| Founded | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Dany Levy |
| Defunct | 2014 |
| Headquarters | |
| Website | www |
DailyCandy was an online media company founded in 2000 by Dany Levy. The business originally consisted of a daily email newsletter that provided readers with information about hip and trendy events and businesses in their city. The emails first focused on New York City but eventually grew to include a dozen US cities and London. In August 2008, Comcast purchased the e-newsletter for $125 million and ultimately shut it down in 2014.[1]
DailyCandy was a pioneer in terms of using the Internet as a distribution channel and in creating an email newsletter business.[2] It inspired a number of similar email businesses including, Thrillist[3] and Tasting Table.[4]
A number of notable brands, including Drybar[5][6] and Nasty Gal,[7] launched via being spotlighted in DailyCandy newsletters.
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- ^ Schoenfeld, Erick (July 31, 2011). "Ben Lerer: Thrillist Will Do "$40 Million In Revenue This Year". Techcrunch.
- ^ "Tasting Table Is The Daily Candy For Foodies". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
- ^ Wood Rudulph, Heather (September 29, 2014). "Get That Life: How I Opened a Chain of Blow-Dry Bars". Cosmopolitan.
- ^ Brodesser-Akner, Taffy (April 26, 2015). "With Drybar, a Curly-Haired Girl Wages a Global War on Frizz". New York Times. p. BU3. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
- ^ "Everything Netflix's ‘Girlboss’ Gets Right (and Wrong) About the Nasty Gal Story" By Elana Fishman April 20, 2017