About the company

Location:

Founded in: 1999
Stage: Profitable
Number of employees: 1-5
Completed funding: Self-Funded
Profitable year: already profitable
Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/4f1

Profile creation: February 13, 2008
Last updated: January 12, 2009

Fark.com

Satirical news site
Startup/business
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Kentucky, United States
http://www.fark.com

Fark is a satirical news forwarding site. The Fark community identifies
odd, funny and entertaining news stories from across the Web and Fark
presents them in a clever and engaging way.

In January the site had over 4 million unique visitors and 60 million page
views - and there's tremendous growth potential beyond these numbers. The
Fark community also submitted 60,000 stories and posted almost 900,000
comments in January alone.

In addition, the site is in a pivotal strategic position as it directs
substantial traffic outbound to other sites (Fark generated approximately 50
million outbound clicks in January).

Business model

Advertising (CPM) and subscriptions

Competitive advantage

The only company focused on aggregating funny news from around the world.

US traffic of Fark.com

US traffic of www.fark.com

Range:
1m
1y

The number of people visiting a site.

Compete ranks the top one million websites in the U.S. based on the number of People the domain attracts each month.

The number of visits made to a site. A person can only be counted as one person in a month, but can make multiple site visits.

The total time spent on a domain as a percentage of the total time spent online by all U.S. internet users.

The number of minutes an average visitor spends on a site during each visit.

The number of pages an average person views on each visit to a domain.

Worldwide traffic of Fark.com

Worldwide traffic for the website www.fark.com

Feedback and testimonials

Bambi Francisco May 30, 2008
Interesting new video discussion about new news models posted on this profile. In this video discussion is Fark founder Drew Curtis, Pete Vlasetlica of Yardbarker, and Ezra Roizen (Vator regular) and Kedric Van de Carr of Vator.tv