W4Fun.tv is a free-to-air 24-hour Polish language music video channel launched on February 14, 2004.
W420chan is an anonymous imageboard founded on 20 April 2005 by freelance web developer Aubrey Cottle. According to its founder, its name is a portmanteau of 420, a slang word originating in cannabis culture but now applicable to drug culture more generally, and 4chan, another imageboard website. Discussion on the site is primarily focused around recreational drug use and wrestling, with other boards related to topics including humor and academia.
WAnimax Germany is a German video on demand service and former television channel, a local version of Animax. It was launched during Summer 2007, the same year as its Eastern European counterpart.
WThe Arts Desk (theartsdesk.com) is a British arts journalism website containing reviews, interviews, news and other content related to music, theatre, television, films and other art forms written by journalists from a variety of traditional and web-based publications.
WAustralian Music Online is a website that indexes information related to Australian music. Launched in March 2003 as an Australian Federal Government initiative, and originally proposed in 1998, the website was updated until 31 March 2007, at which point its role transferred to that of an archive. It has been noted that there are plans to restructure the website. As of late 2009 the website is still offline.
WBandzoogle is an online platform which provides tools for musicians to build a professional website, promote their music, and sell direct-to-fan for a flat monthly fee. It includes a built-in store, mailing list tools, reporting and integration with social networks and services, including Twitter, Facebook, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, Twitch and Crowdcast. Members can also build an online press kit for their music. Users can choose from dozens of design themes or use a tool to create their own themes. The platform allows artists to keep a record of their sales, and requires no knowledge of HTML coding.
Wbecoacht was an online platform for sports coaching where users could search, select and book private and public sports courses with professional coaches from a variety of sporting disciplines. The Germany-based enterprise had received strong media coverage within the German sports community as the first to adapt Airbnb's business model to sports coaching.
WCollege Football News (CFN) is a magazine and website published by College Football News, Inc., headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. News coverage includes scores, statistics, rankings, and reports on college football games. Analysis includes comparisons between teams, predictions of game outcomes and high-school recruiting information. They also give awards to players in various categories.
WDVD Verdict was a judicial-themed website for DVD reviews. The site was founded in 1999. The editor-in-chief was actor Michael Stailey, who owned the website between 2004 and 2016, and the site employed a large editorial staff of critics, whose reviews were quoted by sources such as CBS Marketwatch, and were praised by such writers as Anthony Augustine of Uptown.
WEarmilk, sometimes stylized in all caps, is a North American online music publication. Launched in the late 2000s by Montrey Whittaker, Blake Edwards and Eric DeFazio, Earmilk publishes on a variety of music genres, often covering hip hop, electronica and pop music.
WeFestivals is a website listing music festivals; hosting information on line-ups, interviews, photographs and live reviews.
WFantasy-Faction is a website and community for fans of fantasy fiction. They share news, reviews and interviews about books in the fantasy, science fiction, horror, and other speculative fiction genres. It was founded by Marc Aplin and has won or been nominated for genre awards including:British Fantasy Award Nomination – 2013, 2014, & 2016 World Fantasy Award Nomination – 2014
WFilmfront is a Norwegian website for films and television series similar to Internet Movie Database. Filmfront also covers various news on movie and celebrity material from both within and outside Norway. It has information on over 28,000 films, 3,000 short films, 220,000 actors and 6,500 TV shows. A community website with the option for users to share their information in a profile, it is modeled after Facebook.
WTheForce.Net ("TFN") is a Star Wars news website that provides updates on the Star Wars media franchise. The web site launched in 1996 as the "Star Wars Site At Texas A & M." It was founded by Scott Chitwood and Darin Smith. TFN is officially "TheForce.Net, LLC," and is currently part-owned by Philip Wise, who also runs the Star Wars collecting news site Rebelscum.com.
WHollywood Life is an American entertainment website launched in 2009 as part of Penske Media Corporation by magazine editor Bonnie Fuller, who is the former editor of the magazines Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Us Weekly. The site covers celebrity, fashion, beauty, and entertainment news.
WIdlebrain.com is an Indian news, information and entertainment website. It was founded in 1999 by G. Venkata Ramana, a B. Tech graduate from BITS Pilani, with the help of his friend Sunil Krishna. The website provides news related to the Indian film industry, particularly news, film reviews and box office reports related to Telugu cinema. The site logs over 0.1 million visitors a day and each visitor goes through seven to eight pages. According to The Hindu, most distributors informed Jeevi that his reviews affect the box office performance of films, particularly in overseas. DVD rental prices were also affected due to his reviews, according to a report by CNN-IBN.
WIsland Cricket is a sports website that contains news, photos, videos, blogs, columns and interviews relating to the Sri Lanka cricket team.
WKoimoi is a Bollywood entertainment website providing Bollywood news, box-office reports and film reviews.
WLyrics007, previously Sing365.com is a not-for-profit online lyrics database.
WMovie Review Intelligence was a review aggregator website which collated and analyzed movie reviews. The site was established in 2009 by former studio executive David A. Gross, and has been described by critic Joe Williams as, "brainier than Rotten Tomatoes but less exclusive than Metacritic".
WMovie TV Tech Geeks is an online entertainment news website which was launched in 2010. The site offers news in the field of television, films, video games, technology, politics, sports, and film theories. It was founded by Indie Genius Productions and is headquartered in New York, NY along with an office in St. Paul, MN. It is known for breaking Marvel Entertainment news stories along with extensive coverage of the WB show Supernatural.
WMSN Music is a part of MSN's web services. It delivers music news, music videos, spotlights on new music, artist information, and live performances of artists. The website also served as a digital music store from 2004 to 2008.
WMTV Hive was MTV's online music video portal and its editorial mouthpiece for coverage of indie music genres, providing music news and music on-demand. It is the successor to the former MTV Music website in the United States, which was merged into MTV Hive as of January 2012. On October 31, 2013, MTV Hive tweeted that it was transforming into @MTVArtists, a Twitter feed. The MTV Hive web site has not been actively updated since December 2013, but MTV currently provides similar news and features in the music section of its main web site, at mtv.com/music. All content has been merged into MTV News and MTV Artists Platform.
WThe Mutopia Project is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of free content sheet music, in a way similar to Project Gutenberg's library of public domain books. It started in 2000.
WMYmovies.it is a website dedicated to Italian cinema. Established in 2000, the website contains a database on Italian films and television series and actors with films from 1895 to present. The website also features reviews of up and coming films, interviews with actors and directors and other notable figures in the Italian film industry and international news related to film. In 2010, it also launched a streaming platform, Mymovieslive!. The website is particularly popular among Italian men aged 25 to 45 according to demographic surveys and is the 56th most popular website with Internet users from Italy. The website is increasingly used as a source by publications related to Italian cinema.
WNefarious Realm is a metal, hardcore, and extreme music-themed website and media company, founded by Matt Darcy in early 2006. The website mainly covers the latest in band, music, and industry news, provides a wide array of features including interviews, an album release schedule, music videos, and release reviews. The website also boasts original articles, columns, and feature segments including interviews with bands, industry professionals, alternative models and porn stars which include Suicide Girls and Burning Angel.
WNoiseTrade is a global online audio and book direct-to-fan distribution platform based in Nashville, Tennessee, that enables its users to upload their originally-created music and books and give away for free without digital rights management to anyone who provides at least an e-mail address and zip code. It was established by Derek Webb and artists he knew after he became one of the first major label artist to give his album away for free digitally on his website, where over 80,000 free copies of the album were downloaded. He then used the mailing address gathered in to book shows and after attendance at his shows had increased dramatically he decided other artists could benefit from the same idea of giving away music in exchange for location and contact information that may be more valuable than money made selling digital albums. Artists upload music with their free account, and then anyone can download ZIP files of mp3 and album art, only requiring an e-mail address and zip-code or country code for an opt-in newsletter from the artist, but optionally you may share using various social media or pay money to artists in the form of a tip-jar and the site takes a 20% cut for its costs and profit. Since its creation it has been constantly added features, many of which are common on other music streaming and music download websites, and has recently added books and other written media.
WOther Music was a music retail store that sold CDs, records and cassettes online and at their brick-and-mortar location in the Noho neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The store specialized in the sale of closely curated underground, rare and experimental music.
WOverqualified is an art project by Canadian writer Joey Comeau in which he wrote a series of cover letters as job applications to companies. The letters were collected into a book and published as Overqualified by ECW Press in 2009. The letters all start off as standard cover letters, but quickly turn very dark, and almost inevitably reveal the author to be mentally unstable. Excerpts from the book were included in the 2010 Best American Nonrequired Reading.
WPinkvilla is an online Bollywood website. Comscore revealed that Pinkvilla was the top entertainment portal in India for March 2019. The site has over 100,000 posts and a digital reach of over 40 million unique pageviews every month. In 2018, Pinkvilla collaborated with Hotstar.
WPornMD is a search engine for the Pornhub Network, which is the group of Web 2.0 pornographic video sharing websites owned by MindGeek. The sites are supported by advertising, which allows users unrestricted access free of charge. The Pornhub NETWORK links these websites to each other. PornMD does not host any videos itself. Instead, the search results are created on the website with direct links to the video hosting website.
WRock City Club was created by Jack Wishna, Ofek Hayon, Brian Silver, music promoter Don Kirshner, and Michael Jackson The management team, partners, and investors attracted to the business include Internet entrepreneurs and music industry executives. One of the original creators of MTV and co-founder of Internet service provider NetZero are listed among the company's board. It was described by the company as "the music industry's first Social Music Network".
WShowBIZ Data is a website that tracks domestic and international box office and other performance related information. Established by producer Oliver Eberle in 1997, and based on the principle that understanding the information based upon which movies are made is key to working in Hollywood, ShowBIZData.com is a comprehensive entertainment industry database online. The company's flagship service provides entertainment professionals and enthusiasts with a fast and easy way to obtain detailed information about the film industry.
WSouthend News Network is an online newspaper parody website that aims to "have a dig at the powers that be". Starting as a local spoof news site from the UK, it shot to national, and then international, fame after several cases where an SNN story caused confusion by being taken as fact, including by the English Defence League, a far-right network. Another claim to fame was their recognition as an "official media outlet" by local government.
WThe Sport Review (thesportreview.com) is a sport news website founded in 2008 and based in London.
WTasteDive is an entertainment recommendation engine for films, TV shows, music, video games, and books. It also has elements of a social media site.
WTV Acres was a website collecting information about characters, places, and things that have appeared on American television programs broadcast from the 1940s through today. The website and its publishing imprint, TV Acres Books, was established by Jerome Holst, a former librarian who now lives in Stockport, Ohio. The website was named a "hot site" by USA Today in 2003.
WTVLine is a website devoted to information, news, and spoilers of television programs.
WTwistys is a major adult film studio, producing its eponymous pornography website, Twistys.com, a variety site that caters to many different preferences.
WFótbolti.net is an Icelandic website that focuses on football. Headquartered in Reykjavík, it was founded in 2002 by Hafliði Breiðfjörð and quickly established itself as one of the most popular websites in Iceland.
WWhat They Play was a video game-centric website aimed at helping parents learn about content in video games, helping them decide what games their children should play. It was the first of several websites to launch under "What They Like, Inc.", other sites featuring books, movies and music followed.
WTheWrap is a left leaning, liberal news organization covering the business of entertainment and media via digital, print and live events. It was founded by journalist Sharon Waxman in 2009.