16 Facts About SB Nation

SB Nation is a sports blogging network owned by Vox Media.

From 2005 to 2011, the sports blog network SB Nation operated under the parent company SportsBlogs Inc, which was headquartered in Washington, D C Since Sports Blogs was rebranded as Vox Media, the network has operated from the digital media company's offices in Manhattan.

SB Nation was co-founded by friends Tyler Bleszinski and Markos Moulitsas in 2005.

Athletics SB Nation quickly became Blogads's second largest website, following Daily Kos, where Moulitsas served as an editor.

In September 2009, SB Nation was re-launched to serve as a nationally focused portal for the network's blogs.

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SB Nation had 31 full-time employees and was receiving 40 million monthly page views by approximately 8 million unique users, as of mid 2010.

Comcast SportsNet and SB Nation agreed to a content sharing partnership in shared markets in June 2010.

SB Nation acquired the blog networks FanTake and The Offside in March 2011, expanding its coverage of college sports and soccer, respectively.

In September 2012, SB Nation introduced a major redesign codenamed "SB United", which introduced a new "magazine-style" layout with a larger focus on long-form content and digital media, and redesigned logos for each of the network's approximately 300 blogs.

SB Nation was averaging approximately 50 million unique visitors by mid 2013, and had approximately 800 contributing bloggers by the end of the year.

SB Nation stated that this would be an extension of investments that have seen more full-time employees working for the network's largest sites, and that former contractors would be able to contribute as unpaid "community insiders".

In May 2016, SB Nation created an online video series for NBC Sports around NBC Sunday Night Football.

SB Nation maintains a YouTube channel which publishes regular web series by a variety of online hosts and content editors including Jon Bois, Will Buikema, Ryan Simmons, Seth Rosenthal, Kofie Yeboah, Mike Imhoff, and many others.

SB Nation subsequently cut ties with the story's author, freelance journalist Jeff Arnold, and put its longform program on hiatus pending a peer review of the editorial process that led to the Holtzclaw piece being published.

SB Nation announced it would take steps to diversify its newsroom.

SB Nation was a finalist in the seventh annual Shorty Awards "fansite" category, and received a National Magazine Award in the "Digital Innovation" category in 2018 as the publisher of Jon Bois narrative, 17776.