Times are tough, but Pet Holdings, the company behind ICanHasCheezburger, isn’t complaining – from September to October the company saw its traffic grow by 23%, reaching 128.3 million total page views and 6.3 million unique visitors across its network of blogs. The profitable network includes nine properties, each of which posts humorous content focused on a different internet meme. The most popular by far is ICanHasCheezburger, which frequently features pictures of cats alongside user-added captions. The site is now the 14th ranked blog on Technorati (falling just behind Gawker). Other notables in the network include failblog and IHasAHotDog.
In August, the network reported a 43.5% leap in revenue month-over-month, coinciding with the launch of new blogs EngrishFunny (a site making fun of phrases poorly translated into English) and roflrazzi, which features celebrity images with captions added. Since then revenue growth has steadied out, with an increase of 11.5% in September and 9.4% in October.
But despite its growth the site will not be immune to a steep downturn in ad sales. To help diversify, the company now sells merchandise through retail stores, and is selling some of its top pictures in book form (one is already on shelves and three more are in the works). To further encourage growth, the site will be releasing an API for its photos within the next month.
i cant find anything to hate about them. they do one thing well and that is to make people laugh. they carved out a niche out of cat talk . ben you are the man.
Failblog and Engrishfunny get me through my day at work…….excellent post Jason.
My 16 year old daughter has been bed-ridden with Lyme Disease the past 14 months. One of the few things that consistently makes her smile is this silly LOL Cats site. As the ads say…priceless!
That is a neat little website…
Another cool site is http://fmylife.com/ – I think this can be the next lolcat
hey jessy
I don’t want to sound like a jerk but that’s a stolen idea from a french site !
it’s even in english now. check it out.
http://www.toda...hithappens.com/
the french version is very popular and its called viedemerde.fr
which means shitty life
OK, I’ll be the first to say it…
I can has API?
i haz splosif growf tanks to blaytant kopirait violashunz
I like this site a lot… anyone know if there is a dog version?
- Doc
IHasAHotDog (www.ihasahotdog.com) is the dog version of ICanHasCheezburger
Eric and Ben have insight to the social fabric of the web … the ICHC is proof positive that they deeply understand human motivation … every Fortune 500 company should be knocking on their door trying to hire these two Web 2.0 gurus!
Go Lolcat Go!
I love these guys.
And we LOVE Wordpress!
And we all love your sites stability on Wordpress… the love circle is complete.
Jason,
I would add the fact that Pet Holdings is the #2 most popular startup in Seattle (see http://www.seat...rtup-index.aspx) and is likely to overthrown Zillow by December.
If Marcello is correct re this crowd is #2 to Zillow popularity as a start-up, what does it say about start-ups or the people voting? No wonder we’re in a financial crisis! As we say in Oz, ‘You Americans live in a flat World’.
LOLCats caused a financial crisis?? I say you (whoevers) need to resize your tin foil hat, it’s too tight. And relax a bit with funny cat photos with captions.
LOL, I jsut love LOLcatz
http://www.anonymity.at.tc
lolcatz r teh gay like ur mom.
This is what a sellout looks like? The cats arent as funny when they have a corporate hot dog up theirs. And the corporate drones (aka you people) are giggling har har.
The source of this was and still is funny, this is just washed out. Can i has imagination? No.
“every Fortune 500 company should be knocking on their door trying to hire these two Web 2.0 gurus!”
Every soulles suit with blood money should suck the imagination out of normal people. I think theyre drained anyway…
I have a deep and meaningful relationship with failblog. i love that site.
i mean, this guy will never live this down.
and this image is my favorite on the Internet:
http://i169.pho...ss/Failboat.jpg
“The most popular by far is ICanHasCheezburger, which frequently features pictures of cats alongside user-added captions.”
This is the saddest, straightest, most missing-the-point description of LOLcats I’ve ever heard.
Also, “frequently” – that’s quite an understatement. The volume at the site is staggering.
i love lolcats might have to add them
http://makingmo...y.blogspot.com/
There’s another website for people with ADD called icanhasdoublecheezburger.com, and for people with further addiction, follow @ichdc on twitter!
That’s, http://www.ican...cheezburger.com