Aaron Broder forms company.
Develops first owned and operated publishing site Celebrityblvd.com to cater to entertainment fans and entertainment marketers.
Forms partnerships with several motion picture studios to build official movie websites and run ad campaigns on Celebrity Blvd.
Company changes name from Celebrity Blvd. to Gorilla Nation Media and starts to build out its audience reach by forming partnerships with third party publishers.
Signs ad sales agreements with independent web publishers, including ComingSoon, SuperHeroHype, and RottenTomatoes, who have large site audiences but no direct ad sales capabilities.
Acquires two premiere entertainment sites - movie news site Comingsoon.net and comic book news site Superherohype.com.
Sells teen site Quizilla to Viacom
for 30 times what it paid for site
to provide capital for future publishing acquisitions and international expansion.
Acquires SheKnows.com, rebrands the business to She Knows Media.
Launches Canadian business to provide further support for Canadian advertising agencies and marketers.
Acquires pioneer mixed martial arts website Sherdog.com.
Acquires wrestling news website Wrestlezone.com.
Acquires leading hockey community site Hfboards.com.
Acquires fashion community site Thefashionspot.com.
Acquires video game guides and news website Gamerevolution.com.
Forms London office to provide further support for British advertising agencies and marketers.
Acquires premiere anime site Myanimelist.net.
Starts Australian operations to service Australian agencies and marketers.
Launches parenting site Momtastic.com.
Launches outdoor recreation site Liveoutdoors.com.
Acquires playstation gaming community Playstationlifestyle.net.
Acquires Wholesome Baby Food blog to integrate into Momtastic.com.
Acquires pregnancy community site Babyandbump.com.
Acquires reality TV news site RealityTea.com.
Sells SheKnows Media to private equity firm Great Hill Partners.
Creates Pebblebed, a unified propreitary CMS built on top of Wordpress for its owned and operated sites.
Hires international editors to localize publishing to cater to audiences in Canada, UK and Australia.
Acquires leading pet sites Dogtime.com and Cattime.com.
Acquires leading beauty product and review site Totalbeauty.com.
Evolve sells MyAnimeList.net to Japanese conglomerate DENA
for more than 20 times
the amount Evolve paid to acquire site.
Acquires men's lifestyle site Mandatory.com.
Sunsets Craveonline and subdomains its content within Mandatory.com.
Opens Evolve Mexico office to provide technology development, finance and operations support.
April
James Weidner rejoins company as CFO to help navigate company growth going forward.
Forms strategic partnership with Outbrain for traffic growth across its publishing sites.
Forms search partnership with Ad.Net to provide readers with better in-site search experiences.
Migrates publishing infrastructure from local to cloud-based hosting solution.
September
Company moves headquarters to Beverly Hills, CA.
Forms search partnership with Ad.Net to provide readers with better in-site search experiences.
Migrates publishing infrastructure from local to cloud-based hosting solution.
September
Company moves headquarters to Beverly Hills, CA.