Vox Media is an online media company that consists of the sports blog network SB Nation and the tech site The Verge.

Vox Media was formally formed in 2011, but it began with the creation of SB Nation (short for SportsBlog Nation), a network of more than 300 fan-run sports blogs, many of them dedicated to a particular team.

SB Nation was founded in 2003 by Tyler Bleszinski, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the political blog Daily Kos, and Jerome Armstrong, founder of the political blog MyDD. It raised about $23 million of funding between 2008 and 2011. In 2008, it brought on Jim Bankoff, formerly a product/programming executive at AOL, to serve as CEO. In 2012, Vox Media announced a fundraising round of $17 million, bringing its total investment raised to about $40 million.

Vox Media was formed at the launch of the Verge, which was initially largely staffed by former Engadget employees. Vox claimed that The Verge was “very profitable” after a year. It also launched a gaming site, Polygon, in October 2012.

SB Nation had a staff of about 70 as of late 2011, with its blogging contributors paid monthly. Additionally, The Verge launched with a staff of about 30 full- and part-time employees.

SB Nation has developed content-sharing partnerships with Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, USA Today, Comcast and NHL.com.

It launched real-time story updates in 2009, and in June 2010, SB Nation began rolling out 20 regional sports sites covering all of the sports teams in a particular city. In March of 2011, it launched Baseball Nation, a national baseball site that operates under the leadership of sports journalist Rob Neyer, who left ESPN.com for the job. It began producing original web video for its own YouTube channel the following year. In 2012, it redesigned its sites, uniting their appearance with standardized logo design