owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com
  • In August 2008, Ask.com launched the all-new Ask Kids search engine designed for children making a fun, safe search environment with a select core search index
  • International: Ask.com France, Ask.com Germany, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Netherlands, Ask.com Spain, Ask.com UK

CITYGRID

  • CityGrid Media owns and manages the largest local content and advertising network on the web, CityGrid®, which aggregates more than 700K paying advertisers, and reaches over 140M unique users across more than 340 web and mobile partners
  • Operates leading local properties including Citysearch.com, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon, as well has investments in leading provider of online search marketing services, OrangeSoda and the largest social network of local business owners, MerchantCircle CityGrid Media grew from the growth of the Citysearch, LLC business and was formed in June 2010. Led by Jay Herratti, CityGrid Media is headquartered in West Hollywood, California with approximately 400 employees nationwide

CITYSEARCH

  • Founded in 1996, acquired by IAC in 1998 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Citysearch is a leading local search and directory company that provides up-to-date information on U.S. businesses, from restaurants and retail, to travel and professional services
  • Approximately 18 million business listings nationwide; over 14.4 million unique monthly users*
  • Best of Citysearch polls give users the opportunity to provide up-to-date recommendations and reviews for restaurants, bars and nightlife
  • In March 2009, Citysearch was relaunched to combine social and mobile tools with geo-targeted search technology to take the site from an urban city guide to a local neighborhood community
  • With over 3.4 million user reviews, Citysearch has over 75,000 locales in its database

URBANSPOON

  • Urbanspoon is a leading online local restaurant guide, aggregating restaurant reviews from across the web including newspapers, professional food critics, bloggers and diners
  • Urbanspoon Rez allows diners to make restaurant reservations through its online booking service
  • Over 9 million iPhone apps installed
  • Available online or via iPhone, iPad, Blackberry or Android applications, Urbanspoon provides reviews for restaurants throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia

BUZZLABS

  • BuzzLabs is a leading social media monitoring and analysis platform that helps local businesses manage and monitor their presence across the social web, including micro-blogs, social networks, forums and media sharing sites. 
  • BuzzLabs was founded in 2009 by former Microsoft employees Philip Lee and Dou Shen. 

 

MINDSPARK

  • Headquartered in White Plains, NY, Mindspark is home to some of the most popular and engaging brands on the web helping millions of people creatively express themselves online, enhance their communications, make new friends and smile a bit more - all by using virtual worlds, social network applications, contests, games, ecards and emoticons­. Mindspark businesses include:
  • Ask Partner Network APN, LLC (APN), is a leading provider of custom toolbar and search solutions for software and media companies.
  • APN works closely with its partners to design and develop highly-targeted applications that extend services into the browser and enhance end-user experinces across the web
  • IWON! is one of the fastest growing gaming destinations and a Top 20 game site (@plan January 2008) with approximately 2 million unique visitors per month*
  • IWON has awarded more than 500,000 prizes totaling more than $70 million in value over the past 8 years
  • Webfetti, one of the fastest growing destinations for web personalization and self expression, offers over 396,000 free assets and has now reached approximately 400,000 impressions per day across various social networking sites, including MySpace and Facebook
  • Webfetti has approximately 2.3 million unique monthly users*
  • MyFunCards offers unlimited access to over 2,000 free ecards, attracting over 6 million monthly unique users*
  • Cardboiled, Mindspark's online greeting card website, lets users choose from a library of animated and static eCards, custom photo cards and postcards
  • Zwinky, one of the largest virtual worlds on the web, has over 27.5 million registered users who average 64 minutes on the site each session; also garners 2 unique monthly users*
  • Zwinktopia, the Zwinky virtual community, has signed artists including 50 Cent, Kelly Rowland and Scott Ian of Anthrax and Hinder, who all perform in its virtual world
  • Launched in September 2008 and sister site of Zwinky, Zwinky Cuties is a fun and fanciful online virtual world where pre-teens can safely create customized avatars, play games, design their own room, adopt pets and share imaginative interactive relationships with their peers
  • Smiley Central is a smileys website that revolutionized the industry when it introduced flash-based “super” smileys
  • Smiley Central has over 1.5 million unique monthly users*
  • Launched in 2009, MyWebFace offers a host of fun features that allow visitors to create their own personalized avatars and apply dramatic effects to photos
  • Smiley Creator is the next generation of customizable content allowing users to design a unique Smiley from head to toe with an abundant menu of design elements, including hundreds of body parts, outrageous outfits and exciting extras
  • Daily Burn motivates both health seekers and fitness enthusiasts to achieve better fitness results in less time with detailed tracking and online accountability.

MATCH.COM

  • Launched in 1995, acquired in 1999 and headquartered in Dallas, TX, Match.com is a pioneer in online dating and personals and is credited with taking the category mainstream
  • With more than a decade of helping people find successful, rewarding relationships, Match.com has redefined the way people meet and fall in love
  • Match.com users have exchanged over one billion “winks,” a digital way for members to flirt and express initial interest in one another without a formal email introduction
  • Match.com has 9.4 million unique monthly users*
  • Websites in 8 different languages, serving 25 different countries
  • Chemistry, a Match.com product, launched in 2006, leverages biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher’s years of research into human attraction and successful relationships
  • In January 2009, Dr. Fisher launched her second book titled Why Him? Why Her? How to Find a Keep Lasting Love where four personality types are determined and then readers are matched to complementary personalities
  • Chemistry.com sets up more than 15,000 first dates each week 
  • Chemistry has over 654,000 paying subscribers
  • Chemistry has been recognized with numerous awards, including a prestigious Effie Award, a first for IAC (presented by American Marketing Association)
  • Acquired by Match.com in July 2009, People Media operates more than20 vertically focused online communities primarly geared towards dating including OurTime.com, BlackPeopleMeet.com, SeniorPeopleMeet.com, SingleParentMeet.com, LoveandSeek.com and BBPeople.com
  • Delivers consumers unique value by specializing its websites based on critical relationship factors including race, religion and lifestyle
  • A leader in the online dating space since 1998, Singlesnet members can search for and communicate with thousands of singles across the United States.
  • Singlesnet has one of the most vibrant online communities, connecting singles through instant messengers, online forums, emails and chat rooms.
  • Since its launch in 2004, OkCupid has combined great features with an engaged community to become one of the fastest growing online dating sites in the advertising-based category
  • OKCupid also publishes the well-known social media blog, OkTrends, which is read by over one million people monthly.

SERVICEMAGIC

  • Founded in 1999, acquired by IAC in 2004 and headquartered in Golden, CO, ServiceMagic is a leading online marketplace connecting homeowners with prescreened and customer-rated home service professionals for simple home repairs and maintenance to complete home remodeling projects
  • ServiceMagic operates in the US, UK and France
  • Since 1999, ServiceMagic has made more than 23 million connections between homeowners and prescreened home service professionals
  • ServiceMagic has over 2.3 million unique monthly users*
  • More than 80,000 service professionals utilize ServiceMagic to find targeted leads for home building, remodeling, architectural services, roofing, fences, decks, painting, flooring, plumbing, landscaping and much more
  • Has collected more than 850,000 verified ratings and reviews on service professionals
  • Generated an estimated $2.3 billion in project revenue for member service professionals from 2010 - 2011
  • Named the 2010 "Technology Company of the Year" by the CSIA Apex Awards

MEDIA & OTHER

COLLEGE HUMOR MEDIA

  • CollegeHumor Media is a leading online entertainment company targeting a core audience of people ages 18-49 comprised of CollegeHumor.com, Jest.com and SportsPickle.com; the site features extremely popular original content in addition to today’s funniest and most offbeat content on the web
  • CollegeHumor.com, founded by high school friends in 1999, has more than 9.9 million unique monthly users and over 15 million monthly page views *; generates more than 100 million video views per month; also has over 1.5 million registered users who are able to create school-based accounts and set up personal profiles
  • The CollegeHumor brand extends offline with the three books, The CollegeHumor Guide to College, Faking It: How to seem like a better person without actually improving yourself, and CollegeHumor: The Website. The Book, a television program on MTV, a live comedy show and a movie currently in development with Paramount Pictures
  • Weekly email newsletter reaches approximately 300,000 subscribers
  • Launched at the beginning of October, Jest.com is a comedy hub that specializes in "The Best of Everything Funny."
  • Jest caters to a broad comedy audience ages 18-49 and features original videos, the funniest videos from around the web as well as new and classic full television episodes and is all created and curated by the Jest.com staff
  • Recently launched by CollegeHumor Media, Dorkly.com brings original articles, comics, user-submitted photos, viral videos and other comedic content to the gaming community.
  • SportsPickle.com is a sports humor, satire and parody site launched in 2001 by DJ Gallo. A SportsPickle book, "The View From The Upper Deck," was published by St. Martin's Press in 2007.
  • Launched in 2009, Notional is a New York based production company, creating video content for all distribution platforms.

ELECTUS

  • Launched in late 2009, Electus is a next generation studio enabling premium content creators to engage with advertising and technology partners at the inception of the creative process and partner on the finished product across a global and multi-platform distribution model.
  • Electus partnerships include DumbDumb, CollegeHumor Media, DiGa, Electus/Engine Distribution, 5X5 Media, Abbot Reif Hameiri Production Company, Crossborders, and Yahoo
HATCH LABS
  • Hatch Labs is an entrepreneurial sandbox building advanced mobile products
  • With the investment and resources from IAC and Xtreme Labs, Hatch start-up teams rapidly prototype new applications and services to best serve the evolving world of mobile
CROWDED ROOM
  • Crowded Room is a location-based mobile service that connects users who frequent similar places, have shared interests and mutual friends by digitally identifying common bonds between people who go - or might go - to the same places

LIFE123.COM

  • Launched in July 2008 by IAC and headquartered in New York, NY, Life123 is a site where users can quickly find information on a wide range of topics delivering practical insights into things that can make a difference in everyday lives

PRONTO.COM

  • Launched in 2006 by IAC and headquartered in New York, NY, Pronto has quickly become the web’s most comprehensive comparison-shopping engine and was voted “Best Online Price Comparison Site” by Kiplinger’s
  • Pronto has over 11.3 million unique monthly users*
  • 70 million products from over 25,000 online merchants
  • The Pronto Network includes its flagship site Pronto.com and lifestyle verticles ProntoStyle.com, ProntoHome.com, ProntoTech.com, ProntoKids.com and ProntoBaby.com. Pronto operates internationally with MegaDeal (Japan), Dealecke.de (GermanY), Superprix.com (France) and DealHop.co.uk (UK).

SHOEBUY

  • Founded in 1999, acquired by IAC in 2006 and headquartered in Boston, MA, Shoebuy.com is one of the largest online retailers of footwear and related apparel offering more than 1,150 brands and 1,000,000 products with $3.5 billion in inventory available for purchase
  • Recognized by BizRate six years in a row as one of the top U.S. online retailers for outstanding service
  • Rated by Hitwise as one of the internet’s top 10 most visited apparel and accessory shopping sites
  • Rated by Nielsen Net Ratings as one of the top 10 “stickiest” shopping sites with over a 15-minute average visit
  • Shoebuy also operates Bagsbuy.com, which represents all categories of bags including handbags, backpacks, luggage, baby gear, briefcases and laptop bags
  • Since 1994, CozyBoots.com is the original online dealer of UGG® footwear and is dedicated, exclusively, to the UGG Australia brand.

VIMEO

  • Launched in 2004 and headquartered in New York, NY, Vimeo.com is a vibrant, respectful community of users who showcase their creativity and individuality
  • First video sharing site to support HD upload and playback
  • Named one of Time Magazine's 2009 Top 50 Websites
  • Received the 2009 CNET Webware Award
  • Has over 8.5 million registered users 
  • Vimeo also has over 40 million monthly visitors*
  • Vimeo's iPhone application gives users the ability to upload, edit, and watch Vimeo videos on their phone 
  • In August 2011, Vimeo launched Vimeo Pro as an easy and affordable professional video hosting solution for small businesses

Joint Ventures

THE NEWSWEEK/ DAILY BEAST COMPANY

  • Accounced in November 2010, The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company is a 50/50 joint venture headquarterd in New York, NY and curates the best content offering fresh works from its own talented roster of contributors
  • #19 on New York Magazine’s Reasons to Love New York in 2008
  • 55% of visitors return to the site within 24 hours (Omniture SiteCatalyst, May 2009)
  • Has over 175,000 newsletter subscribers and 34 million monthly pageviews*

†comScore December 2011. Based on unduplicated uniques, IAC would be the 9th largest network, as ComScore does not break out "IAC" as a network yet

* comScore December 2011

** Members defined as registered users and paying subscribers

*** Nielsen/Net Ratings, December 2011