Data speaks volumes. It is the best storyteller - you can quantify, learn, and make informed decisions by seeing the historical data. Numbers make it easier for our minds to analyze the past and make decisions for the future. This is why Spotify Wrapped gets great attention every year, even though it's just data from our listening history throughout the year.
Data speaks volumes. It is the best storyteller - you can quantify, learn, and make informed decisions by seeing the historical data. Numbers make it easier for our minds to analyze the past and make decisions for the future. This is why Spotify Wrapped gets great attention every year, even though it's just data from our listening history throughout the year.
Hopping on the wrapped trend, our team has launched theHackerNoon Decoded Series— celebrating our top writers, readers, sponsors, and tech trends in 2024!
This article is all about the value and stories we have shared with the HackerNoon community in partnership with our sponsors. Let's see who published with us the most, how many writing contests we brought for the community, and what are our top inventories in 2024 👀
Top 10 Business Bloggers
In 2024, 500+ businesses published 1852 #good-company stories on HackerNoon. These business accounts include press wires, individual authors, and top tech businesses. Here are our top 10 business blogging partners this year in terms of the number of stories published on HackerNoon:
Interested in joining HackerNoon business bloggers? Feel free to book a meeting with us.
HackerNoon Writing Contests: Win-Win-Win
This year, we hosted 9 writing contests, bringing in 555 entries, and awarding $54,500 in cash prizes! Thanks to our community, these contests collectively achieved a remarkable milestone: 1,000,000+ reads! Here's the list of writing contests hosted in 2024:
Here's the list of the most beloved inventory by the HackerNoon sponsors in 2024:
Business Blogging - How tech businesses up their distribution game. Every story gets 12 translations, newsletter placements, and social media promo, making it the top inventory of 2024 with a whopping 42.8% of total revenue generated.
Targeted Ads - Makes 27.3% of the revenue. Our multimodal and contextual ads helped our business partners target their ICPs, including Programmers, Web3 Degens, Leaders, Gamers, and AI enthusiasts.
Writing Contests - In third place, we have our favorite writing contests, with 15.5% of the total revenue share. It's a win for sponsors, a win for our community, and a win for us!
Startups of the Year - With 6.2% of the total revenue, Startups of the Year is also now the inventory of the year, thanks to our sponsors Notion, Wellfound, Bright Data, HubSpot, and Algolia.
The HackerNoon Newsletter - 400,000+ subscribers, 13-15% open rate, 10-12% CToR! This bad boy gives 500-1000 clicks on Ads in a day. This inventory generated 4.6% of the total revenue this year.