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Slate: I Can Has Cheezburger keeps growing and growing
We've been fascinated with the growth of Seattle's Pet Holdings, the quirky Internet startup responsible for I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog, Graph Jam and other comedy Web sites. When we talked to founder Ben Huh last month, he told us that the network of Web sites was attracting five million page views a day as it moved towards its goal of topping two billion page views this year.
Now, Slate covers the Web phenomenon known as lolcats, noting that the company has figured out how to turn Internet memes into profitable businesses.
Reporter writes:
More than two years after its launch, I Can Has Cheezburger is still having cheeseburgers. Not only hasn't it faded, the site is bigger than ever: People keep sending in new pictures, new people keep discovering the phenomenon, and every day traffic grows a bit more. In the last year, according to the traffic-monitoring firm Compete, visits to the site more than doubled. About 1 million unique users now land at I Can Has Cheezburger every month, and its growth shows no sign of ebbing. Most surprisingly, lolcats makes money.
A nice profile of a Seattle startup company.
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