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Crain's Chicago Business
April 23, 2012At age 12, media entrepreneur Emerson Spartz persuaded his parents to let him and his 10-year-old brother, Dylan, quit school. Now 25, Mr. Spartz is CEO of Chicago-based Spartz Media Inc., whose 15 sites draw 160 million page views monthly.
Time
March 21, 2012With more than 3.7 million followers, OMGFacts is your info nugget of the day and inside an personalized Internet, where we’re creating smaller pools of information for ourselves, we could probably use all the left field information we can get.
Mashable
March 2, 2012SmartphOWNED, a humor blog launched in January 2011 was intended to feature auto-correct fails. However, the site has evolved into more than that. Many of the most-shared texts on the site are witty exchanges between friends, parents saying awkward things (without an additional auto-correct blunder) and text art.
Entrepreneurs Unpluggd
February 27, 2012Emerson Spartz highlighted in three entrepreneurs you should know, all whom are Chicago based or have roots in Chicago, and are outstanding creative individuals who care about using their talents to change the world around them.
Mashable
February 23, 2012Words aren't always enough to express your feelings. At least, that’s according to the makers of That's So True, a site that allows you to convey your emotions with reaction GIFs.
CNN
August 2, 2010Along the lines of popular sites like FMyLife, but about 65,000 times more uplifting, Gives Me Hope (GMH) offers user-submitted true stories of kindness and generosity. The stories are sentimental and, at times, almost heartbreakingly sweet.
The New York Times
February 11, 2007MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7
USA Today
July 17, 2007Spartz, a student at Notre Dame and co-author of the best-selling What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7, says, "I would think that both Warner Bros. and Scholastic would want to spread the buzz out for a longer period of time."
Business Week
June 22, 2007Spartz converted his "abnormal obsession" with the still-obscure Harry Potter into a fan's Web site. And, as he soon learned, MuggleNet was to become not just a Potter Web site, but the Potter Web site.
Business Week
July 2, 2007Even if Harry Potter leaves a trail of profit-starved vendors and Potter-addicted producers in its wake as the series wraps up next month, the infatuation is unlikely to die. That's what Emerson Spartz, founder of the popular fan site MuggleNet.com, is betting on.
Esquire
June 1, 2009"In times like these, the usual avenues of escapism sports, the local bar, and Sacha Baron Cohen's ass seem a little watered down. GMH serves it up straight no chaser necessary."
Los Angeles Times
October 30, 2009"About the time Operation Beautiful was born, a blog called HMGGMH was created. It was modeled after the Web site GivesMeHope.com, a forum where people share uplifting moments and shore each other up against the vagaries of life."
WSBT Evening News (CBS 22)
June 16, 2009CBS 22 ran a three minute segment on GMH and its founders.
Tech Cocktail
October 17, 2011In two years - with no funding and no full-time developer until 2010 - entertainment company Spartz Media has built popular sites that attract over 115 million monthly page views: sites like MuggleNet, OMG Facts, and GivesMeHope. As they continue to launch one site a month watching for blockbusters, CEO and MuggleNet creator Emerson Spartz shares some insight on their winning formula.
The Washington Post
April 14, 2007Warner Bros., which once tried to shut down many of the fan sites because of copyright concerns, has invited Spartz and others to the sets of Potter films and premieres, valuing their expertise and, of course, their access to so many fans.
The Huffington Post
July 15, 2011MuggleNet Founder: Harry Potter is a "Gateway Drug for Reading"
Notre Dame Business Magazine
June 16, 2010GivesMeHope.com responds to a need in our trash-talking world, according to Spartz. "The problem is, our society celebrates people who are cynical, people who criticize, who are sarcastic. Why is it that we are so free to criticize, but are so hesitant to share praise?
The Observer
September 15, 2011MuggleNet Founder and '09 ND Alum Spartz Creates Online Media Corporation
Business Week
May 1, 2012This week's Twitter roundup of happenings in the business school world includes Emerson Spartz, an alum of University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.