Ranker

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Ranker
Founded August 2009
Founder Clark Benson
Website www.ranker.com

Ranker is a social consumer web platform designed around collaborative and individual list-making and voting. All lists on Ranker are powered by linked datasets to power “connected listmaking” across millions rankable items on different verticals and topics.

History

Ranker launched in August 2009, and has since grown to over 20 million unique visitors per month, according to Quantcast.com. As of August 2015, Ranker’s US traffic was ranked at 119.[1] Ranker also garners significant traffic from the mobile web, ranking 62 in the US on Quantcast.

The site was founded by serial entrepreneur Clark Benson whose previous site, eCrush, sold to Hearst in 2006. Board members include Draper Associates investor Joel Yarmon. Ranker has raised a total of $5.1 million in funding, beginning with a $1 million seed round in 2008 and buffeted by a Series A investment round of $1.3 in April 2011. Other Ranker investors include Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Siemer Venture Capital and various angels, including Factual founder Gil Elbaz, Ryan Steelberg, and founder Clark Benson himself.[2] Ranker’s content and data partners include Google-owned Freebase, as well as Factual.

Ranker has many lists that reflect an individual's opinion, but also features "Ultimate Lists" that are determined by a combination of users ranking their version of a given topic, and then allowing individuals to vote positively or negatively on the rank of items on the list. Ranker states that 15% of visitors vote on an average of 10 items per ranking [3] Ranker explains that the Ultimate Lists weigh inputs heavier than votes, stating "while every vote counts, your ranked lists count a lot more." Ranker's Ultimate lists have been cited in sources such as Forbes, Motley Fool, and VentureBeat.

Ranker is designed to collect individual user votes and track them, using cookies, across various lists. Per the company's blog,[4] this allows the company to assemble a taste graph for people who have voted on lists, as opposed to the sort of social graph that sites like Facebook can assemble using their users' personal data. Ranker has also used their taste graph to perform Factor Analysis, a way of looking deeper into user voting trends (for example, the connections between movies that a certain group of people all tagged as "bad.") [5][6][7][8][9] [10][11] [12] [13][14][15][16][17][18]

References

  1. ↑ "Quantcast.com Score on Ranker.com.". Quantcast. San Francisco. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Ranker – CrunchBase Profile". CrunchBase. United States: TechCrunch. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Pando Daily: Crowdsourced Listmaker Ranker Grows By 300% in 18 Months". PandoDaily. United States. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Using Data To Determine The Best Months Of The Year". data.ranker.com. Blogger. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ "A Deeper Look At The Worst Movies List". ranker.com. Blogger. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Americas 10 Favorite Fast Food Burgers". TheStreet.com. New York City. May 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Top 10 Restaurant Burgers in America". Business Insider. New York City. May 13, 2015.
  8. ↑ "10 White Lies We All Tell, And Just In Time For National Honesty Day". The Huffington Post. New York City: Verizon (via AOL). April 30, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Top 10 celebs people most want to have a beer with". Cosmopolitan. United States: Hearst Corporation. April 7, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' Replacement: Who Fans Would Choose". TheWrap. Santa Monica, California: The Wrap News Inc. March 9, 2015.
  11. ↑ "It's National Beer Day! Jennifer Lawrence and Bill Murray Are the Most Desirable People to Drink With". Entertainment Weekly. United States: Time Inc. April 7, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Gary Oldman Voted Greatest Actor to Never Win an Oscar". The Hollywood Reporter. United States: Prometheus Global Media. February 20, 2015.
  13. ↑ "The 25 Funniest SNL Cast Members Of All Time, Ranked". Business Insider. New York City. January 24, 2015.
  14. ↑ "The 25 Funniest People Of All Time". Business Insider. New York City. January 20, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Ranker turns crowdsourced lists into big data". Digiday. New York City. October 8, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Comcast only 6th worst in customer service, survey says". CNET. San Francisco: CBS Interactive. July 17, 2014.
  17. ↑ "Ranker rolls out its embeddable widget so you can rank all the things". The Next Web. United States. May 28, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Even Olympians Can't Help Wheaties Once a King of the Cereal Aisle, the Brand Now Ranks 17th". The Wall Street Journal. New York City: News Corp (via Dow Jones & Company). March 4, 2014.
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