HowStuffWorks

HowStuffWorks, Inc.
Type of site
Educational website
Available inEnglish
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
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United States
Country of originUnited States
OwneriHeartMedia (podcasting)
System1 (website)[1][2]
Created byMarshall Brain
URLwww.howstuffworks.com Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialYes
RegistrationNone
LaunchedJuly 11, 1998; 26 years ago (1998-07-11)[3]
Current statusActive

HowStuffWorks is an American commercial infotainment website founded by professor and author Marshall Brain, to provide its target audience an insight into the way many things work. The site uses various media to explain complex concepts, terminology, and mechanisms—including photographs, diagrams, videos, animations, and articles.

The website was acquired by Discovery Communications in 2007, but was sold to Blucora in 2014. The site has since expanded out into podcasting, focusing on factual topics. In December 2016, HowStuffWorks, LLC became a subsidiary of OpenMail, LLC,[4] later renamed System1.[5] In 2018, the podcast division of the company, which had been spun-off by System1 under the name Stuff Media, was acquired by iHeartMedia for $55 million.

  1. ^ "Content Writer, Ad Operations (Job Listing)". March 2019. Archived from the original on June 11, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Previously called OpenMail.
  3. ^ "Whois Record for HowStuffWorks.com". DomainTools. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  4. ^ HowStuffWorks, LLC: Private Company Information – Bloomberg
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference BizJsys1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).