Ranker is a digital media company located in Los Angeles, CA. The website features polls on entertainment, brands, sports, and culture. As of February 2018, Ranker had over 70 million monthly unique visitors in the U.S. alone. [1] The Ranker Insights platform enables their advertising partners unique opportunities for validating, leveraging, and converting opinions.

Founded by Ranker was launched in August 2009 by founder 📝Clark Benson as an alternative to the user reviews available on e-commerce sites. [2] Ranker offers crowdsourced polls and lists across a variety of topics, including rankings of entertainment, sports, culture, etc. Ranker is one of the largest databases of opinions with over 400M votes gathered on over 1M items.

Ranker’s current board members include Draper Associates investor Joel Yarmon. Ranker has raised $7.5 million in venture capital, including Benson’s initial stake. Investors include Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital, Wavemaker, BullPen Capital, and various angels, like Factual founder Gil Elbaz and Ryan Steelberg.

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