Interia
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Type of site | Web portal |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Osiedle Teatralne 9a, Kraków, Poland |
| Editor | Piotr Witwicki |
| Industry | Media |
| Employees | 200-500 |
| URL | interia |
| Launched | 2000 |
Interia,formerlyInteria.pl,is a largePolish web portaland online news platform launched in 2000 inKraków,Poland.It is the 4th largest online news source in the country.[1]
The list of its 130 services includes the national and international news in thePolish languagefollowed by business news, sports, motorization and new technologies, as well asonline games,blogs,chat rooms,internet forumsand a shopping arcade, not to mention thestreamingradio andInternet televisionchannels. It also offers, among others: newemailaccounts, freeweb hosting,anddomain nameregistration. Interia hosts one of Polishonline encyclopedias,theEncyklopedia Internauticaand the thematic catalogue of websites. It features also the weather info, astrology, virtual greeting cards popular locally, and hundreds ofonline chats(czaterie) with the "KidProtect" option.[2]
History
[edit]Creation and ownership
[edit]The portal was established by theComArch ManagementITcorporation(listed onWarsaw Stock Exchange) and theRMF FMradio network. The Interia S.A. company was almost wholly owned byRMF FMparent company, the German multimedia conglomerateBauer Media Group,represented by Witold Woźniak. Bauer bought 96,6% of itssharesin September 2008 and controlled 99% of its vote.[3]In 2020, the company has been purchased byCyfrowy Polsat S.A.,owned byZygmunt Solorz-Żak,the second richest person in Poland.[4]
Spam redirection
[edit]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 theirspam campaignsto 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 tospamvertising.[5]
Audience
[edit]As of 2024, Interia was the 4th largest news source in Poland, reaching 25% of Internet users every week, according to Digital News Report.[6]Forbesmagazine reported in 2020 that it was then visited by 16 million monthly active users, with more than 1.3 billion visits each month.[7]
Notes
[edit]- ^"Poland".Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.Retrieved2024-06-01.
- ^"Serwisy (list of services in alphabetical order)".Interia.pl S.A. 2011.RetrievedJune 12,2011.
- ^Press.pl (2008)."Bauer ma prawie 100 proc. akcji w Interia.pl SA".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-07-19.Retrieved2011-02-10.
- ^"Polsat kupił Interię za 422 mln zł. 'Rozsądna cena, wzbogaci ją treściami wideo, osiągnie synergie reklamowe'".www.wirtualnemedia.pl(in Polish).Retrieved2023-01-08.
- ^"Remember GeoCities? Spammers do"Archived2009-04-16 at theWayback MachineSpamnation dot info.Accessed 2009-04-20
- ^"Poland".Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.Retrieved2023-01-08.
- ^"Przejęcie Interii, czyli Zygmunt Solorz robi interesy w starym, dobrym stylu".Forbes.pl(in Polish).Retrieved2023-01-08.
