AskMen.com is a free online men’s web portal

Web portal

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, with international versions in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia.

History

AskMen.com was founded in August 1999 by Ricardo Poupada, Christopher Bellerose Rovny, and Luís Rodrigues, all three graduates of Concordia University

Concordia University

Concordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction...

's John Molson School of Business

John Molson School of Business

The John Molson School of Business is the business school of Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. With over 6,500 undergraduate students, 1200 graduate students and 36,000 alumni...

 in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

. The company secured $500,000 in venture capital in 2000 while its main competitor, TheMan.com, obtained $17 million in financing from Highland Capital. In November 2000, TheMan.com shut down operations, providing an opportunity for AskMen.com to become the largest men's lifestyle website online.
By 2001, AskMen.com surpassed the other websites in its category to become the largest men's lifestyle website.

Through a combination of partnerships with AOL and MSN, AskMen.com became the leader in the men's lifestyle space, though it still trailed ESPN.com and other websites in terms of total reach within the male segment on the Web.

In 2010 the site ranked #819 for world-wide traffic on Alexa. In December 2009 the site had as estimated 12 million unique visitors.

Website content

AskMen.com’s sections feature topics that are pertinent to men. The sections include:

• Fashion and lifestyle
• Fine living
• Cars
• Health and sports
• Dating and love
• Car reviews
• Sexuality
• Women
• Men
• Power and money
• Entertainment
• Gaming
• Amateur hypnotism
• Poker
• Joke of the day
• Cool site of the day
• Video of the day
• Gadget of the day

AskMen.com has an annual list of Top 99 Most Desirable Women, The AskMen.com Top 49 Men, and The Player’s Guide, a paid subscription sub-site.

According to Hitwise

Hitwise

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, AskMen.com is consistently ranked No. 1 in the "Lifestyle – Men’s Sites" category, as it has over 40,000 articles available for free online.

Print

AskMen.com launched a three-book series published by HarperCollins

HarperCollins

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in May 2007, starting with their first book titled From the Bar to the Bedroom.