SparkPeople

SparkPeople, Inc.
Private
Industry Internet, Health, Weight loss
Founded Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. (2000)
Founder Chris Downie
Headquarters Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Website www.SparkPeople.com

SparkPeople is an American private company which develops and maintains several healthy living websites.

Spark People company literature describes the SparkPeople websites as follows:

SparkPeople.com

This site offers a free four-stage diet program which uses tools, content, and support to help users make lifestyle changes.

Babyfit.com

SparkPeople also offers a modified version of its healthy living program to pregnant women through its site Babyfit.com. Babyfit uses similar tools and forums to SparkPeople.com to guide pregnant women through a healthy pregnancy and beyond. It also covers topics such as parenting and breastfeeding and offers some of the same social networking features as SparkPeople.

SparkRecipes.com

SparkRecipes.com offers users the ability to catalog, rate, and share recipes, especially healthy recipes, and gives users the nutritional information about their recipes. It also offers the ability to add these recipes to their daily food log on SparkPeople.

dailySpark.com

dailySpark is a healthy lifestyle blog authored daily by SparkPeople experts.

Reception

In January 2013, Consumer Reports assessed 9 DIY diet plans and rated SparkPeople with an overall score of 76, behind top scorer MyFitnessPal (83), The Paleo diet (80), and the Mediterranean diet (77).[1]

SparkPeople.com announced on February 15, 2012 that during January 2012 that there were 10 million visitors to the website, making it the most visited fitness & weight loss site on the internet. SparkPeople.com was named the winner of BusinessWeek's Best of The Web : Health in 2006,[2] 2007,[3] and 2008.[4] In January 2007, SparkPeople.com was ranked by Hitwise as the 6th most visited site in the "Health and Medical - Wellbeing" category (and 3rd among diet sites).[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Consumer Reports Rates Diet Plans: MyFitnessPal, A Free App And Website, More Satisfying Than Weight Watchers." PR Newswire 2 Jan. 2013.
  2. ↑ "Business Week Online: Best of the Web 2006". Retrieved 2007-09-24.
  3. ↑ "Readers Make Their Votes Count - BusinessWeek". Retrieved 2007-09-24.
  4. ↑ "Business Week Online: Best of the Web 2008". Retrieved 2008-09-29.
  5. ↑ "Category Spotlight : Health and Medical - Wellbeing". Retrieved 2007-09-24.
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