New Viral Content From Ranker.com

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LOS ANGELES, CA, FEBRUARY 1, 2012:  Ranker.com has exciting new content that they think you will enjoy. Ranker has been known to  use lists and rankings to harness the "wisdom of crowds" to answer both watercooler debates like worst movies of all time as well as practical searches like best car values.

But Ranker also specializes in niche topics, currently the top story on Ranker is the Celebrity Death Pool 2012. This list contains the aging and reckless stars of the year and allows visitors to vote up and add their own contenders. Ranker thought your audience would enjoy this piece of information. Feel free to share this information or to contact Ranker with any feedback or list requests of your own.


BACKGROUND:

Ranker launched in August, 2009 and has grown to 4 million monthly unique visitors. Ranker's technology aggregates user lists and votes using an engaging, scaleable interface, enabling Ranker to collect extremely granular consumer affinity data. All lists on Ranker are powered by semantic, linked datasets to power this “connected listmaking” across all topics and over 7 million "rankable items" -  in effect, Ranker is layering an interest graph over big data. Ranker's initial focus has been on their listmaking platform and content site, which fills a big void in the answers space (questions such as "what are the best board games?" can't be answered credibly via a multiple-choice poll or a traditional Q&A format). Ranker's goal is to provide the best, crowdsourced answers to all questions where a ranked list is the desired result. The next step is to syndicate the Ranker platform beyond just ranker.com, as well as continue to scale the collection of user interest data, which has the potential to power an uber-recommendation engine, and potentially a brand affinity research source for marketers. Ranker's investors include Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Siemer Venture Capital, and various angels including Gil Elbaz and Ryan Steelberg, as well as founder Clark Benson, whose prior startup eCrush was acquired by Hearst in 2006.
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