Type of site News & Entertainment Website ScoopWhoop.com Advertising Native CEO Sattvik Mishra (2013–) Number of employees 130 | Available in English Alexa rank 1730(Aug 2016) Founded 2013 Headquarters New Delhi Type of business Private | |
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Key people Sattvik Mishra
Rishi Pratim Mukherjee
Sriparna Tikekar
Debarshi Banerjee
Saransh Singh
Suparn Pandey Founders Sattvik Mishra, Rishi Pratim Mukherjee, Suparn Pandey, Debarshi Banerjee, Sriparna Tikekar, Saransh Singh Profiles | ||
Scoopwhoop the story of anita
ScoopWhoop is an internet media and news company from India. The company creates and curates India specific stories. The website initially started as a viral content generating and sharing website but now the company has also begun serving as a news portal and also acts as a channel for sharing and remedying social concerns.
Contents
- Scoopwhoop the story of anita
- Scoopwhoop the paan wala from sindh
- History
- Funding and Partnership
- Criticism
- References
Scoopwhoop the paan wala from sindh
History
ScoopWhoop was founded in August 2013 by Sattvik Mishra, Sriparna Tikekar, Rishi Pratim Mukherjee, Debarshi Banerjee, Saransh Singh and Suparn Pandey. All of the founders are alumni of Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At the time of starting ScoopWhoop, Sattvik, Rishi, Saransh and Suparn were colleagues at Webchutney and Sriparna was working at the advertising firm McCann Erickson. Initially, they wanted to continue ScoopWhoop as a side project in addition to their day jobs. But after the website's initial success they all left their jobs and began to fully devote their time to ScoopWhoop in November 2013.
In March 2015, apart from the 21 million unique views, the site also garnered 45 million page views and has been consistently getting over three million social shares monthly across articles.
Funding and Partnership
The company received a funding of Rs. 10 Crore (₹100,000,000) from Bharti Softbank in November 2014 for a stake of 36.5% which valued the company at Rs. 40 crores.
Criticism
ScoopWhoop has been criticized for taking left-leaning positions. It has also been criticised for being socially insensitive during the Nepal earthquakes. It posted an article titled ‘16 Thoughts That Went Through Everyone's Mind When The Earthquake Happened' which was considered capitalising on human suffering. However, they later apologised for it and used their news portal to give continuous updates on the earthquake.They also urged their readers to contribute to the Nepal relief fund.