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Also known as Digg, Inc., Digg.com

Digg (stylized in lowercase as digg) is an American social bookmarking news aggregator, with a feed that displays the internet's most popular content (Most Dugg), Newest, Trending, and content that’s "Heating up." It was re-launched in its current form in June 2025.

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Website.name
Digg, Inc.
Website.logo
162px|class=skin-invert|Digg logo, March 2025
Website.caption
Digg's logo, circa March 2025
Website.founder
Kevin Rose
Website.area_served
Worldwide
Website.location_city
Los Angeles, U.S. (current)New York City, U.S.
Website.registration
Optional
Website.current_status
Defunct as of March 14, 2026
Website.language
English
Website.website_type
Social news

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Official website
digg.com
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social media followers
70500
Commons category
Digg (website)
inception
2004-12-05
Alexa rank
2034
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Contents
  • History
  • 2004–2010: Founding and the early years
  • 2010–2012: Redesign and mass exodus to Reddit
  • 2012–2018: The Betaworks era
  • 2018–2025: The BuySellAds/Money Group era
  • 2025–present: The Rose-Ohanian era
  • Criticism and controversies
  • Organized promotion and censorship by users
  • AACS encryption key controversy
  • Digg v4
  • References
  • External links

Digg (stylized in lowercase as digg) is an American social bookmarking news aggregator, with a feed that displays the internet's most popular content (Most Dugg), Newest, Trending, and content that’s "Heating up." It was re-launched in its current form in June 2025.

Originally launched in 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson, Digg began as a web platform that allowed people to submit links (especially user generated content) and then let others vote on it, up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. The website became a sensation, amassing millions of users and quickly gained the reputation of being one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups, driving significant traffic to content creators and publishers. After a poorly received redesign in 2010, its audience plummeted and much of its user base migrated to its competitor Reddit. Rose sold the company to Betaworks in 2012 and for more than a decade, the site existed as an editorially driven webpage of curated content.

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