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'''{{Wplink|Fandom (website)|Fandom}}''', formerly known as '''Wikia''', is a media conglomerate based in the United States. The website has more than 50 million user-generated pages, as well as other multimedia databases such as GameFAQs, Metacritic, and Gamepedia. It also owns entertainment outlets such as GameSpot and TV Guide, in addition to owning online video game retailers such as Fanatical. | '''{{Wplink|Fandom (website)|Fandom}}''', formerly known as '''Wikia''', is a media conglomerate based in the United States. The website has more than 50 million user-generated pages, as well as other multimedia databases such as GameFAQs, Metacritic, and Gamepedia. It also owns entertainment outlets such as GameSpot and TV Guide, in addition to owning online video game retailers such as Fanatical. | ||
In 2018, Fandom was acquired by [[wikipedia:Private_equity_firm|private equity firm]] TPG Capital. In 2024, the Detailed.com blog, which analyzes web development with regard to SEO, categorized Fandom as one of the 16 companies that dominate global traffic for Google Search, noting that it had been one of the largest domains it had ever recorded with an estimated 800 million visits according to statistics provided by Semrush in the same year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allsopp |first=Glen |date=2024 |title=How 16 Companies are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results (2024 Edition) |url=https://detailed.com/google-control/ |access-date=2025-08-21 |website=Detailed.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260223042948/https://detailed.com/google-control/ |archive-date=23 Feb 2026}}</ref> | In 2018, Fandom was acquired by [[wikipedia:Private_equity_firm|private equity firm]] TPG Capital. In 2024, the Detailed.com blog, which analyzes web development with regard to [[wikipedia:Search_engine_optimization|SEO]], categorized Fandom as one of the 16 companies that dominate global traffic for Google Search, noting that it had been one of the largest domains it had ever recorded with an estimated 800 million visits according to statistics provided by Semrush in the same year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allsopp |first=Glen |date=2024 |title=How 16 Companies are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results (2024 Edition) |url=https://detailed.com/google-control/ |access-date=2025-08-21 |website=Detailed.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260223042948/https://detailed.com/google-control/ |archive-date=23 Feb 2026}}</ref> | ||
==Consumer impact summary== | ==Consumer impact summary== | ||