Investopedia launches economic recovery tracker for five cities

Personal finance site Investopedia announced the launch of The City Economic Recovery Tracker (CERT), which is an index compiling economic recovery data of five U.S. cities since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Investopedia has been analyzing economic recovery data since the pandemic was declared in March, when the 22-year-old website launched the New York […]

Investopedia enters audio journalism field with podcast

Investopedia announced the launch of “The Investopedia Express” podcast. It’s the 22-year-old website’s first foray into audio journalism and is dedicated to educating individual investors about current market events. Hosted by editor in chief Caleb Silver, podcast covers weekly developments for retail investors and breaks down key financial concepts listeners should keep an eye out […]

How Investopedia continues to produce content during the pandemic

Caleb Silver, the editor in chief of Investopedia, spoke with Roben Farzad of the Full Disclosure radio show about how the personal finance site is operating during COVID-19. Investopedia was among the first online media organizations that moved to a work-from-home operations. “It turns out, we can do that, and we can do it on […]

Investopedia editor Silver: My goal is to answer questions

Investopedia editor in chief Caleb Silver spoke with Farnoosh Torabi on her “So Money” podcast about the personal finance website’s strategy. Here is an excerpt: FT: Educate us on what Investopedia can help us with since some of us may be new to it. CS: Sure. We are a 20-year-old – We’re almost 21 now. […]

Investopedia finds a second revenue stream

Max Willens of Digiday writes about how personal finance site Investopedia is generating revenue through online video classes. Willens writes, “After publishing just nine courses through the second half of 2017, Investopedia will publish two or three new courses per month this year, and it expects to grow the total number of employees working on […]

Investing site Investopedia has record traffic

Personal finance site Investopedia.com recorded record traffic in November and early December, boosted by interest in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. The month drew over 27 million visitors and recorded 85 million page views. Video streams topped 24 million, a 105 percent increase from the past year. The first week of December saw the most weekly traffic and […]