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Stuff is born
A new century, a new website. Stuff is born in June, 2000.
In its first-ever month the website received 120,000 unique viewers. -
9/11 - Stuff proves itself as a breaking news outlet
September 11 - Stuff became one of the first Kiwi news outlets to report the terrorist attacks in the United States, keeping Kiwis informed as the shocking story developed. -
Stuff wins first award
Best Media Site - People's Choice NetGuide Web Awards. -
A new owner
A deal is struck and Fairfax agrees to buy INL’s seven regional dailies, 13 magazine titles, a distribution business, 61 community newspapers, a commercial printing business and the Stuff website. -
More accolades
Best Media Site - People's Choice NetGuide Web Awards. -
Judged Best Media Site by PC Magazine readers
Stuff wins Best Media Site in the New Zealand PC World Readers' Choice Awards. -
A three-peat: Stuff wins Best Media Site for the third year running
Best Media Site - People's Choice NetGuide Web Awards. -
Best media site - Qantas
Best Media Site - Qantas Media Awards 2005. -
Stuff business booms
After five years, Stuff breaks the 1 million unique viewers mark. Site traffic had increased by 736% in the years since it began, and in this month received 19,092,409 page impressions. -
Changes to the site
Stuff 2 is launched. New features included a move from a side navigation to a top navigation. We put a big image rotator to showcase main stories, introduced the ‘Most viewed’ category and blogs. Best Media Site - People's Choice NetGuide Web Awards. -
Two million visitors and more awards
Stuff reached 2 million unique visitors and won Best Sports Website at the Qantas Media Awards. -
Rugby Heaven is born
RugbyHeaven launched in July. -
Further success at NetGuides
People's Choice NetGuide Web Awards - Best Homepage and Best Media Site. -
NZX.com launched
NZX.com launched May 2008. -
BusinessDay launched
Business news website BusinessDay is launched -
Site of the Year - NetGuides
Stuff also wins Site of the Year, Best Homepage and Best Media Site at the People's Choice NetGuide Web Awards. -
A new site
Stuff 3 launched in March, incorporating BusinessDay and RugbyHeaven brands. -
Stuff's mobile site is launched
Mobile site - M.Stuff - launched April, 2009. -
3 million viewers
Stuff acheives a significant milestone as it surpasses three million visitors. -
Qantas Media Awards
Success at the Qantas Media Awards as Stuff wins:
- Best Coverage of Breaking News.
- Best Website Design.
- Best Blog: Moata's Blog Idol. -
Again the People's favourite
People's Choice NetGuide Web Awards:
- Best Homepage.
- Best Media Site. -
Present day - leading the pack and still growing
Stuff hits 4 million unique visitors. It also cleans up at the Qantas Media Awards winning:
-Best News Website.
-Best Sport.
-Best Business.
-Best Breaking News Story.
-Best Website Design.
