AllHipHop

AllHipHop
Website type
Music website
Available inEnglish
OwnerAHH Holdings LLC
CreatorsGreg Watkins
Chuck Creekmur
RevenueUS$4 million (as of 2007)[citation needed]
Websiteallhiphop.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched1998
Current statusActive

AllHipHop is a hip-hop news website founded by Greg Watkins and Chuck Creekmur in 1998. It publishes music news, interviews, commentary, reviews, and other coverage of hip-hop culture. The website grew out of Watkins's online promotion of artists signed to Oblique Recordings and Creekmur's journalism website Tantrum Online.

History

The website was founded in 1998 by Greg Watkins and Chuck Creekmur. In 1997, Watkins registered the allhiphop.com domain to promote the artists on Oblique Recordings, a small record label he operated. The website provided music downloads to promote the label's artists. After reaching 30,000 downloads a month, Watkins struck deals with eMusic and other retailers to sell downloads.

Creekmur, a freelance journalist, had launched a website, tantrum-online, in New York City. After merging the companies, they adapted Trantrum's exclamation point logo for AllHipHop. By 2004, the business generated enough revenue for Watkins and Creekmur to work full-time on the website. In 2007, the revenue exceeded US$4 million.

On August 12, 2017, AllHipHop announced a partnership with Maven, a company based in Seattle, to manage its entire digital media platform.

Figures from May 2008[needs update] show it attracted over 37 million page views a month.

Accolades

In 2006, AllHipHop won the Rising Stars Award from Black Enterprise magazine.

Essence magazine dubbed AllHipHop "the CNN of hip-hop" in 2008.

References

  1. ↑ "About All Hip Hop". AllHipHop. Archived from the original on September 5, 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Staying Power". Remix. March 1, 2008. Archived from the original on May 12, 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
  3. ↑ Pattison, Kermit (February 2008). "Allhiphop.com's Founders Thought a Weeklong Event Would Raise the Company's Profile and Boost Growth". Inc. Archived from the original on June 21, 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
  4. ↑ Watkins, Greg; Creekmur, Chuck (August 12, 2017). "AllHipHop.com: Same Content, Same Owners - New Tech Platform". Maven. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ Fung, Amanda (May 13, 2008). "Radio One inks ad deal with AllHipHop.com". Crain's New York Business. Archived from the original on September 29, 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
  6. ↑ "Al Roker Taps Top Black Female Executive for Livestreaming Company". Blackenterprise.com.
  7. ↑ Pattison, Kermit (February 2008). "Allhiphop.com's Founders Thought a Weeklong Event Would Raise the Company's Profile and Boost Growt". Inc. Archived from the original on June 21, 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2008.