17 Facts About Meetup

Meetup is a social media platform for hosting and organizing in-person and virtual activities, gatherings, and events for people and communities of similar interests, hobbies, and professions.

Meetup was acquired by WeWork in 2017 and remains headquartered in New York City.

Meetup was founded in June 2002 by Scott Heiferman and four co-founders.

Early version of Meetup generated revenues by charging a fee to venues in exchange for bringing Meetup users to their business.

Once enough users added themselves to a group, Meetup would send the group members an email, asking them to vote on one of three sponsoring venues for the group to meet at.

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In 2003 Meetup won the "Community Websites and Mobile Site" Webby Award.

Meetup was originally intended to focus on hobbies and interests, but it was popularized by Presidential hopeful Howard Dean in 2004.

Meetup developed paid services to help the Dean campaign to meet with Meetup users.

Meetup started charging a fee to group organizers in early 2005.

In 2009, Meetup started running hackathons, where employees came up with new features that would be implemented if their coworkers supported it.

In 2013, Meetup acquired a struggling email collaboration company called Dispatch.

Meetup partnered with a labor group to organize anti-Trump protests.

Meetup was acquired by WeWork in late 2017 for about $156 million.

In October 2019, Meetup began to test a different pricing model in two US states, reducing the costs that must be paid by organizers of $23.

Meetup is an online service used to create groups that host local in-person and virtual events.

Meetup users do not have "followers" or other direct connections with each other like on other social media sites.

That is, a winery could organize a wine tasting event through Meetup charging commercial rates, but not use Meetup to simply promote their wines or only sales portal.