URL | thenextweb.com |
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Commercial? | Yes |
Type of site | Technology news |
Registration | Optional |
Available language(s) | English, Dutch, French, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian |
Created by | Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Patrick de Laive, Arjen Schat |
Editor | Ziad M. Kane |
Launched | 2008 |
Alexa rank | 2,010 (August 2012)[1] |
Current status | Online |
The Next Web or TNW as it is often referred to was founded in 2006 and manages several initiatives focused on international technology news, business and culture. The Next Web Events division organizes the TNW Conference[2][3], TNW Mobile Conference, TNW Bowlr and Kings of Code. In 2008, The Next Web established the TNW Blog for which the organization is now best known. The blog was originally launched as a spin-off to the events division and has grown into one of the world’s leading technology blogs. The third segment of the Next Web is TNW Labs. TNW Labs has produced several web based businesses including Twitter Counter, Paydro.com, PressDoc.com and Wakoopa.com. The fourth piece of The Next web is TNW Games which operates SquadCoach.com.
The Next Web is notable for having been consistently ranked among the top 15 most influential blogs on the internet and for receiving over 6 million monthly pageviews.[4][5] It is ranked 3rd in Techmeme's list of most authoritative technology media.[6] TNW's CEO is Zee M Kane.[7] Also, the Next Web was added to the personalized reading app, Zite.com, with other publishers such as The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, CNN (which acquired Zite)[8], and many other notable publishers of online and print material.[9] Lastly, The Next Web was one of the companies invited by Microsoft to an event for Windows 8.[10]
Demographics
TNW has a worldwide audience of 1.3 million unique users, according to DoubleClick Ad Planner.[4] More than 82% of its visitors are male, and 39% are between 25–34 years old. Around a third of TNW's users have a Bachelor's degree. Some 23% of its visitors come from households that earn between $75,000–$99,999 per year. Audience interests are venture capital, distributed and parallel computing, development tools and project management software, according to DoubleClick Ad Planner.[4]
Notes
- ^ "Thenextweb.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thenextweb.com. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
- ^ http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-insider/2012/the-next-web
- ^ http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/entertainment/the-next-web-30-second-pitches-517356012
- ^ a b c "TNW Profile". DoubleClick. https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en#siteDetails?identifier=http://thenextweb.com&lp=true. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ "Top 100 Blogs". Technorati. http://technorati.com/blogs/top100. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ "Techmeme Leaderboard". Techmeme. http://techmeme.com/lb. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ "About the Team". The Next Web. http://thenextweb.com/team/. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/30/cnnzite/
- ^ http://paidcontent.org/2012/07/23/zite-adds-la-times-chicago-tribune-others-to-its-publishers-program/
- ^ http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/09/17/microsoft-invites-press-windows-8-coming-party-nyc-october-25h/?utm_source=referral&utm_content=Microsoft%20invites%20press%20to%20a%20Windows%208%20coming%20out%20party%20in%20NYC%20on%20October%2025h&awesm=tnw.to_j4yQ&utm_medium=copy-paste-link&utm_campaign=social%20media
External links
- The Next Web – Official Web site