Interia, formerly Interia.pl, is a large Polish web portal and online news platform launched in 2000 in

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, Poland. It is the 4th largest online news source in the country. The list of its 130 services includes the national and international news in the

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followed by business news, sports, motorization and new technologies, as well as

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, internet forums and a shopping arcade, not to mention the

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radio and

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channels. It also offers, among others: new

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accounts, free

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, and

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registration. Interia hosts one of Polish

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s, the ''

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'' and the thematic catalogue of websites. It features also the weather info, astrology, virtual greeting cards popular locally, and hundreds of

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s (''czaterie'') with the "KidProtect" option.

History

Creation and ownership

The portal was established by the ComArch Management IT

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(listed on

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) and the

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radio network. The Interia S.A. company was almost wholly owned by ''RMF FM'' parent company, the German multimedia conglomerate

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, represented by Witold Woźniak. Bauer bought 96,6% of its

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in September 2008 and controlled 99% of its vote. In 2020, the company has been purchased by Cyfrowy Polsat S.A., owned by

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, the second richest person in Poland.

Spam redirection

Due to its availability and relaxed internal policy, the free hosting service Interia has become a popular spam redirector in 2009. Spammers frequently linked to its free sub-domains in their spam campaigns to avoid having their messages easily detected as junk and automatically blocked. Although, there are many legitimate webpages as well as services listed at Interia (or perhaps because of it), spammers signed up for its free accounts in volumes similar to GeoCities (Yahoo!-owned service), although their perennial favorite seemed to be Google's Blogspot based in the US. The redirect pages created by spammers at Interia link only to

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."Remember GeoCities? Spammers do"
''Spamnation dot info.'' Accessed 2009-04-20

Audience

As of 2024, Interia was the 4th largest news source in Poland, reaching 25% of Internet users every week, according to Digital News Report.

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magazine reported in 2020 that it was then visited by 16million monthly active users, with more than 1.3billion visits each month.

Notes

External links

Main pageInteria Pl - Online television
{{DEFAULTSORT:Interia Polsat Polish companies established in 1999 Internet technology companies of Poland Web portals Polish news websites Companies formerly listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange