PC Magazine's PCMag.com recently named Going.com one of the Top 10 Undiscovered Lifestyle and Entertainment Web Sites of 2007 as part of its Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites special feature. Going.com, the destination site and community that wants to know what's happening in their cities, was included in the list because the site is leading the way in re-inventing local entertainment for 20-somethings.
CHICAGO & LOS ANGELES (BusinessWire EON) September 17, 2007 --
PC Magazine’s PCMag.com recently named
Going.com one of the Top 10 Undiscovered Lifestyle and Entertainment Web
Sites of 2007 as part of its Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites special
feature. Going.com, the destination site and community that wants to
know what’s happening in their cities, was
included in the list because the site is leading the way in re-inventing
local entertainment for 20-somethings.
“Hopefully, thanks to PC Magazine, more folks
will discover what community already knows, which is that we’re
the first place to find out what to do, where to go, and who else is
going,” said Evan Schumacher, CEO of Going.com.
Going.com’s inclusion on this exclusive list
is just another indication of its rapid growth since first launching in
Boston. The Web site now operates in five cities —
Boston, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and now Los Angeles —
and has grown to over 700,000 unique visitors, a remarkable percentage
of the total 20-something demographic in these cities.
Going.com’s most recent city launch, in
Chicago, has already attracted 120,000 visitors in less than three
months. Events range from user-submitted, hard-to-discover underground
experiences, to Going.com “members only”
showcases featuring Perez Hilton, Lady Sovereign, Bobby Friction, Albert
Hammond Jr. of the Strokes, Mario Lopez, Donnie Wahlberg, Hilary Duff,
and Lindsay Lohan, as well as hot up-and-coming acts like LCD
Soundsystem, and The Teddy Bears.
Other sites on the PCMag.com Top 10 Entertainment and Lifestyle list
include Dethroner.com (www.dethroner.com),
a testosterone-based, male free-for-all; iminlikewithyou.com (www.iminlikewithyou.com),
a dating site where the more points you have, the more “dates”
you can acquire; and Skeptic (www.skeptic.com),
a site for those who need to see it to believe it. All the sites fit
into niche categories — users can visit and
use the sites based on their specific entertainment interests.
About Going.com
Going.com is your social life, remixed and served the way you want it,
letting you connect with people before, during, and after the events you
love. Our 700,000-strong community has something in common —
we devour everything from seeing the hottest live bands and DJs, to
supporting just social causes, to checking out the latest fashion and
art — all in the same week. Going.com
provides the right stuff by combining user-generated events with editors’
picks in a way that’s simple, easy and fun.
The site answers two simple questions for all of us: “What’s
happening?...and Who’s going?”
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