WittyFeed
WittyFeed is an Internet media company and world's second largest viral content company based in Indore, India. It publishes content on categories such as sports, news, fashion, lifestyle, travel, inspiration, relationships, health, fitness, and posts ads related to the content published. The firm describes itself as 'a modern day blogging platform for photo-stories and listicles, the YouTube of the content industry'. In February 2017, It becomes 20th most visited site in India surpassing Twitter and Instagram. It is a charticle and a listicle platform.
WittyFeed is India’s largest viral content company and the world’s second largest in terms of traffic numbers after BuzzFeed. It is among the top 200 websites in the world with 120 million unique visitors to its website every month and more than 420 million monthly page views. It is the first company from India to be among the top 75 and top 25 most-read websites in the US and the UK. It gets 75% of the traffic from US, UK, Canada and Australia.
History
WittyFeed was founded by Vinay Singhal, Parveen Singhal and Shashank Vaishnav in October 2014. It runs under the parent company Vatsana Technologies.
It has received the Fastest Growing Company in IT Sector award by All India Achiever's Foundation in 2015. WittyFeed was selected by Google among an elite group of startups for case studies on successful companies using their products.
In February 2017, Wittyfeed becomes 20th most visited website in India surpassing social networking sites Twitter and Instagram.
Partnership
In September 2016, Wittyfeed was partnered with Sohail Khan production's film Freaky Ali, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Amy Jackson and Arbaaz Khan. It was partnered with an online emotional wellness platform YourDost to be the digital partner of the #StopSuicide campaign for World [...] Prevention Day in September 2016.
In association with Government of India's initiative Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj used WittyFeed as a platform to create awareness on cleanliness in August, 2017.
Funding
In September, 2017, WittyFeed raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a pre-series A funding from investors like Anand Chandrasekaran (Director, Facebook), Apurva Chamaria (VP of HCL Technologies) and Ritesh Malik (Co-founder of Innov8), along with a group of other investors.
External links
- WittyFeed: The content churner at Forbes India