AskMen is a free online men’s web portal, with international versions in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. It is owned by Ziff Davis through its IGN Entertainment unit.
[edit] HistoryAskMen was founded in August 1999 by Ricardo Poupada, Christopher Bellerose Rovny, and Luís Rodrigues, all three graduates of Concordia University's John Molson School of Business in Montreal. The company secured $500,000 in venture capital in 2000 while its main competitor, TheMan.com, obtained $17 million in financing from Highland Capital. In November 2000, TheMan.com shut down operations, providing an opportunity for AskMen to become the largest men's lifestyle website online.[1] By 2001, AskMen surpassed the other websites in its category to become the largest men's lifestyle website.[2]
Through a combination of partnerships with AOL and MSN, AskMen.com became the leader in the men's lifestyle space, though it still trailed ESPN.com and other websites in terms of total reach within the male segment on the Web.
In 2010 the site ranked #819 for world-wide traffic on Alexa.[3] In December 2009, the site had an estimated 12 million unique visitors.[4]
According to Hitwise, AskMen is ranked No. 1 (as of 06/11/2005) in the "Lifestyle – Men’s Sites" category, as it has over 40,000 articles available for free online.[5]
[edit] PrintAskMen launched a three-book series published by HarperCollins in May 2007, starting with their first book titled From the Bar to the Bedroom
URL AskMen
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Online men's publication
Registration Optional
Owner Ziff Davis
Created by Ricardo Poupada
Chris Bellerose Rovny
Luís Rodrigues
Launched January 2000
Self Promotionseems like self-promotion to me.--Alhutch 07:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I agree. I just wanted to find out who set it up and its background. None of that here. It is apparently a Canadian company, though. El Gringo 06:34, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
It might be self promotion (however is there any evidence of that?), but it still is a major site worthy of an article. Mathmo 02:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I remember an AskMen.com team-member named "David" who has been suspended from Wikipedia because he added loads of AskMen-links, even than if there was nothing relevant. You are welcome to ask for deletion, if you feel this article is a self-promotion. A moderator or adminsitrator will review and decide then. deletion-template is db|... Adminix 12:04, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Agree here. Will put up a flag.ReginaldTQ (talk) 20:18, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Still needs a lot of work. Sorry just getting back into editing, will try to help more soon.ReginaldTQ (talk) 03:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
[edit] tagI'll remove the tag, has been up for ages and ages and ages. And there as been no mention here in the talk page at all as to why it was added or what specificly the author thought is needed. Mathmo 01:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Account AskMenOfficial
AskeMenOfficial is an employee of the company with whom I have been in touch with by email. I've advised the user to post talk page comments here if the article needs clarity rather than just editing the article directly. Please play nice, happy editing to you all. Keegan (talk) 06:13, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
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