Cracked.com

Cracked
Type of site
Entertainment
OwnerLiterally Media
URLwww.cracked.com
LaunchedNovember 2005; 18 years ago (2005-11)

Cracked.com is an American website that was based on Cracked magazine. It was founded in 2005 by Jack O'Brien.[1][2]

In 2007, Cracked had a couple of hundred thousand unique users per month and three or four million page views. In June 2011, it reached 27 million page views, according to comScore.[3][1][4][5] According to O'Brien, the site had about 17 million unique visitors and 300 million page views in February 2012.[4]

  1. ^ a b Demand Media Wins Two People's Voice Webby Awards. Reuters.. May 1, 2012.
  2. ^ Axon, Samuel. Streamy Awards 2010: Here Are the Winners. Mashable. April 11, 2010.
  3. ^ Kung, Michelle. Cracked.com Grows Up. Wall Street Journal. August 1, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Osburn, Paige. The (prat)fall of Cracked Magazine-- and the rise of Cracked.com. 89.3 KPCC. April 12, 2012.
  5. ^ Shields, Mike. Demand Media's Unlikely Success Story Archived 2016-09-06 at the Wayback Machine. Digiday. October 14, 2011.