Interia

Interia
Type of site	Web portal
URL	interia.pl
Registration	Optional

Interia, formerly Interia.pl, is a large Polish web portal and online news platform created in 2000 in Kraków, Poland. It is the 4th largest online news source in the country.^[1]

It offers, among others: new

Internet television channels. Interia hosts one of Polish online encyclopedias, the Encyklopedia Internautica and the thematic catalogue of websites. It features also the weather info, astrology, virtual greeting cards popular locally, and hundreds of online chats (czaterie) with the "KidProtect" option.^[2]

History

Creation and ownership

The portal was established by the ComArch Management IT corporation (listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange) and the RMF FM radio network. The Interia S.A. company was almost wholly owned by RMF FM parent company, the German multimedia conglomerate Bauer Media Group, represented by Witold Woźniak. Bauer bought 96,6% of its shares in September 2008 and controlled 99% of its vote.^[3] In 2020, the company has been purchased by Cyfrowy Polsat S.A., owned by Zygmunt Solorz-Żak, the second richest person in Poland.^[4]

Spam redirection

Due to its availability and relaxed internal policy, the free hosting service Interia has become a popular spam redirector in 2009. Spammers frequently linked to its free sub-domains in their

spamvertising.^[5]

Audience

As of 2022, Interia was the 4th largest news source in Poland, reaching 25% of Internet users every week, according to Digital News Report.[6] Forbes magazine reported that it is visited by 16 million monthly active users, with more than 1.3 billion visits each month.^[7]

Notes

^ "Poland". Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
^ "Serwisy (list of services in alphabetical order)". Interia.pl S.A. 2011. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
^ Press.pl (2008). "Bauer ma prawie 100 proc. akcji w Interia.pl SA". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
^ "Polsat kupił Interię za 422 mln zł. 'Rozsądna cena, wzbogaci ją treściami wideo, osiągnie synergie reklamowe'". www.wirtualnemedia.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-01-08.
^ "Remember GeoCities? Spammers do" Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine Spamnation dot info. Accessed 2009-04-20
^ "Poland". Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
^ "Przejęcie Interii, czyli Zygmunt Solorz robi interesy w starym, dobrym stylu". Forbes.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-01-08.

External links

[1] "Poland". Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Retrieved 2023-01-08.

[interia-serwisy-2] "Serwisy (list of services in alphabetical order)". Interia.pl S.A. 2011. Retrieved June 12, 2011.

[press.pl-3] Press.pl (2008). "Bauer ma prawie 100 proc. akcji w Interia.pl SA". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-02-10.

[4] "Polsat kupił Interię za 422 mln zł. 'Rozsądna cena, wzbogaci ją treściami wideo, osiągnie synergie reklamowe'". www.wirtualnemedia.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-01-08.

[spamnation-5] "Remember GeoCities? Spammers do" Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine Spamnation dot info. Accessed 2009-04-20

[6] "Poland". Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Retrieved 2023-01-08.

[7] "Przejęcie Interii, czyli Zygmunt Solorz robi interesy w starym, dobrym stylu". Forbes.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-01-08.

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