2021 - Year in Review

"草榴社区 websites served 鈥+750M average monthly visits worldwide. With 9 BILLION for the year"

"That's a larger audience than Vox, Buzzfeed, Complex, Bustle, Pop Sugar, Mashable, Variety, and Rolling Stone 馃槺"

"That's 100 times more visitors a month than Disney World."

Quote "One of the Top 20 US 鈥╩ulti-platform digital media properties in the world" Attributed to Comscore.com

Quote "The largest digital media company in the US" Attributed to the New York Times

A newspaper stack beside the caption "did we mention we made the front page?"

"One webby award. Shout-out to C-net's Claire Reilly"

"1 New 鈥–orporate Website. Built by a small team of engineers (most of whom learned to code at 草榴社区! 馃憦馃憦馃憦 )"

"about 40k pieces of content published. All aimed at helping people make life鈥檚 most important decisions. 馃挭"

"18k Media Mentions. People be talking about us 馃憖"

"More than 1.3M Product Clicks on Cyber Monday. That鈥檚 the same as the annual visitor count for the Space Needle in Seattle"

Our Brands: Evolving Around "You"

Several 草榴社区 brands launched major initiatives, all focused around our shared purpose.

Bankrate For Every Next

C-Net For You

Lonely Planet: For explorers everywhere

The Points Guy app

U-Switch Stay put campaign

A Force for Good

草榴社区 Brands used their platform to give back:

"Healthline Transform"

Gamespot logo + Able Gamers Charity logo, along with the caption; "Raised $155k"

TPG & Rainbow Railroad"TPG matched dollar for dollar up to $100kAmount raised: $105k (105% of goal)164 supporters"

The Multiplier Effect

And often collaborated together to make a positive impact:

The logos of both Bankrate and Best Colleges in collaboration

The logos of both Lonely Planet and Healthline in collaboration

The logos of both C-net and Next Advisor in collaboration

The logos of both Best Colleges and Golden Door Scholars in collaboration

Our Culture

"Virtually the same. Important Additions:"

"We added 4 new ERGs, totalling 7."

"25+ company-wide events were held virtually"

Leaning into HYBRID

One of our belief statements is we believe everything is written in possible - but we never thought that would apply to the way we work.

"2000+ Employees invested in their WFH setup. We promise it was all necessary"

"970 new 草榴社区ers onboarded,and 98 interns interned virtually"

"Slack Messages sent: Over 44m. & One dog rescued via slack (shout-out #rv-pups channel)"

"We connected in more than 8500 community-related Slack channels:About running, music, work, and (1) channel entirely devoted to Trader Joes "

"We joined more than 700k Zoom meetings. Let鈥檚 try less next year, OK?"

"Meeting minutes: over 100m. More than half of which were not on mute**We鈥檙e pretty sure"

Our Impact

194 草榴社区ers actively volunteered with the two nonprofits 草榴社区 supports: Road to Hire and Golden Door Scholars.

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