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16 • OUT & ABOUT NEWSPAPER • APRIL, 2006
NEWS • OUT & ABOUT NEWSPAPER • APRIL, 2006 • 17 Ethan Interactive, Inc. celebrates 10th anniversary Staff Reports Ethan Interactive, Inc., the parent company of the Out in America Cities Network, turns 10 this year, having served the online GLBT community since 1996. Out in America Cities Network is the largest city-based GLBT online network in the United States aimed at informing, entertaining and uniting the global GLBT community. The 178 city sites range from Out in NYC to Out in San Diego with many cities in between as well as abroad: 13 city sites across Canada, eight in Mexico and one in the United Kingdom. OIA totals 7.6 million visitors monthly. “It’s been a privilege that we have been able to serve the GLBT community for 10 years,” said John Herman, project manager for Ethan Interactive. Each city site offers local news content, resource information, event calendars and advertisers giving it a local feel; members have the ability to chat with other people in their city. ”Out & About Newspaper” provides news content for Out In Nashville, Out In Knoxville and Out In Chattanooga. On the national level, the Web sites contain national news, feature content and other information of interest to the GLBT community. Out in America Cities Network first began in the one-bedroom basement of co-C.E.O. F. Jared Hunnell’s home in December 1996. Originally only one city site, Out in Columbus launched in May 1997. During the first month, more than 800 members signed up to become members in the Columbus area. Because of this growth, offices moved to the second floor of the Stonewall-Columbus building in the Short North District. In October 1997 Ethan Interactive announced a merger with another Ohio Web site, Out in Ohio, and launched two new Web sites, Out in Cleveland and Out in Cincinnati. In December 1997 Ethan Interactive surpassed all its previous records when it released 22 new city sites and its total monthly hits crossed the one-million mark. Ethan Interactive, Inc. released a second wave of 40 new city sites in 2000 and again in 2002 to boost the network’s size to encompass more than 100 individual sites. Finally, OIA reached 400,000 members and became the largest city-based GLBT Web portal in the United States in 2003. Corporate headquarters completed another move from the Stonewall-Columbus building to the Miranova Corporate Tower in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Currently the Out in America Cities Network boasts 750,000 members and 178 city sites which include every state capital. “We have been able to reach so many cities and members across the country and around the world. It’s amazing!” said Jonathan Mabry, brand marketing manager. “We’ve come a long way and the Out in America Cities Network is still growing.” The Out in America Cities Network and its Columbusbased parent company Ethan Interactive, Inc. have become the most popular city-based LGBT online destination. A monthly average of seven million households throughout North America and Europe visit at least one of the 178 individual Web sites within the Out in America Cities Network. In its last year of operation, the Out in America Cities Network experienced a 400-percent increase in membership. �
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