Company:Diply
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| Owner | GoViral Inc. |
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| Created by | Taylor Ablitt, Dean Elkholy, Gary Manning |
| Website | diply |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 2013 |
Diply was a social news website published by the parent company GoViral which was based in London, Ontario,[1][2] New York City[3] and Toronto. It once ranked among the top-100 most popular websites in the world[2][4] and the top-20 websites in Canada.[4] In April 2019, it was among the top 5000 most popular websites in Canada, and top 22000 in the world.[5]
History
Diply was founded in 2013 by Taylor Ablitt (CEO), Dean Elkholy, and Gary Manning.[2]
In September 2016, Diply hired Kirstine Stewart as chief strategy officer.[6][7][8] She left the company in late 2017.
In August 2018, Diply laid off 40 employees at its London, Toronto and New York offices.[9]
In October 2018, another 35 employees were laid off.[10]
As of 2021, Diply's Toronto office was shuttered.
References
- ↑ Dubinski, Kate (2014-11-14). "The downtown you don't know — but should". https://lfpress.com/2014/11/14/the-downtown-you-dont-know--but-should.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Yu, Roger (2015-11-26). "Diply to invest more in 'value-added' content as traffic surges". USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/11/26/diply-invest-more-value-added-content-traffic-surges/76283452/.
- ↑ LoCastro, Marc (2017-05-03). "Diply Expands U.S. Direct Sales Team with Three Hires". Business Wire (Press release). Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Diply.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/diply.com.
- ↑ "Diply.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/diply.com.
- ↑ Craig, Sean (2016-09-20). "Former Twitter Inc VP Kirstine Stewart joins London, Ont.-based lifestyle site Diply". Financial Post. https://financialpost.com/technology/former-twitter-inc-vp-kirstine-stewart-joins-london-ont-based-lifestyle-site-diply.
- ↑ Bradshaw, James (2016-09-20). "Kirstine Stewart joins content website Diply". The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/kirstine-stewart-to-join-content-website-diply/article31971726/.
- ↑ De Bono, Norman (2016-09-20). "Big name in online media joins Diply.com". https://lfpress.com/2016/09/20/kirstine-stewart-joins-diply-after-leaving-twitter-canada.
- ↑ "Layoffs at media company Diply blamed on changes at Facebook". CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/diply-layoffs-digital-media-facebook-1.4773193.
- ↑ "More layoffs at London media company, Diply". CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/diply-media-layoffs-london-1.4848036.
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