Yardbarker Network

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Yardbarker aggregates news articles about sports from around the web. These articles are submitted by users and voted up in a Digg-like fashion. Amateur writers can also contribute to the site with blog posts about their favorite sports topics.

Sports videos and photos are also aggregated alongside articles.

Professional Athletes like Baron Davis, Greg Oden, Champ Bailey, and Donovan McNabb, and Rajon Rondo contribute weekly blog entries.

While Yardbarker.com is the company’s content hub page, the company also runs a network of 600+ sports blogs, fan sites, and male content focused websites. In October 2008, the company announced FARK.com as their latest network addition as well as reaching 10 million unique people.

Milestones

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• Received $1.5M in Unattributed funding. (9/8/09)
  Posted 9/22/09 at 12:00pm
• Received $634k in Unattributed funding. (6/8/09)
  Posted 6/16/09 at 11:14am
• Received $6M in Series B funding. (4/2/08)
  Posted 4/2/08 at 10:38pm
• Received in Seed funding. (4/15/07)
  Posted 4/2/08 at 10:09pm
• Jack Kloster, Co-founder added.
  Posted 4/30/08 at 8:30pm
• Peter Vlastelica, Co-founder added.
  Posted 4/30/08 at 8:31pm
• Josh Stein, Board Member added.
  Posted 4/2/08 at 10:38pm
• Jeffrey Kloster, Co-founder added.
  Posted 4/30/08 at 8:31pm
• Larry Kubal, Labrador representative added.
  Posted 5/4/08 at 9:54pm
• Mark Johns, Co-founder added.
  Posted 12/25/08 at 10:50pm
• Ben Koo, Business Development added.
  Posted 5/3/09 at 10:40pm

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Screenshots

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Products

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YardBarker

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Website	yardbarker.com
Stage	Live

Above: YardBarker Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 4/3/08

Traffic Analytics

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Sources

1. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Yardbarker Raises $6 Million Second Round For Sports Community And Ad Network (paidcontent.org) [edit]
3. Yardbarker scores $634K to connect pro athletes with fans (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
4. Sports Blog Network Yardbarker Raises $1.5 Million In Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]