Legacy.com

Legacy.com is a United States-based website founded in 1998,[2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials.[3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths.[4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation.[5] The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked websites in the world.[4]

Legacy Inc.
Type of businessPrivate
Available inprimarily English
Headquarters
Evanston, Illinois
,
United States
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerLegacy.com, Inc.
Founder(s)Stopher Bartol
CEOStopher Bartol
IndustryInternet
Media
URLwww.legacy.com
Alexa rank 2,032 (February 2018)[1]
AdvertisingBanner ads, promoted links
Current statusActive

Legacy.com attaches a publicly accessible guestbook to most of the obituaries it hosts,[6] which enables anyone with an Internet connection to pay tribute to someone whose obituary appears in one of Legacy.com's affiliate newspapers or is self-published on Legacy.com. The company now reviews more than 1,000,000 guestbook entries each month. About 75 percent of all guestbooks receive entries. As of 2016, the company was approaching 100 million guestbook entries on its site.[5]

Legacy.com is a privately held company based in Evanston, Illinois, with more than 1500 newspaper affiliates in North America, Europe and Australia,[4][7][8] including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Manchester Evening News.[9] The executive team is currently led by CEO Stopher Bartol.[10]

References
  1. "legacy.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa". Alexa Internet. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  2. "About Us - Legacy.com". Legacy.com. Archived from the original on July 15, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  3. Hampson, Rick. "Legacies of war dead endure" Archived 2012-08-10 at the Wayback Machine. USA Today, May 22, 2009. Accessed September 18, 2009
  4. Keagle, Lauri Harvey. "Death in the Dot-com Age" Archived 2009-10-12 at the Wayback Machine, NWI Times, October 10, 2009. Accessed October 12, 2009
  5. "Legacy.com Achieves Milestone: 650 Newspaper Affiliates". Reuters, April 28, 2008. Accessed February 24, 2009.
  6. Urbina, Ian. "In Online Mourning, Don’t Speak Ill of the Dead" Archived 2018-02-21 at the Wayback Machine. The New York Times, November 5, 2006. Accessed February 24, 2009
  7. Quenqua, Douglas (July 14, 2009). "Better Grieving Through Technology". Media Magazine. Archived from the original on October 24, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  8. Kirsner, Scott."Monster.com founder sees untapped potential in death notices" Archived 2009-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Boston Globe, August 23, 2009. Accessed September 18, 2009
  9. "Interactive online death notices for Midlands newspaper company" Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine, Hold the Front Page, November 12, 2007. Accessed February 24, 2009.
  10. mlemay (2016-10-25). "Leadership Team at Legacy.com". Legacy.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2016-12-20.


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