Elite Daily
3 quotesBorn Feb 1, 2012
Elite Daily is an American online news platform, founded by David Arabov, Jonathon Francis, and Gerard Adams. Self-described as "Millennials' preferred platform for today’s hot issues and trending topics", its slogan is "The Voice of Generation Y". In addition to general news, the site offers feature stories and listicles in the areas of politics, social justice, sex and dating, college life, women's issues, money, sports, and humor. 2History Launched independently in February 2012, Elite Daily was purchased by DMG Media in January 2015 for an estimated $50 million. In December 2014, Elite Daily ranked as the seventh most shared site on Facebook and the fourteenth most popular US online news entity. As of August 2015, it no longer ranked in the top 25 of either category, however it remains a steady feature on social sites. On April 17, 2017 DMG announced that Elite Daily had been purchased by Bustle Digital Group. 2Writers Elite Daily has a full-time staff of approximately twenty in-house writers. The site also maintains an unpaid contributing program, publishing articles submitted by writers. According to Elite Daily, the site maintains more than five thousand contributing writer