Lifewire is a technology information and advice website.
The website's owner is
Dotdash Meredith
Dotdash Meredith (formerly About.com) 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, home, food, finance, tech, beauty, l ...
, 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
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Alexa was founded as an independent company in 1996 and acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million in stoc ...
.
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
Techcrunch
TechCrunch is an American online newspaper
An online newspaper (or electronic news or electronic news publication) is the online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical.
Goi ...
,
Techradar,
PCmag and Systweak
Lifewire was preceded by Verywell, a health info website, and The Balance, a personal finance site. Since About.com was one of the top 50 biggest sites online, Lifewire became a top 15 technology website in the
United States
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as soon 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.
Content
The purpose of Lifewire is to offer advice and answers on common technology questions and problems in a clear and simplified format.
When it was launched, Lifewire featured 16,000 articles written by 40 experts, teaching readers what is new in the world of technology and explaining how to better use devices they already own. Lifewire CEO described the website style "as if your
BFF happened to be an
iPhone expert."
References
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Internet properties established in 2016
2016 establishments in the United States
American technology news websites
Technology websites