Hypebeast

Hypebeast
Type of site
 Digital Media
Owner Hypebeast Limited
Website www.hypebeast.com
Commercial Yes
Launched 2005[1]

Hypebeast Limited (stylized HYPEBEAST Limited) is a digital media and e-commerce company based in Hong Kong. Founded as a sneaker culture blog by Kevin Ma in 2005,[2][3][4][5] Hypebeast offers sneakers- and fashion-focused digital media oriented towards youth and young adults.

Hypebeast is the first media company to collaborate with Supreme.[6] Other collaborations that Hypebeast has worked with is Gucci, North Face, and Puma. Hypebeast is coined as an official term in dictionary.com.[7]

Editions

Its media properties include men’s fashion and lifestyle website Hypebeast, which has regional offshoots in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean, female streetwear website Hypebae, children's streetwear website Hypekids, Chinese-language women’s high fashion website Popbee, and quarterly print publication Hypebeast Magazine. Other operating arms include the HBX e-commerce platform and global creative studio Hypemaker.

Public stock offering

On April 11 2016, Hypebeast Limited filed for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), which is specifically designed for emerging companies.[8][9][10] The company is currently valued at US$270 million.[11]

Awards and honors

  • 2015: Hypebeast honoree for the Webby Award of Blog-culture[12]
  • 2016: Hypebeast honoree for the Webby Award of Blog-culture[13]
  • 2017: Fast Company awarded Hypebeast as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2017[14]
  • 2017: Kevin Ma nominated as one of Tatler's 2017 Generation T[15]

References

  1. ↑ Kevin Ma Interview Fashionista 2015/12
  2. ↑ "How 'Hypebeast' Became Much More Than a Sneaker Blog". Fashionista. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  3. ↑ "Fast Talk: How This "Sneakerhead" Built A Major Online Magazine". Fast Company. 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  4. ↑ "He's domain man". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  5. ↑ "HYPEBEAST Founder Kevin Ma On Innovation, Learning, And Hong Kong". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  6. ↑ "Everything to Know About the 'Hypebeast' 10th Anniversary Collabs With Supreme, C.E and Human Made". Complex News. 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  7. ↑ "Hypebeast". dictionary.com. 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  8. ↑ "Lifestyle Blog Hypebeast Soars 708% in Record Asia Debut". Bloomberg.com. 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  9. ↑ "Hypebeast's Record-breaking IPO Debut Shines A Light On The Booming Streetwear Market". Fashionista. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  10. ↑ "News Bites | Hypebeast Launches Hypekids". The Business of Fashion. 2017-07-17. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  11. ↑ "Hypebeast Files for IPO". The Business of Fashion. 2016-04-08. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  12. ↑ "Webby". Webby Awards Award. 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  13. ↑ "Webby". Webby Award. 2016-08-27. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  14. ↑ "MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES-Hypebeast". Fast Company. 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  15. ↑ "Tatler". Tatler. 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
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