Quartz celebrates third birthday

Editor in chief Kevin Delaney writes about what business news site Quartz has accomplished since it was launched three years ago.

Delaney writes, “Three years on, thanks to your readership, Quartz is thriving. We have served 580 million pages to 173 million visitors on qz.com, and this month the website will see its largest audience yet. Millions more people read our stories on apps like Apple News, Flipboard, SmartNews, and Google Newsstand. We’re publishing scores of original pieces every day with intelligent coverage of the global economy, from debunking the Singapore miracle to investigating pilot selfies.

“You can also now get Quartz in increasingly varied and creative forms. Atlas, our new platform for data visualization, has served up 20 million charts since its launch just three months ago. Our video team, also begun this year, has already generated about 35 million views on platforms like Facebook and YouTube. The Daily Brief now has 156,000 extremely loyal subscribers, and seems to have inspired a renaissance in email newsletters. We recently launched a podcast called Actuality in partnership with Marketplace.

“Our global spirit remains as strong as ever. We launched Quartz Africa this year, while Quartz India continued to grow. Our events have ranged from Seattle to New York to London to Nairobi. Next month, we’ll be in New Delhi for the latest installment of The Next Billion, our defining obsession with the next wave of mobile internet users. Our team of more than 70 full-time journalists speaks 25 languages and has reported from over 100 countries.”

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