Press Kit
IAC is a leading internet company with more than 35 fast-growing, highly-related brands serving loyal consumer audiences... our mission is to harness the power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for people all over the world.
- For the last four years, IAC has been ranked by Fortune magazine’s annual standing of the world’s most admired companies in the Internet Services & Retailing sector
- IAC’s network of sites has over 871 million total monthly visits†
- With over 196.7 million unique monthly users, IAC would rank as the 8th largest site network in the world†
MEDIA & ADVERTISING
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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
- Ask.com has approximately 100.8 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
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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 14.6 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
- Over 75,000 locales in Citysearch’s database
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EVITE
- Launched in 1998, acquired in 2001 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Evite is the world’s #1 online event planning service offering free invitations, e-cards and party-planning tools and tips
- With over 22.5 million registered users, Evite.com receives 6.9 million unique visitors per month*
- In 2008, about 6.5 million parties were planned using Evite with 220 million Evite invitations sent - that's over 25,000 invitations an hour
- The 220 million Evite invitations sent in 2008 saved party planners over $200 million in paper invitations and postage costs as many as 200,000 trees
- Evite currently has over 339,000 mobile users, with over 5.6 million mobile alerts sent in Q1 2009
- Launched Evite UK in 2007
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IAC ADVERTISING SOLUTIONS
- Founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York, NY, IAC Advertising Solutions is the national ad sales team for Evite, Citysearch, Match.com and the newly launched IAC ad network
- Offerings include standard display and interactive media, content and feature sponsorships, custom solutions, direct marketing, new targeting capabilities and more
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MINDSPARK
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- 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:
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- IWON! is one of the fastest growing gaming destinations and a Top 20 game site (@plan January 2008) with approximately 4.6 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
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- Webfetti, one of the fastest growing destinations for web personalization and self expression, offers over 220,000 free assets and has now reached approximately 7 million impressions per day across various social networking sites, including MySpace and Facebook
- Webfetti has approximately 5.6 million unique monthly users*
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- MyFunCards offers unlimited access to over 2,000 free ecards, attracting over 9.4 million monthly unique users*
- Cardboiled, another Mindspark greeting card site, lets users choose from a library of animated and static eCards, custom photo cards and postcards
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- Zwinky, one of the largest virtual worlds on the web, has over 20 million registered users who average 54 minutes on the site each session; also garners 8.1 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
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- 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
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- Smiley Central is a smileys website that revolutionized the industry when it introduced flash-based “super” smileys
- Smiley Central has over 7.3 million unique monthly users*
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- Acquired in May 2008 and headquartered in Israel, GirlSense is an active virtual fashion community that offers users a genuine web 2.0 experience that is truly safe where girls can design trendy fashions, display them in original boutiques and "sell" them to their peers
- GirlSense has over 15 million registered users
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MATCH.COM
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- 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 5.8 million unique monthly users*
- Websites in 8 different languages, serving 24 different countries
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- 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? where four personality types are determined and then readers are matched to complementary personalities
- In February 2008, Chemistry celebrated its 2 year anniversary, setting up over 800,000 first dates since launch
- Chemistry has over 1.2 million members**
- Chemistry has been recognized with numerous awards, including a prestigious Effie Award, a first for IAC (presented by American Marketing Association)
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- DownToEarth.com, launched in January 2009 by Match.com, is a free online dating site designed to attract honest singles; it utilizes an innovative RealRatings system that enables users to report back and rate the accuracy of a member’s profile
- DownToEarth.com has over 170,000 active members**
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SERVICEMAGIC
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- Founded in 1998, 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
- Since 1999, ServiceMagic has made more than 12.6 million connections between homeowners and prescreened home service professionals
- ServiceMagic has over 2.8 million unique monthly users*
- More than 59,500 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 450,000 verified ratings and reviews on service professionals
- Generated an estimated $1.51 billion in project revenue for member service professionals in 2008
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EMERGING BUSINESSES
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CONNECTED VENTURES
- Founded in 1999, acquired by IAC in 2006 and headquartered in New York, NY, Connected Ventures is a new media network and development company consisting of CollegeHumor Media and BustedTees
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- CollegeHumor Media, founded by high school friends in 1999, is a leading online entertainment company comprised of CollegeHumor.com and TodaysBigThing.com; the site features extremely popular original content in addition to today’s funniest and most offbeat content on the web
- CollegeHumor.com has more than 6 million unique monthly users and over 80 million monthly page views ***; 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 two books, The CollegeHumor Guide to College
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- Faking It: How to seem like a better person without actually improving yourself
, a television program on MTV, a live comedy show and a movie currently in development with Paramount Pictures
- Weekly email newsletter reaches approximately 284,700 subscribers
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- BustedTees, launched in 2004 and headquartered in New York City, sells nearly 17,000 t-shirts per month
- Over 3.5 million monthly pageviews*
- Writers of CollegeHumor create original t-shirt designs and have produced over 400 designs thus far
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THE DAILY BEAST
- Launched in October 2008 in beta by IAC and Tina Brown, The Daily Beast is headquarterd in New York, NY and curates the web’s 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
- 57% of visitors return to the site within 24 hours (Omniture SiteCatalyst, May 2009)
- Has over 45,000 newsletter subscribers
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FILIFE
- Launched in June 2008 by IAC and Dow Jones & Co. and headquartered in New York, NY, FiLife is a personal finance site offering applications and tools to help people find investment information in a more intuitive way
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GARAGEGAMES
- Founded 1999 and headquartered in Eugene, OR, GarageGames is the maker of the Torque Game Engine series of tools, the original technology behind the Tribes series of games, and used to develop games on Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox 360 & Wii
- Together, GarageGames and IAC launched InstantAction in beta in March 2008 - the first web-based videogame network, offering graphically rich networked games that run in popular web browsers with no download installations required
- InstantAction has over 1.6 million registered users averaging over 41 minutes a day on the site
- GarageGames technology has been used to develop the following games: Fallen Empire Legions, Marble Blast, Rokkitball, Galcon, Think Tanks, Cyclomite, Zero All Productivity, Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy, Penny Arcade Adventures, Dreamlords, Hinterland with many more in the pipeline
- GarageGames won a 2008 Front Line Award for its flagship game engine, Torque Game Engine Advanced
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GIFTS.COM
- Launched in 2005 by IAC and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Gifts.com is a premier gift shopping site, offering consumers a suite of interactive, personalized services that enable them to be better, more organized gift-givers
- Gifts.com receives over 1.7 million unique monthly users*
- For the holiday season of 2008, Gifts.com received 10 million visits with users conducting 22 million gift searches
- US News & World Report’s Top 30 “Best of the Web;” People’s Voice Award winner for best Services website at Webby Awards; 2007 named “100 Best Web Sites (for your wedding)” in Modern Bride magazine; 2007 highlighted as top gift site in the Dec. issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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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
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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 12.7 million unique monthly users*
- 65 million products from over 21,000 stores (5 times the number of merchants on leading comparison-shopping engines)
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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 850 brands and 700,000 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
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- Shoebuy also operates Bagsbuy.com, which represents all categories of bags including handbags, backpacks, luggage, baby gear, briefcases and laptop bags
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VIMEO
- Launched in 2004 and headquartered in New York, NY, Vimeo is a video sharing site for those who love to create and exchange videos with the people who matter to them most
- First video sharing site to support HD upload and playback
- Has over 1.5 million registered users, approximately 3.7 million videos
- Vimeo also has over 7.6 million monthly visitors*
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†comScore May 2009. Based on unduplicated uniques, IAC would be the 8th largest network, as ComScore does not break out "IAC" as a network yet
* comScore May 09
** Members defined as registered users and paying subscribers
*** Nielsen/Net Ratings, May 2009