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Largest Online Content & News Public Companies in the US
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Reddit, News Corp, New York Times, Doximity and IAC.
 | Reddit is a social media platform where users can engage in conversations, explore, and create communities centered around their interests. Founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, Reddit has evolved into a vast network of user-generated content organized into specialized forums known as "subreddits." The platform's unique community-driven model relies on volunteer moderators to manage content and maintain subreddit guidelines. Reddit generates revenue through advertising, Premium Memberships, and data licensing agreements. | $166 | +48% | $32B | $29B | 13.3x | 64.0x | ||
| News Corporation is a diversified media conglomerate with big presence in the US, the UK, and Australia. Key mastheads include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, New York Post, The Times, The Sun, The Australian, Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph. Its 61%-owned REA Group is the dominant property listings platform in Australia. In addition, it owns Harper Collins, one of the largest book publishers in the world, and has a sizable US digital property advertising business, Move. The 65% interest in Foxtel, the Australian pay-TV and streaming provider, was sold in April 2025. The sale to global sports streaming platform, DAZN, was struck at more than 7 times Foxtel's EBITDA. | $28 | -7% | $15B | $16B | 1.9x | 11.2x | ||
| New York Times Co is an American media company known for publishing its flagship newspaper, The New York Times. The company also operates the International New York Times newspaper, as well as digital properties such as NYTimes and various smartphone applications. The company has two segments: New York Times Group and The Athletic. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the NYTG segment. The NYTG and The Athletic segments derive revenue from subscriptions, Advertising, and others, where the majority source of revenue for both segments is subscription. | $79 | +38% | $13B | $12B | 4.3x | 22.2x | ||
| Doximity Inc is a digital platform for U.S. medical professionals. The cloud-based platform provides members with tools specifically built for medical professionals, enabling them to collaborate with their colleagues, securely coordinate patient care, conduct virtual patient visits, stay up-to-date with the latest medical news and research, and manage their careers and on-call schedules. | $25 | -52% | $5B | $4B | 6.8x | 16.2x | ||
| IAC Inc is comprised of businesses, including Angi Inc, Dotdash Meredith, and Care.com, among many others, ranging from early-stage to established businesses. Its Dotdash Meredith segment consists of its Digital and Print businesses. Care.com segment is an online destination for families to connect with caregivers for their children, aging parents, pets, and homes, and for caregivers to connect with families seeking care services. Search segment consists of a collection of websites providing general search services and information, and a Desktop business, which includes business-to-business partnership operations. | $45 | +25% | $3B | $4B | 1.6x | 14.0x | ||
| Trump Media & Technology Group Corp is a media and technology company rooted in social media, digital streaming, information technology infrastructure, and more. Its initial product launch will focus on its social media platform, Truth Social, which encourages an open, free, and honest conversation without discriminating against political ideology. | $9 | -56% | $3B | $2B | 648.0x | (3.5x) | ||
| Webtoon Entertainment Inc is a storytelling platform where a vibrant community of creators and users discover, create and share new content. It has pioneered a cultural movement by revolutionizing the storytelling format and democratizing content creation and publication connecting creators with active users around the world. | $13 | +51% | $2B | $1B | 0.9x | 62.4x | ||
| Ziff Davis Inc is a digital media and internet company operating a portfolio of brands across technology, shopping, gaming and entertainment, health and wellness, connectivity, and cybersecurity. The company has five reportable segments. The Technology & Shopping segment generates revenue from advertising and commerce content. The Gaming & Entertainment segment provides content, subscriptions, and digital storefront services. The Health & Wellness segment offers digital tools and content for health management. The Connectivity segment provides data and analytics solutions for network performance. The Cybersecurity & Martech segment delivers cloud-based software for security and marketing. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Health & Wellness segment. | $46 | +42% | $2B | $2B | 1.4x | 4.0x | ||
| Rumble Inc is a free-to-use video-sharing platform where users can watch, share, like, comment, and upload their own videos. Users can subscribe to channels to stay in touch with recent creator content and access video-on-demand uploaded, and live content streamed, by creators. Geographically, it generates a majority of its revenue from the United States. | $7 | -19% | $2B | $1B | 13.4x | (18.1x) | ||
| USA Today Co Inc is a diversified media company with expansive reach at the national and local level, dedicated to empowering and enriching communities. It prioritizes a digital-first approach, focusing on audience growth and engagement while diversifying revenue streams. Through its trusted brands, including the USA TODAY NETWORK, comprised of the national publication, USA TODAY, and local media organizations, including a network of local properties, in the United States, and Newsquest, a wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom, provide essential journalism, local content, and digital experiences to audiences and businesses. Its digital marketing solutions brand, LocaliQ, supports small and medium-sized businesses with digital marketing products and solutions. | $7 | -- | $1B | $2B | 0.9x | 8.1x | ||
| Taboola is a performance-based native advertising network designed to improve click-through rates and increase monetizable events for advertisers while generating yield for publisher websites. Taboola competes with Google, Amazon, and other advertising networks that display stories and products on websites. The company was founded in 2007 in Israel. It acquired Connexity, a retail advertising network, in 2021, and entered a partnership with Yahoo in 2022, in which it acquired exclusive native advertising rights over Yahoo digital properties in exchange for a 25% equity stake in the company. | $4 | +2% | $1B | $1B | 0.6x | 5.2x | ||
| Value Line Inc is a U.S based company. It produces investment periodicals based on underlying research and making available copyright data, including ranking system and other information, to third parties under written agreements for use in third-party managed and marketed investment products and for other purposes. The company markets under brands including Value Line, the Value Line logo, The Value Line Investment Survey, Smart Research, Smarter Investing and a trusted name in Investment Research. Its only operating segment being Publishing. | $35 | -11% | $326M | $244M | 7.0x | 33.7x | ||
| Playboy Inc, formerly PLBY Group Inc connects consumers around the world with products, services, and experiences to help them look good, feel good, and have fun. PLBY Group serves consumers in four categories: Style and Apparel, Digital Entertainment and Lifestyle, Sexual Wellness, and Beauty and Grooming. It operates through three segments Direct-to-Consumer, Licensing, and Digital Subscriptions and Content. It generates revenue through the sales of products and content services to consumers. | $2 | +8% | $197M | $356M | 2.9x | 20.9x | ||
| Lee Enterprises Inc is a local news publication company in the United States. It is a digital-first subscription business providing local markets with valuable, high-quality, trusted, intensely local news, information, advertising, and marketing services. The product portfolio of the company includes digital subscription platforms, daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers, and niche products, all delivering original local news and information as well as national and international news. The products offer digital and print editions, and content and advertising are available in real-time through the websites and mobile apps. | $8 | +35% | $185M | $652M | 1.2x | 14.4x | ||
| Travelzoo acts as a publisher of travel and entertainment offers. It operates in four segments. Travelzoo North America segment, which is the key revenue driver, consists of operations in Canada and the U.S.; Travelzoo Europe segment consists of operations in France, Germany, Spain, and the U.K.; Jack's Flight Club segment consists of subscription revenue from premium members to access and receive flight deals from Jack's Flight Club via email or via Android or Apple mobile applications; and New Initiatives consists of Travelzoo’s licensing activities in Asia Pacific territories. It derives its revenue through advertising fees including listing fees paid by travel, entertainment, and local businesses to advertise their offers on the company's media properties. | $10 | -29% | $107M | $103M | 1.1x | 12.7x | ||
| Marketwise Inc is a multi-brand subscription services platform providing premium financial research, software, education, and tools for investors. Its products are built for high-value financial research, education, actionable investment ideas, and investment software. It is a digital, direct-to-consumer company offering its research across a variety of platforms including mobile, desktops, and tablets. | $17 | +4% | $46M | ($18M) | (0.1x) | (0.3x) | ||
| Hypebeast Ltd is an investment holding company. The company's operating segment includes Media Segment and E-commerce & Retail Segment. It generates maximum revenue from Media Segment. The Media Segment is engaged in the provision of advertising spaces, provision of services for creative agency projects and publication of magazines. The E-commerce segment is involved in the operation of an online and offline retail platform for the sale of third-party branded clothing, shoes and accessories, and commission fee from consignment sales, provision of advertising space, exhibition income and beverage income. Geographically, it has a presence in the United States, Hong Kong, PRC, and Other Countries. | $0 | +1% | $44M | $20M | 0.2x | 12.6x | ||
| BuzzFeed Inc is a tech-powered, diversified media company that reaches hundreds of millions globally through its cross-platform news and entertainment network. The company produces articles, lists, quizzes, videos, and original series; lifestyle content through brands including Tasty, social food network; original reporting and investigative journalism through BuzzFeed News and HuffPost; an industry- affiliate business, strategic partnerships, licensing and product development through BuzzFeed Commerce; and original productions across broadcast, cable, SVOD, film and digital platforms for BuzzFeed Studios. | $1 | -64% | $30M | $107M | 0.6x | 12.1x | ||
| Median | $12 | +2% | $1B | $1B | 1.5x | 12.6x |
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