Lifewire is a technology information and advice website.
The website's owner is
Dotdash Meredith
Dotdash Meredith (formerly The Mining Company, About.com and Dotdash) is an American digital media company based in New York City. The company publishes online articles and videos about various subjects across categories including health, hom ...
, originally About.com, which launched Lifewire in 2016 as one of its spin-off
vertical sites.
As of April 2022, it had a global website ranking of 1432 by
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. was a web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded as an independent company by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat in 1996. Alexa provided web traffic data, global rankings, and other info ...
.
History
Lifewire was the third standalone brand of About.com, an
IAC-owned media company, which broke up its collections of
DIY and how-to information into branded vertical websites, and is a competitor to sites such as
Techcrunch
TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high tech, high-tech and Startup company, startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.
I ...
,
Techradar,
PCmag.
Lifewire was preceded by Verywell, a health info website, and The Balance, a personal finance site. Lifewire became a top 15 technology website in the
United States
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as it was launched in October 2016.
It was a top 10 technology-information site in 2017, reaching 6 million monthly US unique users each month.
The purpose of Lifewire is to offer advice and answers on common technology questions and problems in a simplified format.
When it was launched, Lifewire featured 16,000 articles written by 40 people. Lifewire CEO described the website style "as if your
BFF happened to be an
iPhone
The iPhone is a line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple that run iOS, the company's own mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, at ...
expert."
References
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Internet properties established in 2016
2016 establishments in the United States
American technology news websites
Technology websites