Hello and welcome to your annual report chock-full of numbers and images that represent those numbers! Since 2016 we’ve been providing this information to our beloved A+ members. We did it in 2017 and then I did it in 2018 then I did it in 2019 and then I did it in 2020 and then, believe it or not, I did it once more, in 2021 !
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Riese is the 43-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish. Follow her on twitter and instagram.
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Always one of my fave posts of the year! Thanks for continuing to be transparent about this kind of info!
Thank you Riese! This is gorgeous!
Transparency looking awesome!
Been a member for a couple of years and this makes me so proud and happy. Of course I want more and better for y’all! But honestly seeing that A+ is HALF of the site revenue and knowing I’m part of that feels awesome. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for this place.
I am so glad you feel awesome about that because you should! You are awesome! When we say A+ members keep this place around, we really do mean it ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for being a member and a part of Autostraddle!!
I love stats and I love this!! ❤️❤️ Making transparency stylish
Always love anything with a graph/numbers. Those Shibari posts keep being in the top ten – Autostraddle must be the number one place on the internet to learn how to get tied up :)
Great post, but also…Bing? Bing as the #7 top referrer???? If there are any tech-unsavvy elder dykes out there who need help, hit me up, I gotchu.
Don’t sass me you young’un
Yay the big numbers round-up! Thanks for sharing this info and also for the work you put into making very yummy data visualization. I don’t usually think of myself as a numbers guy but I can’t deny that these reports are always very satisfying to read/look at.
(also, as if I didn’t need another reason to hate Amazon, wtf affiliate policy??)
*as if I needed. bleh language!
This is so great! I love reading these posts. Thank you for making them. Just curious, is there any progress on hiring a deputy editor? Or did you all decide not to hire in that role right now?
Good question! We weren’t able to find anyone during the last hiring phase for this role, and we’ve put a pause on it for now because we honestly cannot afford to hire another editor at the moment!
Thank you for your response! That is such a bummer. You are all so great and work way too hard. I so hope you can hire more full-time staff soon so you all can take a well deserved break.
So proud to be an A+ member! And also fuck Amazon!
wow I love knowing that I am far from the only person trawling through autostraddle’s shibari archives, go team. and fuck amazon forever.
I always love this post even though it always makes me feel wildly out of touch with autostraddle readership. (I made it through 1/2 an episode of The L Word.) Love y’all and appreciate all the great reading!
Great post. I love charts. And now I know which articles which I have missed to read up on!
I didn’t know that Autostraddle was booted from Amazon, is there story behind that?
yes! it’s in this post:
https://www.autostraddle.com/come-on-jeff-get-em-a-day-of-work/
oh I’ve only seen this today and I hope it’s not too late to comment, but I’m always amazed by how much AS is able to do with such a small budget – it’s crazy! Why were you booted from Amazon? I imagine they don’t give a proper explanation. In any case, thanks a lot for the yearly update!