Wetpaint is a company that creates both consumer generated and professionally published scalable content networks. Wetpaint currently hosts two types of networks: Wetpaint's first platform, Wikis by Wetpaint, sought to develop a model of low cost content creation based on social publishing. In 2010, Wetpaint launched a second publishing business, Wetpaint Entertainment, which is focused on TV entertainment for the female 18-34 demographic.
Wetpaint was a sponsor of Wikimania 2006 and named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2007.
In March 2008, Wetpaint added social networking features.
In 2009, Wetpaint won the WTIA Industry Achievement Award, and in 2010 it was named in Lead411's Hottest Seattle Companies list.
In July 2009, Wetpaint laid off 15 of their 56 employees. An additional 9 employees, including co-founders Kevin Flaherty and Alex Berg, were laid off on December 4.
Over two million wikis have been created on the Wikis by Wetpaint platform.
During late 2010, Wetpaint launched The Wetpaint Entertainment platform, a set of new online TV fan destination sites, which included a redesigned wetpaint.com homepage.
Notable Wetpaint partners have included Fox Entertainment Group, HBO, Showtime, IGN, NY Giants, Houston Rockets, T-Mobile, HTC, Oracle Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Discovery Channel, and Lucas Arts.
The highest rank of each wikis by Wetpaint site is its creator, who has full permissions over the wiki. Directly beneath the creator are the administrators, who can do everything a creator can do except demote the creator or other administrators. Registered users of a site may be promoted to writers or moderators at the discretion of the administrators.
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